The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-09-24


human beng--the only human being that
was total man. There have been great
men. Caesar was great man. for he
carved out for himself a great empire
Caesar was the first expansionist, the first
man who believed that his nation had
mission TO rule the world because his ma
ton had a higher light than the world had
and better civilization than the world had.
Caesar was great because Caesar felt that
Rome was obligated 10 give her strength
10 the world where the world was weak.
Where Paul could say The Jews are debt
ors TO the Greeks and TO the barbarians,
Caesar could say The Romans are debtors
TO the Jews and 10 the Greeks Caesar was
a great man, but still ne was limited. he
was bounded. he lived no life in the spirit
world-just In the Roman world, that was
his world.
plato was great man, the purest intel
lect that ever shone a ray of light upon
the domain of the mind. the greatest think
er that ever stood upon this earth. Be
tween 500 and $50 years before Christ this
man thought and yet the Platonic philoso-
ply lives to-day and has never been so
powerful as it is to-day. The deepest. rich
est. highest. loveliest gospel that is being
preached i'm the Christian pulpit to-day is
the gospel touched with Platonism. Fred
erick Robertson was a Christian Platonist,
Henry Ward Beecher was Christian Pla-
tonist and Phillips Brooks was a Christian
Platonist. And yet, great though Plato
was, he was partial, he limited, and
all you have to do is to read the Platonic
dialogues. TO feel how partial, how very lin
tied he was.
DR. Milburn referred to Darwin as a great
man, but declared his confession shameful
that he could find little of interest in even
the great novels, hardly anything of in
terest in Shakespeare, of whom the minister
spoke as ''the myriad-minded man" The
minister dwelt at length upon Christs
physical life and upon his intellectual sub
telty and acumen. and declared that all
the great modern thinkers are becoming
Christian theists.
LOVE FOR HUMANITY.
DIR. Milburn's peroration was character
lied by it's beauty OF diction and its feeling
reference to the coal strike. He said:
Christ loved humanity through all of its
countries and through all of its extent with
a love that was as deep his being, and
He loved all kinds and conditions of men
mark tuat He loved the rich and the poor,
the poor and the rich. He loved the wise
and the ignorant, the ignorant and the
wise. He loved the good and the bad. and
the bad and the good. How wonderful His
lovel No one so base that Jesus Christ did
not love him, no one so much pariah that
He was not willing to be his friend, no one
WILING wi i to approve that person as mis-
brother or his sister before humanity and
before the throne of God. oh, the heart of
Christi Don't let US sentimentalize, let us
think of Jesus as he really lived and You
will see I'M His daily living the exhibition
of the greatest heart-power that has ever
been revealed to man. l-tell you. you are
not the Savior $ men unless you have the
Christ heart. Christ wants you TO be good,
Christ wants you TO be wise but He wants
you far more to be loving than He wants
you to be good as He wants you far more
to be good than He wants you 10 be wise
Those will have priority and supremacy in
the kingdom of God, not who have known
much, but who have loved much. My
| friends, it is a great power IL is a great
secret. If we had loved we would be So
| cially just and we are not: we would be
| just to our neighbor. for love is simply an
| other way of spelling justice, another way
| of defining equity. l have never known a
| brother who loved brother to lie about a
| brother. l have never known a brother
+! who loved brother misinterpret a broth
| ers motives. have never known a brother
| who loved a brother who was suspicious of
| his brother Love drives out fear it drives
| out the malignant devils from our hearts
and makes us just and makes us generous
| and makes us kind. Love, too. is the great
social power.
THE COAL STRIKE.
Look at this world to-day look at this
| America tonight, with its great strike of a
| hundred thousand men and more in the
State of Pennsylvania Is that necessary?
Must we go on and go on with these differ
ences coming up month by month between
employer and employe? You never find
division where love is, only where greed is,
| only where avarice is only where lust is,
and there is this division in the industrial
world and that division will exist just so
! long as Just lisa greater power in life than
| love. Arbitration boards will do very lit
| tie and militia will do less TO the solution
| of this awful problem. Only one thing will
! bring in the kingdom of God into our in
! dustrial affairs, and that is the great
! secret, the great master secret of Jesus,
| that we shall. even in the affairs of money,
| love one another with the love wherewith
| He loved us. My beloved friends, Chris
tianity Is the vaguest of things-it is, on
| the other hand. the most concrete, the
| most definite of things, and my prayer is
| that you will pray for me to become a
| Christ-man-my prayer Is for you that you
| may become Christs men and Christ S
| women. oh, 1t is great, Ii is a glorious,
| ii is noble, it is beautiful, it is a stately
| life TO which the Master calls u.s. May we
go to Him and learn to love Him more, In
order that by the love We give Him He
| may give yet more love to us and so re-
| deem us moment by moment deeper and
| deeper into the sweet, white, lustrous,
| peaceful city of God"
|