Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1903-10-02
Power OF God's Love


GODS love viii yet bring back this
ruined world TO holiness and happiness
An Infinite Father bends over it In sym.
patty. And TO the orphan he VIII no a
rather, and TO the widow he will be a
husband, and TO the outcast he will bs
q home. and TO the poorest wretch that
today crawis out OF the ditch OF his
nomination, crying for mercy, he will
DC an all pardoning Redeemer. The
rocks VIII turn gray with age. the
forests Will be unmoored In the hurri.
cane. the sun will shut its fiery eyc.,d.
the stars will drop like blasted figs.
the sea will heave Its last groan and
lash Itself In expiring agony, the con-
tinents Will drop like anchors In the
deep. the world will wrap itself IN
sheet or fame and leap ON the funeral
pyre OF the Judgment day; but Gods
love Will never die. II shall kindle fts
suns after ali other lights have gona
out II will be billowlng sea after
all other oceans have wrpt themselves
away. IL will warm itself by the
blaze OF a consuming wsrld II will
Sing while the archangePs trumpet
peais and the air Is filed with the
crash OF breaking sepulchers and the
rush OF the wings OF the rising dead.
Oh. commend that love to all the cities
and the morning without clouds will
come!
1 know that sometimes It seems a
hopeless task. You toll on In different
spheres. sometimes with great dlscour-
agement People have no faith and
say: 1T does not amount to anything
You might as we'll quit that" WHY.
when Moses stretched his hand over
the Red sea It did not seem TO mean
anything especially. People came out.
l suppose. and said. "AhaY' Some of
them found out what he wanted to do.
He wanted the sea parted. IL did not
amount to anything. this stretching ont
or his hand over the sea! But after
awhile the wind blew oil night from
the east, and the waters were gathered
into glittering palisade on either side.
and the biliows roared as God pulled
back on their crystal bits. Wheel into
line, @ israeli! March. march, Pearls
crashed under feet, flying spray gath
ers INTO rainbow arch OF victory for the
ccnquerors TO march under, shout of
hosts on the beach answering the
shout Of hosts amid sea. and when the
last line OF the Israelites reach the
beach the cymbals clap. and the shields
ciang, and the waters rush over the
parsuers. and the swift fingered winds
on the white keys Of the foam play the
grand march OF Israel delivered and
the awful dlrge Of Egyptian overthrow.
SO you and ! go forth. and all the
people OF God go forth. and they stretch
their hand over the sea. the boiling sea
OF crime and sin and wretchedness. ct
doesn't amount to anything. people say.
Doesn't II? Gods winds OF help win
after awhile begin TO blow. A path win
De Cleared for the army OF Christian
phiianthropists. The path will be lined
with the treasure OF Christian benef-
cence. and we VIII be greeted to the
other beach by the clapplng OF all heay-
ems cymbals, while those who pursued
Us and derided us and tried to DESTROY
us VIII 60 down under the sea. and all
that will be left OF them Will be cast
nigh and dry upon the beach-the splin-
tered wheel OF chariot or. thrust ONT
from the foam. the breathless nostril az |
, riderless charger.