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LOVE and VISION OF GOD
A Brilliant Sunday Sermon By Rev.
D. D. MacLaurin.
Love Is the Only Interpreter Of the King.
dom Of Heaven, Of all the Spirltualtles.

ond Baptist Church, Rochester, preached
to the united congregations the final ser
| mon in series of eight on "The GrSatest
Thing in the World" His special subject
was Love and the Vision OF God; or, the
Eye That Sees All Wonders" The text
we see in a mirror, darkly, but then face
to face DR.. MacLaurin said:
Love is the only interpreter of God. We
taw last Sunday that to love only are di-
vine revelations made, and that to perfect
love only can perfect divine disclosures be
made. The converse truth is equally .raiu-
able, namely: THAT love is the only inter-
prefer of God, ii all in the kingdom of
God, of all spirtualitios. Nor must YOU
| think that this is strange or arbitrary. we
have sought in all cur services to discover
| the analogy between the laws of the spirit
ual realm and the laws with which we are
familiar.
You will find that this, namely: That
love is the only interpreter, is part OF the
discipline OF life in every direction, rs
some one has well said: Love secs farth-
est, hears quickest and feels deepest
Two illustrations of that proposition
have been given; one with regard to the
realm Of nature. Let Us say that two men
ere journeying throueh Your beautiful
| park; one secs the general conioimat on.
the general outline OF street and sweep or
! field and shimmcring lake, and h notices
| that there are trees bordering the drives
and walks, but that il all He has his
eyes chleiiy On the EfoHhi' NC uo'S o. o.
near the h'rds, or II !e "oeS' y Is ny 10
| olScern one soAS'tIGr. tfon "hotN2E. no"
TAKE 'he 4'hSf'. i"'t Ian HoV ohl' SO" sc"
we general ccniorh,dl'oA OF inc i'iGN .Ipt,
| the general plan OF the artist who laid 1t
cut. but he Gecs the trle., he sees. he Gl5-
| tinguishes one FROM another lie notes
the Ho"erS lIt2( hlr'hE; ne hnl'S h'' oiiE
tne songs'rr That sings b1y ne KNOWS rs
| hic ana sto'|' ',o sets 'he S'''hi!i' l"s
rond ana lake and tl' i'ncrfea 9i'' fthS'
iag ioIaEe ana j. nlnist"'e1 10 ~ mem
| ~ thS ehl ot lhc Jo"rE'E lnc n1''r H,an
y en'lc9cd II hiI hI,hd ana h.ar', !iIlI HnI
@ m"S 1"Ti |r ho o,, a,j !, lack
tI', ns NV I;o s,,,J'n" ~ n3tura hn.
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! CT ATl; ana icI me- SaE 70 '!o@" NFo nay
hot nave seen th9ae arr treasures, Il IS
worth Ni-lC ava m"l'i h,H"\. W. u
tnese men h1lflt" 'h.ouEn u III r. i".'c,
! Tory way -, ne Noelc,' ,hSiG &'S ''' 5e
| pictures ana S;naH ones il"' n@ '"' 4'H
time ior those h't!e H',5 oi rH"N17, 'oa,
! Gdorh the Wa!'-. ii thic Is ," ~ s,'L
frame ca one o. the pictures, pc jdAir's
1t greatly, bug II II a toi2' ,&Aa NJ huF'e'
ont, and wond9Ta why p"o9'e md 50 lnrcn n,I
IN the art Raiicrie5 oi 'he N't'c; ne
other man discovers II some S'Ea'i lh'Ge
the product Ct master, Ghd lie st"nN,
tntrahccI before u l"f H9uI'' anu |"I
Eiti see ms eyes snl'o82d W'In '?Ara' aha
II you mouce You WIZ - ms llP y sle,nu,
ions. ne pays 70 I'tI ION 10 'ht I''i'
he gees the so"I "I lA2 crust am !e n n
profoundly stirred. | have seen mon an
IN tears before some mlSIvflltye ~ M tMng
galleries ot LNrope; their SOU i"Gs 'ne
soul or the artlSt. lhSy lhtsFpfcl MN III
ms finest moods; they nave cohc 10 know
Lim.
Such men come nearest to interpreting
the Creator, Himself; for OF all the sons
of men none stand higher than the artist.
lie who can ia Ike a piece OF raw, mater!a.l,
q piece OF ordinary canvas, end make 1t
ripple like river, make il roar Tx" the
mighty ocean, carrying ship iul! riigged
upon its bosom; man who can make II
| blossom into u rose, or who can paint upon
it battle scene. preserving thc hcyo.sm
and valor Of men; man who car. by
color. lay before You al that is beautiful.
Gil that is divine in the world, surely
stands first among the sons OF God, and
| nearest 10 lilc AIlktt llittSt.L III ltiNL lt
is a creator.
The lover Of art secs this. 10 him these
things are disclosed. while the man who
does not love sees little. The same is tue
between men 10 whOr do You disclose
yourself? Who is able to interpret you?
The man who hates you? Surely not. lie
| is always misrcading you, misillterpreting
your motives. 1t is the man who loves
you. lie iutcrpyets yon. he knows you.
/ ~ .,4'..,,
that love is the only intcYpretcr Of God.
This brings me to the first point l desire
TO bring to yon this morning., nancy, TINS:
That there is Il time in the liic OF every
man when he has no vision OF God and
spiritual realities. l wish Nol to mark
that. There - a time IN the lie OF every
man when he has TO vision OF Grd and
epirituaiitics. II covers all that perlod
Of his life during which he IS unregener.
ate. when there ia absolutely no vis.on q
God and spiritual realities. The Apostle
Paul will Justify that assertion, tor YOU
viii find him saving iii this same eplsy.e,
that 'the natural man pcr2eiyeth not the
things OF the spirit Of God, for they are
foolishness unto him, and lie cannot know
them because they are spiritually jUdaed."
The natural man is not in the rea'rl Ia
which he can interpret spiritual r>a'it.cs.
This mysterious force in the organic
| ElUguOln We tlli II|' W !t' hiLoMo W. Va
ganic kingdom we call lie? VINO knows
what it is? Eat we know it IS there, and
we know 1t wcaycs bodies il which it
dwclls; that it is a miracle and thai it per-
forms miracles Of transformation: We are
acquainted with it. They would not call
it a miracle were they to know what it is.
When lie is busy, IL is performing these
transformations, but the arom cannot un-
derstaud the results Of lie forces; they are
fooh3hness unto ii. They are utterly con-
trary to all il knows of tie operation in its
kingdom.
No,v 10 WON know there is auothar king.
DOM "' third Eincdo,n, which ia above
he ,'' organic and in Which ali higher lie
on 'nH KIT his coe or ir rfn ' The lie Of hat I'M
dnn, L,,"ls that VIZ saw tronsprGs in
# IL, is fooiishncss 10 him IN the natural