Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1908-05-02
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Th1s week we stand on HOW ground
With barred head and unsandaled feet,
let us reverently approach the study
of this farewell address,. In all ages
since they We're spoken, these words
have brought q comfort to broken
hearts and whispered hope to des-
pairing souls. So replete are they
with heavenly wisdom, that space will
permit the consideration of only few
lessons we may learn.
The passover SUPPORTS enoed, Judas
has gone on his mission of treachery,
the Lords supper has been instituted
and Jesus had at last made them
understand that he must die. He
would comfort them in their sorrow.
Let not your hearts be troubled"
The emphasis on the let. We must
keep ourselves above trouble and fear.
We must live on SO high plane that
the things that worry or make afraid
shall seem beneath us. Believe In
God, believe also in me-" As having
equal power with God. They knew
that Jesus ever sought their good BY
knowing that he and God were one
in aim and purpose, they could feel
that all things that came to them were
for their eternal good.
4In my Fathers house are many
mansions" Many years ago a curl
Gus calculation was printed, which
ran somewhat thus: When John saw
the angel measuring the Holy City,
he measured twelve thousand furlongs,
or fifteen hundred miles as the length
thereof. The length the breadth and
the height thereof are equal" Set
apart one half of this space for the
lord God, the Almighty and the
Lamb, which "are the temple there
or, and let one half the balance be
devoted to streets, and we have left
the astounding result of S43,750,000
cubic miles. Divided into rooms of
sixteen feet each way, and we should
have more than enough for every one
of the human race that ever lived on
the earth or will live on it for mil
Hons of years to come, should it al
ways be as populous as now.
l. Il go to prepare a place for you"
Some people argue that heaven is
simply a state or condition. Jesus
calls 1t place,-definite and fixed.
ITO prepare place for you" What
preparation is necessary and of what
materials is 1t made? We are told
that some of our actions go to judge
ment before we do. Can it be pos
sible that the deeds we do in this
life are to be the adornments of our
mansions in glory? The thought grows
on one the longer he contemplates it;
but over as against the sense of shame
we feel because they are so few and
so small is the certainty that the
Saviour's loving hands shall so ar
range them that their meagerness
shall be to the praise of the glory
OF his grace. The fact that he is
preparing the place is an assurance
that he will come again to receive
us unto himself, So far he has come
to his people in death, but to some he
will come in glory at the last day,
and they shall be changed in 1.-The
twinkhng of an eye" Ear ~.
WHITTIER I go,.ye know the way"
At this Thomas said they did not
know where he was going so could
not know the way, and Jesus replied,
81 am the way and the truth and the
life" No matter If we fail to discern
the way he leads us, no matter If the
truths revealed are too great for our
comprehension, and no matter IL we
fail to understand how the principal
Of eternal life is implanted within
us, the weakest and most ignorant of
us can cling to Jesus, leaving all the
rest to him.
4 mo man cometh unto the Father
but by me-" He is the only daysman
between God and fallen humanity
upon whom Nathaniel was to see the
angels of God ascending and descend
ing. If they knew him, they would
know the Father also. Philip said
they would be satisfied If Jesus would
show them the Father AS though
their dizziness of apprehension pain.