The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-12-27


ment Of those snfferiugs. win 20 down
end reform the world I will medicate its
wounds. I will calm it's frenzy / will
wash off its pollution. 7 will become in.
carnated. will take on NV shoulders and
upon Nv brow and into Ny heart the con.
sequences OF TINT worlds misbrhavior.
start now, and between Ny arrival at
Bethlehem and Nv ascent from Olivct
will ween their tears and suffer their
eriefs aud die their death Farewell NY
throne, My crown. NV sceptre, NY angelic
environment. Nv heaven. till I have
finished the work and come backl" God
was never CONQUERED but once. and that
was when He was conquered by His own
love. God Is love"
In this day, when the crceds of churches
are being revised, let more emphasis he
put upon the thought Of nv text. Let IL
appear at the BEGINNING of every creed
a1d at the close The ancients used to tell
Of great military cheftan who, about
to 90 20 battle. was clad in armor helmet
on head and sword at side, and who put
out his arms to give farewell embrace Co
his child. and the child. affrighted at
his appearance, ran shriekng away Then
the father put of the armor that caused
the alarm. and the child saw who he was
and ran into his arms and snuggled ngninst
his heart. Crecds must not have too much
iron in their make mp terrorzing rather
than attracting They must not hide the
smiling face and the warm heart Of our
Father. God. Let nothing imply that
there is a sheriff at every door ready 90
make arrest. but over MS all and around
MS all mercy that wants TO save and save
now.
u one paragraph of the creed seems to
take YOU, like n child. out Of the arms of
y father, let the next paragraph put you
IN the arms OF mother "As one whom
his mother comforteth s0 will / comfort
YOU. Oh. what mother We have in
God And my text is the lullaby sung TO
us when we are III or when we are NAL
treated or when we arc weary or when we
are trying to do better or when we are be.
rcft or when we ourselves lie down to the
last sleep. We feel the warm check of the
mother against our check, and there sounds
m 1t the hush OF many mothers, God 10
love"
Out Of vast eternity He looked forward
and saw Pilates criminal courtroom and
the rocky bluff with three crosses and the
lacerated body in mortuary surroundings,
and heard the thundcrs toll at the funeral
of heavens favorite, and understood that
the palaces OF eternity would hear the
sorrow Of a bereft God
What do the Bible and the church litur-
pies mean when they say, "Gle descended
into hell:' They mean that His soul left
His sacred body for awhile and went
down into tho prison OF moral night and
swung back its great door and lifted the
chain of captivity and felt the awful lash
that would have come down on the worlds
back, and wept the tears of an eternal
sacrifice, and took the bolt of divine indig.
nation against sin into Himself and hav-
lnr vauqushed death aud hell came out
lu aght ,tas Il
rescue Il we viii accept it,
Read it slowly, read it solemnly, read il
with tears, "He descended into hell" He
knew what kind of pay He would get for
exchanging celestial splendor for Bethle-
hem caravansary, and He dared all and
came, the most ilustrious' example in all
the ages OF dsintcrested love.
Yea, it was most expensive love. There
is much human love that costs nothing,
nothing of fatigue, nothing of money, moth
ing OF sacrifice, nothing of humiliation.
But the most expensive movement that
the heavens ever made was this expedition
salvatory. 1t cost the life OF a King
1t put the throne of God in bereavement.
~ set the universe aghast. 1t made ON
impotence weep and bleed and shudder 1t
taxed the resources of the richest of all
empires. IL meant angelic forces detailed
to fight forces demoniac. 1t put three
worlds into sharp collision-one world to
save, another to resist and another to de-
stroy. 1t charged on the spears and rang
with the battcaxcs of human and diaboic
hate.
Had the expedition of love been de-
icated the throne Of God would have fall
en-, and Satan would have mounted into
supremacy, and sin would have forever
triumphed, and mercy would have been
forever dead. The tears ard blood of the
martyr of the heavens were only part of
the infinite expense TO which the Godhedd
went when it proposed to save the world.
Alexander the Great, with his host, was
marching on Jerusalem to capture and
plunder it. The inhabitants came out
clothed in white, led on by the high priest.
wearing inter and glittering breastplate
on which was emblazoned the name of
God, and Alexander, seeing that word,
bowed and halted his army, and the city
was saved
And if we had the love of God written
in all our hearts and on all our lives and
on all our banners at the sight of il the
hosts of temptation would fall back, and
we would go ON from victory unto victory
until we stand in Zion and before God.
Leander swan across the Hellespont
guided by the light which Hero the fair
held from one of her tower windows, and
what Tablespoons of earthly struggles can
we not breast as long as we can see the
torch of divine love held from the tower
windows of the King! Let love of God
to us and our love TO God clasp hands this
minute. o we dissatisfied and distressed
souls who roam the world over looking
for happiness and finding none, why not
try this love of God as n solace and nspir.
alton and eternal satisfaction? When a
king was crossing desert in caravan, no
water was to he found, and man and beast
were perishing from thirst Along the
way there were strewn the bones of cara.
vans that had preceded. There were harts
or reindeer in the kings procession, and
some one knew their keen scent for water
and cried out, Let loose the harts or rein
deer" 1t was done, and no sooner were
these creatures loosened than they went
in all directions looking for
water, and soon found it, and the king
and his caravan were saved, and the king
wrote on some tablets the words, which
he had read some time before, "As the
hart panteth after the water brooks SO
panteth my soul after Thee, O God"
Some have compared the love of God
to the ocean, but the comparison fails for
the ocean has shore, and Gods love is
boundless. But if you insist on eompar-
ing the love of God TO the ocean put on
that ocean four swift sailing craft and let
one sail to the north and one TO the south
and one to the east and one to the west.
and let them sail on a thousand years, and
after that let them all return, and some
one hail the fleet and ask them il they
have found the shore of Gods love and
their four voices would respond. "No