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?r t ' A SERMON FOR SUNDAY > ' '} * AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY THE REV. D. D. MacLAURlN. Subject: Love and the Vision of God?Love is the Only Interpreter of the Kingdom of Heaven, of All the Spiritualities? : The Kiddle of Sejt. Bkookly??, N. Y.?Sunday morning, in St. John's M. E. Church, the Rev. Dr. Donald D. MacLaurin, pastor of the Second Baptist Church, Rochester, preached to the united congregations the linal sermon in a series of eiglit on "The Greatest Thing in the World." His special subject was "Love and the Vision of God; or, the Eye That Sees All Wonders." The text * was from I Corinthians xiii:12: "For now we eee in a mirror, darkly, but then face tor-face." Dr. MacLaurin said: Love is the only interpreter of God. We taw last Sunday that to love only are divine revelations made, and that to perfect love omy can pcneci, uiviuc ui^iueum uv 3** made. The converse truth is equally valuable, namely: "That love is the only intergreter of God. of all in the kingdom of od. of all spiritualities. Nor must vou think that this is strange or arbitrary. We have sought in all our services to discover ~ the analogy between the laws of the spiritual realm and the laws with which we are familiar. You will find that this, namely: That love is the only interpreter, is part of the 'discipline of life in every direction, as v some one has well said: "Love sees farthest. hears quickest and feels deepest." Two illustrations of that proposition have been given; one with regard to the realm of nature. Let us say that two men are journeying through your ^ beautiful park; one sees the general conformation, the general outline of street and sweep of field and shimmering lake, and he notices that there are trees bordering the drives * and walks, but that is all. He has his eyes chiefly on the ground. He does not hear the birds; or, if he does, it is not to discern one songster from another. Now take the other. This man not only sees the general conformation of the landscape, the general plan of the artist who laid it out, ont he sees the trees, he sees, he dislanguishes one from another. He notes the flowers that spring; he notes not only 'the songster that sings, but he knows its ;life an<f story. He sees the shimmering 'pond and lake and the reflected overhangling foliage and is ministered to by them. ^ .'At the end of the journey the latter man lis enriched in his mind and heart. What ;has made the difference bet weep the two men? The one has been, and is, a lover | of nature. He is a student of nature bejcause he loves it. And-nature is kind; naiture knows her lovers, and so she makes ^ disclosures to him that the other man does Bt not get. . Two men visit the Metropolitan Museum of Art; and let me say to those who may .not have seen those art treasures, it is i worth a visit and much study. One of J these men hurries through it in a perfunc * Jtory way. O, he notices there are large pictures and small ones, but he has no I time for those little bits of paintings that 'adorn the walls. If there is a big gilt jframe on one of the pictures, he admires > itjjreatly, but it is a oore? and he hurries :OUt, and wonders why people find so much |in the art galleries of the world. The other man discovers in some small piece jthe product of a master, and he stands ;entranced before it for hours; and you jwiB see his eyes suffused with tears, and lit you notice you will see his lip is trerauilods. He pays no attention to the frame; i he sees the soul of the artist, and he is ... profoundly stirred. I have seen men all in. tears before, some masterpiece in the galleries of Europe: their soul finds the ; soul of the artist. They interpret him in ibis finest moods; they have come to know P* oucn men come nearest to interpreting the .Creator, Himself; for of all the sons *. [of mien none stand higher than the artist. I'Hewho can take a piece of raw materia), >a;,piece of ordinary canvas, and make it ; ripple like a river, make it roar like the mighty ocean, carrying a ship full rigged iupon its bosom; a man who can make it [blossom into a rose, or who can paint upon jit' & battle scene, preserving the heroism .and valor of. men; a man who can, by * : color, lay before you all that is beautiful, ; all * that is. divine in the world, surely .stands first' among the eons of God, and inearest to the Maker Himself in that he is" a ereator. f. - ^he lover of art sees this. To him these things are disclosed, while the man who [does not love sees little. The same is true "V 'between men. To whom do you disclose yourself? Who is able to interpret you? ;Tue man who hates you? Surely not. He is always misreading you, misinterpreting your motives. It is the man who loves ;y<m.' He interprets you, he knows you. - '!?o I think the proposition is justified ithat love is the only interpreter of God. .This brings me to the first point I desire, ;to bring to you this morning> namely, this: iThat there is a time in the life of every iman when he has no Vision of Qod ana spiritual realities. I wish you to mark * ithat,,. There is a time in the life of every *-5.V. t? ? -- ? ~e man wnea xie aau cu vimuu UI vruu auvc spiritualities. It covers &U that period jo? his life during which he is unregenerjate, when there is absolutely no vision of God and spiritual realities. The Apostle 'Paul will justify that assertion, for you jwill find him saying in this same epistle, * ;that "the natural man perceiveth not the jthings of the spirit of God, for they are i foolishness unto him, and he cannot know ithem because they are spiritually judged." (The natural man is not in th? realm hi , ;which he can interpret spiritual realities. \ This mysterious" force, in the organic (kingdom we call Hfe. Who knows the on[game kingdom we call life? Who knows fwhat it is? But we know it is there, and ^we know it weaves bodies in which it ' dwells; that it is a miracle and that it per. j forms miracles of transformation. We are ; acquainted: with. it. They would not caH 'jit a miracle wer? they to know what it is. i When life is busy, it is performing these j transformations, but the atom cannot unr Jderstand the results of life forces; they are {foolishness unto it. They are utterly con(trary to all it knowg-of the operation in its kingdom. ' 4 j +Now, do yadfcknow there isjanother king'dom? A. thim kingdom, which is above the organic and in which all higher life j jforccs dwell; a third kingdom whose force 'is the spirit of the living God. And until :a man has come into the life of that king ;dom everything that we say transput in it is foolishness to him in the natural ^ jkingdom, jnst as Paul says, 'Tor the uat< iwal man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God, for thev are foolishness unto jhjjn, and he cannot know them, for they spiritually judged." He has not enjtered that third kingdom. He does not ;km>w its law. He does not underst nd its iphenomena; in fact, he does not see them, i [Which things? "Eye hath not seen, nor i ; ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things"?What things. Paul? "The things that God has prepared for them that love Him." So there is a tltae when there is absolutely no vision of ^ -God, and no vision of spiritual realities, 1 jand it is vastly valuable that men both in jthe church and out of it shall recognize 'that great fact. Had men out of the church discovered that great fact, they .would have been saved from many failures, as Bobby Burns in another connection * says: "It wad frae mony a bluder free us, and foolish notion." Not until a man has been touched by the finger of God will his ears be opened to the harmonies of the third kingdom: not until his eyes have had the vision of that kingdom and his heart made capable i v of receiving that kingdom?not until these transformations have come to hire, can a man know spiritual realities at all. So Iaffirm that there is a time in the life of every man when there is absolutely no vis \ * I ? ion of God and no vision of spiritual realities. Let me now notice in the second place that there is a time when the vision of God and spiritual realities is enigmatical, "for now we see in a mirror darkly." That word "darkly" is a translation of a Greek phrase meaning, "in a riddle " and thus you, who have a revised Bible, will find that the phrase "in a riddle" is placed in the margin, for what Paul meant is this. "For now we see in a mirror, in a riddle." Of course, they did not have the mirrors which we have now in the apostolic age. Him forevermore. Beloved, we will never all meet together here, but we may all meet together yonder. We will never all 6ee each other, therefore, here. Let us so live that we shall all see each other yonder, when we have come up, like Him, to meet the hosts out of great tribulations, it may be, having our robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb. Till then, good-bye. That which they had was a metal polished on one surface; sometimes of silver, but usually it was a round piece of metal pol ished as well as they could do it, to which was attached a handle. Now, you can see such a mirror would not reflect clearly, as our splendid mirrors do, the images that were before it. Now it is that furnished the Apostle Paul with this striking illustration: "For now we see in a mirror, in f. riddle." Why, the gospel itself, is as a camera obscura, in which we see reflected the things of eternity. What we see is not the thing itself, but only the reflection of it. What we see cannot be the thing itseif. but only the reflection of it. That is what the gospel is. The fourfold gospel does not give us the living Christ; it only gives the image of the living Christ. It is imperfect in so far as man has had part in it, and in so far as the reflector will give only an imperfect image of the reality, and we must never forget the fact that what we are looking upon in spiritual things is not the objects themselves, but only the reflections. Nor must we forget that the definition is made enigmatic, that the objects look like riddles to U3 also, because the eye of the soul has not a clear vision. What we see, depends on what our heart is. How often we are troubled by the mists and fogs that arise from the lower levels of our own lives. How often you and I know what it is to be lost in the fogs that settle down upon us as the racing yachts were lost the other day in their final reach for the goal; utterly lost, hidden themselves and bidden from all about them; and like the challenger, we are apt to get out or our course and lose time in the race for the goal. So we must not forget that both the mirr'or and the eye that sees contribute toward the enigmas of our life and the enigmas that surround lis. ** Let us look for a moment or two at life's riddles &3 they relate to God Himself. Now, I have a deal of sympathy for the multitudes of men who find it hard to see God. They hear from the pulpit of "God's omniscience, His omnipresence, His eternity. He fills immensity, God is spirit." Now, what sort of an idea can a man get from these descriptions of the Eternal? And he hears, "You must love God," that the sum total of the gospel in a word, so far as duty is concerned, is this, "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind." And he 6ays to us. "How can I love Him? He is inconceivable to me. I cannot form an image of Him. I cannot see Him to know Him, to love Him." Now God understands this a heap better than many theologians do. So He said, the "Utterance of God," the Word, shall come into human relations; He shall take on Him. the nature of man; He shall descend the ladder of divinity, emptying Himself, until He reaches the uwer rungs of humanity, until He shall move in the valley of human life so that men can touch Him, so that men can hear His voice, so that men can look upon His face ana in hearing Him and in touching Him and in seeing Him, they shall hear and touch and see the living God. God cannot be seen by any eye: there is no mirror large enough to reflect Him, and even in that which is "the express image of His 'person," the Christ I have been talking aoout, we nave Deen seeing, as x said only a moment ago, only the reflection of Him. We do not see Jesus; we onlysee the image of Jesus in this fourfold or fivefold mirror, the New Testament. I am saying this in order to relieve skeptic minds of real difficulties. I am saying this to relieve Christians of-real difficulties. The one thing we need to cultivate above all else is sincerity. We should not say that we see God when we do not. We should not pretend to have larger visions than we possess. When it is impossible for us to have a clean, clear cut definition, we should simply wait and realize with the Apostle Paid that what we see is really in a mirror, and "makes it look like riddles to us very often. We are puzzled over the mystery of the incarnation. How could God come down and clothe Himself in an infant of days. Our unenlightened friends are trying hard to eliminate the miracle of the incarnation from theology. They had better realize their limits; there are lines m the image we cannot understand. The mystery of the Trinity. Who can comprehend that august doctrine? We must simply wait. There are so many things we cannot compass that if we try to we shall find ourselves hopelessly landed in the fogs. We just want to remember that what we have, even in the Bible, is only a mirror in which we seev as only in a riddle, the realities. Nov let ns notice again life's riddles as they relate themselves to ourselves. What strange creatures we are. What strange things you and I sometimes do! How un-j accountably we sometimes act! What rid-1 dies we are to ourselves! Can yon under-1 stand why you took a given course the i other day? You step aside from your own ideals and your own predeterminations, as to what your career should be. Can you understand why you said those things the other day? Why you were so blind as to do those things? How often men have said to me, "I cannot understand myself; I do not understand why I did that thing. Why, really, I cannot explain it.? You eannot, unsaved person, you cannot explain why you remain in a state of alienation from God. If what the Bible says is true, there is pending over you an endless hell, or there is availing for yoa an endless life of bliss. Now, would you not think that such alternatives, "a kingdom or. wrath," open 4o you, you would settle the great question? Why, some of you have lived for sixty years with the greatest problem in the universe still unsolved. It has been my privilege to deal with a great many men who had lived until they were thirty or forty or fifty years old, and many of tnem have eaid, I cannot understand why I did not yield before. What riddles we are to ourselves! How strangely we act! How often men fail in their strongest point! Why, you would say, for instance, that an Elijah would neyer be found a quaking coward, whining under a juniper tree; a man who could defy the king and, ] iT-Viaf ia v/tra* rfpfr th#? voman. the wife of the kins, falling down and asking that I he might die. Elijah is not the only one. Some men that yon know have failed, when j they failed, in their very strongest point.1 Wh&t an enigma we are to ourselves. Who can understand himself? I would give more to know my own self than ajl else beside, save God and Jesus Christ. But look at the enigma of so many lives. Take, for instance, the problem of personal suffering. Why is it that there is so much j suffering? Why is it that some of the best people are crucified so awfully? Why is it that some of the most refined souls have the arrows driven furthest into their quivering hearts? Do you know why? Can you explain it? Can you explain the reverses that come, and come to the very best of people? Do you know why some of the noblest of men and women are reduced from comfort, from affluence, through the meanness of their own children or through the rascality of trusted friends, to almost pei??rv? I know a woman of a refined, sensitive ] " spirit, who has been for more than a third of a century crucified to a wooden man. j Some preacher, of course herself consent- i . ing, more tlian a third of a century united ' ' her to that wooden man. I am not draw- I ing upon my imagination; I have them rignt in my mind; I know them. Not only a blockhead of a man, but a man with a wooden heart. Just the opposite of his wife in her aspirations, refinement and sensitiveness. It was hard for me all the 1 time I knew them not to despise him as I i would a dog, and I think the only son and daughter aid almost despise their own i father as they would despise a cur. Now, ] why was that woman crucified to that , man? 3 Here is a young woman with two or 1 three bairnies, wee bits of toddling things, < clinging to her skirts, and that man is stricken down in the prime of manhood just when he is needed. How can we talk 1 of the .consolation of the gospel in such a case. I have not spoken at funerals for ' years; I only read the word of God and try to pray, bearing up to God the hearts , '? ' e T ?:vi 4. tn3x are oeiore me. x v.ni uut itucmpii y explain what is inexplicable to mvself. ' All I can say is what Jesus said, ''What I 1 do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt i understand hereafter." And behind that I stand, waiting. It is mockery to under- < take to explain to the soul in such a posi- < tioa the enigma that appals and over- i whelms her. I said a moment ago. for I must not leave i you under a dark cloud; I said a moment ago. of this woman who was crucified f >r thirty years, that she was one of the saint- ^ 1 liest and noblest women I have ever known. and what I have said of her is true. . One of the most faithful in the church, loyal to the pastor, foremost in missionary 1 work and one of the most noble souls I knew, and I am not sure but tnat there is the relation of cause and effect. Is not ! that, wooden man the cause of the beauty i of her character? Has not his imperfec- ] tion of nature, his coarseness, driven that soul to communion with .Him who is the ' chief among ten thousand and the One altogether lovely? And has not her contact . with His transformed her into His likeness. whom she loves, not having seen? 1 Mav it not be that we grow in spite of , I our weights, and that these deprivations, these afflictions, this hard disposition, if 1 i you please, may it not be that they are 1 weights intended to develop us into the j larger manhood and the greater nobilities of the soul? Look at Jesus Christ. The I story in brief is the incarnation, is the j ministry, is Gethsemane, is the cross, is I the grave. Would Jesus ever have become i the world's Saviour had He not known i Gethsemane and the agony of the cross? , Could He have touched the heart, the sore heart of the world, had He not gotten 1 down to the very lowest depths and felt again and again the iron in His sensitive soul? 1 ' ft may be, fellow sufferer, it may be gentle woman, that your deprivation, that j ( 1 your losses, your heart disappointments j will minister to your transformation and to your final exultation, until you shall i be in spirtiual stature able to stand even shoulder to shoulder with the Man who was acquainted with sorrows and griefs. Now, in conclusion, there is a time coming when we shall have the perfect vision. "For now we see in a mirror darkly, but j then face to face." , < A young girl fifteen years of age, a laughter loving, happy Christian^ girl, was suddenly thrown upon a bed of severe sickness; indeed, all one side was totally paralvzed and she was stricken into almost total blindness. Her family physician, after making a very careful examination, said to the sorrowing friends. ,"She has seen her best days, poor child." And this laughter loving roaia responded, "Doctor, now that * * * */* AAmo trlion I is not true; my dcbi. ua?? aic w wu.*. . . I shall see the King in His beauty/' And 60, beloved, our best days are to come. Your best days and mine, the days when all the mists have rolled away, when all the douds have been dissipated by the shining of His face, the day when all the enigmas of life shall be solved, the day when we shall see the King in His beauty. Joan says. "Beloved, bow are we the |. children of God, and it is not yet made j manifest what we shall be." We know that if He shaH be manifested we shall be ! like Him, .for we shall see Him even as He j is. You. and I to be like Him who needeth : not to be told about man, for He knew j what was in man. You and I to be like Hhj^ who was independent of gravity, of : all -material substances and forces? You I and I to be like Him who on the Mount of j Transfiguration shone so that the disciples were dazzled even of the splendor of His garments? You and I to be like Him whom John saw in that divine tbeopany i recorded in the last book of the Brble, von- ! der in glory. Yon and I to be like Him i who has overcome and is now sitting on I the throne of the universe. That is what j He has said. "He that overcometh will I ! rive to sit with Me on My throne, even as ! I also overcame and am sat down with My I Father on His throne." We shall seejHim. j We shall see Him face to faee. rsverv ( problem will be solved. We shall be wifli : Him forerennore. I Beloved, we will never all meet together { her#, but we may all meet together yon- ! der. We will never all see eaeh other, ! therefore, here. Let us so live that we ! shall all see each other yonder, when we ; have eome np, Kir# Him, to meet the hosts j out of great tribulations, it may be, having . our robes washed and made white in the j blood of the Lamb. Till then, good-bye. j Truth. | Many men are false who never tell lies ! in the ordinary acceptation of that term, i Their whole life may be a lie, they may never breathe anything but falsehood, and yet they could defy the judges of the land to ?oavict them upon the charge of ever j having told a lie. Truth is a matter of the inward parts; truth relates to spirit, purpose, what we would do if we could; and no man knows what he would do if he could. We axe the victims of our own ignorance; we cannot measure ourselves. A man shall say, "I know I should never do that." He may be talking the language of a fool; the adequate temptation has never assailed him, he has never been locked within the environment which means failing in that particular direction. Truthfula matter of tone as well as a matter , of words; vocal color may tell a lie without j the words themselves being false. What is truth? That is the old and ever-present and deeply penetrating question. Men laugh lies, shrug lies, attitudinize lies, sugcest hea. A man may tell lies to himself, i Where is this perfect man who needs no gospel, no divinity of ministry, no appeal ! from neaven, no tragic cross? ? Joseph Parker. Alone "With God. Your life and mine, the life of every man and every woman, however different they are from one another, they are all in Him. In Him there is the perfeotness of every occupation; the perfect trading, the perfect housekeeping, the perfect handicraft, the perfect school teaching, they are all in Him. In Him lay the completeness of that incomplete act which you did yesterday. In Him lay the possible holiness of that which you made actual sin. In Him lies the absolute nuritv and loftiness of that worship which we this morning have stained so with impurity and baseness. To 20 to Him and get the perfect idea of life, and of every action of life, and j and then to go forth, and bv His strength ' fulfil it, that is the New Testament con ception of a strong, successful life. How ! simple and how glorious it is!?Phillips ; Oar Daily Life. A few people live their lives like a novel, knowing that every chapter has a bearing on the wheels and that a continuous thread runs through all. But most of us pass our days as if we thought them a volume of short stories, which nave not necessarily any connection with each other.? James Weber Linn. . : \ ;,'A i ;; FWENTY-SEVEN BURNED. [< talian Railroad Hands Meet Horrible ^ Death in Fire Which Destroyed Shanty Wherein They Slept. | While more than a hundred Italian ^ aborers were asleep in a shanty near . -illy, Pa., on the Pennsylvania rail- J *oad, early Saturday mcrning, the J juilding caught fire and before the ! foreigners could escape at least twen- j :y-seven were burned to death and a j jcore or more seriously injured. 3 The men were employed by contrac- j ors on the Pennsylvania railroad im- j provement between Lilly and Portage, j rhere were 500 men on the job, all j Italians, and in the shanty which j burned were 125 of these. The shanty j svas about 100 feet long, one story in j height. Onfe md was used for cooking * ind eating, at the other end the men | slept in bunks, which were crowded. < There was only one door at each end, j and the windows were few and small. J The fire is supposed to have started J from an overheated stove. The build- < :ng burned like tinder and the flames < were upon the men before any of them < were aroused. J Then began a struggle for the out- J side and for life. They fought and J scrambled for the doors, the weaker i being crushed down and trampled. < Jthers were roasted to death. < Those who strove for the door were j in the wildest sort of panic. They J fought and kicked, and among those ! who escaped there are many who bear < marks of the fierce struggle which < took place. A few got out of the small ; windows minus clothing and with their bodies cut from broken glass. Many of those who did manage to get out had their savings of years in their trunks which they left behind, in the building. Remembering this as soon as they got outside, they fought just as fiercely to get back. A few succeeded, but for the sake of their money they gave up their lives. An eye-witness says he does not bolieve | that a single man of those who return-1 ed succeeded in getting out again. In the ruins some of the corpses were close beside the hooped bands of their trunks, and melted gold and silver which had been kept in those receptacles indicated that they had fallen and died with their treasure in their arms. The bodies were all practically burned beyond recognition. SOUTH'S GREAT STAPLE. Averages Sum of One Million Dollars Per Day the Year Round. Two millions of dollars a day is a snug sum for the total receipts from i the sale of a single agricultural pro- ] duct in a single country, even such a country as the United States, says < the Atlanta Constitution's Washington j correspondent. This is the figure i shown by the department of commerce ' and labor, through its bureau of sta- ; tistics, as the value of cotton exported : from the United States in the month : of October, 1903. 1?? ( The preliminary statement of the bureau for the month of October shows the value of cotton exported in the 1 month of October to be $60,283,412, : against $42,000,000 in October, 1902; $46,000,000 in October, 1901, and $60,474,437 in October, 1900. The total quantity exported in October, 1903, as shown by this preliminary statement, was 594,540,872 pounds, being an average price of 10.1 cents per pound. This figure of $60,000,000 receipts for cotton in a single month is not | equaled in the hstory of cotton exports except in the month of October, 1900, when the total value of cotton exported was $60,474,437. Even the figures of $60,283,412 for the month of October, 1903, are subject to a slight prospective Increase, as this preliminary ofatemont nf tho hnroan nf fltattatfCK does not include the figures of certain distant ports, through which small quantities are exported. It should not be understood from the i above statement that the value of cot- j ton exports of the United States averages $2,000,000 per day the year round, although they have averaged $2,000,000 per day during the month of October. Taking the entire year, it may be said, however, that the value of cotton exports now averages $1,000,000 per day for each business day of "the year. ASSIGNEES TAKE CHARGE. "\ a- - 'r, * Investigation of Camden Bank Rfveate Making of Unjudicious Leans. | J After an investigation into the affairs of the Farmers' and Merchants' bank, of Camden, S. C., the trouble as was suspected, pointed to injudicious loans. A meeting of directors w$s held Wednesday morning, at which !t was decided to make an assignment of all the property, securities and credits of the bank to E. S. Vaux and A. D. Kennedy. | A deed of assignment was executed at once and the assignees have as- ! ftumed charge of the bank's affair*. { ? | , FOUR PEOPLE CREMATED. Two Men, Woman and Child Lose Life In Burning of Home. j A dispatch from Luverne, Ala., says: Pobe Brooks, his wife and child and an unknown man, were cremated oy a fire which destroyed the Brooks residence Wednesday night. The charred remains of the four per- ! son were found Thursday morning. It is thought no foul play was done, but the coroner win investigate. " - . - SISTERSOI (Jse Pe-ru-na for C( and Catarrh?A Con In every country of the civilized world Sisters of Charity are known. Not oply ! do they minister to the spiritual and intellectual needs of the charges committed to ; their care, but they also minister to their ' bodily needs. With so many children to take care of and to protect from climate and disease, these wise and prudent Sisters have found Peruna a never failing safeguard. Dr. Hartman receives many letters from Catholic Sisters from all over the United States. A recommend recently received trom a Catholic institution in Detroit, \firh rpaHs as follows: Dr. & B. 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