The Globe-republican., 1900-12-27


sternal rescue II we win accept it.
Read it slowly, read ft so1emnly, read
it with tears. He descended into hell
He knew what kind of pay he would
get for exchanging celestial sp1endor
for Bethlehem caravansary, and he
dared all and came, the most illus
trious example in all the ages of disin-
Echo1ns Back Divine Love.
Now, the only fair thing for human
hearts to do is to echo back that SOW
ereign love- You and I have stood in
mountainous regious where, uttering
one distinct word. the echoes would
come back with a resonance startling
and captivating. and from all our
hearts there should sound unto the
heavens responses glorious and long
continued Let the world change its
style of payment for heavenly love. No
| more payment by lances, by hammerss
no more payment by blows the
cheek and scourging the back, and
hooting OF mobs, but payment in ar
doris of soul. in true surrender OF heart
and love to the God that made us.
and the Christ who ransomed us, and
| the eternal spirit who by regenerating
| power makes US all over again
Alexander the Great, with his host,
| was marching on Jerusalem to capture
and plumber it. The inhabitants came
| out. clothed in white. led by the
| high priest wearing a inter and gilt
| tering breast plate on which was en-
| bfazoned the name of God. and Alex
| ander, seeing that word. bowed and
| halted his army. and the city was
| saved. And if we have the love of God
written in all our hearts and all
our lives and on all our banners at
the sight of it the hosts of temptation
would fall back, and we would go on
from victory unto victory, until we
stand in Zion and before God
A.
guided by the light which Hero the fair
| held from one of her tower windows.
and what Tablespoons of earthly strug-
gle not breast long as we
can see the torch of divine love held
out 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 a sOlace and
, | inspiration and eternal satisfaction
When a king was crossing desert in
caravan, no water was to be found. and
| man and beast were perishing from
: | thirst Along the way were strewn
the bones of caravans that had pre-
7 ceded. There We're harts or reindeer in
| the kings procession, and some one
7 | knew their keen scent for water and
- | cried out, Let loose the harts rein
| deer!" 1t was done. and no sooner
|
: they went scurrying in all directions
looking for water and soon found it
and the king and his caravan were
saved, and the king wrote some
tablets the words which he had reat
= some time before. LAS the hart pantetI
3 after the water brooks, panteth my
l. soul after thee. o Cod
> Some have compared the love o
- God to the ocean, but the comparison
fails, for the ocean has shore, ant
- Gods love is boundless. But if yoi
insist on comparing the love of God t.
=, the ocean, put on that ocean four swift
sailing craft, and let one sail to tn
- north, and one to the SOUTH and on
= to the east, and one to tn
- west, and let them sail on
- thousand years, and after that let then
- all return and some one hail the flee
7, and ask them if they have found tn
- shore of Gods love, and their fou
- voices would respond: mo shore, N
= shore to the ocean of Gods mercyi"