Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1901-04-27
MORE LIGHT.
revelations OF Truth Being Con-
stantly Made to the Heart Pre-
pared for II.

win guide you into all truth.-st. John, ls:
II. H.
The more you ponder the Scrip
lures the more you End in them. Thew
are not to be simply read, but care
fully studied. They are like the ocean
In that they fit every experience and
are responsive to every aspiration.
The text disturbs us by its very
richness. 1t shows us a vista SO fun
of promise that we shade our ewes.
while gratitude fills them with tears.
No statement in the Bible so clearly
defines the dignity of the soul or the
close relation OF God to it. One can
not accept it without desire to live
In the very shadow of the throne il.
self. Meanness becomes meaner still
wee more vicious, and virtue, hon.
esty and loyalty more precious.
Hods revelations have always been
made to those who were willing to
hsten, and they will never cease. The
ola prophets were like the hills which
mt themselves from the plain. Christ
was the mountain which pierces the
clouds and rises to heights unknown
But the loving lips of the Father are
not sealed. There are many things
yet to be said. We may not be able
10 pear them now, but when we long
,or greater knowledge that greater
knowledge will come.
Christ did not speak to the disciples
alone. He looked beyond them to the
spectral ages to come, to the genera.
lions yet unborn who would read
and ponder, and ask for more. The
disciples were the representatives ~
the whole family of believers and Of
the seekers in all time. In every cen.
fury the race has had all II could use
put no century has all the truth there
u.s. God is inexhaustible. We NAV
grow, develop, aspire, but what we
attain is only the crumbs that have
dropped from the Masters table n
handful of sand from the infinite
stretch of seashore.
"nat christ meant was that His
coming created an appetite for the
truth, the eternal truth, which will
always hide itself behind the horizon
no matter how rapid our progress
may DE. And when His earthly mis-.
sion was ended, and He had returned
TO the home on high, that mission
would continue. He was truth In
'ne manger, truth along the dustry
ROAD lie travelled, truth on the cross.
truth assembled to Heaven, with n
spear thrust in His side as a reminder
OF human ignorance, Indifference and
haired, and He is still the truth. ready
10 reveal Himself to those who seei,
MIN with the earnestness of desire
world
emf Chrlst- 1t is not enough TO look
pack through the mists of half for.
gotten memories to Judea, not enough
TO look forward to the vague hone
OF second coming. We want Hin,
now, spiritually perceptible Pres-
ence, for the burdens of life arr manv
and heavy, and we cannot bear then,
alone. Christ, therefore, Is NOT ;n
heaven, but in real sense He Is here
mere is no experience of honest iov
or rugged sorrow with which He does
not sympathize. There is no dav in
summer or winter when He does not
form part Of the household. II
our eyes are withholden and we see
HIM not it Is because our lack OF
faith, like grain of dust, has blind
ed them. The yearning of the heart
is as loud as trumpet call, and when
It's notes are heard In the other world
ministering spirits hasten to our re-
her' unseen, perhaps, but not unfelt
In the solitude of your grief YOU
nave the company OF angels, Gods
messengers, who bring the good of
heaven to the i'll Of earth. You are
not forgotten, you are not neglected,
you are ever in the EetrnaI Mind. YIN,
may not grasp that fact, 1t may even
seem to involve an impossibility, but
1t Is the foundation on which all grand
eur of character is built. Without II
religion becomes devitalized and per.
functory.
All the beings in the other world
are interested, profoundly interest
co. In the development of this world.
were this not so, would Christ have
come that He might help us to make
.he crooked paths straight? If He
nad gone to prepare place for us,
' '' 1t where He is, there we may be
|, So" is 1t not because the Father
owes His~children and is always ready
to answer their cries for assistance
ana aQVlceI
Close the shutters of the heart and
you live in worldly darkness, open
them and the sunshine of tho Eternal
Presence pours in. Think of these
things, keep this mighty truth In
mind, become receptive to the infiu-
ences from above and they will be to
you what the dew Is to the flowers.
Revelations Of holy truth, locked out
by selfshness and passion, by avar-
Ice and enmitiss, are always knock
ing at the door, and to-day and to-
morrow and every day God will speak
to you, and the sweet influences of
the higher life will make you calm and
brave and strong.
Christ's heart was in Heaven even
when His feet were on the earth, and
ours may be also. Those who look
shall see, and those who listen shall
hear.-George II. Hepworth, in N. Y.
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