The dispatch-news. [volume] (Lexington, S.C.) 1919-2001, 1922-06-07

peror, not a chera6ss Faof a seraph, not
an angel, not wdrl but wept and
thrilled and shouted Oh, worlds in
sympathy with us. 8Our world the
silver runge of a great ladder at the
top of which is cur Fathers house.
No more stellar: soIltariness for our
world. No more planet span out into
thread to freeze, hut. a world in the
bosom of divine maternity star har-
messed to a nanger.
Iremark again, thateboTn 'hat night
in the village barn vas the offenders
hope. Some sernonizer fI2i-ht say,
you ought to have projected that
idea at the beginning OF the @ormon.
No. I wanted to lead o. Go to it.
wanted to show You the t,paz and
the emeralds, and the cornelians of
lesser beauty before @sod saw this
Kohinoor, this crownssewe Of the
ages. All! this jewel had a very poor
setting. Out Of fear IS born amid
the grand old pillars of the forest
Whelp Of lion coming fron the jungle
takes it's first step on Iuxuria ut leaf,
and wild flower, .kid Of goat is born
in cavern chandelieredSWith stalactite
and pillared with stalagaalte; but
Christ born in the naaages And yet
from that nativity coanesStIle offend
er's home. Over the door of heaven
were written the words.saad are writ
ten the words now: None but the
sinless can enter iaeres, "Ah," you
say, that is a great horror. for our
souls, then none OF usAean enter if
none but the sinless But ! have to
tell you that Christ cane into one
door and He went out the other door
of the world; He can1ainto the door
of the manger ane he went out
through the door Of the sepulchre.
His one business was jossaash Us from
sin SO thoroughly that one second af-
ter we are dead we.wilfaa TO more
sin about US than thersisia about the
eternal God. You say that IS putting
the case very strongly issnoW it is,
but that is what. :u1asrstand about
full remission-an erased al washed
away, ali secured out. alngene u. That
under-girding and oVer-a1ehing and
irradiating and unpasaasng oppor-
tunity for you and forssas Was born
that night in the Bethfehssn ca ravan-
sary. Do you wonder thea that we
bring the flowers? Doyou wonder
then that we bring tie faassee Do you
wonder that Raphael sast an ~ t5a nd
Rubens and Cato and Ghaanjo, and
all the German and ItaHea masters
with their naightiest stroke sketched
the Madonna, Mary and ksgoey? Now
I understand what the rnanser was.
Higher than the unpearlsd cradle of
the Henrys of England, shssa.o1 1ises of
France, the Fredericks Prussia.
Now out of this RethtehsSas CRIB not
Sd much feed the oxen ossss stall or
the whtteI horses of apoea vision:
Now the swaddling. clothese essarge and
emblazon until they beeoals ss1 robes
of. conaueror NOW i aina b 81 the
ssar that shone that lilsais was only
the dsamonded sandal who
raoon md Ter ms Now
y find that the. song bat snaght was
not the complete song. 81 g@, the
stringing Of the instruments for "a
chorus of two worlds, the bass car
ried by earthly nations sacred the.
soprano carried by kingdoms Of glory
won. And all that heaven made Dos
sible. to US through the birth. the suf-
ferings and the death OF the Son of
God. I shall meet you there on
brighter Christmas Day than this. 1
took this morRding i through the dim
distance, and I - lock ST shgoaggs2 Z s2gs2 the fog
banks over the ariyer ysS ii I2rsaaa 2cssa 3aas l.
look; this. morning ! threugh2 gh2y Ills Ia dim Fr
solid pearl, and I sse oQr re'i'si qlnss qlnsss
Oh, what / high: eoRvsssEsssz R,vsss zSs} g9o asd d y
will have over sin pssr02sHsds "a oVek,
sorrow connforted, and over battles
fought. How then we will talk over
manger ~ s' and oyer ~crsss am Going
there, am going to take all my fam
lily with me. I am going 10 take all
my church with me-. / an. going to
take all my trends with NE if / an:
I am going to call you to enter the
Kingdom of God and be ready for it.
1 am going to push you in, ] an: by,
holy stratagem going to surprise YOU
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