The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1911-06-06

the human need. His purchasing
power, one only in which the human
race experienced adequacy, meets the
situation On the manWard and God
ward side. Men acquire vast purchas-
ing power in these days. Multi-mil-
| lionaries cross the stage of the world
gamble and maneuver, struggle to buy
and get possession Of the hid and re-
vealed treasures Of world. But one
thing meets everyone sooner or later
his limit to deal, to make good, to
buy, to get. And if IT, limit is not
material, it is physical or mental. The
greatest among the great captains OF
industry, must honestly acknowledge
this.
So in mental acquisition the man
writes his best books or poem and
then mods at his work-he knows he
has reached his limit. He paints his
| masterpiece and he knows he has done
all that he can. He writes his Hamlet
and becomes immortal among men in
letters, but is painfully aware that he
has strained his producing power.
He can buy nothing better No age
may surpass it, but every age recog-
nizes it and it's limits. Naturally, to
purchase such vast rights to OWNER
ship as are involved in a race of men,
there must be one set forth, whose
powers are more than any mans, who
fulflls the poets thought:
All common good hath common price,
Exceeding good exceeding.
Christ bought the keys of Paradise,
By cruel bleeding.
A Klondike, South African dia-
mond field, Golconda mine, may be
worked out; the silver and the gold
Of the worlds storehouse are exhaug-
tible, vast though they are. 1t is
vain to attempt to estimate in terms of
earth, when only the terms of the skies
suffice to meet the situation and God
gives man His best, making infinite
provision for his souls need in the
unspeakabIe gift of heaven. A per-
feet, complete and sufficient purchase
power is made known to man. 1t is
estimated by him who knows what
Infinite worth means, and is the mani
festation Of redeeming love. He put
on the leader the hall, mark of Hin
self, no other stamp would have been
sufficient; and the human race since
then has been trying to spell out the
meaning Of divine love, sacrifice and
redemption in its life-feehly, slowly.
painfully trying to approach i'll life
and character the pattern shown it in
the mount. It is the purchasing pow
er of the Son of Man that draws men
to Him. 1t is the infinite worth of the
Son Of God that answers every hu-
man need. It is the lhnitless sweep of
the divine purpose that transforms
and uplifts human life by a conde-
scending and gracious deliverer. It is
because man reaches in every way his
limits, that his soul cries out for the
infinite help and deliverance of the
divine. This is more than leadership
that should be acknowledged. This
is life itself which should be embrac-
,ed. It is what St. Paul means whe.l
he writes, "For me to live is Christ"
or as our Luther put it, "Christ is my
life!H So then the ground of the
complete and utter self-surrender,
spoken, of is Gods plan for man; in
Christ Jesus. To hand all over to
Him is mans highest and safest act
and involves a transaction the most
ennobling and uplifting. The pur-
chasing power of God was enlisted in
mans redemption; and he who re-
spends thereto, enters into the King
dom OF God, every subject of which
becomes such through an infinite sac
rifce Of infinite love and value.
It is not hard to outline at what
such a redeemed life aims. He who
has made the redemption possible re-
veals the character of the life It is
certain that the spiritual captivity into
which st. Paul says We have been
caught is not base slavery. It is slav-
cry to the noblest service. 1t may not
sound well in the ears of luxurious
age to say my meat and my drink is
to do the will of my father and to
finish it; or, I am come mot to be
ministered unto, but to minister" but