The Morris County chronicle., 1903-12-18
PUBLIC MEETING in CHURCH
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told you is simply sample Of the pres
ent attitude of the East toward the
Christmas message, if it be borne to
them without the interposition of
Sectarian particulars and in spirit of
respectful love.
Now as to the subject of this mes
sage, for | would not have you suppose
that | went there simply to deal with
philosophical distractions. | bad been
advised by some to cast my theories
aside, as it would never do to be too
Ioutspoken but it seemed to me that
there was no place for diplomacy in
the presentation of the essential mes
sage of Jesus Christ. And you will
agree with me that there was little
diplomacy in the public themes on
those lectures. The lectures were six
in number. The general title of the
course was christian Conceptions in
terpreted by Christian Experience, y
and the specific themes were these,
l. The Nature of Religion.
,. The Christian Idea of God Inter-
preted by Experience.
3. The Lord Jesus Christ, the SUI
preme Manifestation of God.
4. The Son of Man and the Sacri
flee of Christ.
5. The Christian Ideas of Holiness
and Immortality interpreted by Ex-
perience.
Reasons for regarding Christian
= Do1i irriC
Now, with this statement Of fact,
will you permit me to gather up the
results, and present to you in the clos
ing part Of my address, the impress
sions that were made upon my mind
or some of them, by reason of this
wide range of observation and person
al intercourse.
The deepest impression made upon
my mind, perhaps, was this, the abSo-
lutte oneness of the human race the
absolute oneness OF the human race.
Since my return, cultivated women
have said to me, g When you speak Of
the people of India, they do not seem
to me like real human beings, and
cannot think of them as people like
ourselves, a very natural idea to
have, but one chat disappears after
such experiences as | have related
May we think about the world as it is ;
for, whereas there are numerous and
striking ditferentiations between races
and nations occurring in the nature of
the case by reason OF our different
places of residence, our different con-
ditiOns of life, while there are differ
enceS of language, of color, of religious
belief, of social structure, and of tradi-
tionS, there is underneath all of these
differentiations, q common ground
where exist common affairs, common
capacities for suffering, common possi-
bilities of joy, common powers of love,
and common yearning after God.
feel to-day that the whole world is
one. As boy-looking on the map of
the world, Il saw my familiar Amer
! ica, and New York city, my birth
place, and there it seemed to me, that
| knew, and was known; that | under
stood and could be understood. And
after that, | saw those colored spaces
on the map lying beyond the oceans,
they seemed as unreal and as remote
and as alien to me as the continents
outlined ON the face of the silver
moon. Tonight the map of the world
is the map of home, and the thought
of the world is the thought of brother
hood no idle and emotional fiction
but fact founded in the psychological
difference of human nature, and that
truth which has its great correlatiye
in the incarnation of the Son of God
If the incarnation of the Son of God is
provincial and national, then is human
life diverse and unrelated then are