The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-05-29

WlaL oLs Fdul means Dy the love OL God"
 In all the varying conditions of one | life, how much We need the recognition of such an unchanging lovei It fur nishes the stimulus We need to call forth our best efforts. When a man is conscious of the fact that his fellows have lost interest in him, then he is in danger of losing interest in himself, and with that loss of interest too often there goes loss of self-respect. The af- fectionate regard of the community has often helped to make some noted mon or woman all that community wished him or her to be. Nothing was greater power in elevating the com- mon people of Italy twenty years ago than their knowledge of how greatly King Humbert trusted in and loved them. So mans recognition of the in- finite love of God for him is a constant and ever-needed stimulus to put him at his best. to overcome the brutishness of his life and to make him akin to Je- sus Christ, his Lord. In all the chances and changes of this mortal life, the realization of the unfailing love of God comes to us as benediction. When there Is over us the sense of loneliness, or when we feel that we are misunderstood by our fel- lows, what infinite satisfaction there is in the realization that God understands and loves us. When in the midst of severe temptations what strength in the thought that He who so loves us will not suffer us to be tempted above that we are able, but will with the temptation make way of escape!
 The consciousness of our sins would be intolerable were it not for our reali- zation that a loving Father stands ever ready to pardon and forgive us. The afiictions which come to us we, can en- dure when We come to know that. God has taken our dear ones from us for their good, in love. The knowledge of the infinite love of God for us is the redeeming principle of the world.
 Then comes the second truth of this statement of St. Paul, namely, that this knowledge of the love of God comes to us through the grace, or favor Of Jesus Christ, ''the grace of the Lord,
 
 know this love of God for us? We can only do so as we see it nirrored per-. fectly in the sympathetic life and self sacrificing death of Jesus Christ.
 Nature reveals the laws of phenome- na and points to some great force back of those laws, but tells us naught of the loving heart of Him Who is that Force. Intellectual researches point to a person as the embodiment of the principles of the universe, but reveal only the power and the might of such a person. Jesus Christ alone reveals to us the loving tender heart of God, and His infinite love for man. The love of God is so deep and broad as to be in comprehensible until revealed in the Limitations of a human life. And so 1t is the grace, the favor, the goodness and the self-sacrif1ce of Christ which leads us toward the love of God.
 This knowledge of the love of God for man is no philosophical abstraction, nor the mere embodiment of mans yearning for some perfect love to an- sWer to his own. It is based on the historic fact of the revelation of God in Jesus Christ, and is the result of the experience of the divine life continued in the world through the power of the Holy Spirit. .s This leads to the third and last state ment of St. Paul in this apostolic bene- diction, namely, that the realization of the love of God is only complete when it works out upon earth a communion or fellowship through the power of the Holy Ghost, 'sthe communion of the Holy Ghost.''
 The love engendered in the soul through the recognition of the love of God for man cannot be shut up in the soul, but must be shared with others, must bestow itself on others; must build up a noble fellowship of souls; uniting men in noble aspirations and hopes; helping them to enter into one another's joys and to bear one anoth- er's burdens; forbearing and forgiving one another even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven them; helping one another, as fulfllers and not destroy CTS, to be perfect; iinparting cheer and comfort; being of one mind in Christ Jesus; and living in peace.
 Thus and thus only may be built up. a perfect church, a noble fellowship, the very communion of the Holy Ghost, which will outlast all change. of time and place, and finally transform the church militant into the church trium-i phant. a f<ss5 k
 St. Paul's benediction, therefore, pre- sents the best that can wish this con-s gregation whom so much love. Not earthly prosperity, which is transient; not health of body alone, for the body is but the casing of the soul; not the satisfaction of any worthy ambition for earthly honors, which might be inju- rtous. do I wish you; but the realiza- tion of the goal set for human life, the, fellowship of the Spirit, the communion of the Holy Ghost, made possible through Gods infinite love for us. which has been revealed to us by the self-sacrificing life and painful death of our Lord, Jesus Christ. SUMMER MTTJTNEpv