Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1913-03-13
REVEALS HIS GLORY
FACE OF JESUS CHRIST SPEAKS
DIRECTLY TO THE HEART OF
MAN IN ALL SITUATIONS.

" T is said that one day as the poet
Tennyson with a friend stopped
to look at some pictures in 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
Goethe's. The answer was instan-
taneous: THE divine"
So the face OF Jesus Christ speaks
directly to the heart OF man every
where-to Pilate at the trial, moved
and awed 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,
till, catching the light from the face OF
Jesus, he is constrained, as he seeks
to defend Hinduism, to speak in rever-
ence and awe of that great Christ"
How wonderful is 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 is 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 mothers face, cleaning from a
martyrs eye, shining from the ever
radiant face of Jesus Christ
Eternal LovelIeht.
God pours his 1ovelight upon the
world from the face of Jesus Christ.
He, the man Christ Jesus, is the me-
diator, the conductor of the loyelight
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
the encircling gloom and God is
ever answering through the face of
Jesus Christ, the Light of the world.
No man could endure to see God di-
rectly, any more than one could gaze
at the blazing sun without eyehds. God
must be revealed therefore,, through
medium. There shall no man look
upon my face and live" The universe
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 endurabIe.
The world is not satisfied with less
than God; it must have the best. AS
A1o or;a hoc do nc
for thyselT, and our heart is restless
till it rest in thee" Cold intellec-
tualism, or mammonism with its ease
and luxury, can only go so far. So
the ancient world found at the pin
nacle of it's splendor and its wanton-
ness.
Men must find God ere their hearts
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. 1t is the holy flame
upon the altar of the heart that lights
lu6 VI
Glory of God Everywhere.
See the glory of God in the baby
face in Bethlehem's manger, with the
magi 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 1t was the glory of lowliness
is, ,,ff sryo 81
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 a
multitude Of the armies of heaven
came to celebrate it In the ears of the
| lowly, while the proud and the rich
were Seaf to the resounding heavens.
In nature are revealed the eternal
power and divinity of the Godhead, but
love is concealed or but dimly seen.
| The God Of nature roars in the peal.
| Ing OF the thunder and the bowling Of
| the storm and the raging of the sea.
| He smiles in the lightning's flash, and
| shrivels the verdure of earth with the
| flaming sun or the scorching wind.
| men rear anu uIcdu tniS oWiui Noo'
| The heather stand in awe of him and
seek to appease him. 1t is only in the
gospel, in the face of Jesus Christ,
| that we learn that-"Love rides upon
| the stormy sky--not wrath nor chance
nor destiny-and death must yield to
love-"
Our Daily Life.