The Yale expositor., 1900-03-09

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chasms of horrors into which he must
fall and they could not change the
eternity of his woe.
but there are 500 different ways of
read: And God said, Let there be
light, and there was light. And God
saw the light that it was good, and
God divided the light from the dark
ness. And God called the light day
and the darkness he called night
Too Much Light.
"In other words, those verses mean
this: In the beginning God ignited for
self-murder besides those found along
the poisonous highways of opium,
liquor and moral weakness. The de-
spised worm destroys the monster
oak as well as the woodman's AK. The
little seed or the frozen stream cracks
the solid rock as we'll as the angry
dynamite. The flowing waters Of Nj
agara river dissolve the mountains.
I'm the first chapter of Genesis we
this planet two suns. The moon is
nothing but a burnt-out sun. But after
the creation God felt too much light
would destroy the human race, so he
practically said: My children must
have 4 time to sleep. The flowers close
their petals in slumber. The trees be-
come torpid in a winter nap TO give
forth the spring buds. Even the ma
chinery must have a rest or it will soon
wear out. The angelus bell without
quiet will cease to chime, so, in order
to have man and woman sleep, / will
show them my will. For ten hours at
least | will envelop the earth in total
darkness Like our grandmothcrs
with a candle-snuffer, God reached
down and put out the light of that
sun which we call the moon. And this
is the reason we ought to go to bed
with the chickens and answer early to
the morning call Of the growing cock.
''In the next place, the text honors
| the Lenten season because it is a pro-
| test against human perfection. If
/ there were any people on earth who
| by physical contact were fitted for the
receiving Of the Holy Spirit Oh account
/ Of their natural conditions. they were
the little band Of 120 Christians, COM
/
Lazarus Mary, the mother OF Christ,
and Mary Magdalene. who had the
seven devils, and the rest of the apos-
ties who sat with Christ at the last
supper. They ate Of his body and drank
Of his blood Many OF them knew
Jesus when he was in Galiiee and made
the wine at the wedding of Cana. They
saw him crucined. They saw the tomb
which was rifled. They saw him and
talked to him and touched him when
he was resurrected. Paul said: After
that he was seen Of above 500 brethren
at once, of whom the greater part re-
mains unto this penteccst, but some
are fallen asleep
Behs!d the Ascension.
They saw Jesus ascension, when he
mounted higher and higher. until the
trees were under his feet; higher and
higher, until his hair was moistened
by the halo Of clouds, as the gardens
are besweated by the morning mists;
higher and higher, until other worlds
crowded around him in love; higher
and higher. until his white flowing
garments became as the wings of a
dove; higher and higher, until earth
itself to him must have dwindled into
a star. Yet these disciples, before the
Holy Spirit came, had to gather in one
place, with one accord, for supp!ica-
tion and prayer. Cannot you and |
train our eyes to See the tongues of
fire; strain our ears to hear the spirit
winds moving among the trees; reach
forth our hands for the gospel heart
clasp, and lift our lips for the kiss OF
divine love?
"One day among the arctic iceborgs
a whaling ship sighted strange craft.
Its ropes were ropes of ice. Its sails
and hull and quarter deck were all COW
cred with ice It's rudder chains could
not move for they were in the grip of
omnipotent ice. When the commander
came near enough to this strange craft
he lifted the trumpet and called, Ship
ahoy, ship ahoy. whittier bound; from
what port?' There was no answer. a
boat was lowered. When the rescuinS
party climbed over the bulwarks they
found the captain frozen dead in the
cabin; the sailors frozen dead in the
, bunks the cook frozen dead in the
kitchen; the wheelman frozen dead at
, the wheel. For thirteen long years
! that ship had foated heplessly about
the sport OF every current, the play
thing of every wind and the only fu-
neral dirge was sounded by storm
demons, shrieking and Kissing in the
rigging.
, $50 every man at 10 or 90 years oi
age is a derelict, a divinely pitied hui
, man craft. drifting around with 4 full
, cargo of decayed opportunities, with
his corpses Of misappiied influences
We must first throw overheard our
dead selves before We can let Jesus
! Christ step upon the decks.
2 Actions That Command Contempt.
( by our actions we try to push our.
selves down to the lowest depths oi
S Gods great ocean of contempt Thi.
J, was not the figure of the pentocosta
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