The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-02-22

sense no sacrifice. AS the mother gives herself
for her child and never thinks of it, Jesus gives
Himself 10 us, and never calls upon His reason
to take note how much HIS heart has been
wrung for US.
We think of Jesus also as showing the need
that we have for Him-a need as much greater
than His need as He Is greater than we. The
most crying demand of every soul with q spark
of truth in ii is for salvation. We need 20
know that there is something better than our
weak resolution ct work in the world for its re-
demption. Our natures demand to know that
God not only feels this need, but that He is able
to supply it. There are moments when we see
that the world will not run alone and go
straight The deepest experience of Us all is a
prayer for the compassion and sympathy OF our
Father who is in heaven, and Jesus is His an
swer to that prayer. Jesus is the answer in
every emergency of our life to save 1t from ship
wreck; He is the answer in its periods of calm
to save 1t from sluggishness, and in seasons OF
staggering prosperity to save US from animal
ism-to infuse an ethereal spirit and fine quail
ity of soul into all our business, making life a
unity and every act an inspiration.
Jesus is the only remedy of soul bereft cry
ing out with His own bitter cry. ''My God, why
hast Thou forsaken me?" He is the answer to
the despair of a man whom sins hand has
smitten with the plague, when he cries, "Who
shall deliver me from the body of this death"
Jesus came here freighted even in His very
name with the meaning Savior, and He answers
the interrogatories of disaster and want, and
bound men and women in torture: His voice
we hear at the agony when a man is brought
into the world and when his soul goes hence.
and in these periods of ren6ing life and disap-
pearing loves even the unstable human soul
can say: al am persuaded that nothing shall
separate me from the love of Christi"
But there is last and, think, deeper esti-
mate for us to place upon the meaning of
Jesus life. 1t is that every lasting Joy is born
out OF and based upon a sorrow. This is not
the only antithesis which our lives bring u.s.
Fidelity is the result OF temptation to infidel-
ity; and the only love of righteousness worth
anything results from rejection of the seduc-
tive shapes OF unrighteousness. The life of
Jesus means that, left to ourselves, our think
ing works backward and blindly. For we seek
peace before conflict, riches before poverty, and
joy before sorrow. But all these lasting things
proceed from allyirg ourselves with the whole
race of men, as Jesus did. Like Him we must
learn that we never shall be happy until the
world is happy; We never shall be rich until
the world is rich; that we never can have peace
until we can make peace reign everywhere.
Giving is the only permanent enriching, for it
carries forward this race, of which we are a
part, and contributes to the eternal Joy. God
cannot be happy while He holds back anything
from men, and Jesus came, and is ever coming
to tell us that most of all. Ii there exists in
God this tremendous necessity OF sharing Himself
with us, then we think that Christ came to live
here this natural life of God, and TO make it
plain that our only salvation is found in uniting
ourselves also with all the struggle of the race.
That is the only way of finding Jesus or know
ing Him. We shall meet Him nowhere but with
strugglers. There is no salvation for you and
me that does not save the world with 1t. Our
redemption will be incomplete in the same de-
gree that that of the world is incomplete. So
that's what We think OF the Christ He was the
son of God He came to US because He could not
help it; He came to impart His contagious ma
ture; He is the one dependable force in our ex-
istence; He is the spring OF character; He shows
Gods need OF us and our supreme need Of God,
in heart and life; He is the refuge from death
and the portal of life; He takes the world with
Him in His rise and He cannot rise with
out the world. Jesus came to live with us in
this world that we might become acquainted
with God in the next world. For If we ever
come into the presence of the Almighty we shall
find One engaged in the same work with our
selves. In heaven as upon earth He will walk
among those who need Him most. Listening to
tie voice that speaks to Us from out the story Of
His life we Him say: "Have been so long a
time with you and yet thou has not known me ?'
1t shall be
A face like my face that receives thee man
like me,
Thou shalt love and be loved by, for ever; q
hand like this hand
Shall throw open the gates OF new life to theel
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