The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1905-06-15

crumbling to pieces before our eyes,
it is not hard to believe that while
God is ready always to forgive the
penitent He will by no means spare
the guilty.
Behold your God! will be the STIR
ring note of the coming message, and
the only God who will stir the hearts
of the people will be the God who is
revealed in Jesus Christ. Christ is
God manifest in the flesh. He is the
express image of His father. Through
Him the revelation of the Infinite
heart has come. In seeing Him wetsee
the Father, and we come to the Father
only through Him. We do not see
Christ as He is unless we see in Him
the majesty and authority Of a king.
Of Goethe and Carlyle, that Christi
anity is religion of sorrow, and that
its chief end is that of consolation.
This leads men like Mr.. John Morley
to call the gospel sovereign legend
Of pity" and to long for a wider Cos
pei Of justice and progress.
Christianity is more than a legend
of pity, it is bugle blast calling men
to battle. Jesus is more than the con-
| soler of people in trouble, He is the
anointed King of men. He announces
His Kingship again and again in His
diScourseS, and it is as Lord and Mes
siah that Peter presents Him to His
countrymen on the Day of Pentecost.
| To submit to Him Internationally is
mans wisdom and peace. 1t is not the
picture of the earthly Jesus with His
hand upon leper that this age needs
most of all to see. We need to see
the Son of God as John, the apostle.
saw Him, with many crowns upon His
head. the universal Sovereign of the
Kingdoms of life.
Gods condescension will also be seen
afresh in Christ. The great words
spoken in the upper chamber will be
restudied, and upon many hearts they
will fall with the emancipating charm
of fresh revelation. "Ye shall know
that am in My Father, and We in Me
and in you" IF a man love Me he
will keep Ny words, and My Father
will love him, and we will come unto
him and make Our abode with him."
We do not know God as He is until
we have seen Him not only high and
lifted up, sitting on a throne, but also
as the apostle saw Him, standing as
suppliant, saying, Behold, stand at
the door and knock: if any man hear
My voice and open the door, I will
come in to him, and VIII sup with him,
and he with Me-
In Christ also we see Gods indig-
nation against sin. He is the holy
Christ. Though merciful, He says to
workers Of iniquity-1 never knew you.
Though gracious, He says to trans
gressors of Gods wlll-depart from Me
ye cursed. Tender above all tender
ness known to mortals, He paints pic |
lures of loss and pain and doom SO
terrible that they have burned them I
selves into the retinas of mems eyes !
and into the gray matter Of their |
brains forever. Wherever His Gospel !
is preached men cannot 90 to the judg- !
ment saying, I did not know the helm
BUSINESS nor the awful penalties of
With the Tractaria1 method of sew
enty years ago there began a fresh
emphasis upon the authority and sac
of the Church. To-day it is
the Church wL.ch is still uppermost
in many minds, and its Worship, it's
unity and its government are counted
all-important themes.
With Maurice and Kingsley there be-
gan new interest in the social aspect
Of Christianity, and men began to Ia
bor for the establishment of what was
called Christian Socialism. This force
has not vet spent itself.
But neither High Churchmen with
heir sacraments, nor social settlement
workers with their philanthropies are
equal to the crisis which is now upon
is.
It is not loftier conception of the
Church, nor wider diffusion of cul-
ure and social cheer which is most
demanded by our times.
What is needed is a fresh vision Of
5od. new baptism of spiritual life,
| lifting Of the heart to higher levels
# aspiration and devotion. The world
Toans and travails in pain, waiting
or the appearance of a new race of
rophets- of insight and of cour-
ge, who endowned with the Holy
IhoSt shall say to our generation in
ones which burn with ferTent heat:
LIE the wicked forsake his way, and
be unrighteous man his thoughts; and
It him return unto the Lord, and He
ill have mercy upon him; and to our
iod, for He will abundantly pardon"
: Congregationalist and Christian
World.
Happiness in Spite of Deprivations.
If l am so happy in spite of my depri-
q tinnS if {. ~ Jao-