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man, but was he only a man? 1t
cannot be. Men do not die as He
died. He was God.
VI. Such is the historical Christ
what of Him to-day? Marching
through the centuries this lofty
figure, Jesus of Nazareth, has
come down to us. No mind has
thought upon Him without wonder.
No heart has felt Him without Joy.
No life has met Him without glory.
In truth may we say of Him in the
language of another: Here is the
Urn of destiny and that Urn holds
no dead ashes"
Look how He is interviewer with
this worlds history. Even the
hater of His name must date his let
ter of business or pleasure from
Christ's birth. Christendom knows
no other reckoning of time to-day
than B. c. and A. d. Look, too, how
He commands history. Only 800
years after His ignominious death
in Jerusalem Constantine takes his
seat as Emperor of Rome in the
name of Jesus, the crucified Naz-
arene Three hundred years ago a
rabble in Jerusalem cries: "Away
with Him; we will have no king
but Caesar" Now Cesar answers
back: 81 have no king but Christi
Time goes on and Rome is in
ruins. New kingdoms rise, new rulers
are crowned, but they are crowned
in the name of this man, who died a
malefactor's death; and while other
! names have been forgotten, His but
brightens in its luster; while other
empires tremble and decay His
marches on in conquest.
In the year 1905, in the great Ca
thedral of Milan, stood Napoleon,
the ablest monarch who has lived
in eighteen centuries, and grasping
| the strongest sword ever entrusted
to a humans hand, he took and
placed upon his own head the Iron
Crown, said to have been made from
the nails which pierced the feet of
Jesus. His words as he crowned
himself were these: "God has CIV
en- it to me; let him touch it who
dares." In a few short years that
man who clutched his sword to de-
fend his crown plunged from his
throne to the loneliness of st. Hell
ena's banishment. The man who
opened His hand to receive the nails
still continues His triumphant march
above the slope of Calvary up to the
everlasting hill.
Before us stands a column over
topping by an immeasurable alti-
tude every other pedestal of earth.
No stairway winds around it, no
ladder made by human hands has
ever reached so high. Upon this
column of the worlds highest fame
stands the man we once saw sit
lting by the well, wearied with His
Tourney. How did He get theref
There is but one answer TO the ques-
ton; He came there by reason CT
his divinity.
| This is the miracle OF history. The
very fundamentals of government,
law, commerce and society, as well
as of religion, are now indissnlubly
} associated with this historic Christ.
= Our hearts may reject His claims,
: but the tick of our watches measures
r time from the date of His birth.
Surely in the light of all these facts,
| facts SO true that TO deny them is
lpure madness, we are forced to say
| with the Centurian who stood at His
. crucifxion and overwhelmed by the
: presence of His divine death, said:
r ''Truly this was the son of God"
A word in closing: This Christ
this son of God-saw the woe in
to which man was plunged. He
; saw the ruin sin had made. The
I woe was too deep for human spe-
q cific. The ruin was that of an inn
e mortal soul. This ruin was wrought
S in the power of an endless death
: and He came TO repair tbs ruin with
: "the power of an endless life" o,
: if thou knewest the gift of God and
+ who it is that saith unto thee BE
e hold. stand at the door and knock, !"
e long ago thou wouldst have opened
: the gate of thy ruined temple to let
in this heavenly builder. He knocks
i again tonight. Here in the stiffness
Iof this hour He waits 10 be received
:. land welcomed. "Peace, like river,
n 10y such as angels do not knos,
lhope full of an ever-brightening
Il and ever blessed Immortality, all
: heavenly benedictions would be
IT thine if thou newest the gift of
e God" Let Him in and through
II the death of this divine man, thou
Ishalt have eternal life.
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