The Penn's Grove record., 1900-12-28
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said: 81 pity all those woes of the earth
1 cannot stand here and see no assuags
meEt of those su~fferings. ] will go down
and reform the world. / will medicate III
wounds will calm its frenzy. | viii
wash off its pollution. | will become in
carnated. / will take on My shoulders and
upon My brow and into My heart the con.
of that worlds misbehavior. ]
start now, and between My arrival al
Bethlehem and My ascent from 0livet !
will weep their tears and suffer then
Qriefs and die their death. Farewell, My
throne, My crown, My sceptre, My angelic
My heaven, till | nave
finished the work and come back" God
was never conquered but once, and that
was when He was conquered by His OVID
love. God is love"
In this day, when the creeds of churches
are being revised, let more emphasis be
put upon the thought Of my text. Let it
appear at the beginning of every creed
and at the close. The ancients used to tell
Of = great military chieftain who, about
to 60 to- battle, was clad ia armor, helmet
on head and sword at side, n who put
out his arms to give farewell embrace tc
his child and the child. affrIghted al
his appearance. ran shrieking away Then
the father Dut of the armor that caused
the alarm, and the child saw who he was
End Fau4fhf0 his arms and snusEied against
his heart. Creeds must not have too much
iron 10 their make up, terrorising rather
than attracting They must not hide the
smiling face and the warm heart Of our
Father, God. Let nothing imply that
there IS d sheriff at every door ready to
mako arrest, but oyer us all and around
us all q mercy that wants to save and save
now.
II one paragraph of the creed seems to
take p like a child, out Of the arm Of
q father, let the next paragraph put you
in the arms of a mother. "As one whom
his mother comforteth so viii / comfort
you Oh, what a mother we have in
tod! And my text is the lullaby sung to
rs when we are i'll or when we are NAL
treated OF when we are weary or when we
are trying to do better or 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 # the hush of many mothers, God is
lave.
Fear Is the dominant thought in all
false religions. For that the deyotees cut
Themselves with lances and swing on iron
hooks and fall under wheels and hold up
the right arm so long that they cannot
lake Il down. Fear, british fear. Sui love
Ii the queen in onr religion.
For that NE build temples. For that we
kneel At our affairs. For. that we contrib
ute our aims. For that martyrs suffered
At Hrussels market place and at Lucknow
and CaWnpur and Pekin. That viii yet
sbejeWeI the round earth, and put it an
emerald on the great, warm, throbbing
heart Of God.
Do you want more proof that @God Is
love Yea, disinterested love. No COM
pensation for its bestowaI. No reward for
it's sacrifices. But I call that back. The
world did pay Him. 1t paid Him on Cal
vary paid Hin with brambles on the
brow and four spikes. two for the hands
and two for the feet, and one spear Tor
the side near the heart; paid Him in exc
Grafton, paid Him with straw pillow in a
barn and q cross on a hill, paid Him with
q third of a century of maltreatment and
hardship save one year-yea, is paying
Him yet@in rejecting His mission Of
mercy.
Having dethroned other kings the world
would like to dethrone the King of kings.
But He knew what He was coming to
when Ae left the portals Of pearl and the
land y1cre the sun never goes down. Yes;
He knew the world, how cold it is, and
knew pain, how sharp it is, and eSpiation.
utaiating s. is.
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 thunders tolfat the funeral
Of heavens fav0r7te, and understood that
the palaces of eternity would hear the
sorrow Of 8 bereft God.
What do the Bible and the church litnr-
eies mean when they say, He descended
into hell9p They mean that His soul lett
HIS sacred body for awhile and went
down into the prison Of moral night and
swung back its great door and llfted the
chain Of captivity and felt the awful lash
that would have come down OF the worlds
hack and went the tears Of an eternal
sacrifice. and took the bolt Of divine indig-
nation against sin into Himself and, hav.
ing yanquisaed death and hell, came out
/ and came up, having achieved an eternal
| rescue If we viii accept it.
Read it slowly, read it solemnly, read 1T
| 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 ali and
came, the most illustrious example In all
the ages of disinterested 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 thai
the heavens ever made was this expeditior
~saivatory. It cost the life OF a King
It put the throne Of God In bereavement
RI set the universe aghast. 1t made ON
impotence weep and bleed and shudder- II
taxed the resources of the richest OF al
empires. It meant angelic forces detailed
4 10 fight forces demoniac. 1t put thres
worlds into sharp collIsion-one world t.
save. another to resist and another TO de
stroy. e charged on the spears and ram
With the battleaxes of human and diabol1t
Had the expedition of love been de
feated the throne of God would have tai
en. and Satan would nave mounted int
supremacy, and sin would have foreve
friumphed. and mercy would have beel
forever dead. The tears and blood OF tn
martyr Of the heavens were only a part 9
The infinite expense to which the Goodness
went when it proposed to save the world
Alexander the Great. with bis host, wa
marching on Jerusalem to capture an
81 thunder it. The inhabitants came on
clothed in white, led on by the high prles'
wearing a inter and elittering breastplat
81 On which was emblazoned the name {
God, and Alexander, seeing that wort
bowed and halted his army, and the cit
was saved. S.
! And If we had the love of God write
in all our hearts and on all cur lives an
on all our banners at the sight of it tn
hosts Of temptation would fall back, an
we would 60 on from victory unto victor
until NE stand in Zion and before tod
Ieander swan across the Hellespor
GUIDED By the light which Hero the IA
held from one OF her tower windows, an
what HelIesponts of earthly struggles ca
We not breast as long as we can see Il
! torch Of divine love held from the tows
windows Of the Kingl Let love OF &c
J to Us and our love to God clasp hands th
! minute. o ye dissatisfied and DISTRESS
] souls who roam the world over lookir
: Tor happiness and finding none, why n.
nv this love Of God as a solace and inspi
/, alton and eternal satisfaction? When
King WAS crossing . desert in caravan, !
I water was to be found, and man and bea
we're perishing from thirst. Along Il
way there were strewn the bones of car
vans that had preceded. There were har
or reindeer in the kings procession, al
some one knew their keen scent for wat
i md cried o1t, let loose the harts or rel
E deer. 1t was done, and no sooner we
! these creatures ioosened than they we