The Grenada sentinel., 1903-11-21
Copyright, 1908. by j. Nj. Edson.)

7 elatiOn OF God. Second, a revelation of
| God, be it flittle or much. has come Ia
some as the result of the study of God'a
| Word. and prayer and meditation there-
ON. Those included in the first clas1
may be likened unto man blind from
| his birth attempting to understand an1
describe the beauties of nature. the glows
ing SUM- the aower-decked fields, thu
woodland. and the graceful, verdant hills
rolling skyward in the distance, The;
young woman who, under the skillful
touch of the surgeon was made to see
for the first time in her life. exclaimed
as she looked about her upon the face
OF Nature: "Oh, how beautiful. Ihave
tried as | have scented the perfume of,
the flowers, and felt the warmth of the.
sun. and heard the rustic of the leaves
upon the trees as the gentle breezes,
moved them to whispering to each other.
to imagine how the flowers and the trees:
and the sunlight upon all looked, but,
no thought ever had was true to- Nature
as she really is and as see her now.",
And this is the way it is when the natural
mind OF man tries to think out who and
what God is, and this is the reason there,
are so many misconceptions of God In
the world to-day. The second includes.
those who have little or much light as:
to Gods real character His purpose
towards man and His attitude towards
sin.
Z EACH succeeding age of the worlds
l. history has had a larger and fuller
revelation of God. God knows no change,
and yet until the coming of Christ the
world had never had full revelation of
God. But Christ came declaring that
he who had seen and known Him had
seen and known the Father also. The
period from Adam to Noah. known as
the anti-diluvian age, knew not God in
the fullness in which those did who
lived from Noah to the time of Moses,
or during the patriarchal age. And so
on through the Mosaic age to the time of
Christ there was ever increasing revela-
tlon OF God until God came and dwelt
among men in the person of His Son.
And as man studies the record left of
that matchless life and sacrificial death
he comes more and more to know and
understand God. Paul. under the guild
ance Of the Holy Spirit, revealed more
perfectly the mysteries of the Gospel
and thus gave clearer vision Of God
and His Christ And more and more is
man coming to know and understand
what the Scriptures mean. And thus it !
will continue until that time when Gods |
children shall see Him face to face and |
know even as they are known This |
gradual revelation of God is on the man
ward side and for the sake of man. God |
in Himself is unchanged and unchange- |
able. God did not begin to be God of |
love only at the time that He sent His |
Son into the world: He was a God of |
love from the beginning. His purpose |
for man. His wonderful deliverance of !
the sinner and punishment of sin were |
not purpose and plan which came with |
the fall and wicked sinfulness of man, |
but man was chosen in Christ before the |
foundation of the world" and Jesus, the |
Lamb, was slain before the foundation |
of the world" What God has revealed |
Himself to be. He was from the begin
ming. And with the increasing revela-
tion of God to the world has come in
creasing responsibility upon the world.
Paul told the Athenians that the God |
they were worshipfng was a god of
AoAAoAoANS. AoI Iuc4l lucas Ol 1OO
were false. and now that the true God
had been fully revealed unto men God |
could no longer excuse this ignorance,
but commanded all men everywhere to
repent and come to a knowledge of the
truth.
THUS upon this Christian age has
L come weight of responsibility
which must crush to hell or lift to
Heaven. Jesus severest judgments
were pronounced against those places
which knew Him best and had wit
messed most of His mighty works, for
with the greater light which had shined
in upon them had come greater respon- h
sibility. And the world cannot escape
that responsibility to-day. The world
plead ignorance of God. The
men of Nineveh, that great and wicked
city. shall rise up in judgment against
the world to-day, said Jesus, because
repented at the preaching of
Jonah. and behold greater than
Jonah has come into the world calling
it to repentance. And again Jesus said:
The queen of the south shall rise up in
Judgment with this generation and con-
1emn it; for she came from the utter
most parts of the earth to hear the wis.,
dom Of Solomon, and, behold, a greater
han Solomon is here" It would have
been no wonder if this queen, dreadinR
The long, hard, perilous journey, had re-
used to seek Solomon, the wise, in his
'ar-on kingdom, but when Jesus. the
Saviour and King. has made the long
journey from Heaven to earth. and
iwelt amidst men, and lived that men
might know how to live, and died that
men might be saved. what can the world
,ffer as, excuse for not knowing Cod
md His Christ. How shall they es-
APE, II they neglect 90 great salvation p,
rhe interchangeable God Of Heaven has
n revealed Himself unto the wnrld -