The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-31
The Glory of Any Nation
is q Man.
Continued from First Page.)

prayer is answered and Jesus becomes
TO the penitent thief as the shadow
of great rock in a weary land.
such was Christ to the tempest
smitten, wind-driven, sun-scorched,
Tired and thirsty and condemned. He
stood where the currents are strongest
and checked the drifts. The most
dangerous drift in human life is sin,
and Christ at Calvary was the Rock
OF Ages" checking the sin-drift and
making possible the redemption of
mankind.
"All that Jesus was. He is. Be-
hold the man, the idea. man, the
Christian. Jesus is the hero of the
modern world. Criticism may assail
all else, but it cannot cloud the glory
of Christ. AS Sidney Lanier so elo-
quently sings Him, He is the Crystal
Christ Turn from the portrait
prophetic to the portrait incarnate,
and make Christ your hero.
Tho text is also a promise. 1t is
promise of what a man shall be. 1t
is divine commission for the COM
mon, average life. Just an ordinary
man shall rise UP out of littleness
and parsimony and mediocrity into
the grandeur and glory of the por-
trait
Christ is one Of a type. He is the
elder brother in a numerous family.
He is not to be a man without a coun-
try and a people. The promise made
him was that he should see of the
travail of His soul and be satisfied.
Jesus is revelation of the high
er and finer possibilities there are
for every man who trusts Him. Man
never knew how high He could climb
until Christ came Jesus has sealed
the heights of character and service
for humanity, and he is calling us up
the heights
such are to be the saviour's Of the
world. The worlds best man is a
Christian man; not in the narrow dog
matte sense, not in the silly ritualistic
sense. not in the bigoted ecclesiastical
sense but in the large and glorious
Christ-like sense. TO become such is
possible for every man. This is the
true goal of mankind.
Finally, my text is a plea. 1t is
a plea that you become what it por-
travs. Your best clamors for recog-
milton. 1T is laundering ut the door
of your life and saying: LET me in.
1.-The fact that you may plead that
you do. With such a sublime station
possible, what shame to live a lower
life. Be man.
eff in the years that are to come,
you shall exploit through the calling
where you live the measures OF
real man, the University will never
rue the day it sends you out wl.h
it's name on your forehead and God
will not disoWn you in the day of life's
finals
The annual sermon before the Y. M.
G. A. was delivered here yesterday at
500 o'clock in Gerard Hall, by Rev.
c. H. Detwilder, ID. d., of Charlotte,
NJ ~ ic,r ino oil
of the Charlotte district of the MethoA
dist conference. He came highly re-
commended and he measured fully up
to the compliment. He won for him
self place in the hearts of the whole
student body as we'll as the audience.
His discourse was i'll part as follows,
using for his text
1.-THE Function of True Manhood
John, 7:3S: HE that believeth on me,
as the scripture hath said, out of his
inner being shall flow rivers of living
water"
Personality is one of the funda-
mental facts of divine revelation. The
opening statement of the record is
In the beginning God created and
the closing statement, 1 am Alpha
and Omega The literature of the
Hebrew nation is emphatical]y the
history of great personalities. In the
IulIneSS Oh tlIle the CllNlHe
on the ,one side and the human on
the other, meet and blend in Jesus
Christ, and from Him onward, the
evolution of Christianity hinges upon
the influence Of great men. Paul and
his co-iaborers in New Testament
times; Luther and Calvin in the days
of the Reformation; Knox and Wes-
ley in great modern revival.
'"The product of personality under
i4I.z ~f 4ton MI Sc
character. Teaching of the ten words
enunciated by Moses is strictly ethical
The aspirations breathed in the in
spired songs is for purity of heart.
the vision of the Prophets is the ideal
society. or every department of which
is inscribed Holiness to the Lord
The Beautitudes of Jesus Christ re-
duced to their last analysis is character
manifesting itself in a pure and bene-
fcent service. The ideal society which
Paul sees is to be without spot or
wrinkle or any such thing; the IDEAL
manhood Of the sons OF God, accord
ing to John, is a transformation into
the likeness of Jesus Christ; the con-
summation of the gospel plan as seen
| by the Seer OF Patmos, is the CITY
| whose glory and embellishments NAV
be reduced to the fundamentals Of
purity, beauty and strength.
! 1.-THE activity of the Divine Spirit
expends itself in the painful and pa
| tient effort THROUGH the long ages to
| develop the human personality into
| this ideal character. That which we
| call the atonement is but the express
| sion of this effort. What we call the
| remedial side of The atonement. has
| for it's objective point, this goal Christ
/ suffered and died not to make nc
| happy, but righteous. Precipitation is