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O NCE UPON A TIME many, many long centuries ago, a most wondrous Visitor came to this earth. This Visitor was the majestic Son of God, story of peerless love. He told of the greatest Lover of all times, God. He showed that the object of God’s love constituted the greatest host, even the entire world of humanity. He fully demonstrated the absolute sincerity and intense reality of this love by freely offering His life for the sins of the world on the cross of Calvary. He delighted, during His earthly sojourn, to speak of His Father’s love. Never a day went by but what that love was told and exhibited in compassion, in sym pathy, in comfort and in the healing touch. One day as He talked with an earnest inquirer, He seemed to reach forth and, as it were, gather the entire immense story of God’s love and God’s Gift, and condense it into one glorious sentence of twenty-five words. Truly this sentence is the greatest that ever fell upon human ears. Never was so much said in so little. It is the heart of the Gospel. It is the message of the Bible. No one but God could have spoken it. Millions of ser mons have been preached upon it. Multiplied millions of the sons of earth have found it balm to their ears and balm to their souls. Its letters are light, its words are love, its message is life! For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever belteveth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. FOR GOD... God loves us! So if there is to be a love story at all, it must start with God. The world is utterly incapable of love. Ever since that first terrible sin brought moral PAGE SIX
ruin to the race, man’s nature has been sinful, de graded, hateful. The world’s love is poisoned with lust, impurity and malice. In place of love’s true attributes there have come greed, selfishness and mistrust. To such a world dark in despair, comes this message of new hope. God loves us! Have you understood the greatness of the God who cares for you? It is none other than the Creator of the vast universe. It is He, who by the magnitude of His power, maintains all things. It is the God of intense holiness, before whom all the angels veil their faces. It is the God of all wisdom who knows the inmost secrets of men’s hearts. This God loves us. All of God’s works are perfect. He holds mighty Arcturus in his boundless course without a second’s 'loss of time. He imparts the unerring instinct to the honey bee. His love is perfect too. It is complete, understand ing, effectual. What comfort to the needy heart of humanity! What new hope for a world! Think of this, friends, God loves us. SO ... The wonderful story goes on to say that God not only loved us, but He so loved us. See this small word of two letters linking the dizzy heights of the third heaven to the depths of a lost world. It is conceiv able that God might have loved us just a little or that His mercy might have been feebly stirred to help us. But no, God’s love is infinite, boundless, incomparable. God so loved! Be honest now in your thinking. The world is un lovely. Sin, degradation, rebellion, unrighteousness are On every hand. Puny man would, if possible, crowd God out of His universe. He would rob Him of the honor which is rightfully His. Today man mocks at His T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
clothed for a time in human flesh. He came to live a
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