The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1872-03-01


words. When 1 study human ms.
ture as I find it to-day, I eannot de.
ny that God still mauifests himself
and still speaks many words for the
salvation of humanity. 1 am com.
PEELED to accept the divinity of man.
kind, to call all men Sons of God.
CONTIGUOUS, Zoroaster, Plato Bud
dha, are Sons. 1 am, however, no
Confucian, Magian, Platonist, Bud
dhist, or Free Religionist, because
none of the leaders of these great
bodies of believers can lay claim to
the title or position of The Son OF
God. / am a Christian, l believe
that Christianity contains q full re-
violation and that Jesus fulfills the
lack of other religious teachers.
Oother Sons of God caught a par
tial view of the All-Father, who
wells in all, both to will and to do,
to Jesus was granted fnll vision.
Other prophets were imperfect,
Jesus was perfect. Others were
partially united to God, Jesus was
one with the Father. Others had
an imperfect trust in God, Jesus
showed perfect trust. In short,
God gave to others the. spirit by
measure, to Jesus without measure.
The language used by Trinitarians
differs from mine, only so far as 1t
is mystical and impossible to un-
derstand. say all that they do
and more. Unit0rtantsns includes
Orthodoxy.
am called q radical, but not on
the point of the Divinity of Jesus
can this charge be sustained. l ac-
cept Jesus as an ever present friend
and Savior, such by the power of
God. I trust for my salvation to
the love of God, which Jesus re-
vealed. l try to keep the COM
nnandment given by my Divine
Master, ''That Ye love one another"
In the cross OF Christ gt0Tys
Towering DER the wrecks Of time,
as the radical Bowrlng sung. What
Jesus commands I will do, what he
teaches I viii accept, but 1 protest
against adding to his words. Hove
Jesus, the Divine man, sent by the
Father to find the lost sheep and re-
store them to the Fathers fold.
Him 1 receive as my Teacher,
Guide, Example and Savior. And
were 1 the only one who accepted
the Divine Humanity, would cling
20 that saving faith, so long as God
permitted me to remain on the
earth.
Jesus is indeed The Son of God,
the divine truth speaker, whose
words are for the healing of the
nations, so far is he above all other
men, no wonder they confound
him with God; yet was he ever
careful to refuse the worship due
only to God the Father. The
churches have sadly forgotten God,
whom Jesus came to reveal, the
one only true God, and have wan
dered far from eternal life, inasmuch
as they know only the man. whom
God sent, and not the sender.
In declaring that Jesus is God,
we lose altogether the dicine broth
e., our example, our comfort, our
guide; no longer do we haye a way
and a life, which we are to follow
and make our own. They have
taken away our Lord and we know
not where to find him; they have
the New Testament of all
its meaning-the death on the cross
tho temptation-the agony-the
T surrection, are but shifting scenes
in melodrama, mere theatrical
And worse, they
have also taken away God, "Our
Father" as Jesus taught us to pray.
He who loved the world, and sent
his Son Jesus to reconcile it to
himself, no longer exists, and we
are indeed without God in the
world. If this theory be true, we
have lost that One God invisible,
omnipresent, omniscient, ALLOWING
and that SGeEOr, human and love-
able. We will never submit to this
loss, but with the Apostles will
God our Father, and fol-
low Jesus our brother and Savior.