IN LOFTIER VEIN

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 4385, 13 March 1909, Page 1

IN LOFTIER VEIN

■ -rJi. x THE MYSTERY OF SORROW . • .. i|||H God often lays the sum of his a amazing providence in very' | dismal afflictions, as the limnei 1 % | first puts on the dusk colours, || I on which he intends to draw the portraiture of some illustrious if ' beauty.—Author unknown.

THE SUPREME REVELA- M TIOIST

I only ask, has the Lord • '|| Jesus Christ been so revealed iu I you that it is no forced figure of | speech tc say that He has been “ glorified ? ” Has He been so | shown to the eyesight of the inner man as the Lamb of Calvary that you not only hold ; (as it is so good to hold) the clearest mental convictions about j| Justification by faith, as our Second and Eleventh Articles put that great truth, but that the Crucified, the Shedder of the justifying blood, is the adored and beloved of your awakened and confiding soul ? Has He been shown within you as the Son of the Fathers | bosom, that you not only reject *if| with fullest intellectual con- %| viction the misbeliefs of a Sabellius, an Arius, or a Socinus, '|| in their oldest or their most ■ 3 modern phases, but that your spirit does indeed “Kiss the Son ” with the deepest homage of worshipping love, responding iu sweet harmony.to the voice | out of the bright cloud, “ This is My beloved Son.”—Rev. H. C. G. Moule. H