New-York tribune., 1914-11-30


,@zfS$&3M J all saints. what is
f(0IST10o 0iIScFIT0l the breadth, and
iSzzs.s.n2 iz.s......S2s@J n2g9s.J length, and depth,
and height; and to
know the love of Christ, which passeth
knowledge, that ye might be filled with
all the fulness OF God" tEpneslahs
3:17-19.) He said in part:
To those who all their lives have
been immersed in a world OF selfish
frigidity, the real quality Of the word
Love is disallowed, disputed, claimed
not to exist. Nevertheless, in every
human being there is a craving for
love, pure and sincere, even though ex-
pected never to be found. For the ma
jority, inevitable reverses and failures
take the place of anticipated successes.
However strong, courageous, or even
brutally fierce has been the warrior
in the battle for bread, fame and
earthly glory, he Graves ultimately, in
his partial or complete disaster. the
love which he has neither shown to
others nor ever really expected that
Others would show TO him.
Sometimes this love comes from the
partner of life, sometimes from par
ents or children, sisters or brothers.
But alas, in vast majority of cases
the failure, the disaster suffered, not
only skaters hope, but cools friend
ship and destroys the semblances of
love, which were merely emotional or
perfunctory! If at such time the
Message of the Love of God and of
Christ comes to the wounded and dis
couraged one, Il is balm indeed.
IL is our thought that particularly at
this time such encouragement is being
borne upon large numbers Of the
human family. Now is therefore the
opportune moment for these discour-
aged ones TO hear the voice Of Him
who speaketh from Heaven, telling
them of His love, His sympathy and
His willingness TO aid all who will
accept His assistance. Hearkening
obediently TO His voice, such may
change the hour of defeat into the
hour Of victory, by the Lords assist
ing grace. The moment Of discour
agement, of hopeless despair, is the
opportune moment for the discouraged
one to recognize his need Of the
Saviour, 10 cry unto Him and forth
with 10 receive the needed reinforce
ments from Him who has declared,
Come unto Ne, all ye that labor and
are heavy laden, and | will give you
rest."
But it requires faith to believe in
a Saviour whom we have never seen
and with whom we have not been ac-
quainted, and especially in a God who
has been misrepresented TO us as hav-
ing prepared from before the founda- !
tion Of the world for our eternal tor
ment How can we assure ourselves /
Of His love? Hoy may we know that I
He is not the cruel One that has been .
pictured TO US? How may we know /,
that he is a loving, generous, kind, !
faithful Friend-a God who rejoiceth 4
not in iniquity, nor In eternally tor /
His creatures, nor even in de- 1
stroying them eternally in the Second I
Death; but that He delights in doing /
us good, in exhibiting toward all who .
viii receive it His loving kindness and ,
tender mercy, enabling them more and 1
more, in the language of our text, to |
appreciate the height, the length, the /
breadth and the depth of His Love?
The Worlds Great Need.
We see the difficulty Of such; and
to those of us who have learned the
way of the Lord more perfectly, il
cries aloud that we let our light shine,
that we let all who are not complete
ly blinded by the Adversary see the
true character of our God and Of His
Son, that we let them see the Scriptur-
al presentation of the love, the mercy
and the abundant provision arranged
for an the Divine Purpose.
What the world needs is to get over
It's fright respecting the Lord and the
future, and to see the Love of God and
His gracious provision in Christ. This
alone will win the heart, in the proper
sense of the word. Fear may bring tor
ment, but only the Truth can sancti-
fy and happify-fulfil our Redeemer's
prayer, "Sanctify them through Thy
Truth Thy Word is Truth"
The fright that Is upon the world
came from the Dark Ages and is echoed
by all the creeds of orthodoxy, breed
ing in mems hearts distrust, hatred
Of God and of the Bible, falsely &C
credited with being the fountain from
which have been drawn these brackish
waters of tradition represented in the
,reeds. Every true Christian should
.ake stand for the right, for the
Word Of God, for the exposition of the
falsehoods which have slandered the
Almighty Character, which have be-
numbed the zeal of the saints, and
which have repelled the weary and
leavy laden.
The thought of an angry, vindictive,
Creator should be re-
ected instantly by every rational mind
Is being ungodlike, demoniacal. No
ioubt this would have been so had it
Tot been that the misconception of the
subject, which the Apostle calls the
doctrines of DEVILS" was imposed
Ipon our minds from earliest child
rood. and often by those whom we
loved and whose piety we
'everenced. but who were themselves
deceived.
IL is high time that more reverentisl
md loving theological views were seen
~ all mankind. The lack of this true
heology is driving many away from
he Lord and His Word into vain phi
osophies and Science falsely So
Criticism, Christian
Science, Evolution. Theosophy. etc,
'tc. i Timothy 6:20.
The world has discovered that the
'onds of ignorance and superstition
lave been holding il for centuries,
md that its eyes OF understanding
AVE been so long covered that now
hey blink in the dazzling light Of the
lawning Millennial Day. At one bound
he so-called scientific world has left
iod's Word and leaped into a refined