The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1902-02-27

There is one trait or characteristics Of
God that does not receive due prominencn
IN the mind or the thought of the ordinary
Christian, and that is Gods love. What
ever the ordinary Christian thinks of Code
love, he does not give 1t sufficient proml-
nence or Importance. And it is much the
same as to many thcologian and expert
in systematic theology The Bible distinc-
lively declares that God is love-" not
merely that He shows or exercises or has
love, but that He 'is love-" This being so,
it is obvious that whatever God does is q
manifestation or expression of love. Yet
there are definitions, or descriptions, OF
love, in statements of truth, that actually
omit the very mention of love. In tho
same line, or in the same twist and per
version, many child and grown person
wonders at some Bible statement of Gods
love. Little children say at times that
God does not love bad girl or bad boy.
but it is because God does love sinners
that any of us expect or hope to be saved
A good Kansas brother, who is exercised
on this subject, writes: 4
For once / intrude on your valuable
time and biblical scholarship to ask foi
light on what to me is a mystery. Egypt,
of all the nations of the earth, treated
Gods elect race with the least humanity
and greatest barbarity. After Israels set
tlement as q nation in their promised ins
heritance, Egypt was as a reed which, II
they leaned on it. would give no support
Egypt was as idolatrous as any of the CON
temporary nations which Jehovah said He
would utterly destroy. Yet l read iu
Isaiah that God calls Egypt His people
He says in Isaiah 10: 25: Blessed BE-
Egypt My people, and Assyria the work oi
My hands, and Israel Mine inheritanceIt
Jehovah says there shall be pillar at tha
border lof Egypt, and it shall be for q
sign and for a witness unto the Lord of
hosts in the land of Egypt. In verses 20
and 2l Jehovah promises political redemps
ton and spiritual salvation to this SANG
people. Why is this distinction? Had the
prophet the present political redemption
in Egypt and the freedom from restraint
OF missionary operations in view?"
1t was because of Gods love for sinners
not because of His love for good people,
that He sent His Son into this world to
move among sinners and then to lay down
His life for them. That gives hope and
cheer to all Of lis. 1t is because we are sin.
ners that we have right to claim the
promises to sinners. The Egyptians and
Assyrians were idolaters. They were m.
deed unworthy. They were almost as bad
as our fathers were, and as some of US
Christians are. Yet God loved them, and
was ready to save them. 1t is because God
loves sinners, in Egypt and outside of it,
that Christian missionaries GO to them, and
urge them to be saved. God did not love
Egyptians or Assyrians because Of their
idolatry, but in spite of it. He did not love
them because they were sinners, but in
spite of that fact. 1t ia because of the like
ness to God in their hearts that Christian
missionaries go to Egypt, and to tho Fiji
Islands, and elsewhere, and urge men to be
saved. What a God we have to love and
to serve and to trust And what love God
has shown to Egyptians and Fijians and
Americans.