The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-11-23
Christianity as Taught by Christ
Eighth of the Series Of Sermons Delivered by
Or. n. S. Bradley and Published by The Constitution
The Ninth will be Printed Next Monday.

| ances before this time were few. but ono
! of them was the occasion of His visit to
the temple, when, In majestic indignA-
| ton, He seized a wlsp of straw and
! drove the oney-changers and dove
| sellers pellmell from the court Of the
| Gentiles. He referred to Himself as
| meek upon the occasion Of the behead-
| Ing OF John the Baptist. It was as IL
| He said, Yes I know that Herod has
cut off Johns head and that they say
| he is likely to cut off Mine; but go tell
mat Jackall that l have programme
| that I shall carry out and am not to be
| terrified or turned aside"
Jesus was meek. the meekest man that
| ever lived on the earth, but Jesus stood
| IN the presence of the scribes and Phar-
| isees and poured out volcanic food up
| on them The woes" which He pro-
nounced upon them have been called
| Philippe. but Dcmosthenes' arraignment
| OF Philip is not to be mentioned In the
! same breath with the terrible arraicn-
ment Of these hypocrites who were shut
| ting the doors of the kingdom in mems
| faces
Jesus was meek, calm in the conscious
ness of great power. when, in Gethse-
name on the night of His arrest He
! stood undaunted before the rabble that
had come with lanters. sticks and hlud-
| seons to take Him. His very meekness
struck them dumb and they fell back
ward upon the ground as dead men.
He was meek when In the presence of
PLATE. He stood calm, self-possessed
and dignifIed while the mob hooted, ieer-
| ed and screamed for His blood. There
was self-control. There IS not one sug-
that He ever lost this perfect poise, this
self-mastery, this meekness
What is the reward of q character like
this? Jesus answers that they shall il
heiit the earth. This expression was n
great surprise to most OF His hearers
| His auditors were composed principally
| Of Jews and they had been caught 10
believe that the children Of Abraham
/ should possess the earth. The rallying
cry Of the Romans was. at this time,
| The earth for the Romans" Jesus
| few in the face of both of these notions
| when He said: The e.-rth is the righttul
| inheritance Of The meek" 1t was as if
| he had said to the Jews ''All that fine
matter about your being Abrahams seed
! and therefore entitled to the earth has
| played ont. God is able Of these stones,
| as John the Baptist said. to raise UP
| children unto Abraham that are better
! than some Of you. The call now Is for
every man to renent. to think again. to
| Identify his own viii With God to be-
meek It is such as these that shall
| Inherit the earth
| The old Jewish idea that the earth was
| to belong to certain people because Of
face, or color. or previous occupancy.
controls in some quarters today. When
| foreigners prove themselves worthier
than ourselves. We set UP the cry,
| America for Amercans." When the
| black man eXcels the white man in some
| kinds Of work and is therefore preferred
| by employers. we hear the cry. This
! country for the white man. Such j
| cowardly cry belongs not to any one
session bun TO an sections of our coun-
| try.
This in the light of Jesus teaching is
| all wrong We should not cry America
| FOR Americans, or the south for the
whites but America and the south fer
lie nit for tho worthy far the vfrtilo1s
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very llkeiy the American Indian in his
own dialect cried, America for the In
diansr' But the descendants of the Pill
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for Afrieansr, Par A frica is for tho
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