The University daily. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 18??-????, 1898-06-06


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te<pousible for knowing There Il an
ignorance which men cannot plead II
Justification Of their sins. Christians
cannot afford to SAY. that drunkenness
Of. unchastity Or deceit will not be
punished, I linger for T fear that
some Of 5us are inclined to attempt to
make terms with righteousness which
Is the strength Of our holy religion.
We cannot afford to do it. Unright-
eOusness is sin.
But IL the strength of righteous
ness is an essential element in char
acter, the beauty Of charity is no less
essential. just as the Corinthian
capital gives grace and beauty to the
whole column, SO the beauty OF char
ity gives grace and charm to Christian
character. The strength Of righteous
ness we must have, but II we shall
win this world to our Christ there
ought to be added to it the beauty
which finds expression in such graces
AS love and gentleness and kindness.
II it were not for the strength back
OF Christian philanthropy there
would be no Christian philanthropy.
And If the beauty Of charity were not
added to the. strength of righteous
ness, there would be no Christian
philanthropy. The two must go hand
IL hand for the conquest Of, this
WQrldstrength Of righteousness and
beauty of charity.
8 second reason why Christ is pre-
enlinently fitted to be a standard
bearer for manhood is because He has
expeYiencsd our e.rpel Fences, and .kl,oaes
on need hot stop here. The
appsEeiit. II i an to have
. working model for ny life, that
model must be a living personality.
It must be personality, too, closely
related to my life. I have long be-
lieved that the reason for offering
prayers to Mary, the mother Of Jesus,
In the Roman Catholic church, is be-
cause Of the fact that in the early
middle ages so much emphasis was
put upon the Divine nature of Christ
that the human nature was lost sight
of, and Christ in His Divine nature
without the human was SO far away
from men that in their thought and
their prayers they could not, reach
Him. He was for, them the Divine
Christi but far away from them.
They wanted human Christ as we'll
dis Divine. The theology of the
time could provide no such Christ for
them. They die. therefore what. was
most reasonable, they prayed to the
mother Of Jesus. is only in recent
years that Christendom has been
brought to see the medieval misrep-
resentation Of Christ's character. AS
we read the New Testiment He is the
human Christ as certainly as He is
the Divine. We cannot stand in the
presence Of this personality without
feeling that He was touched with
the feeling of our infrlnities,' and
tempted In all points like as we
are. He knew our birth, our life
land our death, He knew Loneliness
and companionship. He knew suffer.
inc and JOY. He knew The delights
oItQI. and the pain d not knowing
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most lntlnats friends BE knew TIC
glad shouts of the multitude in His
praise, and He knew also the fierce
shrieks Of the rabble as they cried out,
Away with Himl Cruelty Himl'' he
experienced our experiences he
knew our life. Because Of this His
words must be for as words full of
meaning, and His life fit standard
for our lives. He does not say to
those who believe in HimssGo, I, but
aGome, follow Me-" He is ever be-
fore US IN our experience, in every
doubt and dependency, IN every con-
quest, in every sorrow, and Id every
ministry, 4.. 10
But Christ is also fitted to be- a
standard for manhood because ne Is
a'' attractive personality, Canon Lid
don once put into words what has
been often thought BY many Of us
when He said, mot to be interested
in the life Of Jesus Chrfstis to be, /
90 not say irreligious, but unintelli-
gent. TIL to be insensible to the
nature and claims ofsthe most power
ful force that has ever moulded
thought and sEayed the destinies Of
civilized man. The question. what
think We Of Christie, is one which, will
not down Some questions are only
incidental They may be answered
q not. Here Is one which demands
ala answer. Men sometimes say, we
delay an answer. \ Bot they do uot
aelag They have nnconsciously