Article August 20, 1904 Issue

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One finely says that the Gospels are only a page from the eternal diary of Christ. Open the Gospels and see. If he is ever the same, then there is no leper seeking cleansing but Christ says, "I will;" there is no hungering multitude but Christ uses the small store of his disciples to satisfy the many; there is no mourning at death but Christ says to the mourner, "Why weepest thou?" there is no group of playing children but Christ blesses them; there is no Simon bearing the cross but Christ bears the heavier part—and, lo, it is his own cross, not Simon's! We need not go back to other days to find him; we need not cross the seas to Palestine to be conscious of his presence; we need not ascend into heaven to bring him down from the place of his beatitude, or descend into the abyss to loose him from the bonds of death. This Word of God is nigh us, and abides faithful. We wake or sleep, we weep or rejoice, we are filled with the Spirit or are tempted and fall—but Jesus Christ does not change.—The Pacific Baptist.

The Boston Transcript quotes the following excerpt from the Baccalaureate address of President Raymond of Wesleyan University:—

"God has often been found in unexpected places. Moses found God in the desert while he guarded the sheep, and Jacob found God on his way to Padanaram to work and win his wife. The Scriptures warrant the belief that God speaks and reveals Himself in divers ways. The scientist who gives us a shorthand sketch of the orderliness of the universe, puts us in communication with God's thoughts and makes us co-workers with Him. The poet who lifts us to the plane of elevated emotions enables us to feel the presence that we can neither escape nor express. All declare that God works in us 'to will and to do.' The important thing is to be aware of this moral and spiritual relationship which we always sustain to God, but which in the highest results we have also to maintain."

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