The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1890-09-24
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"WHAT IS TRUTH" is the great ques-
ton asked by every thoughtful mind.
PLATE may have asked it in derision, but
the probabilities are he was sincere; so
every mind asks the question still and for
the purpose of knowing what truth is.
MANY PEOPLE see only physical truth.
They are materialistic in their views.
Only that which has form and dimen-
sions can be apprehended by them.
They are accustomed to measure every
thing by foot-rule. They cannot grasp
the spiritual, indeed they doubt its ex-
istence. They live upon the materialistic.
Nothing gives them satisfaction hut that
which ministers to their physical being.
They have not grasped the great truth that
they are compounded of matter aud spir-
it; physical being, and mental and spirit
ual being.
In LOOKING for truth one must look
within and without himself. Physical
truths are rather easily cOmprehended;
spiritual truths may be but they are
measured by their own standard. and not
by one that is material. You cannot
put thought in the balances and weigh it
in pounds and ounces. You cannot put
the yard-stick upon the feelings and
measure off so many yards. You can not
take the conception of Paradise LOST
and say that the idea contains so many
cubic feet or so many square yards or
acres. Thought and feeling are not
measured by material lines, or material
methods. Their standard of measure
ment is mental, spiritual.
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SO IN SEARCHING for spiritual truth we
must look for spiritual and not for mate
rial things. The spiritual is as suscept-
ible of proof as the material, but we
must recognize its own kind of proof.
This proof appeals to the intel
lect, the affections and the conscience.
Any attempt to reach spiritual truths
without these tests of proof will be flu
tile.
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THE GREATEST spiritual truth that can
be conceived is found in the complete
answer to the question What think We
of Christi" Is he man, thorough, COM
plete, perfect? Is he man at his best?
Is he also God in all the essential attri-
butes of his being? Is he your redeem
er and personal Savior, who saves from
sin and sinfulness? 1t will not do to
answer these questions by material tests.
They apply to the spiritual being and
must be so answered.
The CHARACTER of Christ is unique.
1t stands without peer in the history of
the world. No writer. aside from the
Bible, has ventured to attempt descrip-
ton of IA perfect character. But here is
a character and a person absolutely per-
feet. The philosophers, sages. scientists,
nor all of them combined can account
for it. Nothing else in history like this.
A man in every attribute. lineament and
characteristic; perfect in thought, speech
and act; perfect in sympathy, love and
greatness.
YET THE LIFE of Christ, as written by
the evangelists, is so simple, so direct, so
free from ostentation, and yet so sublime
that none dare call it fiction or myth.
in this, the last quarter of the nineteenth
century. That the disciples should have
invented the life and character of Christ
would have been a greater miracle than
he. himself. Men do not invent like that.
Confucius. Plato. Milton, did not do it.
nor could they. Writers of fiction have
failed in their attempts at perfect man.
hood. Why? Because they themselves
were imperfect. Imperfection cannot
make perfection. And the only reason
the disciples could write down the say
ings and doings of perfect character is
because they had a perfect person, a per-
rect man 10 1OllOW ana report.
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ALL ATTEMPTS to account for Jesus of
Nazareth on any hypothesis, except the
history given of him in the Bible, utterly
fails. They either make Jesus an impos-
ter or his disciples superhuman. Either
position is absurd. To make his disci-
Piles superhuman is to estrange them
from the human race, and make them !
distinct species. TO pretend that Jesus |
was an imposter is to make an attempt |
at the greatest deception. For imposters
do not work for the good Of all others
at their own infinite sacrifice. So Christ |
must be accounted for in a reasonable |
way. and that way is by the account
given of him in the Scriptures.