The Fayette falcon. (Somerville, Tenn.) 190?-current, 1921-02-04

one God, as IN
the religion Of the
hindoos, but three persons. each d'N-
tinct from the other two, and lf
bound to both by mutual bonds
Complementary life and love re'a' 70
| ships.
We grant there is mystery herr
where In this universe will We
counter no mysteryI When We
explain one of the manifold mys
that are locked up In single drt'
water. or in one beam of light
will then demand an explanatieI
this, the profoundest mystery ol
the tri-unlty of the one Godhead,
So. let II be repeated, We have h'r''
fact OF revelation, and OF the tiit-
tian revelation. mind You, n 49,
which, while not opposed TO reason.
nevertheless transcends reason. Sci
ence unalded never could have dis-
covered It; and yet when once the
fact Is revealed 10, even science comes
laden with presumptive evidence from
myriad sources; and not only So but
the artist from his palette. and the
musician from his keys. all OF them
come bearing united testimony that
underneath all the phenomena Of ma
ture, as well as all the harmOnies OF
both light and sound. lies the number
three.
Every schoolbody knows how with
three primary eolors-red, yellow and
blue-he can make any other COLOR
Indeed, every imaginable tint or hue
in the universe is but The blending of
these three undivided colors. And II
does not take long for the lnssie at
the piano stool to learn that all the
infinite range of possibilities In the
harmony of sound results from the
blending of three primary triads OF
notes. The scientist In his eager
search for unifying laws cannot gel
less than three categorles In which 10
cast all physical phenomena. These
three categ0rles are substance. form
and force. And how strihingfy suggest
i've these threei For what have we
In. substance but the Fatheri What
have we In form but the Son, who 10
the express image of the Fathers
substance (Heb. ~; and what have
We In force but the Spirit. by whose
power all effects In creation and re-
demption are wrought
Upon unbeliever's deaf ear OIL thess
voices fall In vain. Rejecting the rec
ord which God gave OF his Sons" un-
able to see in Jesus Christ more than
the son Of a peasant Of Galilec. the
faIthless nationalist sees In al these
shadowIngs OF the Triune God no
meaning whatsoever. With the eonse-
quence that he lands just where the
unitarian Moslem landed, In the Icy
polar region of loveless, fatalistie.
unl-personal God, within whose steel
grip all Is "klsmet' tfated): or es-
Gaping this lands at the other anti
pode Of un-personal pantheIsm. which
inevitably ends with the deifying Of
man: or failing these two. lapses into
blank atheism.
But faiths Spirit-illumined eyes see
the Deity Of Jesus Christ as neces-
sary--as necessary as form II 20 sub
stance and as substance Is TO force.
With this sixth sense the Christian
sees and hears all the universe VI
brant with praises Of the Triune God.
In our text three dlfferentiatlng
words qualify the three persons Of the
Triune God, which words. We shall see.
are as necessarily lnter-related as sub
stance, form and force. to which they
are also analogous
The grace Of the Lord Jesus
Christ" Grace Is the free bestow-
ment of unmerited favor. and grace
Is love embodied. Grace In the form
OF which love Is the substancei God
fthe Father) so loved the world that
He gave his only begotten Son" II 10
very significant that nearly every
where In the New Testament the love
OF Cod Is bound up with the cross
Of Cavalry. Herein ls love. not that
we loved God. but that God loved ~
and gave his Son to be the propitia-
tIon for our sins"-I John 1910. BY
this one act OF redemptIye grace. the
sin question was settled 20 far as the
sowing God was concerned. God 10
reconciled-be ye also recoociied. 20
God" Is the word Of our message.
But both the substance tlcvel and
the form Cgraeel In which iAe sub
stance was embodied are peveriess
unless there Is the communion Of the
Holy Spirit making effective n the
,ellever's heart sIi those bles-ed coe-
eQuences Of rednIptioz whssA wers
rrnught ont By the -grscvr % the
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