Evening journal., 1914-03-11

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theory OF life, that if he puts his hand
IN the fire he will be burned, and he
will not put his hand in the fire again;
tell him that the sins OF the body will
be visited upon mis- own head, and he
will not commit these sins Earth's
Philosophers Stone is not in culture,
without God back OF IL.
9. lake yet another theory. The
gospel Of freedom. Man is unhappy
says the apostle of freedom. because he
is enslavcd. What he wants. what hc
must have. is liberty. Liberty Of
teo-cht. liberty e. action. a chance TO
breathe. TO throw of his chains, in short
intellectual emancipation
Men laugh at Bible statements as 10
the ends of things the looking ion of
wrath and fiery Indignation, of a burning
universe. but science doe, not laugh at
these things Sciencerw tell you that
all these things occur, that the day of
earthquake, Of raining fire. no man can
tell
Men who have felt he'll in their own life
experiences can never be persuaded that
there is no hereafter TO hc feared.
There arc hours when conscience will
speak.
The theories have all been tried; Gov
cmmcntal economic, education, moral
aesthetic all but all in vain.
And yet the Philosopher Stone exists.
Il has been discovered. TO men God has
revealed 1.-THE stone which can trans
mute all human transform all
human lives. swccten all bitter cups.
make an rough places plain.
David. thousand years before the
Christ. graspcd the great secret. secret
lundiscerned before.
Il is in the text Righteousness
- win behold Thy face In righteous
ness. ! shall be satisfied when awake
in Thy likeness"
! And what is righteousness Right
ness with God-that is al. And what
! il IL TO be right with God To be con-
formed i'm life to His will What comes
Of thatl Content. rest, the absence of
fear: fear of God. fear of anything the
hereafter may have in store. For a
righteous man what terror a there
in law. human lawg What to him are
tribunals of iusticeg What TO him the
Judge upon the bench, the long array of
counsel. the sheriff. the police the detcc-
tive. the Jury. the frowning walls of
prison. the scaffold or the block Con-
fdcnt Of innocence. justified before a tri-
bunal beyond the highest of earth, what
to him are all these imposing symbols
Of justice and of judgments To the
lunrighteous man, TO the criminal. the
occasion of guilty fear. of secret dread.
tc him, the unrightcous man, they are but
tho symbols Of a protecting power ever
TO be evoked in presence Of any peril
Threatening property or life.
As with human law. so with that
which is divine The day shall come
when all shall stand to be Judged for the
deeds done in the body; the day when
the secrets Of all hearts shall be reveal.
cd; when the great white throne shall
be set when the books shall be opened
when sentence shall be pronounced ac.
cording to the things therein writtcni
when any whose names are not writer
in the book of life shall be cast into The
outor darkness: when the condemned
shall cry to rocks and mountains 'fal
on iis to hide as from the face Of Hin
that stitch upon that thronc.' confess
ing the while that the Judgment is bu
Just. the penalty inevitable and unavoid
able. the ways Of ,'od true and righteous
altogether
But TO him the effort Of whose life has
been the behoiding Of the fact of God il
righteousness. even the tcrrors Of The
last great dav shall he but as a troubled
dream-a hidcous nightmare -dcstiue,
10 give way TO another and Joyous Wis
tho vision Of the King in Hi
beauty the vision Of the face Of God.
Sncil was the confidence OF England
great laureate. as expressed ia his mag
, nifccnt lines on "The Crossing Of tn
Bar
sunset and evening star,
And one clear call for mei
b And may there be no moaning of the ba
; When ! put out TO sea.
2 But such a tide a. moving seems asleep
TOO full for sound and foam,
= When that which drew from out th
boundless deep
Turns again home.
: Twilight and evening bell
2 And after that the darki
p And may there be no sadness Of fare
Z well
When ! embark
D For tho from out our bourne OF time an
J place
b The flood NAV bea me far.
5 / hope 10 see my Pilot face 20 face
r. When ! have crossed the bar
Such was Paurs immortn. hope, whe
standing on the border line between tw
worlds. he triumphantly declared.
am ready now To be offered and IN
time Of my departure is at hand. ! hay
fought q good fight: ! have finished m
course; 7 have kept the faith. Hence
% forth there Is laid up for me crow
which the Lord. tno righteous iudg'
shall give me at that day. and not TO m
only. but TO all such as love His appear
ing
: Such was David's assurance when /
: words of deepest personal conviction. b
declared: As for me. viii behold Hi
face in righteousness; ! shall be salts
fed when I awake in His likeness
, Brethren. l't the beholding of the fac
= Of God IN Righteousness he your amb
. tion. your purpose. your exalted aim.
= Hitherto YOU have been careless or indii
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