Los Angeles herald., 1906-02-19
SOME CHRISTIANS IGNORE
THE LORDS BLESSING
PASTOR SMALE TELLS OF GODS
PROVIDENCES
1--WE Ought to Cherish Sense of
Our Unworthiness of the Very
Least Good That the Father
Shows Us"

Pastor Joseph Smale of the First
New Testament church preached yes
terday morning from the text: Judas
saith unto Him, not Iscariot, Lord
how is it that Thou wilt manifest Thy
self unto us and not unto the world?"
John 14:22.
I'm the story of Christ's life this is
the only recorded saying of Judas,
Judas not Iscariot, and he appears in
the role of a perpleXed and disappoint-
ed man. The situation in which he
finds himself with Christ is novel and
painful Only few days before Jesus
had publicly declared himself as the
Messiah by his triumphal entry into
the city, and now, instead of unfold
ing plans for a stupendous conquest OF
the world he seems to act and say
most strangely. From the king, riding
in triumph into Jerusalem he drops to
the character of a menial servant and
washes the feet of his disciples, and
he says to them: Yet little while |
am with you and whittier 1 go. ye
cannot come Whereupon Simon Peter
becomes eXceedinly anxious and says,
Lord, whittier goest thou? Lord, why
cannot l follow you now?
House of Mansions
"Then Christ tells about his Fathers
house of many mansions. and says, I
am going there 1t is Thomas who is
next constrained to speak. and he has
Just as much darkened intellect as
Peter. Christ's talk is so confined to
mis- disciples that Judas presses for q
clearing up of the situation. What is
the meaning of it, o Lord? Why this
apparent change of front? Why do
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what you were few days ago? Don't
you realize that the people were ready
to crown you king, but now you talk
so contrary to such program.
"Tell us what has come to pass that
you should content yourself with a
local manifestation? How is it that
you will manifest yourself unto us
and not unto the world? Today is it
not that we have question to put
to our dear Lord? 1t is the language
of Judas, but we ask with a different
motive, Lord, how is it that thou dost
manifest thyself unto us? We are
perplexed, but not for the same reason
as Judas.
Effect on Souls
"Our Lords relation to us ought
ever to be producing a startling effect
in our souls, but strangely enough
some processing Christians never seem
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ought to be our greatest dread to re-
gard the providences of God as though
they were commonplace things.
1--WE ought to cherish a sense of our
unworthiness of the very least token
of good that the Father shows us. 1t
ought to melt the hardness of the most
callous nature to think that God hath
not dealt with us after our sins nor
rewarded us according to our iniqui-
ties.
THE thrilling things that we read Of
In this last discourse of our Lord are
not things concerning another sphere,
but concerning this sphere, and his do
ings that are recorded are not in re-
lation to a people in a far off world,
but to a people right here upon this
earth. What words are these What
pages, what deeds! 1t is confoundng
how any Christian today can hear
these transcendently gracious mes
sages and live as though he heard
them not.
Christ is here engaged with God,
and 1t is TO us that he is wondrously
saying: Let not your heart be trou-
bled.' l have loved you.' 'Whatso-
ever ye shall ask the Father in my
name that will l do There are words