The Kansas blackman., 1894-05-18
CHRIST is HUMAN"
BISHOP JAMES A. HANDY DELIVERS
ANABLE SERMON AT ST. JOHNS
A. NJ. E. CHURCH.
The Sympathy Of Christ For Humanity,
His Experiences on Earth Still Vivid
ly Reminiscent With Him-A
Connection Between What
Jesus was and What Heis
To-Day-The Great
Humanitarian.

A. NJ. (. church, preached last
Sunday morning and evening at st.
Johns A. NJ. (. church. The
bishop is in good health and his
power of biblical argument is still
maintained. His text at the morn
ing service Hebrews 4:l5-I6; sub
ject, The Priestly Sympathy of
Christ" The line of argument was
to show the relations of Christ to
man, and among other things the
bishop said:
according to the words of the
text, the priesthood of the church of
God is based upon the complexion
Of His humanity. He can be touch
ed. He has sympathy with US.
Take away the humanity from Jesus
Christ and you destroy Ills priest
hood. The perfection of Christ's
humanity implies that He was pos
sessed with a human soul as we'll as
a human body. Accordingly we
find two classes of feelings First
of all, Isaah said in the ninth chap.
ter: "Unto us child is born, unto
us a son is given" The sentiment
expressed the thought that human
soul as we'll as a human body had
come into the world. The govern
ment of God was born, ''for the
government shall be upon his
shoulders" When Christ thirsted
upon the cross, it was as a man
and not as a God. He experinced
sensations which belonged to the
bodily department of man, but
when out of the twelve He had
selected he made second selection,
one in whom He confided and who
was His bosom friend, and when he
looked upon the vast multitude and
exclaimed: Oh, Jerusalem, Oh,
jerusalem! now often | would have
gathered you together as a hen
doth her brood, but you would not, !"
as He viewed the granduer of the
city and this great soul burned with
sympathy, these were not the en-
otions of the man, but they came
from the soul of God. How His
soul went out to them! He heard
their prayers as a God, but heard
their pleas as a man and His heart
went out to them and He stood there
and wept. His was a sensitive
soul, alive to all the woes and
anguish of the human being.
"The Redeemer was not only
man, but is a man today. 1t is
because He is a man you can sit
down and talk with Him Your
words may be whisper, sigh a
groan, thought, yet you are talking
with God. In the silent night,
while the husband, the wife, the
innocent babe lies sleeping and all is
dark, when nature seems to have
paused, when even the gentle breezes
have ceased to rustic among the
leaves, when all is still, you can
talk with God and no one is dis
turbed.
"The early idea that Christ was
to stay on earth only short time,
was a mistake. Christ was res
in the body. The marks
of His crucifxion were in His hands
and in his side. That body stayed
here forty days and then went up.
There is no evidence that He left il
behind. That body is in heaven
to day. Angels watched Him as
He went up, and up and up, until
swallowed in the clouds and said
this same Jesus who you see go mp
today, shall come again as He is. "
After the resurrection He ate as a
man, suffered as a man, and Thomas
would not believe He was resurrect
ed until He had seen the marks in
His hands.
Jesus was tempted while IN
earth hence is familiar with what
man i Subjected 70 He realizes
pbat we ebdnre and hence he can
be- touched. The women Of old
.oucbed Him. IF I could but tonch
.hc hem of His garments said the
Yon can toucb Him a. easv ~ dav
md a. efFec,ualIv You can ,oncb
Him bv faith Yon don, need