St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-03-30
LIKE HUMAN BEINGS.
The Apostles Were Transformed
by Christ's Resurrection and
Lived Anew.

The Apostles We're Transformed
by Christ's Resurrection and
Lived Anew.
Rev. W. j. Lhamon, at the Church of
Christ, yesterday morning preached
upon resurrection. The apostles were
human beings, he said. They had hui
man ways of seeing things. To them all
kingdoms were associated with thrones
aud crowns and monarchs and armies
and battlefelds and victories. They
knew of no conquest but by the sword.
Their own national history was full OF
the wars of the judges and kings. They
expected their Messiah would be a
greater Saul or David OF Solomon. OF
moral conflict II victory they did not.
dream. or a spiritual kingdom win
ming its way by knowledge n faith
and prayer and kindness they had not
the remOtest thought.
In the second place. the apostles were
Jews. They were sectarians. That is
something less than human. All sec
"tarianism tends to bigotry, claniShness,
hatred. To be a Sectarian is to be less
than humane. Being less than humane
these Jewish disciples of Jesus had no
thought that the kingdom of their Mes
slah could be larger than Israel. To in
clude the children of Abraham would
require its utmost stretch.
Being human and Jewish they could
not understand Jesus. Peter rebuked
him when he predicted his death and
resurrection. James and John wanted
to sit one on his right hand and the
other on his left in his kingdom. The
divine ways of Jesus were beyond them.
His kingdom of intelligence, and
faith, and character they could not
appreciate all at once. His universal
love and ready forgiveness, His plan Of
non-retaliation and self-sacrifice were
incomprehensible to them. Hence,
when He died on the cross they were
dazed and in despair. Now their Mes
siah was dead, and they gathered from
all their experience that a dead mans
career is done. When Cyrus and Caesar
and David died their battles were al
fought. Now Jesus was dead; they
trusted that He would have redeemed
Israel; their hopes We're crucified with
Him. Therefore they denied Him and
could not SO much as think that He
would arise.
Fifty days later a change had come
ouer these men. Those who doubted
then believed. They who ~despaired
then hoped. They who timidly denied
then boldly testified. They who started
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heralds to all the world of a truth that
regenerates humanity increasingly. But
this is not all. These men are no longer
Jews merely. They preach to all the
world. They call Gentiles brothers.
They retaliate no more; they forgive.
They go not armed with a sword,
but with truth. They are ready
to suffer, but not to in
flict suffering. They pray fol
their enemies, and are no longer sectar'
ians. Their hearts we're no more set OIL
the kingdom of Israel, but a ''kingdon
that hath foundations, whose builder
and maker is God" Not cruel, but kind
not carnal. but spiritual; not of time,
but of eternity. Such were these mel
and their words and works.
What wrought this change? 1t is
miracle, and proves the other miracle Of
Christ'S resurrection. If Jesus had moi
arisen these men would have con
tinued till death the same old-tiIne hui
nan Jews, and Christianity would have
been buried forever in JOSeph's new
tomb.