The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-09-17

they have come within the range of
Iour earthly experiences, and we can
recognize them anywhere in the uni
verse where we may be able to discover
them-even In God.
When I see you tenderly lift UP your
sick child in your arms and imprint a
kiss upon it's little thin face-Wasting
away in spite of all your love and care
there isn't father or mother in all
the land who doesn't know just what
your feelings are, for, alas, sickness has
come into every home. And when L see
your hot tears falling upon the little
pale face in the casket, when, In spite
of all that love could Go, death came
in and blotted out the light from your
home and turned everything into dark
ness, what multitudes Of fathers ana
mothers know all about it, for they
have felt the same.
! And shall we say that we 40 not
know what Gods love and pity are IKE
when we read that Like as father
pitieth his children, so the Lord pitieth
them that fear Him." and we read of
His great compassion and tender mercy
and especially when he see how great
all these We're shown forth in Jesus
Christ whom God sent into the world
as the representative of Himself?
Our Lord says that the right knowl-.
edge Of God Is life eternal. In our
Lords thought, life Is set over against
death, and life in God Is the sum total
Of eternal joy and blessedness, You
can lust as truly read 1t on this wise
"And this is eternal joy, that they
should know Thee and Jesus Christ
or in this way--"And this is blessed
ress eternal that they should know
thee and Him whom Thou hast sent"
In this thought there can be no bless
edness outside of this knowledge of God
and of Himself, as the enc sent Of God.
1t Is the more remarkable that our
Lord here associates Himself along
with God in the eternal blessedness of
all believers.
There may be existence without
knowing God and Jesus Christ; but not
that existence that makes up an eter-
raj life Of blessedness, since that Is the
gift of God In Christ. IT am come that
We might have life" a life of eternal
happiness God hath given US eternal
life, and this life is in His Son." is the
testimony of the Apostle John.
Eternal ife without eternal joy-eter-
nal life without eternal blessedness,
eternal life without eternal communion
with the redeemed and the Redeemer Is
utterly foreign to the thought Of Jesus
Christ.
Our Lord does not say that you must
know all about God. There are i'm
mensities of glories unreasonable
PROJECTIONS that no human mind can
begin to know-although one may move
towards God through an the eternities.
Our Lord did not mean that; but we
may know God without these well
defined limits as "the only true Cod
the one whom you have selected for
your love and reverence, This Is eter-
nal llfe-to know God as the only true
God, and Jesus Christ as the one sent
If God to save men, That's all. And
submit that this is a legitimate sub
iect OF human knowledge, falling well |
within the limits of what he can dis
cover by using Alright the faculties
which God has given him, and en-
oloying that moral earnestness that the |
Importance of the subject demands.
One reason--the great reason-why |
Sod sent His Son into the world was |
hat men might know God through |
His divinity. In that way we know |
God through Him-for the compassion,
he love, the pity, the forgiveness Of
he one is the same as the other If |
you want to come into this knowledge
# God which is eternal life, l. e., eter-
lal blessedness, begin with the study
If Jesus Christ. You will best know
Tod through Him. He is the way, as
veil as the life. Luther struck the GEN.
raj note when he wished all theology
o begin at once with Jesus Christ. A |
hid may know him; an archange' may
ind In Him something yet to learn. The
yay to the Father is through Him and
beyond Is the gateway into eternal life.