Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-01-05
TALMAGE'S SERMON.
FOR THE WORLDS DISEN-
THRALLMENT.
Sermon Especially Appropriate for
= the Christmas Season-The Mission of
! the Saviour of the worId-Proof That
God Is Love.

Copyright, 1900, Louis Klopsch, N. W
Washington, Dec. 23-In this dis
course DR.. Talmage describes in a new
way the sacrifices made for the worlds
uisenthralment and deliverance. His
text is I. John iy., 16, 'tGod is love-" q
Perilous undertaking would it be to
attempt a comparison between the at
tributes of God They are not like
mountain range, with here and there
higher peak, nor like the ocean, with
here and there profounder depth. We
cannot measure infnities. We would
3 not dare to say whether his omnipo-
tence, or omniscience, or omnipresen ce,
or 1mmut&bility, 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. 1t was evidently a very old
man who wrote the chapter from
which / take the text. John was not
IN his dotage, as Prof. Eichhorn assert
ed, but you can tell by the repetitions
in the epistle and the rambling style
and that he called grown people little
children" that the author was probably
an octogenarian. Yet Paul, in mid
life mastering an audience Of Athenian
SAALiCS Oh mATS I'LL, S1lQ DOLulUS
stronger or more important than did
the venerable John when he wrote the
three words of my text, God 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 naturei" The young minister
preached three sermons on the Justice
iof God and one on the love of God but
when he got old he preached three
sermons on the love of God and one on
the Justice of God.
Christ's Descent to Earth.
If high. fntelligences looked down and
saw what was going on, they must have
prophesied determination, complete ex-
termination, of these offenders of Jeho-
,ivah. But no! Who is that coming
out of the throne room of heaven?
Who is that coming out of the palaces
of the eternal? 1t is the Son of the
Emperor of the universe. Down the
stairs OF the high heavens he comes
till he reaches the cold air of Decem-
Der night in Palestine and amid the
.bleatings of sheep and the lowing of
cattle and the moaning of came1s and
the banter of the herdsmen takes his
first sleep on earth and for 33 years
: invites the wandering race to return
I, God and happiness and heaven.
Fhsy were the longest 33 years ever
known in heaven. Among many high
fntelligences, what impatience to get
him back! The Infinite Father looked
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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
death? 1t was to invite the human
race to put down its antipathies and
resistance. 1t was because "God is
love-"
Now, there is nothing beautiful in a
shipwreck. We go down to look at
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 it was the recklessness
of a pilot or a storm before which
nothing could bear up Human nature
FeCkeQ may interest the ln1aOlCantS
other worlds as a curiosity, but
>Sere is nothing lovely in that which
has foundered on the rocks of sin and
sorrow. Yet it was in that condition
tof moral break up that heaven moved
the rescue. It was 1oveliness hover
sver deformity. 1t was the life
ting out into the surf that at
s it's demolition. 1t was har-
wing fiiscord IT was living
.ing his arms around a re-
as World.
Our WORLDS wickednsss.
f.t for. this divine feeling I think
ii world would long ago have been |
{holished. Just think of the organ
IN wickedness of the nations, See |
Nominations continental Behold |
Mise religions that hoist Moham- |
land Buddha and Confucius, Look |
ee Koran and the Shastra and the |
f-Avesta that would crowd out of |
world the Holy Scriptures. Look |
1war, digging its trenches for the |
Id across the hemispheres, See the |
}at cities, with their holocaust of |
fstroyed manhood and womanhood, |
y. jhat blasphemies assaf the heavens, |
{Fhat butcheries sicken the centuries, /
!, That professions of crime and atrocity |
IA woe encircle the globe, II justice /
I'd spoken. 1t would have said 'sThe |
yqfld deserves annihflation. and let /
14h1lation come" If immutability |