Morning journal and courier., 1885-05-14

pels? Until we agree on these points can we have know anything certainly about him?'
 How is it then in other casesf Is it necessary for Plato and to reconcile their differences before we can know anything about Socrates? Xenophon and Matthew and John. Xenophon gives the prac & cat plato the ideal socrates But eYen MT real Socrates is to be found in both sources. In with the same sagacity. courage. kindly humor love of truth faith in goodness and devotion to his work. The personal unit, Socrates, emerges from the varying accounts of these two different disci pies.
 And so the character of Jesus as we find it in these four records has originality and unity all it's own, It is seen as in glass darkly, but it is this unity is perceTed The originality of Jesns is not that all the truths which he utters have from the depths of personal insight We must not suppose that originality is the same as novelty. Jesus speaks of that which he knows and testifies nal father and infinite friend, with inexhaust; ible tenderness for the sinner. Jesus declared this with such living. power that men have been able to believe it n Rising above Jewish limita, 11 in them capacity for good. With clear sight of human weakness and six he is sure that his os-. pei can reach mems hearts with it's power to re deem and save His depth of conviction convinces labor and and to % ms sve M yo the heart of of, suffering humanity answers, Yea, eternal fife When he says 1 i will G draw ~anoI all men unto me- 'All power is given to me in heaven and
 sp fhe of philanthropy, the faith in reform and progress. dsng to vine law having it's roots in divine love. is un- but one ever instinct with the living God fn the parablss of Jesus the laws of nature shown to be the outward analogies of the laws of the soul. The pure in heart see God by the very condition of their being. Goodness is heaven here and hereaf- ter Sin is hell in this and in all worlds Thus is ,Ie atOnemPnt mites and reason the natural and supernatural worlds, God. In Jesus mercv and truth have met together rlghte ousness and peace have kissed each other. This is what the apostle saw when they called him
 The gospel is an infinite hope-for the hope of Jesus without limit. He lived and died for all. He shows how justice is rooted in love, and how the justice of God means his fidelity to those laws pei has filled the world with hope, and so has be- come the motor power in modern civilizations, mak rial intellectual and moral progress
 Around this divinely- human character, Son of God and Son of Mar, Christians must one day unite And then his sublime prayer will be fulfilled. A Thou, Father art in me and in thee, that they al so may be one in us, that the world may believe that thou has sent me-
 This unity will not be a tame monotony, but the pose and work We shall not be all absorbed in one org anization, as the church of Rome has dreamed, gaining union by sacrificing freedom nor shall we remain divided as the Protestant church has been, preserving freedom and losing union. According to the image of the apostle we shall be many mem bers, but one body; one denomination being the eye. another the hand. another the foot but all working together to bless and save the human What evil could resist such combined action? With such united church how long would the out long would materialism, agnosticism, peSsmSm, atheism-the spiritual diseases of our -tme-resist the radiance of this new advent of Christ to the worid2
 Theology which will always remain the most in teresting of studies, having Christ himself it's center, will then be fed continually with living bread Its scholastic character will disappear 1t will give us instead of theories about Christ Jesus Christ himself, the chief cornerstone, in whom all the building fitly framed together would grow into a no dogmatic creed but to live in his spirit to trust his promises feel his sacred presence with al ways even to the end of the ages. Christ will be more and the friend of the soul, the strength will be free and progressive, adapting itself to all the needs of human life, and yet solidly based on the deep experience of the heart on the life hid with Christ in God.
 The Christ of the gospels is study of inexhausti ble interest. Theology, going ever to this deep well and breadth and depth and height of that wonder full personality.
 When we confess that Jesus is the Christ, the King we virtually say that we believe evil will be overcome by good, that love is stronger than Sel ishness, truth than And in that faith we but undaunted spirit all the powers of dark and evil Our theology will be saturated with the three immortal principles faith, hope and love. Then will be repeated the miracle of Pentecost, and hear each other speaking in the tongue wherein we were born-that eternal language of the human heart winch goes back of creeds and formulas to the Christ who is formed within the hope of glory
 President Robinson of Brown university de