The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-02-05

FOR THe WoRfDs PiszNz
IHFkLtS'eer. -
IA SERMON 'Tspssr.ns "a zpapl+oiplIats alSoi hIats ios
the Christmas season-The Mission OF
the Saviour Of the Worid-Proof That
God Is Love. osh03 looo ss2ad9s
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(copyrighie 900 Jeuls leasraio ioaIa X7nI
Washington. Dec. 23.-In this dis
course Qes Baimagaid idsscribssdnia BeE
lTWay the saerihces made 'for thsEoEldig
disenthralment and deiiverance. His
tExt fTf. ..Jchp-fzs cn=T zn9 1z-s'ss
Periious Undertaking would Il be 10
slf6nhJa. comparison between the at
tributes Of God. They are not Ike
4lUHnta4H fant6 NItI hel1 1Aa -
here.and here rrprqfQunaef depth. We'
Y cannot measure 1ndnifiesA We WouM
'hnd dare to say whether his omHlpo-
4lte3ce. or omniseiences or fd &c. !.
or linmutability, or wisddins - tas4ce.
lor love is the greater attribute, but
3ahs one mentioned N my text makes
deeper ,iriproAfion upoh BsnthanaaBJrl
other Il vas evidentlyy p very OLD
4 man who wrote the chapter from
rFhie0 T. taie the b9xtu 56hff Nas not
IA his dofasas Iaz Profi Eiehhora asserts'
ed. but you car teu by the rspsuiionf
lin the epistle and the rambling style
ljand that he called grown people little
chlldten" that the author was probably
an oftogenarian. Yet Paul, in mid
3-hfa mastering aIi.aRdisngs Of Afhenia +
critics on Mars hill, said nothing
stroBgeF-eF-Haof iinportnnt -than-tiid
the venerable John when be wrote the
three words Of my text God is love.
Indeed the older ,ope. gets the more
he aPtfph lfz .tAfsf aAtbute. The
hanshness ana the combatiyeness and
the severity have gDne out uk5he old
man, and. Ne L more lenlept ana .aFe
Of hljbka fatlGR i&tib Gdif
make excuses for the faults
and sha1ffeggsptlyr ac6RteAi ~
hupan srista. es''-'f ne ybuhg minssfef
preached three sermons On the juEfice.
OF God and one on fhe loge Of God, but
when he got old he preached thEeg
sermons oR4the love Of God and or on
the Justice 81 God l--R tS
Chriaf'g Descent "a sEarth, a
If high fnte Hgepces locked down ana
saw what was going on, they must have
prophesled exferEdihhtlon. complete ex-
termination. OF these offenders Of Jeho-
yah But no. Who 2 that coming
out Of the throne room Of heaven?
Who is that coming out OF the palaces
OF the eternal? Il is the Son Of tie
Emperor Of the universe r Down the
stairs Of the high heavens he comes
TIL he reaches the cold air ora Deem
Der night in Palestine and amid The
bleatlngs Of sheep and the lowing Of
cattle and the moaning of 'cameis and
the banter Of the heraBnlen takes his
first sleep on earth and for 80 years
invites the wandeying race 70 return
70 God and happiness and heaven,
They were the longest 80 years ever
known In heaven. Among many high
inteIliEenpesn ;vbatr kpuAtie4fb( t9-gsf
him Batkl The Ihnnfte Father looked
down-and saw MS son snapped and
spit ON and .sub6eflessi and homeless.
and then amid horrors AhstfEuade-lhe
MONDAY heavens turn black in the
face. bis body ana Soul parted. And
f.zi- for what? Why allow the Crown
Prince 40 eoine, on such an erraud nd-
endilrs such sorrows and die -suth a.
death? Il was to invite the human
raeh to put down its anupathies and
resistance. -ilt was because God IS
! lore
Now. there is nothing sbeau3ifa IN a
shlpwreck. We 60 down to look at
the battered and split hulk nf an old
shlp on Long Island .oFgNeF 4 Jersey
ceast Il excites our interest We
wonder when and how II came ashore
and whether It was the rerklessness
Of pilot or a storm before which
nothing could bear up. Human nature
wrecked may interest the Inhabitants
OF other worlds as a curiosity. but
thee is nothing lovely in that which
has foundered on the rocks Of sin and
sorrow. Yet It Was ip- that eoRditiop
OF moral break hp thar heaven moved
TO the rescue. II WAS loTsliness- hover
ing over deformity Il was the life
boat putting out into the surf that at
tempted It's demolition Il was har-
mony plying discord. It was a living
God putting his arms around re-
creunt world
Oar worlds wicksdness.
But for this divine feeling T think
our world wonld long ago have been
demolished. Just think Of the organ
lied wickedness Of the nations, See
the abominatinns continental Behold
the false religions that hoist Moham-
med ana Bnddha and confueius, Look
AZ re Koran and the shastra and the
zend-Avesta that would crowd out Of
the world the Holy scriptuFesf Look
at War, digging It's trenches for the
dead across the hemispherss. See the
a.