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vas ever written. That sentence is the keynote of this revival. Everything that you will hear in song or in word \ for the next four weeks irsvoives round that one central truth. God Is Love. That sums up the whole contents of the Bible. If were asked for sent ence to print in ietters of gold on the outside of our Bible, . sentence that
 summed up the whole contents of the Book, It would be this one, God is. Love- That Is the subject of the hrst
 chapter. of Genesis; t is the subject
 of the last chapter of Revelation. ard lies between 1ss ss I
 -The Bible is simply Gods love story,
 the story of the love of holy God for a sinful and fallen race. People tell us the Bible is full of things that it is impossible to believe. I know of noth- ing else 90 impossible to believe as that q holy God should love . sinful world and should love such indfvid- uais as you and me, as the Bible says He does But impossible as ft is to believe, 1t ia true There is mighty powersin that one shorf sentences pow CT to break the hardest heart, power to reach the individual men and women them up until they are ft for . place. beside the Lord Jesus Christ upon the throne. hope 1t wall break some of your heartB.~
 pr. Torrey showed i've ways in which the Bible tells us God shows His love.
 The first, way is Isaiah iv. 7--"Let the wicked forsake his way, and the un- righteous man his thoughts; and let him return unto the Lord, and He will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for He wili abundantly pardon. To illustrate this fact that God will pardon any man, that turns from sin to Him. Dr. Torrey told the story of Nellie Conroy, who, sold into infamy by her mother when but II years old, was saayed to God. She lived but two years after her conversion. but In that time she stood up before great au- dience in the Cooper Institute in New York, and told them, how God saved her. Tears streamed down hsr cheeks and there was not a dry eye fin the au- dience. And when she lay dying, . short time afterwards. she said to the man who had saved her. Uncle Char ieys--he was not her uncle. butrsil who knew the man called him that--sT will soon see. in few hours, little Florence --and I will see Jesus.
 The second way that God shows his love. lis by taking account of sin and puhishing 1t. H0brews xiL (, For whom the Lord i0veth He schasteneth, and. scour8eth every son that He re eeiveth. 3" pr ToTrev saidi
 People think cod will allow sin % go unpunashed "0od Is love" and. therefore. He takes account and pun- islles sin. Are you in ecrrewl 1t is because God loves you. Iatrembls Tor soms men and womens for those who know the way of fife. with whom God n striving by Hts holy Spirit but who will not come to Him. \ tremDle Tor them because I know God loves them You think that Is a very strange req. son for trembling for . man. No ! know Cod loves you. and so loves you that, If He cannot bring you in any other way. He will bring you by sor- row and heart-ache."
 To Illustrate this point, that whom G6d loveth He ehaateneth," pr. Torrey told an anecd0te Of q man who would in tail his wfge died and his daughs ter was taken away from him and put into more loving hands than his. Then he embraced Christianity. lS5e
 'sTha thiRa way that God shows hiR love for US Is by sympathixing with ns,s continued pr. Torrey. 1naiah ixiii, ., Tn all, their afiiction He was afliictsd: .h That is one or tns mos. wonderful sentences of this Book. Tn9 prophet 10 speaking about the childrep oe SIsrael. Their afEiictions were aD. paiilnG, and the direct consequences p1 fhelr own sln. e Judgment sent by the hand of cod. and yet the prophet said God suffered with them in their sorrow. l It is true. There Is not a man or woman here who Is in trouble but Goa sympathizes with yon."
 pr Torrey went on to say that there are people who. having sorrows of such i < sacred character that they cannot 1 confide them to any human being. say. ssNohody knows It. Nobody gympa- l tllfzes with me" s'Xes' thsfe Is One who knows" exclaimed Dr. Torrey. 1 ..,and He sympathfzes with you--Gpd."
 The fourth way that God shows his 1 love which is by His gifts. as is set forth in the first verse of the third chaY,ter of the first book of John. ''Be- 1 hold, what manner of love, the Father hath bestowed upon us. that we should 1 be called the chiidfsn Of Got 'Dr. Tor | rey said he would not dwell upon He 1 emphasized the wonder of the love of | God for us that He should have given l us the privilege of being known as | t'the children of God"
 The fifth and iast way that God shows his love is by the sacrifice He | has made for us. l
 In explaining this, pr. Torrey said that you only know who are your real | friends when the occasion arises when | they must Ego down into thelr | pockets" for you.i when helping you | means c sacrifice to them. This, he | illustrated as Is his wont. by q story. | the story- of his room mate at college | coming unexpectedly to him long years After the college days and giving him | money that he needed badly At the | time. the roommate did not know | whether the money would ever be re- 1 turned or not. And he told Dr. Torrey | that he didn't care whether it was or | mott
 { God, owed us nothing, yet when | God looked down upon this lost world. | upon you and me-" concluded Dr. Tor | rey, "and he saw that there was only l one price that could save us; He did l not stop at that sacrifice He so loved | the world that He gave Ifis only be- gotten Son that whosoever believeth In Him should mot perish but have 1 everlasting life.' That is the most amazing thing fn the Rlble. I can't understand how men cap deliberately 1 trample the love of God under foot" !
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