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REVELATIONS AND GLORY.

true SELF, and IN which 40 not DclleNe.
This is TO be the nature OF our faith In
God.
REVELATIONS AND GLORY.
We see the beauty OF the heavens. the
law, the strength OF the hills and We
say II In revelation OF the power. the
beauty and the majesty of our God. we
believe that these are revelations OF God
and we make that faith equivalent To a
faith I'm God Himself. What better are
we as men for believing with the Psalmst
that the heavens declare the glory OF God
Spencer TO account for the stars and the
milky way? Its a fine sentiment that
finds God In the babbiinE brook me DUO bua-
but it's not faith In God. For faith ls
the communion OF life with life. man
may be nearer God i'm the little room WITH
Jesus and the disciples than with Abra
ham ON the plains under the stars. rms
Is the great need. We have faith IN
cretds. or rather We did have. and pro-
fess them We have faith In the church
and 40 we labor To establish II. We have
faith in worship, and come here TO pay
our devotions We have faith In educa-
tion and build schools and round npra-
ries. TO have faith In "a thing then is
to act that way. To have faith In God
then is not creed profession. sermon
making. Psalm singing; IL Is living God :
life. Il is acting as though there we're
a God.
This kind OF faith In a God whom we
90 not see rs GOnll1Itu WIN Aiit
tons OF God In church. In book. In a
armament or I'm a flower which We do
see Is as different sunlight IL diner
ent from starlight. as wine Is different
from water. as nature Is different from
art as harmony is different from discord
as Jesus is different from udas. By the
very nature OF faith. by all that We mean
when We use the word the believing with
out seeing is better than believing with
seeing
Then the man Is more blessed because
~ IA. nj hfg faith
But the faith OF such man Is not only
better In quality but larger I'm quantity.
How small Is the object OF a man lailh
who believes only in the things he sees.
Il turn my telescope TO the heavens
says la Place "and ! see no God That
Is what CARLYLE would have termed
right fools word. .Men." said Jesus cen
turtles before this astronomer. have eyes
and see not ears and hear not. Men who
see and yet who do not perceive. We
look" SAYS the apostle, mot az the things
which are seen. but at the things which
are not seen for the things which are
seen are temporal. but the things WHICH
are not seen are eternal To him the
unseen was as much larger than the seen,
as eternity is larger than the time of the
clock tick.
For all that We can see with these eyes
Is the outward expression How much
larger is the inner reality Han anything
We can express. Newton sees the failing
apple, sees IL with his eyes. That Is
temporal But the eye of faith sees a
law, the law OF gravitation. That Is eter-
nal.
How tiny after all the works OF the
greatest men. The best OF their .gen-
era tion Is perhaps the worst OF their
childrens children. How frail in thought
and In deed.
MAN A WONDERFUL CREATURE.
What a wonderful creature is mani
Yet after ALL what is this "quintescence
OF dustG" When he should be strong
against temptation he falls and dies by
the wayside. IL matters not fathers
advice. a mothers prayers and tears. the
inspiration Of friendship or the boon OF a
great love. the youth and man goes forth
into n far country and feeds with swine.
We see this man upon our streets sunk TO
the level OF the beast His contact is pol
luton, his breath Is poison But he is
we have faith in what we see?
No. never. We are to have faith
eternal man Of which this is but a mock
To see Him with the
eye. of faith as son of God, made IN
ods ,S % image - SEQ no ssy wha the b Is bun What
he may become. To see Jesus, the saw
iour. IN Judas the betrayer and TO have
faith In that is the Christian duty. For
are we not all larger than what
a food of sympathy within that
has flowed to the world. IL at
there not love hiding latent there, un-
known TO the world. that some day may
break the barriers that hem IL. Is there
not a faith I'm tho heart OF all OF us that
shames the superficial doubt of our daily
living To be known az We are not as
we seem and reveal ourselves Is the long
friend is priced because he has been
deemed worthy to push aside the veil. and
seeing the holy OF holies believes I'm the
larger man than the world does not know.
Beethoven writes a. sonata, a revelation
OF beauty and of harmony. But how
much greater is the man thsn his pro-
duction. Well does he know how much
greater Is the beauty and harmony OF the
universe than anything he has produced.
IL is a better and a larger faith that be-
lieves I'm Beethoven and beauty and har-
mony than the faith that believes IN the
melody that Is heard III ard melodies
are sweet, but those unheard are sweet
cr"
Webster stands before the multitude
and sweeter than honey flows his speech.
But Webster was greater than that reply
20 Hayne or that pleading. for his coli
lege. which. though small. he yet loved.
II is a larger faith that believers i'm Web
ster and eloquence than the faith that
believes I'm the reply TO Haynes or the de-
fence OF Dartmouth.
immortal became Raphael painting
and chilhood. But how much
greater Is the love OF the mother and the
trust OF the child than the picture OF the
Madonna. To believe IN the possibilities Of
art is beautiful faith. but who will com
pare IL with that which lies back OF the
Madonna and was its inspiration. faith in
The aim OF art. OF song. CT poetry. OF
all creation II TO give expression. Genus
comes near, az times 20 pushing back
the veil and revealing the reality But
still back and beyond Is something i'm
Every man that cannot be found in
Shakespeare There is "a sense OF sin
that David's psalm cannot express There
Is hope In human hearts that finds the
wing ~ song too weak to give it flight.
How much greater T. the faith then ~
The man who believes I'm God than the
man who believes merely I'm what ne has
seen of His handiwork and glory He
has made man. brea thed into him His
ife, made him a vessel of Its love. We
zee that love watering the deserts of the
world. But how much greater is Gods
owe than mans revelation of a.. diluted
)y mans hate. How much greater is
God y spirit Of giving Himself than is re-
realed IN mans SclhshncsS or even in the
sacrifice of Jesus God Ia greater than
~ manifestation SAYS the human soul in
ts need This is where tltri~rn breaks
With pantheism. Theism NAV be great
yearning ~ thought. but IL is greater
yearnine of life. Science seeks God in
aw. ethics an the eternal power that
makes FOR righteousness. psychology I'm
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