The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-06-13

THE SUNDAY TEL p ?!
cams and ev,,e.rywherethe violets and
wind flowers and ma1denhairI
Serns grew and Doomed and thel
canyon became the MaSaer's place
rest and peace and JOY
The Pledge OF That Love
That was the love OF God turning
misfortune and calamity; into Beauty
and blessing. Nothing can separate
us from the love of God. and that
love was manifested by Jesus AND
now we know where the men Of the
New Testament learned this Trans
cendent truth That truth wien
rolled the clouds from the sky, that1
truth which brought new hope 10
the heart, that truth which lifted the
prize at the end of the weary race
We know. now where they got IT,
The world in that age knew moth
ing Of science. To them nature was
as full OF catastrophes as II was OIL
sunshine and flowers. There was as
much OF darkness and terror as OIL
Light and glory Then came the son
OF God and said. II lave penetrated
into the secret OF the power behind
us. have revealed to you the ma
ture of Cod want to tel you. ON.
fearful and imid. o discouraged ana
down cast. o sorrowing and dleo
with pain want to tell you that
His name is Love. and that He IS
working to bring you all into A1s
own image and Hkenesst
That was the message OF Jesus.
was there ever word Ike that a
summer rain on parched and barren
lives. A breath Of heseternal morn
ing on every brow OF pain! 70
you wonder that men everyWnere
took new heart and nope2 Do you
wonder that they gathered up the al
phabet Of misery and martyrdom, and
with letters red with blood and gray
with ashes spelled out the word VIC
| tory2' And Jesus spoke with au-
thority, the authority OF deep spirit
ual insight He spoke with an au-
thorfty which made men feel that he
knew what he was talking about he
put his revelation of God into me !.
word Father" and illustrated 1t
with the wonderful parables OF tns
lost CON- the lost sheep. the prodfgal
boy. Those parallels. in themselves,
/ constitute a literature OF sympathy
unsurpassed
A Glimpse of the Father
| And Jesus showed the world In
His own character something OF tnc
character of God. In Him they nau
a glimpse of the Father. There IS
a story OF one who had wandered Tar
out in the desert. faintinE at last
from WEAKNESS and thirst He lay
down to lie. But Just then a passing
breeze waften green leaf to his feet.
He caught 1t up and read a message
of deliverance- In the direction from
which the leaf had come, he would
find refreshment. He passed on ana
was soon beneath waving trees on
the banks of the running waters IN
the yerdue Of the leaf he had reao
the presence OF the oasis. It told MN
what the palm grove was ike IN
that single leaf ne saw s1s1s 80
of the whole And Jesus, a leaf from
the Thee Of Life enables us to reao
in His character the tenderness and
love Of Cod The crowintng man1tes
-tation of Gods love was gwen upon
the cross. Thus Jesus spoke Loves
suprenest word was shown IN
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Indians from whom 1t had been oo-
tanned. or their ancestors. had been
Converted to Christianity by Roman
missionaries, and while they had
adopted the cross as their emblem.
thew had not been entirely able to es-
cape from their old ideas And SO
this cross OF wood. black with age
is scrawled all over with tne1
heather and savage devices Prom
nent among them are the z1Szas
lirhtnirg and the crooked serpent
lust that thing in effect has every
where happened to the cross. It has
been carved with eathenish devices
Of shastly, supersnrIous tneolog1es-
Can we free It from these devices ana
hold 1t up before men in all Its SIM
plicity and glory as the emblem OF
Divine love- For that is what !t
means. It speaks Of loyalty to truth
that death cannot shake, 1T SPEAKS
OF love to man that pain cannot con.
ouer; 1t sjeakes of forgiveness thai
hate cannot crush 1t speaks OF
peace and rest in the Paradise OF
God; it speaks Of the eternal victory
in the defeat OF the hour. The cross
of Christ is Gods Illuminated mes
sage to the world, written all over IN
Characters Of love while the sum
mer roses fade. the love OF by Wh1cn
we live shines in the crown OF
thorns; when we cannot ma 1l II
other gardens, it blooms fade3eSsIy
in Gethsemane; when the sun IS
turned into darkness and the moon
into blood, we are taught by the
cross that all catastrophes notw1tn-
standing, love in the central. the su-
preme. undying fact OF the un1 -
verse; And this is the love OF Goa
in Christ Jesus our Lord
Finally. The victory through tnat
love. From that love the apostle
declares nothing shall be able 20
separate us. Can you and I get that
conviction dee pdown into our
hearts as did the apostles? IF we can,
what is there to fear, to worry about.
to make us despair Let US once
really believe that God is rouno
about us. That love IS the tounda-
TO-, beneath o.1r feet. and love the