New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-01-16

shine, when leaves stand dripping and motloness;
and every perfumed bush is full Of sound r sms
each tranquil hour is full Of radiant victory mus
Christ has passed swiftly from the midnight OF
Gethsemane TO the serene victory OF HIS Ascension"
morning.
CHRIST A REvOLUTIONIST
Consider Chrtst's intellectual supremacy mani
fest in His statement that the only sure OASIS OF
social advancement Is the progress or the common
people Until His time all philosophers Ead hrgueu
that the only way 10 elevate the multltuue WIS 10
strengthen the pntrIcian classes exaltng rs iead-
ers the Sons OF strength the sons OF genius great
generals But Christ announced revolutionary
principle. He came forward saying that the leader
is only a step In advance OF :he pilgrim band' that
the great statesman and deliverer must ma III inc
atmosphere OF the people their nourishment ana
stimulus that since the people follow Dest nero
who best understands them the true leader comes
from among the common people and is lifted up
upon their shoulders; and this principle meant more
TO society than Newtons principle OF gravity meant
in the movement OF the stars and suns. FROM 'ne
very moment that Christ proclaimed the rise anu
reign OF the people. the generations passed unuel
the influence of his great Impulse thrones eti
to come down and the people to go up. SoT Tad
sons and daughters Of strength. like Ambrose and
Bernard and Dickens. and Stowe dedicaaeu 'n and
the neglected poor As time went on II was ,oup h
that events fully justified chTisrs emphaSF5 From In the
poor have come the great leaders. from Moses o TO
4o% David F[0% 9th the he RS0s %
with his plough From the poor have come the
great inventors like Watt and Stephenson, rom ,
Tss like GorFess eorot and Me scientists
who like Newton and Ferguson, have been trained
in the school OF adversely. When Cnrlst De.
guardian angel beside each sleeping pap; hoot
and unfurled the flag Of equality above slave mar,
and palace alike all society felt n new IIIpux,sr'
and the race that hitherto had crept Slow h l
ward climbed into the golden chariot WIN LIS tra
and swept swiftly on toward those heignts "heie
wisdom and happiness do we'll
HIS IDEA OF GOD
Chrtsts thought OF God was that OF being
affirmed that God was mans Father who had made
His earthly child In His own image; that man Is a
miniature of the Divine Being: that what reason
and judgment and memory and love IN the
small are In man they are In the large IN the
great God In that statement lie GROUNDED tne
possibility OF communion with God az the SOU
father II music ir the heart answers to music l"
the hearer melody is possible If the telephone III
one house corresponds TO the instrument III an
other conversation Is possible And because man
soul is keyed to Gods mind the great Truths Oh
conscience and beauty. the new heart. the heavehy
the universe slip smoothly and easily INTO the
mind OF the waif the Hottentot, the slave, Mo'!ts
on in His thought. Christ revealed, 1ou ti al
worlds burden bearer. full OF an exquisite
and sympathy that what lie was rhrough tnIee
and thirty years. God through al me t nsss
that what He to publican ana slnntI ~ 10y, ~,
in ali words that human tear iails Dut , 1Ut
feels II. that no blow smiles the SUFFERING ...
hut God shrinks and suffers; that WIN "i VIII
longing he follows the publicn anu recdver The
youth to his integrity or lead the man s'o"" Buy
in sin back TO Ills Fathers house