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ways come both as a reward Of seeking
and as an inspiration for service.
The test of the power of ones ca
pacity Is not limited by creed or
church. but by the character that has
been mastered by the vision of the
personality OF the King on His throne.
Loyola, the founder Of the. Society of
Jesus; Bunyan. the Baptist Spreacher,
voice, and Wesley, tho pioneer preacher
of the Methodism. each Of these preach
ers received his power for preaching and
winning souls not from his peculiar view
point of doctrine, but from the vision OF
God that challenged his thought, and
that came in the vision Of his shortcom.
ing and sin.
Vision Of Sin and Salvation.
Before God can use man for Christian
service he must pass through the cru.
chile Of affliction. where he learns the
lesson that the italian patriot. Mazzini.
tells us came to him--that our suffer
ipgs are the temptations Of egotism
and arise from misconception Of life"
The vision Of God reacts on the seer.
compels him to stop and consider him
self. The meditation upon God leads
to the consideration OF what our re-
to be. From the vision Of the holiness
Of God the prophet saw his own UNFIT
ness. unworthiness and uselessness be-
cause OF his sin. The contrast between
God and his own life filled him with fear.
Woe is me. for 1 am undoneI' No
soul has ever stood in the presence of
God and seen HIS purity but what he.
too. has been undone. Peter standing
In the presence of the Christ realized
that he was sinful, just as Moses. Job
and Isaiah had in the old dispensation.
Crushed beneath the burden Of his sin
and that of the sinful race whose life
he shared was the realization that God
had seen his defects, ded!ement and deeds
God had seen him because Isaiah's eyes
had seen the king. In the Hebrew mind
this was the cause Of his undoing. To
see God and live" Men are unworthy to
associate with God and II they come into
His presence their doom is sealed. There
was another vision that. supplanted his
fears. The seraph drew near to him
with a live coal from the altar and. as he
purged." The glowing stone was not a
part Of the temple furniture, but 1t be-
longed to the home Here the penitent
youth found the union Of home and tenn
this day, when the Sunday schools Of the
world remember our mothers, We Will re-
call how our mother came to us with the
kiss of love and taught us the same les
son that God was teaching Isaiah. that
salvation Is q lift of God to all who &C
cept HIS offer He brought no sacrifice
except that Of a broken spirit. God saw
the broken and contrite heart and he sent
the message of peace. because his sins
were pardoned and purged This Is the
message Of Christ to US when He unveils
the Fathers love- II IL that we might
see our sins. realize o,r need OF salvation
and lcok unto Him and be saved. II
Isaiah's vision had stopped at the mani
festation Of his sin and that Of men the
world would never have heard the
prophets message OF hope. as well a. OF
Conviction Of sin unnakes
men. In conversion through divine grace
man is remade through his repentance OF
sin. faith in Christ and confession OF Him
a new creature, born again from above
BY the Holy Shirt that brings the message