The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1892-03-10
THE COAL COMBINE.
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wonderous w0rs.s; "..e...lcg 80 : accuse
thee. Go and sie no more.
He teaches tic world the sd1lime les
son Of the Prodigal sou. That the boy
was at home, that be left has father 5
house, went 10 tE1 io--sst depths Of
degradation, and thai at.I in the lowest
derths he was his fathers child He
pictured the father waiting and watch
Ing ont on the highway for bis return.
He tells US how the father received him
In rags and tattcrs and yet received him
as a child, rejoiccd in that reception.
'Let us be glad, make merry; for this
my son, that was dead, Il alive. He
that was lost is found"
Third-His doctrine Of the FatLe-hool
OF God likewise proclaims that man il
of royal blood, and when be taught the
world to pray "Our Father be taught
that every man made in tho image Of
God has Ia his veins the blood Of q king.
He Taught this TO a world Of slaves in
which the life Of man was he'll in low
est possible estimate. Teaching this, he
taught Of necessity that al men are
brethren. He told the king on the
throne and the beggar by the wayside
that there was one Father above, the
man az man the royal robes Of divine
l.inship.
oUTwEIGHs KI&3DO1s.
Fourtn-His attitude toward institu-
tons likewise proclaimed the same great
truth. He violated the Jewish laws
He broke the Jewish Sabbath He did
it without hesitation. Hear his reason,
THE Sabbath was made for man" How
vast looms the thought imam" in the
mind Of the Son of Man. For this crea-
tnre made in the image Of God, q child
Of God, all things were made All
things must subserve his ends. Institu-
tons were made to serve him. nc is not
the servant of institutions.
Fifth-His estimate of life likewise
prOclaims this doctrine of the intrinsic
divinity Of man. Jesus proclaimed the
incalculable value Of q single soul. He
declared that If You should take al the
thrones and sceptcrs and empires, all the
wealth of all the nations Of all the earth
and all the treasures under the earth.
and pile them all in ono mighty heap.
they would be worth nothing as com
pared to the value Of single life. Hear
him, "What shall it profit q man if he
gain the whole world and lose his life"
The life of man doomed up before him
in immortal grandeur.
KING ALFRED.
Sixth-His teaching concerning the
providence of God likewise unfolds the
same truth. To his listening disciples
he said: "Why be anxious, why worry?
The father above hears the cry of the
smallest child. The father above counts
the beat of the sparrow's wing before
the storm. Not one shall fall to the
ground but that it shall disturb the
economies Of his infinite universe. The
very hairs Of your head are numbered.
Be not anxious. He who clothes the
grass of the field, he who watches and
counts the sparrows, watches every step
in the life of mailman greater than all
the birds and flowers of the field"
A legend Of good King Alfred de-
clares that when he and his huntsman
were one day riding through the forest
they saw an eagles nest on the top of a
bbCOP SiAiAJ bitA ll+iiAl IL JiIt1 ucLEu u
sound like the sobbing of babe A
man was sent to climb to the nest, and
in it he found a baby boy, alive and I'M
hurt. The king carried the little one
home, and he grew up in the royal fam
lily. He became one of Alfred's most
heroic knights and followers.
Hear the words of Jesus, ''The Son of
Man came to seek and to save that
which was lost" So worthy is man
that the outcast, the weak, the helpless, |
the lost, call for the infinite expression
of infinite love.
DUST OR FLAME.
Seventh-His teaching as to the nature |
of sin unfolds the same truth. Sin, |
Christ declares, is of the heart That is, |
1t Is violation of the divine in man. |
Jesus says, not that which enters into
man detiles him, but that which pro-
ceeds out from the man within. Sin he |
declares to be the violation thus of the |
true nature of man. 1t is thought by
some that Paul, the great apostle who
followed Christ, taught the doctrine of !
Total Deprayity. Paul does say, 81 know |
that in me (hat is, in my fesh) dwelleth
no good thing"
The trouble with the man who be-
lieves in Total Depravity, who processes
Christianity, is that he omits this clause,
in my flesh" which qualities the whole
sentence. Nam is not flesh. Humanity
is not flesh. The tiger kills man and
lies down after his meal and sleeps
Man kills his fellow man and
is pursued by an invisible hand to the
ends of the earth, until at last he tears
open his breast and tells the secret to an
lyenging law. The tiger is an animal;
man is an animal. They are both flesh
But you do not find the man in the Eesh
Humanity is that which is added to the
lesh. Man did not become man until
ne ceased to be merely an animal. When
ne ceased to be merely an animal he be-
came divine. He partook of Gods ma
;ure. Flesh is the soil out of which this
nan grew. He is not of the soil.
Eighth-Jesus Christ taught in the
act of the incarnation this sublime
ruth. This is the meaning and the
mystery of the incarnation The life of
christ was a supreme service to man.
lie denied himself even the comforts of
lfe, that he might serve man. He went
bout doing good. He stood at the gates
nd healed the sick. He fed the hungry.
lie comforted those who were stricken
nth sorrow. He poured out his life
nat the world might be blessed. He
vas man born of woman, and the fact
nat God chose to speak his last supreme
lessage of love to the world through
Ian, through the incarnation of the di-
inc in flesh, means nothing more nor
'ss than that he meant to put the birth
lark Of divinity on man born Of woman.
AT THE MoRGUE.
Last summer man fell dead on
ighth avenue. There was no money
| his pockets. He was dressed in seedy,
-orn clothes. They took him to the
lorgue. The reporters described his