The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-27

good rather than not to do wrong. There
was nothing vacilating. hidden or un-
emphatic in character or work.
''Christ's relationship was not tn the
masses. but was to the units. That was
His power then and Is today. His was
not like that of the Romans and Greeks.
whose only use for humanity was to
create them into great armies. Ma
poleon the First would have been like
them had he lived 1000 years earlier.
George Washington was not One-tenth
the general Napoleon was. but he had a
greater heart. That was the spirit of
my Master; that was His thought. Have
you any fault to find with it? His was
sympathy and compassion then, and
those are His today.
METHODS THOUGHT STRANGE
Jesus system, His methods We're
thought strange. impractical and IA
natical in the harsh Biblical times. His
utilization with unlettered fishermen
and His talk of conQuering the world
through sympathy, charity and good
will was thought to be ridiculous. yet he
planted his seed to grow and mature,
and it did. There have been more
Bibles printed In the last eight years
than during all the centuries and years
Immediately preceding What does 1t
mean? You can answer the question
without help from me.
Everyone ought to know in the alb
stract what Christianity is. then there
is in addition the fact that Christ Is
himself Christianity. and Christianity
is Christ Have you any objection to
Christianity and its influence on the
world?
Yet everything is against His ideal.
There exists all Of humanity's base
ness. humanity's passion. humanity's
treachery. He said. however. the ideal
would be attained. That certainly ap-
pears true when the stars that shone
i'm Rome. the philosophers. statesmen
and soldiers. amid the culture and
literature of that wonderful city could
not eclipse Him. They will pale away
and His rays will conquer even unto the
MONDAY; their ideals will pale In the
presence of the Savior.
BLESSED THE WEAK.
He blessed the weak blessed the poor
His platitudes We're simple things. but
have you any fault to find In them?
Would you not be better for cherishing
them? His parallels. too, stand today
as fresh as when first uttered. His only
thought was humane and for others
save in His own sacrifice and self-de-
nial. What do We think of all that?
Is it good enough for US to follow to
the best of our abilities and with the
help of His example?
1--WE were glad to see i'm these United
States elimination of this great vic
tory. a precursor of the departure Of
barbarous arena customs, when two
trained beasts were by the sentiment Of
the ruling people, by the act of congress
and by the force of the governor of the
Lone Star state obliged to abandon the
bit of ground they had selected to do
battle one. and retire TO Mexico. where
Christianity has yet to gain strength.
That shows the growing advantage of
our great Master.
I'm the land where He labored and
was crucitied, there were no hospitals
nor asylums; the bind sat by the way
side. and the poor were without shelter.
In Christian nations there Is not hos
pital or shelter that He hasn't build
eu. He had not dollar, Yet His money
builded all the cathedrals all the asyl-
ums that exist. March on Jesus Christ!
He is coming. would be glad to live to
the day when there will be no antagon-
ism. no intemperance, no immortality to
oppose him: when some disciple of His
might grasp intemperance by the
throat, throttle it. choke II. trail its
garments in the dust and place the iron
heel on its chest.
1T is coming.
1.-The power of Jesus that melted the
shackles from the wrists and ankles Of
1900. 900 slaves will yet do greater
work. Christianity is in the air. and
today we can trust our pocketbooks
with Christians-true Christians, I
mean-our own regulations. which are
the more valuable"