Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1902-06-12

1cnL Photographs of the members
nd passed them rapidly before the
.amera's eye. Then the various photo
srapbs were combined in q single pic
ture, and that was called the class poi
trait. So upon Christ's heart there is
composite picture. That composite
portrait is made up of your Christian
mothers and fathers faces your
Christian wlfe's and chld's faces; it
Is made from the faces Of the Chris.
tian mon and women who have died
In the past and of those who are living
today. VIII you have your face in this
composite picture, which is inefface
ably stamped upon the great heart Of
Christ?
Divine Love Not Blind.
But, sad to relate, after all Christ
has suffered and done for us, his face
may be n condemnlng face. The d.
vine love may be great enough TO sur.
pass all human understanding, yet tic
divine love is not blind The spirit Of
God will not always strive with man.
In Ezekiel we read, "My face will
turn also from them" oh, the awful
Of our unrepcnted sins, shall Become n
condemning face! This is one charac-
teristic Of Christ which all unrepentant
sinners and some ministers preaching
in the sacred pulpits are trying not to
see. But il Jesus ie not to have q con-
demning face for the unrepentant sin
ner how can you account for the para
BILE Of the shepherd separating the
sheep from the goats? There Is going
to come day when Christ shall gath
er before the judgment seat Of God ali
the nations Of the earth. Crashi crash!
crash! will go every tombstone. Tho
mausolcums shall rock and heave as
the Philippian Jail trembled during the
night Of PauPs and Silas' incarceration.
Every gate and slab door will fly open.
The tall cemetery shafts shall tumble
as did the walls of Jericho at the blast
Of the rams horn. The bodies Of the
sailors sleeping by the coral reefs, the
emigrants who died when crossing the
prairie, the arctic explorers buried I'M
der the snow and ice, the missionaries
who died upon the Kongo-they shall
all come up. The dead which slept IN
der the dome Of Tai Mahal and tho
poor unknown patient who died in the
county hospital and whose body was
buried In potters field shall come up.
The bodies Of the rich and the poor
alike, the black and the white, the Jew
and the gentie-they shall all come up.
Then Christ shall separate this multi
tude which is gathered before him as
a shepherd separates his sheep from
the goats. Toward the sheep the Saw
Jour will turn a forgiving face, but
toward the goats he shall turn a con-
demning face when he says, depart
from me, ye cursed, into everlasting
fire."
If Christ is not to have a condemning
face to those who have not repentcd
OF their sins, how can you account for
the scene in the parable Of the ten vir
gins? AS we read that parable we see
the five foolish virgins who had not
prepared for the Bridegroom's coming
standing without and pounding upon
the door Of the banquet hall. We soon
hear them crying: Lord, Lord, open
unto US. But he answered and said,
Verify say unto you. know you not 80
Two men shall be working IN the fields;
the one shall be taken and the other
left. Two women shall be grinding a.
the mill; the one shall be taken and the
other left. Two immortals shall be
standing at the marriage altar; the
one shall be taken and the other left.
Oh, my friends, beg and plead with
you to look into the forgving face Of
Christ while it is yet time! Do not let
the Saviour's face ever become to you
a condemnlng face.
When the apostate Julian was dying
upon the field Of battle. he looked up
and saw the overhangng cross and the
face of Jesus. Then he cried, Thou
o Galilean, thou hast at last con
Quered." Shall we not one and all be
conquered by the face of Jesus Christ
conquered not as the infidel was con
quered. but conquered by the Christ
love; conquered by our making com
plete surrender to him Of our lives, con.
quered by having our faces as his dis.
ciples engraved upon Christ's heart?
Copyright, 1902. Louis Klopsch, n. IL