The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-12-29
SACRIFICES OF GOD.
Dr.. Talmage breaches an Apprepri-
ate Christmas Sermon.
The Lord,s Gift Of Hts soa ThrousA
MS Love OF Man for the Werld's
Disenthraument - Mission
sf the savtour.
fcopyrtght. Isca By Louis KlOpsSh, n. IL
washington. Dec =

rcopyrtght, Isoo By Louis KlOpsch, n. IL
Washington. Dec =
In this discourse DIR. Talmage de-
scribes in q new way the sacrifices made
for the worlds disenthrallment and de-
~liverance. His text Is l. John w. i6;
"6od is love"
Perilous undertaking would IL DO 10
attempt a comparison between the at
tributes Of God. They are not like q
mountain range. with here and there
a higher peak, o like the ocean, with
here and there a profounder depth. We
cannot a infnities. We would
not dare 10 say whether His omnipe-
tencs, or omnisciense, or omnipresenes,
or immutability. or wisdom, or justice,
OF love is the greater attribute, hut
the one mentioned in my text makes
deeper impression upon VI than any
other. Il was evidently q very old man
who wrote the chapter from which l
take the text John was not in his
dotage, as Prof. Eichorn asserted, but
you can tell By the repetition in the
epistle and the rambling style that he
called grown people little children"
that the author was probably an eeto-
genarian. Yet Paul. in midlifs mastsr-
ing an audience of Athenian erities on
Mars hill, said nothing stronger or
more important than did the enera
BILE John when heswrote the three words
Of my text: God is love"
Indeed the older one gsts the more
he appreciates this attribute The
harshness and the eombatiyeness and
the severity have gone out Of the old
man. and he is more lenient and swars
Of his own faults, IL more disposed 70
make excuse for the faults Of 0thers.
and he frequently ejaeulatss: Poor
human nAtursl" The young minister
preached three sermonA on the jus
tice OF God and one on the love Of God.
but when he got old he preached
three sermons on the love Of God
aud one on the justice Of God.
Far back In the sternities there came
. time when God would express one
emotion OF His nature which Yves YET
unexpressed. He had made more worlds
than were seen by the snsients from
the top OF the Egyptian pyramid, which
was used ~ an observatory, and more
worlds than modern astronomy has
cstalogued or deserted through micro.
scopic lens. All that showed the
Lords almightiness. but II gave nc
demonstration Of His love. He might
make SO Saturns and a hundred Jupiter,
and not demonstrate an instant Of love
That was an unknown passion and tbs
secret OF the universe. II was g sup
pressed emotion Of the great God. But
there would come q time when thil
passion Of infinite love would be de
elared and illustrated. God would vel
II no longer. After the clock Of many
centuries had run down and world
had been born and demolished on
comparatively obscure star q race o.
human beings would be born and who
though SO bountifully provided for tina
they ought to have behaved themsslve'
well, went into insurrection and con
spiracy and revolt and war - finit.
against infinite, weak arm agains'
t~hunderbolt, man against God.
II high intslligences looked down an.
saw what was going on, they must havI
prophesied determination, completes en-
termination, OF these offenders Of Jeho
yah. But moi Who is that coming on
Of the throne room Of Heaven? Who
that coming out Of the palaces Of tn
eternal? II is the Son Of the Empero
Of the universe. Down the stairs OF tn
high heavens He comes till He reache
the cold air Of a December night In Pa
estine, and amid the blestings OF shee
and the lowing Of cattle and the mosn
ing Of camels and the banter Of herd.
men takes his first sleep on earth an
for 80 years invites the wandering rae
to return to God and happiness an
Heaven. They were the longest ;
years ever known in Heaven. Anon
many high Intelllgences, what imps
thence to get Him backl The Infinit
Father looked down and saw hts So
slapped and spit on and supperless an
homeless, and then, amid horrors tha
made the MONDAY heavens turn blac
in the face, His body and soul parte,
And all for what? Why allow th
Crown Prince TO come on such an e.
rand and endure such sorrow and d
such a death? II was to invite the b,
man race to put down Its antipathi,
and resistance. II was because God
love"
Now. there is nothing beautiful In
shipwreck. We go down 70 look at II
battered and split hulk Of an old ship O
Long Island or New Jersey coast. II q
cites our interest. We wonder whe
and where IL came ashore, and wheth,
II was the recklessness Of a pilot or
storm before which nothing could be,
up. Human nature wrecked may Il
terest the inhabitants Of other work
as a curiosity, but there is nothing Low
ly in that which has foundered on II
rocks OF sin and sorrow. Yet Il was
that condition Of moral break up thl
= Heaven moved 10 the rescue. II wi
loveliness lowering over deformity.
was the lifeboat putting out into Il
surf that attempted it's demolition.
was harmony plying discord. II wi
!. a living God putting His arms around
: recreant world.
. The sehoolmen dsrids the idea TIL
God has emotion. They think II woul
9 be a Divine weakness 10 be stirred |
any earthly spectacle. The God Of Il
, learned Bruch and Sohlelermacher is q
4 infinite intelligence, without feeling,
cold and cherries divinity. But II
: God we worship is one Of sympathy an
compassion and %hslpfulness and q
A lection. God Is love"
I In all the Bible there is no more CO.
: solatory statement The very best pc
. pie have In their lives occurrences Inc
plicable. They are bereft or persscut'
: or impoverished or invaded. Tn
have only one child, and that die
: while the next door nsighbor has sew
children, and they are all spared. II
i unfortunates buy at . time when Il
" market is rising and the day after Il
n market falls. At time when they mel
TO feel the best for the discharge
some duty they are seized with physic
collapse. Trying to do a good and no
est and useful thing, they are misre
resented and belied as IL they b.
n practiced a villainy. These are peoT
Al who all their lives have suffered injr
tees. Others Of less talent, with Ia
conservation, 60 On and up. while Oh
!. 60 on and down. There are in ma
Lvesriddles that have never been soiv'
mysteries that have never been .
planned, h%sartbresks that have nsv
been healed. Go TO that man or th
~ usoman with nbiinsonhie exnlnuatif