New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-10

six last year, and we are going. through these II
is always love" Exactly So That is the supreme
tSRF t6at q has n estonshed me more than anything
else and yet the only MESSAGE n t6 6sn
is something about Gods love. . ,,, a..
up % these nor pToDe aG f9 that
gestion, thought was coming to the study OF
should md the stern hard rugged magnificent
wSat e RTSPfedd To nd And did find it? Yes
to my astonishment even more than mao boet
The supreme thing is the God with whom these men
o 6 tende BY o 6Rem Of infinite
sion angry because He loves dealing in wrath upon
Th sn Pa 81 Gd is 2Hf pa6ss
as Snd S Sa tf'e back nd
Zephaniah terrihes me as begin 70 reao him'
the way IN WHieh he tears the veil from the sin of
the people and leaves sin In all It's naked awIuI
hGFrG Doom ane If aos
f vo anq G Witch ge fh g nee Of the trumpet
OF redemption ''wait for me. saith jehovah; and
reIes sI music Of psalm Of love and learn that
the passionate anger Of the first chapters IS me
sinner e eTe rye day But why Because sinner
qnns e qna sin god you aid R6t PUT
heart last night. and the sin you haven't put out
know is there. God is angry with your sin; but
why? Because, dear soul 1t is harming you Goa
never comes to a man in anger 70 burn up, or
destroy or strike, save in order that He may save
and bless. All Gods anger is the expression OF
And then read this, and see the patient pun
PU go back to that little Word the aTTssti2g
word to me When the iaSt bea[To YOU'D Yet wait
for me" And. oh! the patience of love as it gave
20 ude an TO I declare the sweet anthem Of the
love of the heart Of God.
EFFECT OF GODS LOVE.
The experience man or a people have of G ESs
is the great deduction from these great truths
taught. Are you impure? Gods love VIII destroy Troy
toward Him? Gods love will restore you. Every,
You say. You tell if impure that Gods love
Will destroy be cSned 70 you taxes in your
neighbor, and there have been times when God
has had to out her nave be9 times "
God has had to take a father out OF his family TO
times When God has, in the larger love, which the
individual eents put 6y %Gh b rne d IN aeep o
Why did God destroy the nationality OF Israel for
round about 1t was not merely vindctiveness; 1t
was not that God would take Jerusalem and break
Jerusalem us and Israel had received the light and
they had n f. ad 9hg Se sWept o s u
the people destroyed for period IN order that the
channel and another fundamentally.
And. notwithstanding all read in prophecy, and
this i That if chTistendom fail to bear its clean.
6ea # @ f G cast fS r es o of He t vii
upset all your theories. all your theories about
did the casting out of Israel upset ali Israeis theo
ries about what d was going to happen. And pray
Consideration Of the prophetic outlook and the
methods Of God IN dealing with the nations this is
an Interpolation of grace not part of times and
seasons, who we to say that God may not make
some other Interpolation while He rejects His
Church for period in order that He may do His
great work? do not say He is going to, but do
say we are to learn this great principle: That His
love is so great that the impure must be destroyed
for the sake of the larger issues and the larger
values. And yet thank God! wherever there lis a
repentant heart even in the midst of utter corrup
ton, turning back to God. He takes that one, He
brings 1T TO Himself He rejoces over him in love,
ton of a soul.