The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-12-26

not be touched with the feeling of our but was tempted in all
 points like as we are, yet without sin.
 C3). That he might save us. He must" says Christmas Evans, ''as the rock of my salvation, be clothed upon i with clay that the flue of my souls anchor, hope, may fasten in him." And,
 ''as without the shedding of blood there can be no remission of sim he must
 in human form endurethe death of the cross that we may through him be saved.
 2. DweIt among us. Oh! what con- i descension. Said a woman in London 1 to a missionary once, You are very l kind to come and labor among us poor, sinful creatures; but I don't think it is much of a sacrifice to you. You leave a nice and bealutiful home and labor with us a short time and return to it again. But how would you like to bring your family, your wife and children, and live with us here" It was no doubt a startling question to that city missionary, some of whose associates in similar work have been severely crit IClSGu TUT hGtIl4lSS El4S GOStlICok ElIpelA~ el, even diamonds and precious stones in their visitations to the poor in the cellars and attics of our great cities, making them, like the poor of our
 churches, the more miserable and wretched because of the great disparity thus instituted between themselves and
 their would-be benefactors. But what this missionary would do only in the | direst necessity, if he would do it at all, Jesus has done of his own free will; llis sacrifice being as much greater, as
 the heavenly surroundings which he | left exceed those of the missionary.
 And, oh! how we should love him for 1 it! In 1881, when Christmas came on Sunday, with my eldest and then only child at my knee, while was trying to explain this to him, his eyes glistening with emotion, he said, Papa, if Jesus were in this room this morning would l kiss him." And a good brother, the aged sexton of the church, in our early
 prayer meeting at o'clock the same morning, as he was fervently praying, l said, 70 Lord We are so thankful that thou dfdst come into this world to save | hos bLlciL WE4 NUuIh DdIllG ll1J ICCL "ll4l our tears if we could" He tabernacled
 with us. Reference is here made to the old tabernacNeb typical of him on earth. 1 Its rough and Tapping sides typical of his body and its shechinah of his df- vinity. But as the tabernacle merged
 into the beautiful temple, so did his
 corruptible put on interruption, and his mortal immortality, with no change in
 the shectinah. We had 47as much of God with Christ on earth as we shall
 have in heaven. He" not his human ity alone, but the pure and uhadulte-- ] ated word, who was with God and was God, ''dWelt among us.
 8. We beIheld his glory, the glory as
 of the only begotten of the Father full
 of grace and truth They had seen
 his glory before, as, for instance, the 1 glory of his works. For Jesus, without whom nothing was made that Is made, had manifested himself there. The
 tboundlessrtess of space had revealed his dmmensity; volcanic upheavals,
 earthquakes and tornadoes his power;
 the balancing of clouds the, basoning
 of seas and rivers, the careful adjust . tltSLlI OL 'LIlS NGII4O pebllS"Ol OuA "OAA-
 derful mechanism and all else material,
 his wisdom; the intricate and elaborate
 workmanship of his hands had revealed
 his skill. He had so embodied himself
 in his law. His righteousness, justice
 and holiness are therein declared. But nowhere in all the universe had man
 seen that God was merciful and true.
 He had declared it, but even then it
 was necessary for him to put the rocks
 between him and Moses, and to stretch
 out his hand over the mouth of the
 cave ere he revealed it, when Moses
 wished to see his glory he was refused,
 God stating that no man could see his
 face and live. The suddenness of such
 a revelation would have dazzled, blind
 ed, killed. It, therefore, had to be
 yelled, and hence we have in the in-
 caration of the Word, mercy and truth incarnate. Not in the abstract, but in
 the concrete--associated with some-
 thing. For just as millions, when put
 to dollars and we are made the possess
 ors, are more to us than when we count
 them on our fingers or closing oui - -