The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-03-29

the sea of Galilee and called AndreI
 and Peter and James and John from
 life of self service to a life of sel
 sacrifice. They left their poor old fath
 CT and their nets and all, to follow Hin
 only to find that they had no place t
 lay their heads. But they began to liv
 the crucified life, with the power there
 of when they gave up lower things fo
 higher and entered with Jesus on tn
 way of the cross.
 Jesus of Nazareth must lead thes'
 disciples from lower self-servict
 to lower self sacrifice or crucifixion
 The history of the world is the histor!
 of the development of men from self
 service to self-sacrifice. No one knows
 how many tens of thousands or hun
 dreds of thousands of years it took Got
 to train His children from the externa
 selfshness of saying All I have <
 mine and all you have is mine,' to say
 ing 'All l have is mine and all you
 have is yours According to the com
 mon chronology it took from 4000 BIC
 to 1500 BIG, to regulate their selfishness
 sufficiently to begin to teach them the
 law of justice in "an eye for an eye 'and NN Act sA tp'flii'
 men were taking all the teeth of the
 offender for the one lost it must have | seemed more than men could hope-tC
 stop with taking one tooth in revenge 1 When men had lived 1900 years unaer { the new ethical conception of justice as
 given in the Mosaic law God gave a
 new moral conception in Christ, and 1 Christ in the beginning of His ministry 1 gave an improvement on an eye for an f eye and a tooth for tooth" The 1 Mosaic law was do unto others as they 1 do unto you" In the sermon on the 1 mount Christ said do unto others as ye would like to have others do unto | you" The golden rule has something of the form and a little of the spirit of the old dispensation and was given at the beginning of Christs ministry to prepare the way for the life of crucifix- ion and the new and final command ment which he gave That We should love one another as he hath loved us" and that was to the limit of sacrifice As a moral power the cross is as much beyond the golden rule as the golden rule is beyond the ethics of the Mosaic law
 Selfishness or the devil tempted Jesus at the beginning to leave the way of the crucified life for lower self-interest The same power is working in the world to-day. Again when lower self interest incarnated itself in Peter who would persuade Jesus later in life to leave the way of the cross Jesus says
 Get thee behind me satan" To Jesus selfshness was the devil and sacrifice or love was God, To be lost was to be selfish to be saved was to be sacrificial and enter into fellowship with the cru cifxion. When Jesus had completed His crucifled life he led His disciples to the Mount of Olivet and lifted up hands hardly healed of the worlds wounds and blest them and sent them forth to live the life of continued crucifixion, and the power of the Apostolic church was the power of continuing the sacri- flee of Christ.
 Those few feeble, forsaken fishermen went to conquer the world and they had no power but the memory of q crucified life that was to be re-incarnated in their own lives and they conquered with the cross Beginning al Jerusalem they
  lives not dear unto themselves if they might continue the redemption of Christ by continuing the crucifiXion of Christ. They tell us that before twenty years had passed Matthew, of old Ro- man gatherer, was nearly 2000 miles to the southwest, where preaching the gospel among the Abyssnians, black skinned mob, pressed on him and he fell in death. At the same time Jade was nearly 2000 miles to the northeast where white men of the Caucasian race crucified him.
 James found martyrdon in Jerusalem When two score years had passed all the disciples save one who had stood | with Jesus on Olivet had achieved a violent death and had continued the 1 crucifxion of the Christ and had enter 1 ed into the fellowship of his sufferings. l They blazed paths of light through the | tangled forest of human ignorance and | sin and when they fell in death the | torch was snatched up by others who would share the fellowship of the suf- fering of Christ
 The marvellous power which the early | church exerted in the world was the | power of continuing the crucif1xion
 When Jesus laid the perpetual injunc- | ion warm upon the heart of the church | .o Ego and disciple the nations,'' he sent hem out to fill up what was lacking in | 1is own suffering, and to perpetuate his passion on the earth.
 The injunction to crucifxion com hands earnestness and forbds a mega i've religion.
 Before Christ's crucfyion he who did | 10 bad was good; since Christ's cruci- ixion he who does no good is bad.
 Unto us it is given in behalf of Christ lot only to believe in Him, but also to uffer for His sake" If the church of o-day lacks power she lacks crucfix- on, or love that works through sacr- ice, The church or the individual hav- ng power has sacrifice first.
 There is no way to make an atore- nent between the disobedient children md God to-day except through con- inual crucifixion. There is no saliva ion in the world to-day if there be no rucifixion to-day.
 The way to heaven to-day is over as it was nineteen hundred ears ago.
 The way to hell to-day is self service; he way to heaven to-day is self sacri- ice.
 The historical Christ and the histori-