Year: 1873

relation to God, and the salvation of the Gospe
embraced mans return to and reunion with God.
Man, in his fall, lost the element OF divine love
and one might as well hope to 1--we out OF the snn
oi divine love- Salvation Involved mans s1e eemens
10 the divine likeness, and 1t was the love of (;oa
that changed him into the divine image. No indi-
vidual would be happy simply loving God sn
premeIy and being In harmony with Him. but
superadded to this there must be the conscious
iieving heart There was never greater mistaSe
than that local change would radically afrect hu.
man happiness One might be in heaven, as
place, and yet not be contented and happy for
happiness depended upon the internal state OF the
mind A man might change his theology every
not become Christlike The religion of the Bible
effected spiritual change In the human soul,
making its recipient one with God. Christ did


FURTHER HUMAN CIVILIZATION,


but His great mission was to bring wandering
souls back to the Father, and this was the grand
OF heaven. He did this by demonstrating Gods
love to man by incarnating himself in nesh, by q


life of toll and suffering, by deeds OF benevolence
and mercy, by the revelation he gave OF Gods
character. sublmated and crowned by his sacrifice
and Of dvne
NO matter now hostile or careless man might
be, Gods love had been following him all
him and bring him back to His favor and
TO His heaven. The point was elaborated with
elOquence tnat although the physical world showed
evidences OF Gods wisdom and goodness yet it also
gave indications OF His anger and vengeance, but
In Christ all the moral attributes and perections
OF Deity were so blended that they became pal
pable and attractive. They blazed through the
veil of His humanity in all their glory and majesty,
that the believer in Jesus gazing upon Him was
changed into the same blessed image by the Spirit
OF God. by the incarnation Christ came within the
ness. man could not take immensity by the
hand. but he could take Christ; man could not
love great abstraction but he could love such a
being as Christ cOuld m n n
sonal influence, but he could


CONVERSE WIFE THE SON OF MAN.


Men talked about cOmmuning with God in Nature;
but that was all poetry and sentimentalism. Until
mankind found personal God in Christ they could
could hold soul with Him Il IN tne worss
OF Nature. When the spiritual vision had been
opened, as the soul looked out upon God in His
beauti1ul world, he saw Him In every ray Of light,
heard His voice in the music of the natural world
and He became real being in conscious fellowship
and love. II there ever was land the beauty or
whose terrestrial and solar construction could
reveal the infinite 1t was Greece and yet 1t was in
Athens ,na oa an altar erected TO the
intellect OF SUFFICIENT keenness Of vision to


PIERCE THE CLOUD


ana grasp the Invisible, IL was the Grecian. II
Grecian culture could not find God He never would
be found by IT in any future period OF the worlds
history, ana Il the philosophy OF Socrates, Plato
searches OF intellectual men to do so would be
equally abortve. The preacher, In the further elu-
cidation OF his text showed the value OF Christ's
intercession for the world he mad redeemed He
lthe speaker) did not know the nature of the
Saviour's mtercession in It's Godward relation;
but in its manward relation 1t meant that the
work which Christ began on earth He had ascendcd
to heaven to complete, and that His spirit was
stantly lnterceding with men to induce them to
accept the provisions of His gospel. In conclusion,
Dr.. Chapman dilated with fervor upon the extent
OF the 'uttermost salvation" which Christ had pro-
vlded which included every man in the wide uni
verse. The blood OF Jesus cleansed from all sin,
and the gospel contemplated the glorious perfec-
t1on OF mans soul, spirit and body forever in q
world Of light and beauty and song.