The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-07-20
IMETABLENESS OF JESUS
REY. WALLACE RUTRECK's DIS
COURSE UPON THE III EITE.


To Save Means to Give Llfe-To DO is tho
Watchword of the Founder of the
Christian Religion--To Refrain From
Evil NOT Enough Eject of Christ Life
Upon Society.
"He that saith he wallseth in Him
ought himself also to walk even as He
wallSed'-I John, second chapter. sixth
verse.
The Rev. Wallace BuriclS of Albany,
N. Y, formerly pastor of the First
Baptist church, this city, preached to a
large congregation of his former pas
torate here yesterday morning from the
text quoted.
Mr. Butrick has lost none of his sim
pie and plain way of putting the truth
of Christian life since his departure
from the charge on Wooster square.
His auditors were told some practical
things as to what the character of one
who says that he is q follower of the
| Galileean should be. The preacher said
| In part:
Il am to speak to you of the imita-
| bleness of Jesus. That is an awkward
| word, and my excuses for using 1t are
| that 1t is a dictionary one and also
| that l have no better one to express
| what mean.
| How are we to be like Christ in the
details of our life? We often speak Of
| the impossibility of such a living. We
are apt to say we can follow Him from
| afar, but we cannot approach Him
| while we are In this life
| Surely, Christ teaches us nothing of
| the kind. He said. Follow Me-
Peter, catching this inspiration,
taught that men should be Christ like,
md Paul continued the preaching of
such truths.
Example means sample; the old
| English word, now obsolete was en-
sample. Christ our example means
simply that in His life we have SAM
pie Of what Christian life should be.
Had it been impossible for us to be
like Christ, He would not have requir-
ed it..
"We ought to do those things He
| would do were He here on earth now.
| Christ's way should be our way.
Bushnell said, There Is none over
| good kind of goodness in Christ is
| this not so?
Did He not visit the homes of the
| poor and the needy in the way? He
| wept with those who wept and COM
| forted their sorrow.
1T was done through the humanity
| of His being. He suffered pain as man
| suffers. With all the feelings of a hu-
man soul He shrunk from agony and
prayed to be delivered from it. He
| was our ensample.
1--WE shall not initiate Christ by
| thinking what we ought not to do We
are prone to do this.
tile did not come into the world to
| formulate a new set Of rules; neither
did He come to give emphasis to the
thou shalt nots' of the old religions.
He came to give us life.
/ when I was boy in the theological
seminary had two professors in homi-
letics successfully. The first professor
and Ihave not one word to say against
| him, was great man and a good man.
| scholarly in his attachments. but he
made US boys miserable looking for
| mistakes We hunted out the mega
| lives of authors under his direction,
analysed poetry to find the scientific
| meaning Of the writer, as II a poet was
ever scientific or could be.
Another teacher came to us, not half
so scholarly, nothing to be compared
| with the former in attachments, but he
cheered us by his presence and the way
! he said to lis, do something. For PHYS
| sake do something. 1t is better to do
| something and make a mistake than to
| do nothing. The great sin Of the Bible
| is idleness.
ITO save means to make alive, not to
snatch some one out from hell The cor
rection of an evil life IS to make it ac-
| tive and energetic in doing something.
THE slowest kind OF reformation is
/ that which comes Of doing less bad
things in community.
Then we make be Christ-like in our
devotions.
He conmuned with God He liked
| solitude with his father. There are
times when it is good for all of us to be
| alone and in the presence Of God. 1t is
wisdom to pray. We should pray in
our hilarity. Even on the most joyful
! occasion we should pray. God intend
| ed men to be joyful and happy Christ
| prayed when he was busy, and we
| should follow Him in this.
This then is the before hand prayer.
| How often we make the mistake and
| then ask to be delivered from the con-
| sequences. Christ did not do this. He
went to God and asked for direction
We may follow Christ and walk as he
did in the sympathetic interest In all
life. He had a feeling for the birds Of
the air, the beasts of the field and the
shepherds and the farmers, the house
| wife.
Enthusiasm in all living things is
the foundation for a wholesome life
You cannot conceive of a selfish grovel-
ling nature in such a soul Christ was
the bearer Of burdens. Cultivate an in
terest in those around you. Make the
world better and you will be Christ
like, and you will not want to say
| don't in a year.
What Of the social life of Christ?
Look how He went among men direct
ing the conversation. He enlarged the
sociability until d became the ground
| work of society