The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-10-21
Manifestation of Ones Nature.

will manifest itself whether 1t be heaven ly or hellish. You must be what you are; there is no escape from it. Do you know that that is the most appalling pie ture of the judgment conceivable to me? I can see how, when God arbitrarily drives a man away into outer darkness, one might be inclined to protest against the justice of it: but when the law drives me away and makes 1t absolutely impos sible for me to live in heaven, even though every angel invited me there. even though God Himself said, Come, take your place next to the throne" when the something in me makes it absolutely impossible for me to live there, then you have the majestiy of law which excludes all that is out of accord with it. Law Is the most majestic of all the forces in the universe, and it is this law which makes the judgment. God never arbitrarily drove any man to hell. Sometimes you hear the scriptures read and you can al most detect note of joy at the severity of the penalty visited upon the ungodly when it IS pronounced. In such a sense as that of Abraham with Lazarus in his bosom, and the Devil with Dives in his power, the scriptures say, There is a great gulf fixed between us so that neither the one can come or go to the other. There is no literal gulf, but this is the swing of the everlasting operation of the law that holds through eternity. Nature here fails to correspond with heaven, on the one hand. and you have death, and nature on the other hand, fails to correspond with hell, and you have life'
 There is some difficulty removed from this text when I balance the principle so that it operates. not alone upon the good but upon the bad also, and guarantees to both the exercise of their being in all full ness without restraint in perfect liberty. Of course the apostle has applied the principle to only those who are described as right. ous but the failure to apply it likewise to the wicked does not in any sense destroy the force of the awful ne- cesslty under which the lost must rest in the full exercise of their inclination ac- coreiig to the laws of their being.
 When the proposition IS stated baldly, 1t is this: jaw is absolutely impossible of being overthrovn. Therefore, what ever scheme benefits man must have in it such D; ovisions as will change mans nature into absolute oneness with the law. This gives the gospel 1s importance. Look at human history and give me your estimate Of man. It is not necessary to take the estimate that ttc Bible has put upon him. Look at this city where we live. and give me -soF- estimate of man, and tell me, do you not see the necessity of something being done for him?
 Jesus Christ the mediator, the Gods man. tho word made flesh, Is in the world on q piece of business that is worthy of tne serious consideration of all men, He says to men, "I have come to change you; follow Me; learn of Me; as do, so do ye observe My ways in refer ence to the Father and in reference to man; mot one jot nor-tittle of the law shall pass until all be fulfilled The fulfilling of the law Is the making of a man so like the law that the law of itself operates freely and unhampered and the doing of the law of God becomes the high est joy of man.
 Oneness With God.
 This law is not alone what Moses wrote m ia bles of stone. but it swings