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IV. Gop CAN BE LOVED. 
1. We can love as well as Believe. 
This omnipotent, omnipresent, eternal Mind, before Whom 
the very angels bow their faces, and Whom even to con- 
template is our delight, to us who have received the 
revelation of Jesus Christ is given the inexpressible privilege 
of loving. 
2. The Lovable Qualities of God. 
To us the Eternal is no mere abstract idea, that we should 
find it hard to give Him our hearts. Throughout His Word, 
in perfect harmony with the voice of Nature, He has revealed 
Himself as the source of all goodness, beauty, truth, strength, 
loving-kindness, pity, purity, light, love; of every virtue, of 
every excellence. To us He has spoken in tones suited to 
the apprehension of our race in its different stages, by the 
long array of psalmists and prophets; in their incomparable 
wor rds we have His message clothed with varying degrees of 
clearness. But, above all, we know Him in the Divine and 
Unique Person of J ests of Nazareth. “ He that hath seen Me 
hath seen the Father.” * God, who at sundry times and in divers 
manners spoke in times past unto the fathers ‘by the prophets, hath 
in these last days spoken unto us by His Son; Whom He hath 
appointed heir of all things; by Whom also He made the worlds : 
Who, being the br ightness of Mis glory and the express image of 
His Substance, and upholding all things by the word of [is Power, 
when He had by Himself purged our sins, sat down on the + ight 
hand of the Majesty on High.” 
The Revelation of God's Love. 
The Eternal as He revealed Himself to Moses, was, indeed, 
an object of the most exalted affection and the deepest 
Bey otlon: :—* The Lord passed by before him,” we are told, 
and proclaimed, “The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and 
gracious, long-suffering and abundant in goodness and truth, 
keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and trans- 
gression and sin.” The Eternal, as He is revealed in His 
Son, the Father of all Light and Love, is even more powerful 
to touch our hearts, because all can see and understand His 
incarnate truth and glory. It stirs in us an inexpressible 
motion to find that the lessons of the dread Creator of all 
