Omaha daily bee., 1910-09-03

harm to our spiritual life. We know Il
viii mean unsparing self-mutllation as re-
CARDS everything in ourselves that leads
to sin and away from the ideal But why
take the shivers in the presence Of the best7
The giving up is not an end In itself. but
only in order to the fulness Of the love-
hfe-a life so large and full that II can
be called even here eternal life What we
must give up is as nothing in comparison
with that which will come TO us through
the giving up. 1t is the tragic in life that
we are afraid OF the best II is our imml-
nent peril.
Our obligation and privilege is to coma
right into the presence of the perfect life
and give our lives to him-not a part OF
them. not fraction OF them, but all. Jesus
must have all. He must be on the throne
In the thronc-room. When once he is set
tied there Il is safe to give him the key
to that room and to ask him to throw IL
away. II is not faultless life we can
bring him; but by bringing him just such
as we have we will be blameless. Some
years ago 1 received a letter from my
little nephew. 1t was written In a fashion
that rendered 1t hard to decipher. But then
1t was his first attempt at letter-wriing.
II was not faultless, but blameless. II we
surrender all to Jesus we may talk about
that extent we will be blameess.
The possibility of the love life becoming
an actually with us is made certain
through the transforming power of tho
Holy Spirit of God coming into the human
spirit The Holy Spirit comes into the
| human spirit as an actual indweling COM
papion and brushes down the Old life forces.
| Sin he conQuers, holiness he produces.
character he fashions, and love he sheds
| abroad In the heart. He brings us to live
in holy, happy, loving fellowship with God
who is love, and to live In loving, helpful
fellowship with men who ought to become
and many OF whom are becoming love.
The Holy Spirit can make God-hating and
man-hating men into lovers of God and
Of man. lie has done It, He Is doing IL
every day. The Spirit actually does his
Transforming work He is mans hope for
the attainment of the love-life. Let the
Spirit adjust ones life to the life OF Jesus
and the love-lfe is his.
To the life of love in God the Holy Spirit
will surely lead us. II one will but honestly
say: So far as 1 know how will try to
show forth love, I will give up to Jesus,
the Spirit will accept that and begin his
work OF making him clean and OF filling
his life with love. 1t is sin that befouls
| the heart and dams back the stream of
love from entering IL and flowing out pure
| to others.
| II watch to shun the miry way,
And staunch the springs OF guilty thought,
| But watch the struggle as l may,
Love l have not, love l have not
Yet only as this heart is love,
May larger visions yet be mine,
For mirrored in its depths are seen.
! The things divine. tho things divine.
So wash me, Thou, without, within,
Or purge with fire, II that must be.
| No matter how, II only sin
Die out in me. die out in me.
An honest determination to let the Spirit
have his way in any life means a new
adjustment Of that life to the love-iife OF
Jesus
We must not doubt this. There Is Oft
times q good deal OF unbenef on this point.
So terribly dwarfing Is sin that It narTowa
the scope OF tho promises OF God. Il puts
limit on the power Of the SCARED hands
OF Jesus. 1t takes away the efficacy of his
atoning blood. It winks at the idea OF q
love-life like that OF Jesus. A measure Of
this heresy emanates from some pulpita II
Is a sad comment to make, for the HEREBY
OF the pulpit ali too soon becomes the
orthodoxy Of the pew. Ono thing IL sure:
If we pare down the power Of the spirit TO
develop in us the love-life Of Jesus we will
life We long for we must believe that God
by his spirit can make US like JeSus, and
give ourselves up with constraininE glad
ness and enthusiastic seal to that faith.
| A deeper insight into the passion OF
Jesus will help 70 make us more willing
that the spirit shall lead w into and COM
plete in use the lovs-Efe OF JesuA A
mother left her babe asleep in her bed
chamber and went to call upon her next
door neighbor. Fire broke out In her house
and the nremen were slow in adjusting
their ladders. Tho frantic mother, no
longer able to control herself, climbed up
the trellis by the side OF the house, broke
open the window ana snatched her babe
from the burning bed and bore It to tho
fireman who had by this time reached the
window. He soon landed both mother and
babe upon the ground. When the child
had reached the age OF years she asked
her mother one day why she always wore
gloves Her mother replied that she would
tell her in the eventide. When they had
gone up to their berchamber the mother
said, my child you wonder why always
wear gloves. This lie the reason, my hands
are Scared" Drawing off her gloves she
held out her hands to the child Tho child
drew back with repulsion- The mother
quietly explained how 1t all happened, and
the child with bursting heart lifted up the
disfigured hands and kissed them, Such Is
the tremendous appeal OF the cross that II
we once get to see the why OF the SCARED
hands Of Jesus will be melted by His
sacr1flcial love, and beg to kiss those hands
Let the how" OF the cross alone but let
the love OF 1t fill the life, and that will be
the love-life OF Jesus.
| We may not know, we cannot tell
| What pains he had 10 bear;
But we believe II was for us
He hung and suffered there.
oh dearly, dearly has He loved,
And NJ NH 1--we Him ton.