The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-04-21

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 gi%a peace to the soul, Tn a manager il
 Bethlehem there is born the Christ
 And there were in the same countr!
 shepherds in the field keeping watcl
 over their 1ocks at night; and, To! tht angel of the Lord appeared unto then
 saying, fear not, for behold, brine you good tidings of great joy which
 shall be to all people. For unto you i' born this day in the city of David, z
 Seviour which is Christ the Lord Ano
 suddenly an angelic choir sang the anthem, Glory to God in the highest l and on earth peace among men IT | whom He is well pleased Hencefortr 1 the Messiah of promise is the Jesus oi | Nazareth. At the age of thirty lie l travels the hillsides and valleys of | Judea to declare unto the people Hls ministry of love. Multitudes delight to
 follow Him: He selects only few however, to become His disciples Through parables and divers miracles He expounds the principles of the New | Kingdom that is beginning on earth. | The scribes and Pharisees antagonize | Him so that prosecutions arise. De serted by His disciples. even betrayed | by one of them, alone in the agony or 1 Gethsemane, without one advocate be- fore the law, arrayed In a crown or | thorns and a purpole robe, the Son or | God and Saviour of Man dies on the cross at Calvary But divine justice IS paid atonement is provided for the race. our blessed gospel is sealed with the blood of it's founder. The crucified ;e, 1,la on6 in 1 sealed tomb, but the seal is broken and the
 Saviour arises in resurrection-llte ana ascends unto heaven, where lie ever liveth to make intercession for us. By the life, work, death, resurrection ana
 ascension of Christ. God made known
 unto the world the full and complete
 revelation of His love and will concern
 ing man And it hath pleased Goa oy
 the preaching of this gospel Of Christ 10
 save them that believe.
 "The Jews had been seeking salVatlon
 through the observances of the LeVlt-
 ical laws looking and hoping for the corning of their promised Messlam who
 ebouId establish 2 temporal kingdom and deliver them from bondage under q foreign power. As sign Of HIS conn ing they expected that He would arse in a palace and come forth Victor on the field of battle To be born Tn a
 manager, to suffer hunger and thirst, to live in noverty, 10 die on the cross All this was a stumbling block to the Jew
 But Paul, a citizen of no mean clty, a scholar of no mean education ana re-
 inement, one who had sat at the rect of the great teacher Gamanel, IS brought under the influence and pow CT of the gospel. To him also it had all once been foolishness But on that journey to Damascus, his pride was humbled. his heart was touched, the light of the world was shut out that the slofy of Jesus Christ might flood his soul and from that time his life was After a season of retire ment and preparation he enters the ministry. He breaches the gospel not with the wisdom of words but in the power of God. Not to confound the world with his learning but to save human souls. His character and his work emphasized his | words: I am not ashamed of the gos l pei of Jesus Christ for it is the power of | God unto salvation To the Greeks ] who prided themselves on their great | erudition and looked upon the preach | ng of the gospel as foolishness, Paul 1! declares that words found in the text | which breathes the most cutting irony | Tt pleased God by the foolishness of | preaching to save them that believe
 What is to be said concerning the of to-day? From thousands # pulpits Gods message to man is be | ng declared Sabbath after Sabbath. What is it's power? National legisla- ion, public virtue, commercial inter- curse mechanical invention, freedom # thought, freedom of the press, popu- ar education, are all efficient forces in ur civilization, but the preaching of | he Lord Jesus Christ in demonstration l f the spirit and of power is the only force that is destined to save cen.
 Wherefore is the preaching of the ospel called foolishness? Has the gos- el been tested by criticism and has 1t ailed to stand the test? The many at ave most conspicuously failed The ospel narratives as recorded by the our evangelists appeal to the scholar hip of the world and are receiving on very hand a vindicatfon of their truth llness. Do men now doubt the purity f the life the sincerity of the love, le efficiency of the work of Him of 1 nom the gospel teaches" Fag from 7! Jesus Christ has exemplified to the | |