The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-06-19

1 day of the great world in which you | live, but God is thinking of you in the I world. We think of changing mems | conditions bettering their surroundings. We must change conditions. But we never wait for those conditions to change before we commence work in a heather land. Now, we must look with
 a degree of suspicion at a method of
 cure which merely changes the condi- tions of men. God calls men by name.' If one man in the world needs Christ, for him Christ will die. Paul approprl-
 ated the whole atonement when he said, Who loved me and gave himself for
 me?' And we should likewise indiyidu-
 alize his work for us.
 Such a doctrine as this clarifies our
 conception of God. It forces attention
 to the fact that men cannot hide from Him. 'Whither shall I go from Thy presence, whither shall flee from Thy
 spirit? The human heart stands still
 and confesses it's sin. It reminds us also
 of His love. Your child has curls upon
 it's head and you know the curls upon
 that head because you love the child.
 God numbers the hairs of your head and
 He thinks of you, loves you, loves to
 the uttermost. If there is a man or wo-
 man in the world that goes away from
 Him, they go away from that which
 would save to the uttermost If God
 calls man by name, he is worth sav-
 ing. There may not be anything strik-
 ing about a man, but the naming of him
 by man of honor will make you honor
 him.
 "When God thinks of a man, then
 men must think of one another The value of men rests in the fact that C =. recognizes man. There is another
 thing that this doctrine will give us. That is the true treatment of men. It is very easy for some people to love the world as whole but they cannot love their neighbors-that is those in the i'm mediate neighborhood. They must learn to love Smith, Jones and the ones near to them. They see a great deal that is wrong in these individuals. Ask men to love the world and they can do it, but ask men to love the men and wo- men they live next to and they can't do it. Unless you love all the world you don't love the world. It is very easy for us to love those we are interested in. Let us get out of that notion and see the people who are right beside us and | whom we ought to help. That is the truth that does men good and if you | are to get a response from an individual who needs new life you must go to that | individual Show him that you love | him. He will see that the church in it's ministry will do for him what it has done for you. When Susanna Wesley | cared for her boys and individually brought them into the kingdom she set in motion forces of religious life that are blessing the world to-day. She did not need to work for the world but for her children When the motive is en- tirely right we shall bring into promi- hence an unknown power.
 When we have set out to pray for our Sunday school scholars then we have set out to move the universe itself and we have share in the recognition of the whole world. want to leave with you the thought of God. Do we not need it in our business. Never for get it, because in seeing and knowing that God cares for the individual He is caring for us. We think of man going pack to the dust, but Christianity never cts us think that. Man once taken into he hand of Godis never dropped again. When man was created he found the .arth prepared for him. There was coal stored up and ample provision made. Does God intend to leave him with nothing to think of. We do not believe t. We believe that He loves us; He ,als us by name here and by a new name up there"
 Then Lord. then bring Thou me
 Sp fa thrQ1 ult tbp HODI ! n Thy courts rescue me
 Bought by Thy blood.
 )nce prisoner, now unbound
 )nce lost and by Thee found, Brought home from death and fears, Brought home from sin and tears Tome for intending years.
 The evening sermon was on "The Saints in Caesars Household" and was llso intensely interesting and impress we.