Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1904-02-02
THE man MOST WORTH HEARING ABOUT
Sermon Preached By Rev. B. J. H. Shaw Congregational
Church-Should Be Carefully Read By
Everyone.

hood OF Jesus that gives to His life
the charm Of supreme and eternal
beauty.
There was nothing in His station,
in his surroundings, in His posses
sions. it was the man Himself-His
tenderness, his pity, his purity, his
absolute unselfshness. When we
speak OF other men, we say-look at
his elevated position, his splendid
home, his fine surroundings, his wealth,
his gifts, many men Of prominence
possess little else than these outward
things, these give them their distinc-
tion.
Jesus had nothfb.g but His own
sweet and beautiful goodness. He
was born poor-was brought up as one
OF the common people. He had no
distinguished relationship education
except that of carpenters child.
He worked in his fathers shop, spent
the first thirty years of his life among
poor and uncultivated people. All
his surroundings were lowly. There
was nothing to help him forward,
except the fact that He was just
Himself-with pure mind and heart
open to all the divinest influences,
and that made Him supremely beauti-
full. There is no story like the gospel
story. There is no picture so perfectly
lovely as His. The charm of it is ia
His fine humanity. Tempted, yet
never SHINING; tried by all the forces
Of evil, but never yielding to them;
poor yet making many rich; thinking
OF others and forgetting himself;
meeting the hatreds of his enemies
without word Of anger or complaint;
bearing the sins and sorrows of others
wien crushed by the weight of his
own; moving with every step to pity,
to heal, to forgive, leaving everywhere
the richest benediction behind Him.
That was the man-faultless, bead
tiful, warmhearted, generous, sympa-
thetic, helpful, the finest, tenderest
feeling OF a woman, the noblest
strength of q man, a perfect humanity
It teaches US the lesson that true
greatness and worth are inward, it is
the man f1imself-the fine quality of
his mind and heart that give to his
life the highest value. To have some
OF the goodness Of Christ is worth
| more than all outward possessions.
they perish but noble character lives
on through all ages.
This Man Christ Jesus brings the
unseen God near to US.
No one could have lived the life OF
Christ II he had been only man.
Our humanity is weak and imper.
feet, it has 100 many faults and stains
to show purity and beauty like His.
He was the sinless and spotless man
because one who is higher and greater
than man was with him. The divine
holiness was his life
God spoke to the world thro. gh
bid, Tile u0SccO was IMAGE visible.
The glory OF the divine nature was
seen in all His works. Looking into
the face OF this man We behold God.
He that hath seen Him hath seen
tue Father. was the testimony of one
who walked with Hin. God hides
himself. He is covered with the
clouds OF mystery. He is beyond us
in awful heights and depths. Our
poor brains get bewildered- when we
try TO comprehend Him. Where is
God and what is He like? we ask
The best answer is given in the Man
| Christ Jesus s'The word was made
flesh and dWelt among us and We be-
held His glory, the glory OF the only
). begOtten from the Father, full OF
.grace and truth " All we need &c
know may be learned from Him. We
see His compassion for all who suffer.
We hear His words of forgiveness
We see how patient he was with the
wayward-how kind and pitiful to the
weak and fallen. We see Him choose