New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-06-07

They are different every hour OF their lives because OF
inspired and taken Of them and that person
atty Jesus o. nazareth has some way been With VIII
thein and they what they are because or IT, fe'
with Jesus does produce T Soes now
There ia contaeon about Ills nature which propagates
His likeness There Ia that In ns character oss w do
sy i Se ccd on to do it. Intimacy with
Him is established The ruggedest natures wiz blossom
on something Of Is strength II ls intimate with
Jesus the world will take knowledge OF the fact ana VIII
Note now the testimony which such influences pro-
ceedng Jesus afford OF the DIVINITY OF lis person
onnse Win h C fr Il have ave Nothing
quality OF that personality, which has so wrought upon
s ns or Of Howard just as might
Socrates. or OF Aqunas or any other @ @ sc
merely human conception OF Christ satisfy the facts in
the Can such influences as have proceeded from
Think OF 1t moment. We have doubtless In history
ceedng from human sources There is power in mere
human nature strongly and asngly to impress itself on
to living contact The influence OF great man lives
after him: 1t lives sometimes IN hls books these en-
reneration so Plato down u.s. so Shakespeare
The best of them survives to influence men sun hves
ramids, Michael Angelo in ST. Peters George washington
In American independence. George Peabody IN lodging
But when we have gone the utmost that we may, In
recognizing the Influence Of Ian upon man, ana ma IN
gain through printed book or monumental deed, sun
have thing which approaches even an explanation
of the peculiar and mighty influence OF the Man OF
Nazareth on human souls Consider the duration of that
influence. 1t seems to be the destiny OF all merely
human influence to wane away with the process OF time
IL may indeed last long, but decay crecps over it. Men
feel s a|a Hs It az S and
1t a thousand or eighteen hundred years ago 1t
deeply and transforms them as completely
as then 1t lives perennial in power Or consider its
universally Human influence runs in special channels
Scholars affect scholars; phos0pic minds Affect minds
of kindred tendency But the influence OF Jesus in not
confined TO channel 1t does not take hold on one
class rather than another II Is not the educated, as
suc who feel it. 1t is not the uneducatod 1t not the
the rich poor. 1t is not the jewellers In tenn
perate chimes, nor yet the dweilers IN equatorial Vt
men moral But it is precisely this most
difficult Of all changes-moral cEange-wmch Jesus Is
ences inefficient, His influence is most effective
remark last suggestion Of the incident which has
afforded US our topic today me isdoh IL gyes o
In Heaven. 1t would have been difficult for the council
ors Of the Jewish Church. however long they might nave
sought TO have found two men of more unlike Datrai
traits Than Peter aud John; And yet they recognized
them spirit. Tho eloyen men OF tho apostolic
company were lnpst dsslmar men yet VINO IN 81 !
Jernscm failed TO that they belonged together
The great of Church history diverse they have
been Yet vino that inelligently reads the Churchs
historic page fail TO SEQ That they arc members OF
and TIA; hSwoyor SutE%afhy
diversity in the heavenly ITO. God gIvos hints Of it
all through This o and got there will be unity r Unity
p Gny OF p . S whnt o. nCwoyy
Christ and to God Ills shall be IN their fore
heads" His mark shall DO upon them forever Whose
beholds them Will take knowledge Of them that they
have been with Jesus" Beloved hearers the to wear
tia. impress and to become qua od for that unity s by
vii aYe transforming power Tho wondrous nobleness
in Him Will ennoblc TINT which is brought In contact
liz that It's workeris Dyine. AMI thus transformed
into tho likeness Of Him who Himself Is Divine you VIII
Thn thew ali be one as Thou father art in Me and in
| Thee, that they may be one In U.s..