Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-06-17
no! Long before that existed the love

! of God
The nature of God never changes,
and from all eternity that holy passion
glOWed in the Infinite, and l think he
was throwing out worlds into space
/ and inhabiting them and more worlds
+ for the application of that love- He
: may not have told the other worlds
! what he did for this world, as he has
not told US what he did for them.
think the love of God was demonstrate
/ ed in mightier worlds before our little
world was fitted up for human resi-
! dence. Will a man owning $4,000 acres
! of land put all the cultivation on a
half acre? VIII God make Il million
! worlds and put his chief affection on
one small planet? Are the other worlds
and larger worlds standing vacant, I'M
inhabited, while this little world is
crowded with inhabitants? No, it takes
a universe of worlds to express the
love of God. And there are other ran
SONS and other reScueS and other re-
demptiOnS, as there may be other mil
| lenniumS and other resurrection morn
ings and judgment days than those of
our world. But in the space of six
feet by five was comprised the might
est evidence of Gods love that any
world ever saw or ever will see. Com.
pressed on two plankS joined together
as a cross, there was enough agony
there cOncentered, if distributed, to put
whole nations into torture. That God
allowed the assassination of his own
Son for the rescue of our world is all
the evidence needed that he loved the
vnTI6 oh n OH of Hn1f
Go ahead, O world, and tell as we'll as
you can what the love of God is, but
know beforehand that Paul was right
when he said, ut passeth knowledge"
Let other poets take up the story of
Gods love where William COwper and
Isaac Watts and Charles Wesley and
HOratius BOnar left it, and let other
painters improve upon the 'Sistine Ma
donna" and the elaboration of the
Magi" and the "CrucifXiOn" as Ra-
phael and Titan and Claude and Cor
reggie presented them. Let the Ger
man pulpit orator take up the theme OF
Gods love where Frederick ThOluck
left it, let Italian pulpit take it up
where GavaZz left it. let French pulpit
orator take up the theme where BOur-
delOue left it, let the Swiss pulpit ora
tor take up the theme where Merle
D'Aubigne left it, let the English pull
pit take it up where George Whitefield
left it, let the Scotch pulpit take 1t up
where DR. Candlish left it, let the
Welsh pulpit take it up where Christ
mas Evans left it, and let the American
pulpit take it up where Archibald Alex
ander and Or. Kirk and Matthew
Lee -
never appreciate fully the love Of God
until they hear from his own lips the
Outburst of his infinite and everlasting
affection.
A Glorious Hour.
Only glimpses of God have we in this
world. But what an hour it Will be
when we first see him, and we will
have no more fright than l feel when
now see you. 1t viii not Ice with
mortal eye that we viii behold him,
but with the vision Of Il cIcanSod, for
given and perfected spirit OF all the
quintiIlion ages Of eternity, to us the
most thrilling hour viii be the first
hour when we meet him as he is. This
may account for something YOU have
all seen and may not have understood.
Have YOU not noticed how that after
death the old Christian looks youngagain
or the features resume the look Of 20 or
80 years before? The WEAKNESS is gone
out Of the face; there. lis something
strikingly restful and placid; there is
a pleased look where before there was
disturbed look. What has wrought
the change? | think the dying Chris
tian saw God. At the moment the soul
a co
it's impression on the cOuntenance. L
think that is what gave that old Chris
tan face after death the radiant and
triumphant look. The beStOrmed spirit
has reached the harbOr; the hard battle
of life is ended in victory. The body
took that look the moment heaven be-
gan and the curtain was completely
lifted and the glOrieS of JehOvah'S pres
ence rushed upon the soul. The depart
ing spirit left on the old mans face Il
glad goodby, and that first look gave
the pleased curve to the dying lip and
smoothed out the wrinkles and touched
all the lineamentS with an indeScrib-
able radiance. AS no one else explains
that improved and gladdened post
norton look, 1 try to explain it saying,
''He saw God!' "She saw GOdr'
Last summer we jOurneyed thousands
of miles to see the midnight sun from
North cape, Norway. We stood on
deck in the Arctic seas, our watches in
our hands, and it was IL o'clock at
night, but light as an ordinary noon
lay. Then it was half past IL o'clock
1T night, then it was Is minutes of -,
but a long, wide, thick cloud hung over
he sun. Are we to be disappointed, as
have been, and the journey
here a failure? Ten minutes of II,