The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-03-15
GODS LOVE IS
 OMNIPRESENT"
 SAYS DIR. REFS
Many Trail Hitters Following Sermon of Evangelist In
 Two Churches.

ar Dr. Milton S. Rees, evangeHzing in two West Side churches last night, aroused enthusiasm to fever pitch, which was followed by admissions of faith in the large number of trail hit ters that were recorded in the West End Congregational church and the. First Methodist church.
 \ pr. Rees with his forceful oratory has attracted large crowds, seemingly increasing in number nightly.
 Gods Great Love- was the topic.
 Dr. Rees' sermon was on John 3:1O and was as follows:
 We see His love everywhere, in the fact that He made man in His own image and when he sinned, instead of hurling him from the face of the earth He planned for. him way of escape. It is seen also in the deliver ance of the children of Israel out of bondage. in the provision made for Noah and his family all through the sacred story and profane history we read, God is. love" It is seen also in nature, it shines forth in the sun, moon and stars, descends in the snow and rain, goes forth on the wings of the morning and returns with the shadows of evening. Above us. be- meath us, indeed, in his love we live, and move and have our being. How feeble these manifestations compared to those revealed to us in His Son. Love born in manager, raised in Nag areth, living in Capernaum, walking over the sea, through the valley, giv- ing sight to the blind, food to the hungry, strength to the weak, conso- lation to the bereft, eternal life to all who believe. Love before Annas, Caiphass the Sanhedrin in the garden fastened on the cross between two thieves.
 Oh, twas love, twas wondrous love
 to me,
 On the cruel cross He suffered,
 From the curse to set me free.
 Love as high as heaven, to which 1t will lift us; as deep as hell, from which it will rescue us; as broad as the earth: as long as the sea; as boundless as immensity; as lasting as eternity.
 First. we see the greatness in the gift. God so loved that He gave" { We are approaching the season when we express to each other, our love in { the Christmas gift. What exhibitions k of love of country did we see from { '61 to ,65 in this land when mothers 5 and wives, and children said goodbye to their loved ones, the pride of the land given to preserve the Union But { Gods only beEotten Son wa sgiven to save the world. Some of us may be much like Elisha Brown, who was editor and proprietor of the Rams Horn, and failed to recognize his fath- er's love until one day when saying S goodbye he pressed into the palm of his right hand a silver half dollar. S1S ec{1 1 nHY> T,o fathers love in the gift, He loved me all the years and provided for me in the home but 1t never dawned upon me. that he loved me.'' Even so God < has provided for you in food and raj ment, in home and school, in oppor- tunities and blessings innumerable, and if the greatness of his love. has not fully dawned upon you, pray you may see it tonight in the gift And If He so loved as to give; Himself for us, commenting His love toward us, while we were yet sinners, He died for us, let us reciprocate His love, and show to the home and city and world that we love Him by keeping His com ncandments.
 Second, we see the, greatness in it's 2 universally. Observe two words in the text, God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son that whosoever'' No wonder Richard Bax- ter said. 1T thank God for this who soever' for that means me-" Oh! the 2 greatness of the love that includes Z, everybody, north, south, east and west. black and white. high and low. Who soever will let him take the water of life freely" You may never have lov- cd him. Many take His name in vain. go home to loved ones intoxicated, {, have departed from the purity of ' mother, yet God loves you with the paternal, boundless, everlasting, vicar ' fous love, how can you resist such love?
 If go into prison, or a rea,ue mis- sion, or to the barracks of the Sal- walton Army, and speak to them of Gods love they will wipe back tears and respond to the appeal, but in speaking to an audience like this, composed of those who came from comfortable homes, who have had >op- portunities for education and travel. Tor whom God has done so very much, how little the fact of Gods great love seems to mean to those for whom He has done most. We have no right to talk about the square deal, or to affirm that we are doing unto others as we would that they should do unto us. when we have utterly failed to keep the first and great command 1nent: Thou shalt love thy God with all thy heart"
 Third, we see the greatness in the object, that we need not perish, but have everlasting life. When we are able to comprehend the vast differ e1ace between what it means to perish and the life of the ages we will un- derstand something of the object of Gods great love. Prominent on his- tOry's page arc the names of those who are great, and greatly beloved because of their object and it is an Inspiration to us who travel in for eign lands to see in Glasgow and Ed inboro a monument to the memory of our great American statesman. who. when fnaugurated president of the United States, looking upon the dark picture of the South, said 'It must not be-" and by emancipation pro- clamation made himself immortal in the history of the world But how much greater the object of our Fath- CT set forth in the last part of this text. Not one company in bondage to another. but whole -orld ivinp i, wickedness, by the gift of his Son
 made provision for all who would be- Heve in Him to be saved