The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1898-10-27
Mary, The Mother of Jesus.
BY REV. ID. II. MOORE,


Luke %, "And the angel came
in unto her, and said, Hail, thou
that art highly favored, the Lord is
with thee; blessed art thou among
women"
The person thus addressed was a
jewish maiden, resident at the
time of the town of Nazareth, in
the province of Galilee.
The import of his address which
followed upon the salutation of the
text was, that, she was to be the
servant of the mos6 high God, in
bearing a son, who should be called
"the Son of the Highest; and
whose mission into this world was
to be, to save men from sin.
The salutation of the angel was
not of the nature of worship, for
angels were not authorized to wor-
ship human beings; neither could
they receive worship from any
beings.
He announced to her: 1. That
the Lord is with her. This meant
nothing more than that, she had
the favor of the Lord, and was
chosen OF Him for great service.
2. He announced that she is bless
ed among women. Since the pro-
mise of the Messiah, who was to
spring up as root or stem of the
house of Jesse, the hope of the jew
ish woman was to be the mother of
Messiah. 1t fell to the lot of the
lowly,and modest Mary of Nazareth
to be the Mother of Jesus, "the Son
OF the Highest" the Mighty Re-
deemer Prince. For that she was
blessed among women. In "the
Magnificat" which Mary spake, in
the presence of Elizabeth, she said
of herself, any soul doth magnify
the Lord, and my spirit hath re.
joiced in God my Saviour. For he
hath regarded the low estate of his
hand maiden, for behold from
henceforth all generations shall
call me blessed.
IfMary was assured that she would
be held as blessed by all future
generations, in the sense of COM
manding their worshipfull rever-
ence Jesus himself made void any
such assumption, on subsequent
occasion when woman of COM
pany said unto him. BLESSED is the
womb that bare thee, and the paps
which thou hast sucked"
"But he said, yea rather blessed
are they that hear the word of God,
and keep it," (Luke XI, 27 and %.
From the point of view of the
scriptures as the standard of faith,
those words of Jesus settle the
matter of the blessedness which
may be affirmed of his mother.
BIOGRAPHY.
What do the New Testament
scriptures reveal concerning Mary
and Jesus? 1. They reveal the
fact that, Jesus was subject to Mary
and her husband Joseph, until that
time when under the priestly law
he could properly assume the func.
tions Of his life mission.
or his life from the return from
Jerusalem, when he was twelve
years of age, until his public mani.
festation, we have only the briefest
word: "And he went down with
them, and came to Nazareth, and
was subject unto them; but his
mother kept all these sayings in
her heart" (Luke ii, 5l.)
AS remarked by recent writer
"Whatever her ideas of the nature
or the future of her mystical Son
Mary had certain amount of faith
In bo.h. She was thoughtful, OBJ
servant, docile to the signs BY
which 1t was natural for a Jewish
mind to be governed in perplexine
matters; herselfa devoted, and al
ways an essentially womanly
woman, hence lovable mother
THE STORY OF JESUS CHRIST.
The attempts to signalize the
youth and manhood of Jesus by as
cribing to him works of superna
tural order, have been shown to bt
futile, by the mopstrous character
of the works as accredited to him
No one could possibly have been {
more interested observer of the life
OF Jesus than his Mother; nor would
any one, other than she, have taker
more pride In telling of any extra
ordinary works accomplished by
her Son.
But, there is not word writer
by any one of the fonr Gospe
writers setting forth anything Mary
should have said If any more thar
ordinary events In the life of Jesus