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January 12, 1910. THE PRESBYTERD
to many. After speaking of the trial of Professor
Briggs, which he thinks was undertaken to defeat revision,
he says: "But there is a calm satisfaction now
in looking back and in remembering that Professor
Briggs, who only sixteen years ago was considered
a heretic, is now a real conservative, because all of his
positions are now practically accepted generally and
the Church at large has grown up to and even beyond
anything that Dr. Briggs stood for in that earlier day."
Observer.
New York City, January I, 1910.
THE LOVE OF GOD.
The Holy Scriptures treat of no greater theme than
this?the love of God. They teach many beautiful and
precious truths about it, some of which are here set
down for the joy and profit of such as will meditate
upon them.
"Uod is love.7' As light and warmth stream forth
ceaselessly from the Sun, so love goes forth from God
since God is love. Because "God is love," "love is of
God."
"We love him, because he first loved us." The
stream of love flows from God to man, from heaven
to earth. God loved man, before man loved God.
"The love of Gd is shed abroad in our hearts by the
Holy Spirit which is given unto us." Not only did God
love man first; but man's ability to love God is divinely
bestowed. "A man can receive nothing, except it be
given him from heaven." "Every good gift and every
perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the
Father of lights."
"God commendeth his love toward us, in that while
we were yet sinners Christ died for us." "Is this the
manner of men, O Lord God?" "What wondrous love
is this, O, my soul!"
"Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he
loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our
sins." This is love, real love. In comparison with it,
nothing else is worthy to be called love: "For as the
heaven is high above the earth," so is his love higher
than any creature's love.
"God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten
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great love to our comprehension; but it is still beyond
us.
"For the love of God is broader than the measure of
man's mind,
And the heart of the Eternal is most wonderfully
kind."
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man
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measure the Lord has given us of "his great love
wherewith he loved us."
"Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love."
Then nothing, above or below, present or to come,
"shall be able to separate us from the love of God,
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
All things that are on earth shall wholly pass away,
Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye.
The forms of men shall be as they had never been;
And realms shall be dissolved, and empires be no more,
And they shall bow to death, who ruled from shore to shore;
And the great globe itself, so the holy writings tell,
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With the rolling firmament, where the starry armies dwell,
Shall melt with fervent heat?they shall all pass away,
Except the love of God, which shall live and last for aye."
"That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of
God. without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse
nation; among ye shine as lights In the world, holding
forth the word of life."
HIS PRAYER.
To wing a prayer that might arise
Beyond the circle of the skies,
Whate'er the flowing years had found
Of excellence that might redound
To magnify an honest praise,
He sought amid the vanished days.
And there was much,?the service given
To every cause approved of heaven;
The scorn of evil in the land;
The courage of a manly stand
For righteousness, and all that goes
To stem the world's abounding woes.
Of every purpose low and vain
There was the high and proud disdain;
A pity for the blot and blame
Which blasts full many a hapless name
When much there is of labor given
To meaner goals beneath the heaven.
It was a record to inspire
In other hearts a generous fire
Of emulation, and the race
Has none too many such to grace
The wondrous and the tragic page
Which tells the story of the age.
Yet when he stood beneath the blaze
Of the Eternal Righteousness, in ways
Our faltering tongues may scarcely tell,
Upon his soul this wisdom fell; ?
To match the heavenly grace, the thought
Of all our excellence is naught.
And so his prayer arose to heaven,
But not because of service given, r
Nor of the record purged of blame,
The lofty soul, the noble aim,
Nor yet, beneath the circling sun,
Of all the victories he had won.
?Benjamin C. Moomaw.
Ben, Va.
FORGETTING NECESSARY TO MEMORY.
Forgetting is as necessary to memory as is remembering.
We must forget before we can remember successfully.
If we remembered all that ever received the
attention of our senses, we should have to search
through too great a mass to find any particular memory.
In the fight for character, the problem how to
forget is an arntf* nnr? minfl-nictnrnc r\( '
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often hinder us. In a recent book there is a
suggestive chapter on "Medicated Memory," where we
are reminded of Bellamy's proposal to forget by removing
the brain-center involved. While the idea is
only a fanciful one, it suggests how real is the need.
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unless we learn to remember?remember the list of
"things of good repute" named by one who knew the
power of memory to bless as well as to haunt. Above
all, we must follow his counsel and "remember Jesus
Christ."?Sunday School Times.