Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-04-30
REVEALS HIS GLORY
PACE OF JESUS CHRIST SPEAKS
DIRECTLY TO TIE HEART OF
haAN IN ALL SITUATIONS.

VT Is said that one day as the poet
M Tenpyson with friend stopped
81 10 look at some pictures In win
dow on the Strand, the friend,
knowing Tennyson's admiration for
Dante, asked him what there was in
BaR&e's face that was lacking in
Gostke'a The answer was fnstan-
1aneous: "The divine"
so the face of Jesus Christ speaks
directly to the heart of man every
vhere-to Plate at the trial. moved
and awed by the wondrous personality
Sefore him, to the poet, to the artist, to
fhe toiler, tc the very heather bound IN
caste and panthels.l and depravtty,
I'm. catching the light from the face OF
Jssus, he is constrained. as he seeks
10 defend Hinduism. to speak in rever.
ane5 and awe Of that great Christ"
How wonderful Is sunlight. the
glory Of the natural world Niagara
has net beauty in the dark. but the
SUD makes It's iridescent beauty the
yEnise of all beholders.
How splendid is the light OF intel
Iect. How Ike the sun shines
Shakespeare, a Goethe, Plato.
But matchless In glory and perfect
M beauty is the light of iove-beamins
"a mothers face, cleaning from
martyrs eye, shining from the ever
radiant face of Jesus Christ.
Eternal loveiisht
God pours his lovelight upon the
world from the face Of Jesus Christ
He, the man Christ Jesus, is the me
GAator, the conductor Of the lovelight
from the heart of the Eternal to this
poor dark world The heart Of mankind,
lost and fearful as the babes In the
wood, trembling and shuddering in the
cold and dark, Is ever praying with
Newman: Lead, kindly Light, amid
tie encircling gloom" and God Ia
ever answering through the face OF
Jesus Christ. the Light OF the world.
No man could endure to see God di.
zectfy, any more than one could gaze
at the blazing sun without eyelids. God
must be revealed, therefore. through
q medium. There shall no man look
upon nay face and live" The universe
reveals him indeed. but 1t 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
cur own weakness. something ap-
proachable and endurable.
The world is not satisfied with less
than God; It must have the best AS
augustine cried: Thou hast made US
for thyself, and our heart is restless
till it rest In thee" Cold intellec-
taalism, or mammonism with its ease
and luxury. can only go so far. so
Shs ancient world found at the PIN
Sacie Of its spiendor and its vanton-
ness
Men must find God ere their hearts
have peace. And we find him In the
face of Jesus Christ, with his great
warm pity and undying love. A love
ghas indeed iliumines the intellect and
throughout Christendom shines deeper
ehan the brain God hath shined In
cur hearts" True religion reaches
sAe affections. It is the holy flame
upon the altar Of the heart that lights
ahe brain of Christendom.
Glory of God Everywhere.
See the glory of God in the baby
4aee In Bethlehem's manger. with the
a., harHfno
more glory than in all the purple and
eola and the tread of armies and the
fanfare of pride at an imperial coro-
nation. It was the glory OF lowliness
which is the uttermost glory OF God
himself. So the angels. familiar with
the humbleness OF the great God al
mighty. saw his image and the bright
ness Of his glory in Bethlehem, and q
multitude of the armies Of heaven
came to celebrate It In the ears of the
yowiy, while the proud and the rich
we're deaf to the resoundfng heavens.
tn nature are revealed the eternal
ssover and divinity Of the Godhead, ou1
love is concealed or but dimly seen.
The God OF nature roars In the pear
ipe Of the thunder and the bowling of
the storm and the raging Of the sea-
He smiles in the fightning's fash. and
shrivels the verdure Of earth with the
flaming sun or the scorching wind.
Men fear and dread this awful Goo.
The heather stand in awe OF him and
SEEK to appease him It is only in the
gospel, in the face Of Jesus Christ
ehat va learn that-"Love rides upon
she stormy sky-aot wrath nor chance
nor destiny-and death must y1elo 70
love-"