The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1890-06-09

which no other men have been able
to withstand, and of.his silent males
1 ty when all the jangling voices Of
passion were clamorous against him.
Courage gave him unique supremacy
over the whole cOnspiring world.
Then. too, he has been the heroic
champion of women. IL he has saw
ed men from Satan. be has saved
women from both Satan and from
man Facile writers may disparsge
| these services as they will bnt the
/ fact is that alike over the world be-
fore his advent and throughout all
pagan parts of it to the present hour,
woman has been the toy, the slave,
! the victim, Of man. There lis no
more wonderful chapter IN the clironi
cles Of history than that which de-
tseribes his emancipation Of his
mothers sex from the tyranny Of
brute force. His whole life was a
series Of divine ministries shared
with her Her supreme dignity of
motherhood was the means ofIincar-
mating the Son Of God. Elizabeth
heralded his birth. Anna greeted
his advent. Mary's word was the
law of his boyhood. The woman At
Jacobs we'll became his first preach
er to the Samaritans. The #Syro,
Phenician woman received the first
gift of his gospel to the Gentiles.
Magdalene and her sisters were the
last to leave his tomb and the first
to announce his resurrection. The
woman that had been a sinner wash.
ed his feet with her tears-sthe sym,
Dol OF penitence,-and wiped them
with her hair-the symbol of adorn-
ing service land anointed him with
spikenard-the symbol of apure love
which will not stop to count the cost.
The women, who think of these, of
Priscilla, Lydia and Phoebe, of Hele
na, Monica and Florence Nightingale,
and Of an evek growing later multi
tude. will. worship their Supreme
Champion and Savior with that ex-
quisite affection and fervor which it
is their very birth-right to give; and
men and women equally, who retain
any power OF appreciation. will exult
in following snch an heroic leader,
SO brave. in his struggles against all
sin and so tender in his devotion to
all sinners. #
". | count Christ supremely he.
role because he, embodied his high.
qualities in practical experiences of
his daily life. He taught nothing,
commanded nothing, inspired to-
nothing, that he himself did not FIRST
90 and illustrate and become. NoSir-
tue stood aIane in him, nor did any
one live at the expense Of another.
He.had that most uncommon kind
of heroism the heroism of possess
ing all possible virtue in the equipoise
of balanced character and in CON
stantIy good working order
TO note Just one example, he4alone
unites conservatism and progressive
ness. Other leaders, whether in pol
itics, society, science, art, or religion,
seem to represent only one of these
opposite tendencies; but in Christ,
as in nature, the centripetal and cen,
trifugal1 forces are equal. He oppo-
ses mere passiveness and mere dis
Effectiveness, and favors the true
preservation, and the true develop
ment, of life. False conservatism is.
the victim of inertia, worshipper.
of the principle: whatever is, is
right" the keeper not of treasure
house but Of a charnel- house But
false radicalism is. no better. The
patron of all new quackeries, it rush
es fanatically after every novel will
-o'-the-wisp, tearing up the solid
pathway under its feet in order to,
reach the unseen swamp with haste.
False conservatism leaves it's dwell
ing without repair until the whole
structure rots to the ground; false
radicalism burns its house over it's
own head in order to search for un-
known treasures in the ashes False
conservatism is like the survival of
the medieval caricatures of Christi
anity in the old regime of France;
false radicalism blots out the good
with the bad, as in the atheistic up
heavaI Of the French Revolution.
One says, preserves established wrongs,
the other echoes, Destroy establish
ed rights. 2. X
But Christ, like the sea, kisses the
feet of the Gibralter Of facts yet
keeps pure and progressive because
he never stands still. On the one
hand he anchors us to the logic of as
certained realities. There seems to
be hardly a secret of force. or law, or
life, long secluded by his safe con-
sersatism, which he is not now CON.
fidentially disclosing to childlike
mathematician, physicist and chem
list. More vital still, the strenuous
struggles and pathetic sufferings of
the human ages he has embalmed in
history and scripture as object-les-
sons for modern character builders.
But, ON the other hand, his spirit
is not only economical but aggres-
siye and creative. Every new geolog
ic. age, whose features are etched in
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