Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1913-04-30
REVEALS HIS GLORY
PACE OF JESUS CHRIST SPEAKS
DIRECTLY TO THE HEART OF
A4N IN ALL SITUATIONS.

@T Is said that one day as the poet
Tennyson with friend stopped
70 look at some pictures in win
COW on the Strand. the friend,
knowing Tennyson's admiration for
Dante, asked him what there was IN
Bante's face that was lacking IN
Goethe's- The answer was instan'
xzneous: '4The divine"
SO the face Of Jesus Christ speaks
directly to the heart OF man every
vhere-to Plate at the trial. moved
zua awed by the wondrous personality
Before him, to the poet. to the artist, TO
fhe toiler, to the very heather bound IN
caste and pantheisA and depravtty,
fM, catching the light from the face OF
Jesus, he is constrained. as he seeks
20 defend Hinduism, to speak in rever.
ence and awe of that great Christ.
How wonderful Is sunlight. the
glory OF the natural world Niagara
mas not beauty in the dark. but the
Ban makes its Fidescent beauty the
praise oa all beholders.
How splendid is the light OF intel
Tect. How like the sun shines
Shakespeare, a Goethe, Plato.
But matchless In glory and perfect
IN beauty is the light OF loye-beaming
IN a mothers face, cleaning from
martyrs eye, shining from the ever
radiant face Of Jesus Christ
Elsrnal Loveiight
God pou-s his love1ight upon the
world from the face Of Jesus Christ
IEe, the man Christ Jesus, is the me
diator, the conductor Of the lovelight
from the heart Of the Eternal to this
poor dark world The heart Of mankind,
Iost 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
sIle encircling gloom" and God is
ever answering through the face OF
Jesus Christ, the Light OF the world.
No man could eddure to see God d.
Sectfy, 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 it 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.
The world is not satisfied with less
than God; It must have the best AS
augustine cried: Thou hast made us
for thyseR, and our heart is restless
till it rest In thee" Cold intellee-
tualism, or mammonism with It's ease
and luxury, can only 60 so far. So
she ancient world found at the PIN
nacls OF its splendor 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
that indeed illumfnes the intellect and
throughout Christendom shines deeper
Ghan the brain. God hath shined In
Snr hearts, True religion reaches
tie affections. It is the holy fame
upon the altar Of tho heart that lights
the brain of Christendom.
Glory of God Everywhere.
See the glory Of God in the baby
face ia Bethlehem's manger. with the
yrasi and the shepherds bending near:
more glory than in all the purple and
rola and the tread Of armies and the
fanfare Of pride at an imperial coro-
nation. It was the glory OF lowliness
which fs 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
multitude of the armies OF heaven
came to celebrate It in the ears OF the
IowIy, while the proud and the rich
were deaf to the resoundfng heavens.
In nature are revealed the eteFnal
rover and divinity OF the Godhead' bat
love ia 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 ightning's flash. and
Shriyeis the verdure Of earth with the
flaming sun or the scorchi2g WIND.
Men fear and dread this awful God.
The heather stand in awe Of him and
sesk to appease him It Is only in the
gospel In the face Of Jesus Christ,
fhat we learn that-"Love rides upon
The stormy sky-aot wrath nor cnance
NOR destiny-and death must yield to
love-"
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