The Alaska citizen., 1916-05-08

i nsgressor and his penalty? This Is an interference with the nature of things Nature demands that whatsoever a man sows that shall he the lips of blazing cannon" Did Jesus wish to deny this? By nc means altogether. but He wished tC revolutionize the whole system. The sun gave Him an example, for as the snow flake, pure and white falls beneath the tread of the street the sun calls 1t upward in warmth and light, and sends it forth on high to be carried on the wings of the wind, to fall again just as white and just as pure. Why analyse the atonement? Why defend the pity and forgiveness of Gode There was day when. as a boy. you crept into the pantry and stole the jam and cookies, and there was a night to that day Mother came and tucked the covers around yorl more gently than usual, it seemed
 and her good night kiss was warm CT and Sweeter than you had ever known On the pillow you found no resting place, and finally in your hot tears you called mother in 10 tell her the truth and seek her for. giveness. Her love then kissed away all the tears and, although it was night, the sun shone in your little soul, the next morning brought a fitness of Joy that you thought even the birds tolG you about all day. How did mother forgive? Was it judicialo Governmental? Moral Vicarious? Away with such thoughts you say. What noble son could analyse chemically his mothers body. much less her soul? And God forgives as noble parents forgive and pardon To the little child to the old man, to the worldling and lover of pleasure, to the prodigal and publican alike, there comes the word that God pitics God fOrgiVeT A Divine Personality interposes Him self between the sinner and the sin. The throne of God is not iron
 nor gold nor justice, nor penalty it Is pity and forgiveness and love What Is the candle over against the flaming sun? Even so is the forgiveness of God to those that come to Him as compared to the forgiveness of man.
 III God is one who trusts His sons and gives over to them the work of bringing in the Golden Age. It Is a partnership plan. We un derstand the wisdom and generosi ty of God, but we are surprised that He should ask man to assist Him in bringing about His wonder full plan of truth and righteousness
 Think of Jesus loaning His power and strength to man and entrust ing Him with it's sanctity and puri ty. But God desires ever to trus; man and expects man to praise that trust He loans man a knowl edge of electricity and steam and fire, then man puts that knowledge to use and 1t makes the cars fpee" l the turbines spin, and his thought travel all distances. He stretches forth a hand and turns the wilder ness into a garden. He plants cities and libraries and churches and schools and hospitals and homes of protection. From whence comes this knowledge? It came with the theology of Jesus. Every gift that God has Is held at the disposal ol His children, and He desires that they shall use that gift soon, and the sooner the better. He entrusts to man his omnipotence, His truth
 His beauty, His intellect, that they | UldS De CO-pdI tiCl III SiiS N--
 In of the Golden Age.
 ". Jesus theology also teaches that man must love and forgive anc also trust. There are but two luminous and self-evident realities in the universe-God and the soul and religion is a nerve of relation
 ship through which life Is communi
 cated." Jesus founded His new the
 ology upon the thought that wha' God is man must become. The kingdom In Gods nature is duplt
 cated in the kingdom that is 1T
 mans nature, through the shock O
 a new created life. What a differ ence between these revolutlonar!
 ideas of Jesus compared with those
 of man, for one nation torpedoe:
 a ship and the cry of thousands ar
 sent forth into watery grave
 One nation shoots his cannon ball into the heart of his fellow man
 while another makes for him th'
 ammunition. One nation lifts th'
 burden from one brother iu tn
 struggle and throws 1t with doubl
 strength upon another brother An'
 when now and then an ideal1s
 comes along to feed the lamp 0
 humanity with oil and keep tn
 sould alive, he Is scoffed at fo
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