The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-11-18

loyal to the pastor, foremost In missionary
work and one OF the most noble souls /
knew, and am not sure but tnat there is
the relation of cause and effect Is not
that wooden man the cause Of the beauty
| Of her character? Has not his imperfec.
| tion OF nature, his coarseness, driven that
| soul to communion with Him who is the
| shief among ten thousand and the One al.
| together lovely? And has not her contact
| with His transformed her into His like.
ness, whom she loves, not having seen?
May it not be that we grow in spite OF
our weights, and that these deprivations,
these Affections, this hard disposition, il
you please, may 1t not be that they are
weights intended to develop us into the
larger manhood and the greater nobilities
| story in brief is the incarnation, 10 the
| ministry, is Gethsemane. is the cross, is
| the grave. Would Jesus ever have become
| the worlds Saviour had He not known
| Gethsemane and the agony of the. cross?
| Could He have touched the heart, the sore
heart of the world, had He not gotten
down to the very. lowest depths and felt
again and again the iron in His sensitive
soul?
1t may be, fellow sufferer, it may be
gentle woman, that your deprivation, that
your losses, your heart disappointments
will minister to your transformation and
to your final exultation, until you shall
shoulder to shoulder with the Man who
was acquainted with sorrows and griefs.
Now, in conclusion, there is time COM
ing when we shall have the perfect vision.
For now We see in mirror darkly, but
then face to face"
A young girl fifteen years of age,
laughter loving, happy Christian girl, was
suddenly thrown upon a bed of severe sick
ness: indeed, all one side was totally par.
a!yzed and she was stricken into almost to-
tai blindness. Her family physician, after
making very careful examination, Ss, SAID to
ss bs dsT posr cS And eR S aer
loving maid responded, doctor, now that
is not true; my best days are to come when
shall see the King in His beauty" And
so, beloved. our best days are. to come.
Your best days and mine, the days when
all the mists have rolled away. when all
the clouds have been dssipated by the
shining of His face, the day. when all the
engmas OF life shall be solved, the day
when we shall see the King in His beauty.
Jonn saws, Beloved. now are we the
children of God, and it is not yet made
manifest what we shall be-" We. know
that if He shall be, manifested we shall be
is. You and to be like Him who nsedeth
not to be told about man, for He knew
what was in man. You and | to he lihe
Him. who was independent of gravity of
all material substances and forces! You
and to be like Him who on the Mount OF
TRANSPORTATION shone so that the disciples
were dazz'ed even of the spiendor OF His
garments? You and to be like Him
whom John saw in that divine theopany
recorded in the last book OF the Bible, yon-
der in glory. You and to be like Him
who has overcome and is now sitting on
the throne of the universe. That is what
He has said. "He that overcometh will l
give to sit with Me on NY throne, even as
7 also overcame and am sat down with My
Father on His throne" We shall see Him.
We shall see Him face to face. Every
problem will be solved. We shall be with
Him forevermore.
Beloved, we will never all meet together
here, but We may all meet together yon..
der. We will never all see each other,
therefore, here. Let us so live that we
shall all see each other Wonder, when we
have come up, like Him, to meet the hosts
out of great tribu'ations, it may bn, having
our robes washed and made white in the
blood OF the Lamb. Till then, goodbye.