Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-15

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giyen unto him tla1 name which is]
above every ean,e. & sa
& :. Jesus ID supfsne In every power.
No other religion probably has been SOL
fiercely and perststently assailed. It
has been attacked with weapons carnal
and weapons spiritual. by Drawn and
muscle and subtiety Of brain, by the
jeer of Ignorance and the argument Of
learning, In open battle and secret con-
spiracy 1t has been fought with every
engine of destruction men can WELD.
But It enduree.
What is more remarkable, 1t has SUR
vived the folly OF Its friends-not It's
protested friends who stabbed 1t with
the dagger OF treachery, but Its real
friends. who thought they were doing
I 1t a service In the preparation OF stu
pendous blunders. How grossly Jesus
himself has been represented! What
monstrous doctrines have been pro-
claimed In His name! What follies have
been approved, what iniquities sane
toned, what crimes committed, in the
name of Christianity! OF all men Jesus
had most occasion to pray that He
might be delivered from his friends.
But His religion has outlived the
malice OF foes and the stupidity Of
friends. Its forms may change, its in-
stitutions may alter, the words I'M
which men formulate its doctrines may
vary, but its essential elements remain
as the rock foundations Of the conti-s
lnents beneath all the superficial
changes Of the landscape. because they
ARE vitalized by the power OF Him
whom God hath highly exalted and
given to Him the name which is above
Every name"
4 8. Jesus Is supreme as the worlds
teacher, What a tickle and uncertain
thing Is popularity. Today 1T swells
les away into the sands OF time and is
gone. A few months ago Kipling was
the literary celebrity of the day. His
writings may endure, but his recent
popularity affords no assurance that his
name will be known 100 years hence.
True, there are names in literature as
4 imperishable az that of Jesusa few.
But their works are found mainly upon
4 the shelves OF people of cultivated
literary tastes. It is the distinction of
Jesus that after nineteen hundred years
his words not only continue to be the
4 study of the learned. but the common
people hear him gladly as they did on
the shores of Galilee. His sayings are
translated into every tongue, they are
read in cabin and palace, they are
studied BY the learned and the illit-
crate. they are loved and quoted by the
A philosopher and the chilo. The teach
q ings of other men grow antiquated and
Hose their hold upon the world. The
Thoughts OF Jesus are still az fresh as
the dawn, while His words. seem neither
old nor new. They have in them the
4 breath of the eternities.
4 A. Jesus is supreme in character. His
4 lcharacter stands unrivaled. Among all
i the great ana good it is sun. while
they ale twinkling stars. II is the
A Himaiaya peak Of the moral world.
a His superior is not even conceivable.
A In other respects the ideal of men all
ways ovcrtops the actual. We can
il easily imagine better homes, better
Z governments. better inventions. better
4 poets. But we cannot even imagine q
4 better Jesus than the one OF the gos-
a pels. In Him the ideal and the actual
4 meet and blend in perfect union. His
tpersonallty fills the bounds of human
Inauguration and conception. The ideas
a he has given the world OF God and man
j, OF conduct and character, OF sin and
81 righteousness, of duty and destiny, arr
I, still the ne plus ultra. Drop the plum
Il met of your understanding into hi,
a words you touch no bottom. Scale tht
d loftiest attitudes Of His teaching. yol
reach no summit. Beyond Jesus we
q cannot go.
The Chaldean shepherds, with no Wis
/ lsual apparatus but the naked eye. saw
n many stars CALLED, with his first crude
!; telescope, saw more. The giant tubes OF
g today reveal myriads of Has hing worlds
& previously unknown. And as men pen.
II citrate farther and farther into the
. abyss of space they discover no limit
|, no point where the Almighty grew
{. weary of creating and stayed His hand
II They only find more suns, more stars
!, armies upon armies of the jeweled hosts
,slof night So. as the spiritual vision 81
n mankind grows more clear and pene-
a trating from age to age. men look int
IL the teaching and character of Jesu.
Y only to make new discoveries. New
q truths arise, new principles come K
sslight, new meanings appear, new
4 beauties flash upon our vision, while
!. beyond all that we can see in His minl
sl1te the illimitable regions thru which
II the secrets of the eternlties march il
!. starry spiendor.
who was this man? Since His da,
what revolutions have swept over thu
j, face of the earth? Thrones have beer
], reared and shattered; empires have
i ]3risen and vanished like dream: grea
$ Summaries have appeared and gone GU
\ in darkness or remain today as dis
/, tant. feeble stars. But the Sun tina
: rose over the Nazarine hills shines OF
/ and the passing years leave the nam.
i of Jesus undimmed and untarnished.
Who was this man-this carpenter
i son, baptized of John, an itiaeran
8 / preacher for three brief years. the,
q crucified among thieves? a genius
|. What is genius? What are its com
I. ponent elements? Where did He get it
i This is to call the mystery by anothe
J. name. After all our labored explana
.jstions that explain nothing, what othe
!. 4 solution is there than that Of Paul
J i.God highly exalted Him and gave unit.
"a Him the name which is above ever.
:! name; that at the name of Jesus ever.
) knee should bow, of things in HEAVIER
Land things in earth and things undel
. the earth; and that every tongu.