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Ting y one IN which tie wh0l1
world II involved and each indi-
vidual II having . hard to haad
conflict with the great arch o.
envy.
RlDes Fren Growth q Meal2
.0reet questions arise out iron
the growth Of ideals.
| The world started with the tdea
Of each city being . government
!, distinct and separate within itself,
and through thousands Of year1 81
!. conquests these Ideals have de-
vel0ped until now W dream Of
. united world.
80 has every reform grown,
through suffering and sacrifice the
ideal has become larger, until In
action the word has been spelled
!: out-writtsn scfoss our horizon.
This has been Gods plan in de-
veloping all progress. So has It
been his plan in developing the ex-
! preston Thou art the Christ.
Now. Jesus was always in the
world. Just ~ much 20 a. light
rays. electricity, water power. soil
fertility and hundreds Of other
great manifestations Of Gods love
which We have not spelled Out as
yet.
Quotes John.
| Jesus said, Before Abraham was,
l am And John says. In the be-
ginning. was the Word and the
word was with God and the Word
was God. And the word be-
came flesh and dwelt among u.s.
I'VE understand that in the full
ness Of time he came. Not in the
fullness Of all time, but the time
was full for his manifestation.
The word had been spelled and
heaven pronounced it. And when
Peter said, Thou art the Christ,
Jesus said, My father told you
how to say it. Flesh and blood
hath not revealed this unto you;
but my father who is in heaven
LET us see II we can find the
word spelled out in the Old Tesla
ment. Jesus said upon one occa-
sion that it was found there. Paul
tells us that the pillar of fire at
night and the cloud by day that
led Israel also the rock that fu1n-
ished water, was Christ.
Jesus said, 'Ye search the
scriptures for in them ye think ye
have eternal life and these testify
Of me-
God Uses Perfect Characters,
Nov, when God spells he uses
perfect characters, so when the
word is spelled it is a perfect
word.
I'VE have a little alphabet with
which we make our words, but God
makes his words from a great al
phabet, for he has great words.
Possibly l have chosen the char
acters that some other would use
in spelling out some other word,
but this is permissible in any Ian
guage. Maybe others would pre-
fer to spell out the word Messiah,
or the Son Of God, or some other
title and thus use more characters,
If SO that is their privilege, for
am sure the characters are there,
but surely these spell Christ. You
may prefer to think that each one
Of these characters spell CHRIST
but these all had their faults, Jesus
had none. He stood before his en-
emies and challenged them to find
a fault in him. Abraham had his
faults, but not in faith, he did to
perfection the thing he was called
to do.
Joseph had faults, but he SUI
fered uncomplainingly.
Moses was perfect statesman,
unexcelled even to this day.
None Excel Christ.
Joshua the warrior, with his
hand of tent jewellers, Solomon the
king and counselor, and Isaiah, the
seer, may have had many faults
and no doubt they did, but in these
particular qualities they seem to
have reached almost to perfection.
Jesus was perfect in all these at
tributes, and in others as we'll.
The great outstanding character
fstic Of the Master was that of
love. and there is possibly no Old
Testament character to represent
this one Of the Lords virtues, un-
less 1t was found in a measure in
the life Of David. David certainly
reached on advanced position in
this particular virtue.
Let US notice some things re-
ferring to Abraham's faith, first in
Gen. IL: 1-3: Now the Lord had
said unto Abraham, get thee out Of
the country and from thy kindred,
sss And I will make Of thee q
great nation and I will bless thee,
$50 And I will bless them that
bless thee and curse them that
curseth thee: and in thee shall all
families of the earth. be blessed
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