Show GREAT PURPOSE IN fiOD'S LOVE Human Devotion Puny Beside That of the Master Lover HE SACRIFICED H HIS HS S SON The Rev P P. A A. A Simpkin Compares Com Corn Compares pares Human Love With That of Creator In a sermon that dealt with tho one ono supreme fact of ot the Christian religion as It Is summed In the life and aim I of Christ as narrated by John In his gospel Rev Rov P. P A. A Simpkin preached I upon the greatness of ot Gods God's lovo love and the Iho nature of ot Its ministry to men mOn sayIng sayIng say- say Ing In part As one who sho lives on tho the edge of ot that glorious chasm of the Colorado Into whose depths God seems seams to have e flung all the tue remnants of beauty with which he clothed the world for tor our Joy and In the thu use of at tho days becomes as heedless heed heed- less of ot the thc gorgeous beauty of ot form and color as ns though It were not not so Is the HIP age In Its outlook upon tho the most marvelous thing tiling In all aJl the flying centuries cen cen- the tunes the boundless love of God John In his gospel makes record of ot this word of ot Christ that thai God so ao loved the world that He Ic gave o his on only I begotten begot bogot- ten Son Ron that thai whosoever In Him should have everlasting e life Ute Contrasted with this all other loves seem small and their nobility Is dwarfed It Is the unique affection of ot the thc universe There Thero have been boon many unique and Inspiring examples of ot tile the hearts heart's devotion do in the worlds story the devotion do that we name lovo 10 Patriot ulI tain IM is Lute Love Passionately Passionate men have ha been hold by the bonds of or a a. beautiful affection I They have havo stood In In far tar cities and amid I tho tue roar roal of traffic have hove looked up with I wet eyes eos at a bit of muslin that I sp ko America The They have havo stooped to bury their faces Caces In the thc grasses of ot some spot that held th the charm of ot a afar atar atar tar far childhood and homo home They have ha dared dard the unbelievable In devotion t lo home and land The great lovers of ot Athens and Florence of ot Rome nome and the Empire sec seem m kin to us In our sensing of their patriotism But nut fine tIne and noble as they are ares worthy the thc hearts that live Jive In l t te o I fire of ot their utterances they shrink Into smallness compared with this of at the tho Master lover of or the world Even that divine thing thin we reverence re In mother love the love the Interpreting love love force force of ot the race is but a tin tiny miniature of this great rent passion lon of GollAnd God Goll And God only can bring men Into I touch and union with His own life everlasting ever ever- lasting as he Imparts to the surrendered surrendered surrendered sur sur- rendered will and heart His own self Surely tho the a ago age o has no more mire beautiful thing than th's thIs the the vision of ot the Easter of at all aU life giving Himself to the mm men of ot all the lands and all nil time In answer to the appeal which calls to Him In tho the trust of seedy and dying men who crave to lo share sharo the great Ireat boon of oC Ills His life given In fullness F. F |