Norwich bulletin., 1920-03-02

do not need his telling. The God that gives the flower and the insect and the eagle their full chance at life will give us our full chance at life which we are not getting here. We are just striking the first note of q great full life. Our wings are only
 iuttering at our side We must have our chance to get up into the empy- rean. This universe is sane and not mocking madhouse. Gods charac- ter is at stake. Will not a father make provision for his child, our Heavenly Father much more? Our hope of immortality is based on the character of God. God can give life in a larger. world than this because He can, He will. Great resources inn plies great outlay. Gods power Gods love. Gods resources assure our hope of immortality.
 2. Or apply the words of Jesus to Himself. His greatness is the sign royal that He will lay His hand to big undertakings. Because divine he will certainly cross the worlds dia- meter and come to us in incarnation. He will lay hold of world redemp- tions. He will have compassion on the multitude, heal disease, cast out l demons, raise the dead He will bring back the lost hope of the world. He will because of what He 1 is as the image and representative of | God, take hold of the big task of saw | ing a world. He will lay the world
 redeemed at the feet of God. He will offer universal amnesty and gran; 1 forgiveness to the unworthiest. His | greatness carries with it the assur- | ance of salvation to every believing | man. We begin at the wrong end to | prove the Gospel. Begin with God l and the Person of Jesus Christ and | all that is great in hope and possi- 1 bility for us is assured
 3. Then the law applies to all in- | termediary orders of existence. Hi.
 great angels are ministering spirits 1 taking great offices to the saints c.
 God, to the great and to the lowly, tc
 patriarchs and prophets but to pris- oners and peasants and to. little chil- dren, rejoicing over the one sinner 1 that repenteth.
 4. Then if this is the law of al higher orders of beings it must be for us. Men once thought sreat ] power and possessions warranted ex- elusive and inclusive prerogatives
 But we have been recently learning l that these superiorities thrusts ser vantship upon us. We are just now
 demanding of the supreme spirits o tlcH race a IreIne0UcuS output OI ser | vice. We are looking for grea | statesmen who will serve, grea 1 thinkers who will lead and safely guide. rich men who will accept stew. 1 ardship. great personalities in work who will put out every atom of thei i strength for the universal wellbeinl | who will serve their age and pro. | ject long req ching shadows into tn
 future. In proportion to our endew
 ment or sway of power or inhuehc
 rises the scale of responsibility-unt
 whom much Is given shall much b.
 required. We cannot pose and ali
 our selfish coneeits. We are n \ stalking personalities. lording it owe
 less endowed men. That sort Of thin
 is an anachronism now. We canno take our imas asinary superiorities an
 rail at the common folk and consig them to the Philistine category. W have got to put ourselves at the com
 mand of the disadvantages. You hay
 excess of culture or power or infu
 ence, then. great things are expecte of you. Not homage and tribute ar
 we born for, but for sacrifice, fs ] ' witness bearing to the truth.