The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1900-12-28


Washington Dec. 23.-In this dis
course Dr. Talmage describes in a new
way the sacrifices made for the worlds
disenthralment and deliveranee. His
text is I. John iY. l6. God is love.
Perilous undertaking would It be TO
attempt a comparison between the at
tributes Of God. They are not Ike a
mountain range. with here and there
a higher peak, nor like the ocean, with
here and there a profounder depth. We
cannot measure inhnities. We would
not dare to say whether his omnipo-
tence. or omniscience. or omnipresence,
or immutabllity. or wisdom. or Justice
or love Is the greater attribute, but
the one mentioned in my text makes
deeper impression upon US than any
other. It was evidently a very old
man who wrote the chapter from
which take the text. John was not
IN his dotage, as Prof EiehhoFn assert
ed. but you can tell BY the repetitions
in the epistle and the rambling style
ana that he called grown people little
children" that the author was probably
an octogenarian. Yet Paul. IN mid
life mastering an audience Of Athenian
critics on Mars hill, said nothing
stronger or more important than did
the venerable John when he wrote the
three words Of my text Cod IS love"
Indeed the older one gets the more
he appreciates this attribute The
harshness and the combativeness and
the severity have gone out Of the old
man, and he Is more lenient and aware
Of his own faults, IS more disposed TO
make excuses for the faults Of others,
and he frequently Calculates, Poor
human nAll.el" The young minister
preached three sermons on the justice
OF God and one on the love Of God, but
when he got old he preached three
sermons on the love Of God and one cn
the justice OF God.
Chrisfs Descent to Earth.
II high intelligences looked down and
saw what was going on. they must have
prophesied determination, complete ex-
termination. OF these offenders Of Jeho-
yah. But MOI Who is that coming
out OF the throne room Of heaven?
Who Is that coming out Of the palaces
OF the etornal2 Il IS the Son Of the
Emperor Of the universe. Down the
stairs OF the high heavens he comes
TIN he reaches the cold air OF a Deem
Der nigit In Palestine and amid the
bleatlngs Of sheep and the lowing OF
cattle and the moaning Of camel7 and
the banter Of the herdsmen takes his
first sleep on earth and for 80 years
invites the wandering race to return
Iney were the longest 80 years ever
known IN heaven Among many high
intelligences. what impatience to get
him back The Infinite Father looked
down and saw his Son slapped and
spit on and supperless and homeless,
and then, amid horrors that made the
MONDAY heavens turn black IN the
face. his body and soul parted. And
all for what? Why allow the Crown
Prince to come on such an errand and
endure such sorrows and die such a
deathf II was to invite the human
race to put down its antipathies and
resistance. It was because God is
love"
Now. there Is nothing beautiful in a
shipwreck. We 60 down to look az
the battered and split hulk Of an old
ship on Long Island or New Jersey
coast. 1t excites our interest We
wonder when and how it came ashore
and whether IL was the reeklessness
Of a pilot or a storm before which
nothing could bear up Iaman nature
wrecked may interest the inhabitants
. OF other worlds as a curiosity. but
+ there is nothing lovely IN that which
has foundered on the rocks Of Sin and
sorrow. Yet Il was in that condition
Of moral break up that heaven moved
to the rescue. 1t was loveliness hover
ing over deformity. It was the life
boat putting out into the surf that at
tempted its demolition. It was har-
, mony plying discord. It was a liviag
! Cod putting his arms around re-
creant world.
our worlds wiekedness.
But for this divine feeling I think
our world would long ago have been
demolished. Just think Of the organ
ized wickednoss OF the nationsl See
the abominations continental. Behold
the false religions that hoist Moham-
. med and Buddha and Confnciusi Look
! at the Koran and the shastra and the
/ zend-Avesta that would crowd ont Of
! the world the Holy Scriptures! Looh
at war, digging its trenches for ths
dead across the hemispheresi See the
great cities. with their holocaust cl
e destroyed manhood and Womanhood.
! What blasphemies assail the heavens'
D What butcheries sicken the centuries,
I What professions Of crime and atrocity
. and woe encircle the globe. If justice
p had spoken. It would have said. "Th'
world deserves annihilation. and le
annihilaton come" II immutabilitl
had spoken, It would have said. "
, have always been opposed to wicked
e ness and always win be opposed TO u
K The world Is to me ain afIront infinite