The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-03-13

ness is not on the highway of holiness.
Christ is the way-is our Logos. Christ
is the supplement of human weakness and
ignorance-helps where we most need help.
Abraham and David looked through every
sacrifice to him.
1.-THE Jew claimed Abraham as his faith
er. In Christ we are taught to say, Our
Father who art in heaven Not only
bowling to power. but in love walking in
the will of the Father.
'.To reject Christ is to reject all he
taught He taught His sonship and propi-
tiation. You cannot divorce Christ and
His teachings
1.-The cross is a mystery. yet no one dis
penses with it without serious loss. No
man in his right mind can see himself
sinner and not long for a savior. IN
worthiness is no bar to our favor in the
eyes of Him who loved US.
I'm giving us the gospel the Father has
added charm and pathos. Every gift
is enhanced tenfold if given in sincere
love. The entire plan of the gospel and
its spirit and intent Is such that when
closely and sincerely studied we must be
filled with delight inexpressible. Our
clearest knowledge of the Father is
through His Son, who has revealed him.
Wherever the Son is rejected as divine.
the knowledge of the Father seems vague,
and most of these claim that even that
knowledge is fading away.
1.-THE world is described very largely by
the eyes through which it is seen. Take
away faith in Christ and all looks dark
and uninviting. Introduce an intelligent
faith in Christ into any human heart and
a new life has begun. Every fragment of
faith leads upward. In every soul there is
the consciousness of an all-seeng eye, of
an ever-loVing Savior. We must worship
or do violence to our own higher nature
Our souls cry out for the light. Without
faith in Christ all faith in God is feeble
incomplete. short-lived. Historically, pure
theism is all but impotent. 1t builds moth
ing 1t asks only to tear down and de-
stroy. For all of this 1t gives you moth
ing. Mohammedanism is our best example
of unitarianism. 1t is a Christless religion.
As religion it is a failure. AS a blight
ing. cruel force. it is a success. close
inspection of the troubles this side of the
Atlantic would reveal the same cause.
viz: a Christless religion. Why does not
the church more frequently move men?
Why can sin so openly and detantly vio-
late the laws of God and the State? There
is too much Christless religion. A Christ
less religion in a civilized land lacks pow
err, lacks initiative. 1t will not risk posi-
tions of pleaure and profit.
'Faith in Christ is the secret of a quiet
heart. There is no use to say, Let not
your heart be troubled unless you finish
the sentence.
'Ths faith opens the heart like the win
dows of the ark, admitting the dove of
peace and the olive branch. AS the moral
nature is cultivated we recognize moral
| order in the universal law of righteous
ness. a lawgiver and judge. We must
| see Him in his holiness-can't worship
| mere power. Power worship demonizes.
| Worship of intellect degrades the moral
nature. We must have the perfect blend
| ing of all his attributes.
belief is emotional as well as intellec-
| tual Every moral and social truth so pre-
scented as to be believed carries sympathy
| and feeling. No emotion would naturally
mean no religion. Faith is inextingusha-
| BILE When Professor Tyndall walked
among the clouds during a sunset upon
| the Alps, his companion said Can you
| behold such a sublime scene as this and
| not feel that there is God?' He answer
| ed: oh, feel it. l feel it as much as any
| man can feel it, and I rejoice in it; if you
| do not tell me | can prove it.
"Sir Walter Scott. when dying, said to
his son-in-law: 'Lockhart, read to me.
What book shall 1t be-? said Lockhart
He replied: There is but one book. From,
it read me the 18th chapter of john"