The Alaska citizen., 1915-11-08

. he feared as God of terror Going into their homes he took the little ones into His arms and blessed them, and so crept into their hearts with the love of the Father And because Jesus revealed the Father to men. and showed them their
 1wn happy ideal of humanity, they heard Him gladly.
 3. The common people loved Him because he talked to them about their ignorance and their sin. Twen- ty years ago Gladstone explained that there was nothing to fear in God, and nothing in sin to worry about The test of any man s system of philosophy or theology is his view of sin Is sin ignorance? Aaron Burr was among the most brilliant of men. Is sin stupidity Judas was the brightest of the twelve. Is sir poverty Cleopatra 1 lived in . palace and Nero on q l'i SHt' iS tue cure I SLu Cul- ture' Then when the cistern is full Of typhoid send for an artis, 10 paint the pump. The dewdroD and the rose and snowflake are beautiful because they ara pure within; to be pure within is to be beautiful within. A man is beau tful within just to that extent that sin has been driven far from his practi5es. Gladstone was right. Sup erficial men find nothing in God to fear, and silly folk see nothing in sin to worry about. In warm coun- tries it is not snakes and reptiles that are to be feared, it is the white ants that devour the inside of the building materials until shell is left, while the buildinc falls with fearful effect because Of the silent workings of myriads Of destruction workers. The African
 shown the multitude of cholera germs in the water he drinks, dc stroys them all with one fell stroke of his club upon the microscope
 Jesus was too great to deceive men. He told them that sin would soon eat out the fibers of the soul
 He laid before them it's unvar nished truth. He said "I have come to deliver you from the pow CT and the guilt of sin, leaving to nature the penalty of sin" What is purer than the snowflake as it falls from heaven? What is so black and foul as that flake when trampled in the streets of the city? Who can make that black snow clean? God can He lets the sun shine upon it and melts .. from the coldness of it's nature to be transformed into an airy cloud to fall again ill all it's pristine purity. To men grown grey in the conflict of sin. to women dis couraged in the pleasure whirl of life, to boy and to girl ready for the struggle He says, Let me make you clean Jesus came to seek and to save the lost" And so He led men back to faith and breathed into their hearts a boundless hope, that they might not only hate what God hates. but love what God loves, and be forever like Him.
 I. The common people loved Him because of His view of immortality. Men are much impressed by the things of this life, and yet they nave thought for the beyond An must cry in the night like Cicero, "ls there a meeting place for the dead?" When shorn of power, when depressed by diversity, when the last light begins to dim men think of the future and the eternity of eternities. The very thought of the grave soon to be dug in the
 grass fills the heart with pathos and the eyes with tears. The hours come when the world seems stiff ling garret with scarce room left to breathe. Things are great or small by contrast. The old man goes back to his home on the farm. where in boyhood he climbed the mountains, crossed the rivers and heed the llvelong day. Today the mountains have lost their greatness as he has had opened to his vision the real peaks of life; the rive.s now appear as ribbons to his ex- perienced vision; the fields he hoed the livelong day are but as truck patches to his wider experiences. Once all the things of this life were clothed in dignity and splen- dor immeasurable. now how dwarf
 ed and small have they become
 And soon the greatest things we have known on earth will seem small in contrast to the many man.
 sions and gorgeous towers that risc
 resplendent and permanent in yon- | der land, that Is now so near Jesus
 revealed to the common people that
 the work begun here could be com
 pleted hereafter: that the success denied and .he toll begun could be | made cOmDlete in tha n1aca hovop3