The Globe-republican., 1900-12-27

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ed I will take on my shoulders and
upon my brow and into my heart the
consequences of that worlds misbe-
hayior. 1 start now and between my
arrival at Bethlehem and my ascent
from Oliyet I will weep their tears and
suffer their griefs and die their death |
Farewell, my throne, my crown, my |
scepter, my angelic environment, my |
heaven, till I have finished the work |
and come back.' God was never con-
was conquered by his own love- God |
is love-
Christ the Comforter.
If one paragraph of the creed seems |
to take you, like a child. out of the
arms of father, let the next para
graph put you in the arms of a moth
AS whom his mother COM
forteth, SO viii I comfort you Oh.
what a mother we have in Godi And
my text is the lullaby sung to us when
we are i'll. or when we are maltreated.
or when are weary, or when We are
trying to do better, when we are be-
reft, or when we ourselves lie down to
the last sleep We feel the warm cheek
Of the mother against our cheek. and
| there sounds in it the hush of many
mothers .tGod- is love-
This was the reason the Bible was
written The world needs no inspired
/ page to tell it that God will chastise
| sin, for that is proved in the life of
| many an offender You can look
| through the wicket of any prison and
see the fact which the world under
| stood thousands of years before Solo
| mon wrote 1.-THE way OF the trans
| gressor is hard The world needed
no Bible to tell it that God is omnipo-
| tent, for any one who has seen Mont
| Blanc or Niagara or the Atlantic ocean
in a cyclone knows that The world
| needed no Bible to tell it of Gods wis
| dom, for everything, from spiders
web to the upholstery of a summers
sunset, from the globe of dewdrop to
the rounding of a world, declares that.
But there was secret about God
that was wrapped up in scroll of
parchment, and it staid there until
apostolic hand unrolled that scroll,
and let out upon the world the start
ling fact, which it could never have
surmised, never guessed. never expect
ed, that he loved our human race SO
ardent1y that he will pardon sin and
subdue the offender with a divine kiss
and turn fOaming ma1efactors into
worshipers before the throne. oh,
am glad that the secret is out and
that it can never again be yelled! Tell
. it to all the SHINING, suffering, lying
race; tell it in song and sermon, on
canvas, and in marble, arch and
. pillar. tell 1t all around the earth
God is love-
The Domination
Notice that the wisest men OF the ma
5 lions for thousands of years did not
1 amid their ido1atries, make something
to represent this feeling, this emotion
r They had Jove, representing might;
/ | Neptune, the god of the sea: Minerva
t the goddess of wisdom; Venus, thu
/ goddess OF base appetite; Ceres, tn,
i goddess of corn, and an Odin, an al
, Osiris, and Titan. and Juggernaut
e and whole pantheons of gods and god
E desses, but no shrine, no carved image
i no sculptured form has suggested
4 god of pure love. That was beyont
j human brain 1t took a God to thinl
that, a God to project that, God lie
n down from heaven to achieve that.
i Fear is the dominant thought in al
S false religions. For that the devotee
cut themselves with 1ances and swins
a on iron hooks and fall under wheel
t and hold up the right arm long tina
they cannot take it down. Fear. brut
Y ish feari But love is the queen in gu
e religion. For that we build temples
e For that we kneel at our affairs Fo
s that we contribute our aims For tina
b martyrs suffered at Brussels market
e place and at Lucknow and Cawnpu
s and Pekin. That will yet bejewe1 tn
It round earth and put it an emerald -o1
4 the great, warm, throbbing heart o
d God.
n Proof That God Is Love.
d Do you want more proof that eco
IS lover! Yea, dlS1ntereSted love- N
: compensation for it's bestowa1. No re
: ward for its sacrifices But I call tina
: back. The world did pay him 1t PAL
g him on Calvary, paid him with BRAN
: b1es on the brow and four spikes, tw
for the hands and two for the feet, an
one spear for the side near the heart
L paid him in execration; paid him wit
n straw pillow in barn and cross o.
l. a hill; paid him with a third of a cen
e tury of ma1treat1lent and hardshi
d save one year-yea, is paying him We
l. in rejection of his mission of mercy
k Having dethroned other kings, tn
e world would like to dethrone the Kin
IF of Kings But he knew what he wa
K coming to when he left the portals O
e pearl and the land where the SUI
e never goes down Yes, he knew tn
If world, how cold it is. and knew pair
Z how sharp it is, and the night, hoy
!, dark it is, and expiation, how excru
y | eating it Ont of vast eternity h