The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-07-22
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nent pulpit orator of Binghamton. A
feature of the service was the music.
Mrs. George du Bois Dimmick singing
as an offertory Jesus, Lover of My
Soul" AS a closing number she sang
with infinite sweetness and feeling,
I'm a Pilgrim and I'm a Stranger"
Her lovely voice was never heard with
better effect.
DR.. Nichols always breaches a sun
ny Gospel, yet with reverent dignity
touched with such grace of simplicity
that 1t seems to speak more to the
hearts of men than much of the mod
ern day exposition of the Bible.
Yesterday he said that he should use
as a text the verse which was perhaps
dearer to most Christians than any
other. 1t was, For God so loved the
world that He gave His only begotten
Son that whosoever believeth on Him
should not perish, but have everlast-
ing life"-John iii: 16.
II have wanted to speak upon this
text" said the minister, but always
am like the singer bewildered by the
great score beyond the compass of his
voice; or the painter. haunted by the
btdulg vi al ldtt WHICH ever ITdUSCtIuS
his efforts. The greatness and power
of Gods love expands into an infinite
unknowable depth of affection, battling
mans comprehension. For God so
loved the world, that He gave His only
| begotten SON.
| LOVED THE WORLD.
"God loved the world, all men. The
| Creator loves the creatures His hands
have made. His love compasses the
whole world of man. The stars are
there in the invisible armament.
Countless soults of men live up there
in the expanse of Gods love.
You, my people, have come from
many different homes; you have a
diversity OF feelings, of expression
and thought, yet here you are, all sur
rounded within the walls of this
church. What these walls are to you,
combining all equally and totally, so
is the world held in the shelter of
Gods love. There are no black sheep;
none against whom the fold is shut.
"Dr. Herrck johnson is reported as
lately saying that across the Confess
sion of Faith of our church should be
written, IAN appropriate Gospel for
the elect only If this be true, it is
found in the Confession of Faith only,
not in this Gospel for the whole world.
God is not partial What He has felt
for one man. He feels for all men.
"A distinguished traveller who has
seen much Of the degraded people of
various nations, says that the idea of
universal love and salvation means
either a great deal more or a great
| deal less than Christian people think
it means.
THE purest passion of human be-
ncvolence sometimes has mingled with
it disgust and contempt, but that is
human love, not the Creators; the
love of man, not God. He loves the
whole world, not a part. If | could
make you see what Gods love means,
it would be as if you were a child at
its first sight of the ocean, new
world being opened. You could never
again be the same that you had been.
If l could show you the love of God,
what it is, the love for the individual
not an abstraction called Humanity,
life would mean something very differ
ent to you,
MAN \ MEAN CREATION.
God loved the word--thc bad, for
to God than to anyone else. We put
God in one scale and then all that is
foul and loathsomc into the other, and
then. with the force of our own will,
press down that other until it out
| weighs all the beauty of heaven. If we
only could really believe God loves us,
| what would be pleasure, or pain, riches
or poverty, all things clse-in compari-
son?
In reckoning the value of a gift
| two things are considered. How much
it cost the Giver in trouble, pain. ex-
pense, and how much good il effects to
others. God so loved the world that
he gave his only begOtten son. 1t is
great thing to spend time and money
and thought for the good of others. 1t
is a great thing to sacrifice comfort
| health, and even life for the good of
others, but above all is the gift of a
son by a father who really loves him.
| There are those men who have given
up their only sons to go to the tented
field for their country. and they know
what the sacrifice means. 1t is appall-
ing to realize that God was so con-
cerned for a suffering world that He
spared not his own son.
"A little pessmist once said: If God
made the world, | would not like to be
i'm the place of God the woes would
break my heart He forgot he had
uttered great truth, and that its woes
would not only break his heart, but
had broken the great heart Of God him
self.
HIS FACE LOOKS OUT.
Gods face looks out of this great
verse; as from the stained window
yonder, with yearning, wondering COM
passion FOR the world. You can plunge
"A jar of water to the bottom of the At
lantic ocean and bring it up exactly as
it went down. So it is possible for men
and women to be here in the sea of
Gods love, to live and move within it
all the days of their lives and yet never
receive one drop of His greatness and