The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-08-21

est scope of life is found In his service
there is room for ambition and develop
ment together with seif-denfal and sacri-
fee His service means sacrifice of the
lower and the earthly for the sake of de-
velopment and progress toward the high
er and heavenly. Lord, thou hast the
" ords of eternal life"
Men need a spotless leader; they need
a moral hero, in whom they can implicit
ly trust to whom they can give unreserv-
ed devotion. The demand for the con-
crete is so strong that mere theories and
abstract principles do not satisfy. We see
these embodied in some great man and
ere we know it we are following the man
Instead of the abstract theory. Now If
men need moral hero whom they can
follow and who will be an everything
presence and power, where can a greater
be found than Christ Jesus? As some one
has said Leadership was natural to
Jesus. To make disciples He needed only
to say, Follow met His will was re-
sistless; enemies could not override Him;
Satan could not battle Him! death itself
could not defeat Him. Standing alone
against the world, there was majesty and
supremacy in every attitude and aspect of
His life A leader He was and spotless
too. We find in Christ absolute freedom
from consciousness of sin. His stainless
purity was remarkable in an age when So
cety was corrupt from top to bottom. He
alone of all characters in history can just
lly be said to have lived with no conscious
ness of moral unworthiness. But Jesus
laIpears to us not only altogether inno-
cent, but positively and completely holy.
He was not simply spotless but was act
lively virtuous. He was the Holy One of
God. To my mind these words describe
ncthing short of God Himself. That
Christ. the Holy one of God, is divine, Is
the only sufficient explanation of His life
and person. His heart was ever open
tcw ard God and man, with an apparent
consciousness of perfect oneness with
both" Here is a moral hero that can
meet the highest demand. He satisfies
not only the demand for a noble leader,
but also every need and want of the life.
Because the twelve apostles found all
their wants supplied in Christ, they re-
fused to depart from Him. He alone is
the universal man and redeemer who
meets the needs of man intellectually,
morally and spiritually. Nothing less
tLan God himself can do this. Christ sat
lisfies every need of man because He is
ldivine, and He is divine because He salts
fies every need
Why follow Him? To whom else shall
We go? He alone has aroused within us
the desire for this grander, eternal life
He alone can give us the power to realize
it; He alone can satisfy our demand for
a sinless leader and kindle our hearts tc
zeal for righteousness. The great test Is
Everyday human experience. When alone
by ourselves, away from the stress an6
turmoil of life, IL is easy for us to specu-
late and philosophiZe and apparently sat
lisfy our hearts with this. But when We
lcom back to the world of sin and selfish
ness our speculations vanish; we cry ou
for words of life that are true; We neet
a spotless character, holy personalit!
! to guide US on our path. Then We lool
, at Christ and listen to His words and ar
convinced that He is the only Master TO
us. o Lord, We will follow Thee. '"T'
, whom shall we go? Thou hast the word
, of eternal life; and we have believed an,
, know that thou art the Holy One o
: God