SERIOUS THOUGHTS.

Waikato Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1083, 28 October 1901, Page 4

SERIOUS THOUGHTS.

THIS KINGDOM. CTihist founded His Iviij l l m o i the n cssago, i ever heard I eforc. t hat God is the fill her of aU men, that he loved them from the he ainll i n ti, not on account of tin i ’ pcrfurma ices, I tit cut of His own Fiitlui'ly goodness and no. icy; that an eternal compassion is pmred upon the world: tint an eternal ’o c waehea over the turmoil of human love, as much as over the silliness of tie lonely hillside. This love flow a forth spontaneously, eternal and to all creatures. Ihe sins of men cannot stop it. It ‘ makt th its sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and uendeth its iaii o . the just as on the nnji si.’ No iiisiginH ance of oeiin; can he tun small for its oaio. U paints the lily, it feeds the niveii, it detcnninis llie fall of a spun on, and mimhers the veiy hairs of its children. This deep and Mider, this wide and sublime conception of God’s uatuie and wotk, none had cn oitained la fore Ihe Lord J sus. It was the secret He r. v a e 1 to the sons of men • The thought which from blunting custom, passes by to-day like a‘dull sound on the multitude, w s for that, world a word of c ialive p wer. * ‘And with a new lleav n there came a new ear.h. If lm Kmg'.om of God he a filial relation to God, then it is for men a kingdom of hrotln i llness. 1 ht'V a|o brothers tecum 1 iln-y have one I'ailni, and amo g them it is not law ami statute which piev.il, hut the commandment of love :oi a love which does n ore t l 'un is deni ruled. It yields the cloak at well as the coat, it goes two miles with him who rrejuires one, it forgives unto seventy times tevtu, and accu.es no one bu itself. And this love prevails, not. only among the members ot the covenant, or the rank, or the patty, Tim man is to be loved because he is a man, because he is a l rot her. . ■ • The deep glance of Jesus pierces beneath all the poor covering of rank, education, and social polish, to that which is purely human, and promises equally to king and peasant, to Brahmin and Patiah, to learned and stupid, the regeneration, the everlasting blesseduesa of the new life of love. ni Bishop Mooriiodse. it)