The Newtown bee., 1906-08-10

them. God so loves that He sends the l of love-tne sons of love into the world, Jesus Christ the elder brother and those who are in the spirit of Christ, all brethren one of another. I would to God that this church in this place, and this our Christian fel- lowship might so learn of the spirit of Christ that it might be like this river of love that flows out of Heaven from God. Would that the love of God would come through the church to those who dwell in this place, and leave at their doors the witness of the presence in the world Of the love of God. Is there anyone who says: In the presence and the work of this church here we have learned to believe in the love of God. It should be so; God grant that it is so, that the Christ spirit revealing the love of God may come down from above and live here amongst us in our different labors, and in our common Christian life. Such, then, is the mes sage of the love of God that it comes down into the world and into this place from the heavenly source by river flowing clear and deep.
 But a river may flow right at our doors. We must do something to take of its waters Heaven may lie about us, but we must put out our hands and hearts to take of it's brightness. Gods love comes unto us but we must receive it. And the pitcher which we dip down into the river to take of it's sweet waters--this is our faith. We must receive it. We must learn to discern and believe in this world watering love of God if we are to have of it's blessings and refreshing in our own lives. Whosoever believ- eth, whosoever believeth, he shall take to himself of this love. Now many who do not believe are much blessed
 by the love of God. Many who cannot or do not see that there is any divine love over the world are yet upheld ev- cry day and sustained every hour by this all guiding love of God. Even when we do not know, when we can not see, when we wonder if indeed it is love which dwells behind the dar k curtain in the unseen of life, even then we are in the arms and keeping of Gods love. Yet of course it is true that we do not know the comfort of it.
 We do not receive the dearest bless. ings of it until we learn that it is there, until we cultivate our eye to see the power of love, until we train our ear to hear the accents of love as God sends them into our lives and into the world. Yes, there are some who even serve love without believing ir it; there are meJwho by their true lives make others see the working o1 the love of God when they have not learned to see it themselves. There are animals living in the deep sea
 which give light, a phOsphorescent
 light, who cannot see 1t themselves
 So there are souls on earth who give
 to others the light of the love of Goo and yet do not see it themselves though they will some day. It
 TAKES THE CUP OF OUR OWN FAITH
 to lift to our lips the peace and joy o1 this knowledge of the love of God. Al
 we take 1nto our hearts the words o1 Christ about the love of God, and the teaching of which Christ's way of liv- ing gives us about the love of God, and discern the truth of it; as we consider this message and finally say, it is true. God is like Jesus Christ. The divine life of Heavens King is like this most beautiful and generous of human lives. As we receive that faith and take it, then does our faith bring the love of God as a thought of peace and joy into our life. By this faith do we dip down and take for ourselves from the ever flowing river of this word of the love of God. The possible faiths or thoughts of human soul seem to be these that the world is under no power at all that all things just drift without con.
 trol or any will behind them or within that bald chance and mere hap pening are the whole secret and the only con trol. so some have thought. Or that the world is under bad pow. CT, an evil-minded and hard-hearted power, which is ever turning every thing to the worse, some have felt this and gone miserably all their lives in the darkness of it's Surely it is a bitter draught of life to the lips of men either of these, that carelessness or that hardness and evil-mindedness rule the world; then it is possible to believe that the world is under a good power that is weak, that goodness is at the heart of things, but a goodness unable to accomplish its purposes, a goodness which was continually de- feated by the elements with which it that for some reason or other He was largely impOtent, and failed continual ly or failed often to accomplish the good which he desired; this was what MT Huxley said struck him as the look of the world, and others have thought SO; it is not an inspiring faith is it? These are the three hopeless, pessimistic thoughts. Then against all these Jesus Christ came teaching that the world was under the control of an Almighty Love, that good ness that was strong and capa- ble and victorious ruled the world. That is the word of love.