The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1888-08-06

And this life is the light of men. But
not what it is. 1t was only short time
aye that scientific men said that light
ured Chamber cha Sa 'ne eye, eye; 1t is the treas
put the eye out you put light ont.
man went around with two lanterns in his
Icau. mat was science day before yester-
uay, ana science is a wonderful thing. Yes
terlay y said that light came from luminous
ue"ti, pue now II says that it is mode of
..hLo9Iion: molten of ether, and ether is some-
I4lng extremely thin--so thin, saws Prof.
Huxley, that all that surrounds the heavenly
pouies Oh our solar system might be put in
gentieman's snuff box and not crowd it at ALL
lou drop stone into the pool and the rip
PIES are started that finally touch the shore.
90 luminous bodies drop motion into this sea
Oh etner and the waves beat out and out and
out until we get what we call light.
We do not know what life is, we do not
4now what light is, and yet we expect to un-
derstand what Christ is whose life is the
light of men.
But there is one thing about it, man does
not need to know much about life to live.
| We do not know what light is, but we see.
Well, now, Christ's life is the light of men,
| His teachings, His miracles, make certain
| other things that were invisible come into
| sight perfectly plain. And what does His
| life through light upon first, God; second,
| man; third. satan; fourth, the world to
cOme. we nave SOIlen INTO naDlb IN tnlS
| nineteenth century of not knowing. 1t is be-
coming fashionable to be an agnostic,
When was lad at school was proud of
| what knew and ashamed of my ignorance.
| Today men boast Of what they don't know.
The time has come when man can stand
| before an intellectual and cultivated audi
ence who pay so cents night and tell them
| what he does not know. Here is a man
| who acknowledges that he is thoroughly
empty of the knowledge of God whose whole
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| would stop there it would not be so Ibad, but
he goes on to make the statement what
| do not know is the measure of what every
other man can know and does know.
Now Christ tells us that He does know
something of the character and nature of
God. Either this blatant infidel of Jesus
Christ is wrong, you may take your choice.
Not only has Christ thrown light upon
God, but he has also shown US what man is.
The old Greeks had motto know Thyself.'
IL is very easy thing to say but very hard
thing to do it. We are made up of so much
that is good and bad, yet when we come to
the Judgment one kind of men will go off to
| the right and another kind to the left.
Robert Louis stephenson is right. That
| marvellous book. DR.. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde is
| a photograph of every face here to-day.
| We know when we read the daily chronicle
| of crime that there sis not one of them that,
under. certain conditions and certain sur.
roundings,, we might not do, You cannot
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yourself in the light of Christ. As in the
microscope, the mirror below flashes light
through the object, so Christ flashes light
through man, and it is all clear Christ's
life lifts us up and gives us strength to battle
with temptation. But He has also shown us
what Satan is. We all realize that we can
not dig very far into our own hearts without
finding Satan lurking there in some thought
| or past action.
| How many of us would be willing to have
our souls laid bare before the world? Christ
is far more to us because he was tempted
Christ has thrown light, too, upon i'm.
mortality, That has been the greater ques.
tion of all times. IF man die SHALL he live
/ again?" Plato said yes, and Socrates said
| yes when he was reading Plato, but at other
times he wavered. Science cannot tell us.
But from Christ we have: 81 am the resur.
rection and the life; in My Fathers house
are many mansions. / go to prepare place
| for you that where / am, there We may be al
so. | have the keys of death and hell
Christ says if die | shall live again"
NOTES.
| Rev. DR.. King, Washington, u. c., delivered
| fine sermon at the restaurant at Great Dia-
| mond Island yesterday morning.