Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-27

interpret The picture. is factors con
Tey the idea that God can do ard does
the same thing both as invisible Deity
without reference 10 His human na-
ture and from the side Of visible Deity.
or with reference Il Ills human naturs.
Now carry this idea Of the presence
Of God and man into other details Of
the Wonderful Book, Jehovah stands
upon Mount sinai IN tire Old Testament
and gives forth the Ten Command
fdenfs. Jesus sits upon the Mount Of
the Sermon and gives forth the Law 81
Love. Two sets Of laws. one from the
divine side o. justice. the otheY fFoR.
the human side OF mercy. For the con-
trast between the two sets Of law. Is
that the first IL stern. just, ~retr5outive.
the other gentle. mercff1I. r~eeeneratfvs.
The n IL the relation Of God 10 man
in rran.2 vlckedness. the other the re-
lafion Of God to man in mans weak
ness.
Next take the ten commandments
There are Two ideas conveyed In them.
me hrst series Of commandments.
which tell nan TO worship God. to re-
sDect His name, to keep IFS Sabbath,
are evidently commandments referring
TO God, while the rest Of the ten. COM
mandiHg man what he shall do to his
parents and what he shall not do to his
nsighbor, with equal evidence refer to
man. In other Worlds. God and mar ara
IN the commandments. ever as they
y are In every other picture OF ths
Bible.
Now take the Lords Prayer There
- an opening sentence and a. closing
s~scription, and between the two there
are six petitions. The first three refer
TO Cod they involve His name. His
kingdom. His will The other three in
yolve man. They speak Of our daily
bread, our trespasses and our temuta-
tions. Whether these things come ri
design or come not of design. they are
as evident as they are remarkable. for
here again the hrs.~part refers 10 God
and the last part To man. And now
nnally tsze fae Law Of Love-" wherein
God condenses highest wisdom into few
words 1t "a: '.Thou shalt love the
Lord with all thy heart. and thy neigh
Dor as thyself." PaIpabIy one sentence
for God. h other for man.
And what is the lesson What else
can 1t be but that 1t is impossible for
anyone TO reach out for God without
at the same time reaching OUT to man?
No one can touch God without touch
Ing a No one can touch man with
out touching God. They two. while dis
tinct and different as the eye Is diff
ferent from light and the lungs from
air, yet are they adjusted one to the
other. as the eye is adjusted to light
and needs light to be an eye and as
the lungs are adjusted to air and need
air to be lungs. So one might say that
man is adjusted to God and needs God
to De man. Anything he does in God
and from God is human. and derives
its true humanity from that Goldman
contact. Anything he does not from
God is not human and derives its In
humanity from the absence OF God.
Hence. whether 1 be studying to
understand God or whether I De labor
ingt to help man, / cannot do the one
without doing the other; MOI hoes one
avail without the other. The two laws
are n law. seen from two sides, one
from above. the other from below. One
is God looking to and at man, the
other is man looking to and for God.