The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-25
PEACE is DESIRED
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al weakness, Jesus infuses into it Di-


vine power.
Abstract truth and love and power
ran NOT save men. They must be con-
secrated. must be embodied in a living
personality. If these three forces are
10 save the world they must combine
and operate as the supreme output of
Divine energy
Somehow SuDcrSUman truth must
come into practical relationship with
human falseness as TO rectify the en-
ring mind and make it true. By some
method superhuman love must come
.nto such practical relationship with
human hate and sin as to regenerate
the sinner. Somehow superhuman
power must come into such practical
relationship with human weakness as
to empower it with cOnquering might.
Now, if such relationship as these
have been actually realized in human
experience, 1 submit that these condi-
lions are entirely unique in the reli-
gious history of the race.
No other system of religion or phil
osophy has achieved such magnificent
results But these results were attain
ed in the human life of Jesus on earth,
and they are realized today in the ex-
parience of His followers.
Behold these facts unfold in the life
ct Jesus.
He took not upon himself the ma
ture of angels, but the seed Of Abra-
ham" Not an angelic nature did He
take, but human nature.
If it was not the human nature which
IS sometimes tempted to do wrong, it
was not our human nature.
There was a time in His earthly his
tory when he did not know all truth
else why does this record declare that,
well as physical stature. But we see
this human Jesus ascend the Mount of
Truth until with radiant face He
stands upon her shining summit and
says: 81 am the truth"
Here is superhuman truth lifting hu-
manity up TO her own high level. 1t
can be done, for God be praised, it has
been done.
Shall we say that the fires of wrath
never swept His Holy soul?
Not when we read how He looked
round with anger upon them all. Not
when we read that He made a scour-
age of small cords and dashed the
tnoney-changers out of the temple.
But when we see Him healing the
wounds of Malchis, His would-be muir
der, when we see Him reviled and He
revIes not again, when we see the in
finite chivalry of His love at Pilat's
hall-on Calvary and hear the plain
tive accents as they fall from His dying
lips: Father, forgive them, for they
know not what they do" we cry out:
Did e'er such love and sorrow meet,
or thorns compose so rich a CROWN"
We have seen the triumph of human
nature through surephuman love.
again, We shall see in the human life
of Jesus, superhuman power coming
into such practical relationship with
His human limitations as to make Him
at last the master of every force which
operated against Him.
This record declares that sometimes
lie was tired. Sometimes He was
sleepy and slept. He became hungry
and thirsty. At least once His human
face was suffused with tears, for at
Lazarus grave Jesus wept."
Yet with all these human limitations,
He declared: "All power is given I'M
10 me in Heaven and in earth" He
said concerning His life: Il have
power to lay it down and L have power
80 take it up again"
But does it require power to give up
life? Yes, to give up life as he did, re-
CURED power, more than mortal power.
i took the gathered might of moral pur-
pose against which the gates of hell
could not prevail. When the black river
of the worlds guilt rolled its beautiful
billowS in upon his white soul, it must
have taken the might of omnipotence
20 hold Him to the high purpose of
Gethsemane and Calvary. You remem-
Der how the strength of the human
Jesus at last gave way and how He died
and was buried. You remember, too,
how he rose and how He assembled to
Heaven. Superhuman power was so
through it that that 1t made Him the
mighty to save End strong TO deliver"
Il made Him the everlasting Father"
the mighty God" Truth gave him
light and set Him free. Hitherto He
had "breathed out threatenings and
slaughter" and ever afterWard His soul
famed with the inexting uishable fires of
love. Superhuman love had come TO
such relationship with him as TO burn
out of His life all malice and sin.
I believe ii is true that no merely hu-
man life has eXerted as much power
ever this world as that of Paul. Ever
after his conversion his was a master
full life and personality. How he mas
tered temptations and difficulties of
every description. He was always
ready to say. None Of these things
move me-" For Jesus sake he loved to
stand with barred bosom and bleeding
heart in the very storm center of per-
secution. He said, Il can do all things
through Christ who strengthen me-
Talk about heroes, here was one.
Eternal Father. thou hast said.
That Christ ali glory shall obtain;
That He who once a suff rer bled
Shall DER the world conQueror reign.
we wait thy triumph, Savior King;
Long ages have prepared thy way;
Now all abroad thy banner fling,
Set times great battle in array.
Thy hosts are mustered to the field;
The crOSsl the cross the battle CALL
The old grim towers Of darkness yield:
And soon shall totter TO their fall
20 fill Thy church with faith and power,
Bid her long night of weeping cease;
To Sroanlng nations haste the hour
OF life and freedom, light and peace"