The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1904-08-10

holds the whole process OF nuuiai hle, fi"C
fundamental truth which only can confer
any large and permanent well being
Finally, this natural love is oftcntmcs
ungodiy. That is to say, it IS the recognl-
ton in man (thc children of Cod OF th,s
or that scntillaton of the infinite good
ness, while it withhods from Him who
gathers unto Himself all conceivable eX-
cclences, all truth, patience, generosity,
tenderness, temperance, long suffering, al
purity--whiie it withho.ds from Him thc
or natural love OF which we speak is indeed
oftentimcs very faint r2Rnotion and i'm
age of tha' perfect love toward winch
Chrstiap,:y calls US. And so we turn back
to the text and hear the words that s..
Par; said: The aim of the command
= Gnt. the whole aim Of the Christian IN,
stitutior, is love out of a pure heart, and
out of good conscience and out OF faith
unfeinned."
First-In this matter o{ Christianity we
have to do with such divine forces in their
operation upon human nature as yield
hopes of eyen this great result. 1t is not
that we expect ourselves TO attain any
such goodness, but is it not possible that
| He who made this thing we call the human
| soul with all its varied powers OF obscrva-
| ton, reason, imagination. fancy and mem
| ory conscience and will, He who made
| this strange, subtle, intangible thing We
| call the human SOU may not -c rcnGhe
| the soul, enter into its profoundest depths,
| so reconstruct, Icorder and inspire 1t th2t
| it NAV shine in all the likeness OF God? Is
it not said, lie will co for us iar more eX,
ceedirgiy than we can ask or think|
And that IS the warrant IN TINS CnHtlstlan ian
for the high aspiration toward winch
| Christianity points us.
And, the cher hing tyo, he SAID. Is, tnis,
that however true 1t is that most OF us
who profess and call ourselves Christians
come far very far, short of this high ileal
of character; however true 1T Is that With
many of Us our Christianity is simply as
it were, an attempt 10 secure seIi-we! be
ing in the long reaching tuture-alas! mat
IT, is such a marrow form of Christianity az
thGt-howcv2r true that may be, nCvclthe-
less | take it for granted thaC perhaps
every one present has during some tine III
his experience come III cOntact with some
soul, has become intimate pcrhopa @,h
some life upon whom the divine truth, the
divipc providence and the divine insyira-
tion has so operated in transforming power
that the soul sccns to have entered INTO
the very fellowship OF God. even has be-
come radiant with divine lie, the features
have been chiSelcd by the soul within. the
eye has looked tcGder,y ou5 toward all
men whom it has met, and now and thcn
the very habitaton and habit OF sudh a
person becomes unspcakablv endcarng, be-
cause of this dwelling OF the Lord CHRIST
within.
Second-Thc aim OF Christianity is love
not only out OF pure heart, but also out
OF good conscience That is TO sayI IT'S
aim is not n mere sentimental oNcrtof or
tears and pity; it shall be a, living, and
mighty engine within, under the guidtnce
of God, as TO method, and as to meas jrCs,
of widely instructed moral sense Chris
tianity is something beside mere happldeSS.
1t aims at the great soul OF lie nderI the
guidance and shaping OF an lnStruftCd
moral nature.
And finally the love at which Christian
ty aims is a love out of faith unfeiGnCd.
Let faith return. Brng back Your Bible.
Behold one living and eternal God He is
love, and he has loved this poor world so
that He has effected redemption for man
kind and lifted them across the heavens.
Has thrown His arms around man, IN or
der that lie might lift him mp by His Hoy
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