The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-09-23
BISHOP WILLIS TO ATTEND
CONVENTION OF AMERICANS

loving devoted service and hail Him
King" the man who can"
We love and follow Christ Jesus be-
cause of His proved ability He has I'M
questionably left more good influences for
| the salvation of society, and more seed
truths for improved national and inter
national law, and more personal encour-
agement for individual reformation, than
any other, or indeed all other, leaders
among men. Not referring now to His
divine place in the hearts of men, and
| simply recognizing the historical work
of Jesus and its results, We must bow in
reverence before Him as the most manly
man in the manifestation of power
| 1t was involuntary tribute which was
| paid to simple truth by workingman in
! Chicago. 1t was in meeting for free
discussion presided over by Prof Ora
ham Taylor. One workingman criticized
the churches, spoke with sheer of pro-
| feSsors of religion, and then attacked
Jesus as the founder of such churches.
Another workingman who had but little
! to do with churches rose and said: You
may say what you will about churches
and men and their faults, but 1 cannot
hear you speak against Jesus Christ He
is the best friend the workingman ever
had"
| This sterling truth concerning the po-
| sition Jesus occupies in the world today
l-.'all power in heaven and in EARTH" is
more and more clearly being seen as in
| His hands. The manifest man in the
possession and use of power is Jesus
Christ for He has made use of his '.all
power for the benefit of mankind alone.
| For Himself, He sought nothing. He
had the power to make Himself of no
reputation that He might send forth in
| huences to lift men to exalted conditions
of education and haDDineSS
! The ability to do evil is only the mis-
used ability to do good. 1t is power turn
| ed in the wrong direction. The ''all
power of Jesus Christ, therefore, is the
supervision of all forces looking toward
right doing. All such power is handed
over to become subject to direction This
is the place where Christ will manifest
| the highest degree of authority and
greatness possible among men. Here is
where He becomes the Supreme man
| the only one able to direct in the right
way-all power on earth.
| We judge the ability of Jesus Christ
not only by the degrees of excellence
which He has attained but also by His
having overcome defects which have
made other men failures. The power of
Christ was never arrogant. Some men
have spoiled their really strong charac
tiers by what is called superciliousness.
They think about their position in soci-
ETY., their wealth, their beauty, their ed
ucation. Or some strong quality they pos
| sess, until they feel above other men,
They become arrogant. Just so far as
| this feeling develops into d selfish. over
| bearing manner of dealing with men, so
far are the really good qualities of our
excellent person disgraced in the eyes of
his fellow men.
| No one can ever charge the powerful
on nf IA writ n inc, hon ltx
overbearing, arrogant spirit in His labors
among men.
No one can ever say He was malicious
He was never sarcastic. Words are
sharper than any two-edged sword, and
| the words of Christ were never unkind
or inhuman. He spoke plainly, but al
| ways that men might become better.
\ Jesus was never selfish in His use of
| powers Bread for Himself He did not
make. He made 1t for the five thousand
Jesus was never unreasonable. It is
wonderful that with His power to unfold
infinite things He never asked men to
do what they could not do. He did not
| require of His followers many things
which He has the unquestioned right to
ask of men of more enlightened times,
and yet He made right doing imperative
according to their understanding of right
and wrong. In Him was power which
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power without the common defects We
| hail Him King among men.
| MIR. COREY ON REMEMBRANCE.
| The following is an extract of Rev.
A E. Cory's sermon to his people at
II a. M, at the Christian church. sun
day. The text was as follows:
| Remember Jesus Christ - Tim,
rs.
Remember Jesus Christ, risen from
the dead, of the seed of David. nv.
| Robert E. Speer in his noted SER
| mon on the above text, tells how dur
| ing a trip on a houseboat on river
in Southern China that he noticed how
much stronger the reading of the re-
| viSed version of the text of this ser
mon is than that of the King James
version. For my sermon thfs morning
| l want to take the clause, Remember
| Jesus Christ as that which will lead
us in our study today. l appreciate
very much the Importance of this oc-
| cason and this hour. In using this text
L do not want to make general appii-
| cation, as did Mr.. Speer, but l want
to use it as the basis of the last mes
sage / shall deliver especially to the
church In studying the life of Jesus
we are all of US impressed with his
| thankfulneSS and his forgiveness, L
would impress these things upon you.
Remember Jesus Christ in these par
ticulars. Paul certainly meant TO i'm
press upon us the man Jesus when he
used the expression Jesus Christ"
The Lords messiah he calls in other
places Christ Jesus" In speaking of
the thankfulness' and forgiveness OF
Jesus we realize the strength of these
traits as they appear in the man Je-
sus. Today I want very much to re-
member His example in these particu-
lars. 1 think we are all apt to forget
to express our thankfulness for those
things which have been done for u.s.
| 1 realize that during the sixteen
months have labored in this city that
many kindnesses have been shown me
by this church, by the pastors and
members of the other churches in the
city, and by many who are. not mem
bers of any church-the business and
professional people of the community
at large. I may not have shown this
appreciation as I should, but as l
stand today practically at the close OF
nv labor as Christian worker In
this field, want to thank all who have
been kind and considerate during our