The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-07-04

Brother, what occasions permanent
 happiness, the look of love or the act of I love?
 In this audience are men who long | ago loved.The unselfish, uneeasing, manifested love of her whom years ago
 became wife or mother, this accurately, practically tells the story of requited
 love mot the look, the face, the lips, In this congregation are men and wo-
 men who long ago plighted their af- fections to the loving God. summon
 them to the witness stand. Brothers, sisters, tell me, did God re- l turn the love you bestowed? Is not your reply emphatically yes? Do you
 not reply that?
 | At daybreak. a. monday, at mid- night, when the eye unaided saw and
 plainly, too, when the eyes were dim, | when to live, to breathe was luxury
 when to breathe was torture. always. sir. we felt Gods requited love.
 Shakespeare well said, Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, | Through the exercise of our intelligence, we see humanity lovingly looking to-
 wards God. .sand God listening, bestow- ing.
 Oh! the Divine cofldescensio won
 derfui. Capacity to appreciate unlim-
 tied. Willingness to succor marvellous. How may we enter into the ideal re- | lationship between God and man. My friend remarks, Can we not by ethical I culture? Unless We commence charac- ter building from condition existing
 when regeneration has occurred, I do | not believe we shall ever attain unto
 the ideal relationship between God and
 man-i e.. communion, fellowship, vi tai intercourse.
 | What are the conditions of regenera- ton? The Word of God definitely | states them.
 From that day Jesus began to preach and to say, Repent, repent ye there- fore and be converted that your sins
 may be plotted out.
 ITO Him give all the prophets wit
 ness, that through His name whoever
 believeth In Him shall receive renais- sion of sins. "-Acts 10:43.
 Whom God hath set forth to be a
 propitiation through faith in His blood to declare Ills righteousness for the re-
 mission of sins that are past. through the forbearance of God. '-R Romans 5.25. | A brother now remarks, believe I
 am converted man. but must con- fess that I am not conscious of very
 much communion with God. How may I obtain it? In precisely the same
 manner that you would secure conf
 dence and appreciation in the home. Put into your religious life the same
 consecration of mind, heart and money that you do in your home life. You de- shall characterize effort. You think, work, live for the home, for its occu- pants. 5$
 Think, work. live for God and you will be conscious of communion with
 Him. To think, to live, to work, for
 God is no little thing. It means that the God thought shall dominate the in-
 tellect--control the affections-and gov-
 ern the pocketbook. By the consecra- ton of mind. heart and money to AL
 mighty God. you will receive the bap- tisrn of efficiency--even the God touch
 Then you will understand the wondrous sublin1ity of the baptism of the Holy
 Ghost which followers of Jesus received in the apostolic days. And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were all
 filled with the Holy Ghost, and they
 spake the word of God with boldness." Acts 4:31.
 have asserted that communion, fel-
 low, nip is the ideal relation between
 God and man. I have stated the condi-
 tion which must prevail if communion
 is secured. ? am not a Christian Scientist, but I
 may be permitted to quote from Mrs.
 Eddy's Science and Help.'''
 Divine love has met and will always
 meet human need"
 Is not fellowship with God humaili- tvs need? Can we dare to live without the consciousness of communion with our Heavenly Father? speak rever- ently. Humanity becomes invisible by
 association with Divinity.
 Sd. The subject of the address saw
 the scope of the church of our Lord Jesus, the swing of God-touched, completely equipped Christian soldiery. The Christian minister or layman who fails to find that one of the many
 denominations elnbodies his conception of ideal church polity and doctrine, and invents a go as you please religious ve- ] hicle, may be an earnest well meaning religious worker, but in the attrition in-
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