The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-04-11

' 4AfAE LASESs lAA1OAEl P64 dbtS 1l4A pue4u and picture, the greater truth which Jesus meant to teach has been pre- served and ever more firmly fixed in , the heart of the world. Make me a man." said king to an artist! He cut 1 superb figure in purest marble and brought it to the palace. Tt cannot breathe cried the king, make me a mani" He made a figure of wax, with rich color whose blood seemed almost beating in its veins; "it is cold.' cried the king, make me man." Then the artist took a poor beggar from the street, cleaned him and dressed him and took him by the hand and led him to the king, saying, 70 king, I could not make a. man myself, but here is 1 one whom God made and I have found And the king answered, ''The man who saves is nearly like in great ness to the Godwho makes" Theles- son of the legend is the lesson of Jesus and has become the creed of the new humanitye
 But why does Jesus law of love hold all that man needs or hopes to attain as society? Because love is the great unifying, competing. welding princi- 1 pie, teaching men to hope all things, forgive all things, and suffer all things for each others sake.
 l A few weeks after Jesus death the world began to see the working out of his principle in community life, the building of a new kingdom within the kingdoms of the earth. Jerusalem was thronging with men of every national l ity under heaven. In an obscure up- per room little group of loving men are praying for the descent of the Com 1 forter; as they pray tongues of fire touch their heads and they go out to 1 hold the first Christian service, and the motley nultitudes hear the first Chris tian preacher proclaiming the love of God in Jesus Christ. Within the voice Of Peter they hear the voice of the Spirit speaking to every man in the ! tongue of his mother; their hearts melt together and they cry out, Brethren, 1 how may We enter into this blessed, heavenly fellowshinp?" Out of those 1 diverse, naturally hostile clements, the Christian society was constructed, weld ed by the principle of love, and they had all things in common; neither did any call aught that he had his own, but 1 held all subject to the demands of the new law. It was that apparition looming against the Judean sky that startled and confused the pagan world and moved Celsius, the great esOteric philosopher, to write that indictment of the Christian system which has been of | LIDo IAus.4 .It t.s friends, because it has preserved for us the teaching and practice of the time in deathless inpeachable history. And what was the point of Celsius attack? l This very mysterious, unheard of law of love that held men in compact
 self denying brotherhood. He objected
 to the whole system, because it preach.
 ed glad tidings to the poor and despis-
 ed and made proselytes of them, lifted up the outcast and the vicious and took theminto the brotherhood, and so threat.
 ened the very foundation of the social
 order. Poor Celsius, Poor, purblind
 disciples of Celsius in every age, how of ten we have heard of this threatened
 destruction of the very foundation oi
 the social order!
 The Jewish sacred books relate that once before men had sought to organ. ize and unify, but by another principle
 the principle of separation and selfish
 ambition. Ii was on the plain of Shin.
 ar, and they said, Go to let Us build
 a city. great city, strong and compact
 and let us build a tower, the highest tower ever raised, from whose top we
 may look into heaven and get the se- crets of the infinite wisdom. But as
 they built suspicious, jealousies, hat, reds were engendered, quarrels ragged tongues were confused and the builders were scattered every whther. That may be only tradition but the tradition
 embalms truth perpetually pertinent The principle they had selected as a
 unifying principle was really an eter. jnally divisive principle, wedge tc split men apart and irretrievably separ. ate them; they could not organize
 around it. At Pentecost the impulse was from above, it melted hearts an6
 wakened love; at Babel the impulse was from beneath, it created antagonis- tic interests, wakened jealousy and 1separated by great bridgeless chasms.
 To teach men the difference between selfishness and love as an organizing principle was the task that brought Jesus to the earth; the reason the
 world is a better world today thar when he entered it is because the prin' ciple he brought has been at work through all the years and the Kingdom
 of God has been extending itself on the
 earth. The law of love has had hard
 struggle with the principle of the lais
 sez-faire, with selfishness and ambi.
 ceased to grow. and when you look
 back you see how 1t has strewn tn, track of the centuries with the wrecks of creeds and customs and institutions
 that were once thought impregnable That record is only the prophecy oi
 what is to be- and the time is coming
 when the law of love will be the univer.
 sally recognized working principle oi
 society. Let us not be blind to tn,
 signs of the times. In the second cen. Itury Celsius objected to Christianity
 because it cared for the poor, the unfor. tunate and the vicious and his objec- I tion expressed the feeling of the vast
 majority of thinking men. What are
 the conditions to-day? Every story ot
 wrong, of oppression, of injustice ant
 cruelty rouses the world. Churches ane statesmen stretched their kindly hands to Armenia, and Christian sentiment
 everywhere condemned the selfish in. action of the great powers; mighty