The Dolores star., 1913-04-18
REVEALS HIS GLORY
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MAN IN ALL olruATloNo.
ut b said that one day % the poet
Tennyson with . friend stopped
TO look 1t some pictures In Z win
dow on the Strand. the friend.
knowing Tennyson's admiration for
Dante. asked him what there was In
Dante's face that was lacking In
0oethe's. The answer was instan.
taneous: THE divine"
So the face Of Jesus Christ speaks
directly to the heart OF man every.
where--to PLATE at the trial. moved
and awsd by the wondrous personality
before him. to the poet. to the artist. to
the toiler. TO the very heather bound In
caste and pantheism and depravity.
I'LL. catching the light from the face Of
Jesus. he b constrained. - he seeks
TO defend Hinduism. to speak In rover
snce and ave Of that great Christ"
How wonderful 10 sunlight. the
glory Of the natural world. Niagara
has not beauty In the dark. but the
sun makes its iridescent beauty the
praise Of all beholders.
How splendid II the light Of intel
lect. How like the sun shines .
Shakespeare, . Goethe. . Plato.
But matchless In glory and perfect
In beauty is'the light Of love--beaming
In Q mothers face. cleaning from a
martyrs eye. shining from the ever.
radiant face Of Jesus Christ.
Eternal Lovsilsht.
God pours his lovelight upon the
world from the face Of Jesus Christ
He. the man Christ Jesus. II the me
diator. the conductor Of the lovelight
from the heart Of the Eternal to this
poor dark world. The heart Of mankind.
lost and fearful a. the babes in the
wood. trembling and shuddering In tse
cold and dark. ID ever praying with
Newman: Lead. kindly Light. amid
the encirclins gloom" and God is
ever answering through the face OF
Jesus Christ. the Light Of the world.
No man could endure to see God d.
rectly. any more than one could gaze
1t the blazing sun without eyelids. God
must be revealed. therefore. through
Q medium There shall no man look
upon my face and live" The universe
reveals him indeed. but Il wells him.
too. In Jesus Christ God reveals his
glory tempered to our human face
Mans heart hungers for something In
God akin TO itself. something Of
our own weakness. something ap
proachable and endurable.
L. Ia s,ts nrac
than God: II must have the best. As
Augustine cried: Thou hast made us
for myself. and our heart 10 restless
TIL Il rest In thee" Cold intellec-
tualism. or mammonism with Its ease
and luxury. can only 90 90 far. So
the ancient world found At the pin.
nacls Of ~ splendor and ito wanton,
neeo.
Men must And God ere their hearts
have peace. And We ind him In the
face Of Jesus Christ. with his great
warm pity and undying love. A love
that indeed illumines the intellect and
throughout Christendom shines deeper
than the brain. God hath shined In
our hearts" True religion reaches
the affections. u 10 the holy flame
upon the altar Of the heart that lights
the brain Of Christendom.
oiery Of God Evsrywhsrs.
ses the glory Of God In the baby
face In Bethiehem's manger. with the
masi and the shepherds bending near.
more glory than In all the purple and
gold and the tread Of armies and the
fanfare Of pride at an imperial coro
nation. Il was the glory OF lowiiness
which II the uttermost glory Of God
himself So the angels. familiar with
the humbleness Of the great God a.
mighty. saw his image and the bright
ness Of his glory In Bethlehem. and
multitude Of the armies Of heaven
came to celebrate II In the ears Of the
lowly. while the proud and the rich
were deaf to the resounding heavens
In nature are revealed the eternal
mower and divinity Of the Godhead. but
love 10 concealed or but dimly seen
The God Of nature roars In the peal
,uR OF the thunder and the bowling OF
the storm and the raging Of the sea
He smiles In the lightning's Hash. and
shrivels the verdure OF earth with the
Naming sun or the scorchins wind
Men fear and dread this awful God
The heather stand In awe Of him and
seek TO appease him. II In only In the
sospel. In tho face Of Jesus Christ.
that ve learn that-"Love rides upon
the stormy sky-not wrath nor chance
nor dcstiny--and death must yield to
love"
Our Daily LIE.