The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-02-03
The Fuiiness of Cod

How much of God do you and l desire?
What sort OF Saviour are we looking
iOr as we go on our brief way through
this world? a God who can prolong our
lives and give US the temporal pleasures
we desire, and save us from destruction.
and finally bring us to q world better than
this with as little trouble to ourselves as
possible; Or do we really hunger and
thirst for God who will satisfy all the
innermost longings OF our own mysterious
souls, for things we have never had nor
seen; the yearning for love OF a quality
earth does not know!
Hundreds of expedients there are by
which we seek to ill this empty place in
our beings. power. money, fame, pleasure,
atfection-,imited to the human sphere
all these, men cast into the void in the
vain hope to fill it,. And for a while it
may be they are deceived into thinking
they have accomplished their purpose. The
very ardor of pursuit, the first glow OF
possession, seems to aid them to forget
the lack. But only ior time. They have
forgotten God, but God has not forgotten
them. There comes sudden loss. Hope
dies. Then when the world has turned to
bitterness. some will turn and search for
their dead Lord as did Mary when she
went to the tomb, and to such will He
come and speak their names in love and
give them a glimpse OF what His fulnes5
Is. But many OF us are satisfied to sing
along our way, Ieellng content that we
have made our peace with an angry God
and are attempting in the main to do
about right, and though We would not like
to confess 1t. we do not reilly want to be
filled full OF Gods spirit. 4 little is SUI.
fiCieut for our needs. Such a fullness of
God would hinder our earthly plans, and
we really have not time, life Is so short,
and so bright, until the shadow comes.
To such members OF the earthly church
nt Ia tnp II
bidding Us remember our high birth, OF
the line--not OF Abraham or David-but of
the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ;
reminding US of our kinship with the rest
of men and angels, ''of whom the whole
family in heaven and earth is named
TO be strengthened the prayer goes
on. Why, we thought we were quite
strong! Are we not pillars in the church?
Do we not teach a Sunday school class and
lead in Christian Endeavor matters? All.
but this strength is not that we may be
able to shine as great workers, but rather
that Ne may be filled with the strength
oT His Spirit that Christ may make His
home in our hearts, His face one ot the
number about the freside OF our secret
sell, His presence the moving power III
our lives because He dwells there. Only
until one has lived daily with a person,
until one has experienced another's love
under the shadow of sorrow and loss and
humiliation, can one know the depths OF
that love. So, only wnen we live in Christ
and feel His touch at every step OF the
way, His delight in our JOY, His comfort
and healing in our sorrow, can we begin
to feel what is that love.
Says Bishop Vincent: The perpetual
hold OF Christ upon us is like the perpet-
ual hold OF the sun upon the earth. The
earth cannot warm itself at the sun, and
then swing off on its own account. to be
source OF light and heat-lsht and heat
which 1t won from the sun, and now gives
it second hand, independently of the sun
The constant hold of the sun on the earth
is the only hope of the earth. All that the
earth can do is to let the sun have its own
way. and Weld to him. So Christ is our
all and in all. and is always our all. There
is none other. Our hope is in Him. Our
faith rests in Him. Our life comes from
Him. To be sure. we are free. Well. ii
the earth were free and intelligent be
ing the hest it could do would be to let
the sun have its radiant and regal way
with lt, and to swing in its orbit and turn
So we believers in the Sun OF Righteous
ness-His planets. His disciples attain
our best by doing His will, by letting Him
do His win in and for and by us"
And best OF all, there is Eever heart
hunger that His fullness is too small to
fill. He can do exceeding abundautly
above all that we ask or think" DIR. AL
exander tells how his little daughter came
TO him soon after her mother had gone to
Heaven, and said: "Oh, father, | want
something so much, and don't know what
it is!" and how he took her on his knees
to Jesus, and the little seyen.year.old girl
went away happy in the love of Christ
Grace Livingston Hill, in the New York
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