El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1898-12-19
BAPTIST CHURCH.
"The Fulness OF Chrlst's Human
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At the First Baptist church yester-
day Rev. w. o. Millican, the pastor,
preached q second sermon from the
text, "Of his fulness have all we re-
ceived." He said in part:
Having seen 10 previous sermon
that we are partakers of Christs d1vl-
nifty, both as to his nature and bis
power, we come nov to Say that we are
also partskers of the fulness or
Christ's humanity.
The same words that tells US thai
Jesus was divine tell US also that he
was human, the incarnate Christ,
True, humanity existed before the ao-
vent of Jesus, but 1t was one s1ded; IL
had only the worse side. Chrlst's
humanity had both the better ana "a t a11
worse side. He WAS "msde In All
things like unto his brethren" 80 far
as the essentials of humanity are con-
cerned with like passions, like temp
tations, like emotions. But there was
this difference: by the mysterious
power of his divinity, all these
highest possible uss. The object of
his humanity be outlined In his own
Words. ''to preach the gospel to the
poor,-to heal the broken hearted. to
preach deliverance to the ca rtive and
recovering of sight to the blind, to set
at liberty them that are bruised" And
the writer of the Hebrews adds, "that
he might be a merciful and faithful
high priest in things pertaining to
God, to make reconciliation Tor the
sins of the people-to succor them that
are tempted"
Believe me when tell you that all
that we have received OF these things
is due to the human advent OF Jesus
Christ into thisworld. Before Christ's
advent each nation or tribe regarded
fri aa q
barbariaps. The doctrine OF the sur
vival of the fttest was the policy OF the
nations. The poor were loathed with
disgust. Slavery was the universal
idea. Not only people OF In
ferior birth and nations, but
the captured from all nations and all
classes became slaves. And the slave
had no ecognition, and not 80 much
protection as beast OF burden. But
the coming of Jesus of Nazarteh into
the world brought the advent OF a new
social and moral revolution. zone is
your Father in heaven said he land
all We ara brethren. This meant no.
thing short of the universal brother
hood of man.
Following the wake of his humani-
tartan teaching, thrones have tOttered.
monarchies have fallen; and in their
place glorious republics have arisen;
slavery has been abolished and the
poor have become the compassionate
objects of almost every nation OF the
earth; new nations have been planted
and new governments established;
while war of any nature is fast becom-
ing a thing of the past, and peace on
earth, good will to men, is coming to be
the universal desire. Thus not only
the Christian, but the whole world
have received of his humanity.
But q special feature of Christ's
humanity was the fuluess OF his suffer
ing. "Jesus was a man of sorrow and
acquainted with grief" We are told
that though he WAS son yet he ODE
dienced by the things which ne suffer
ed. aud sin that he himself hsth suf-
fered, being tempted. he is able to
succor them inst are tempted. In
Gethsemane we see him drowned in
agony that overcsme his humanity.
On Calvary the anguish of his suffer
ing literally broke his heart Suffer
ing all this, and more, we are told,
shat he might sa1ctify the people.
Thus we see that the gateway to ODE
dience TO God and power TO bless and