Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-03-20
At PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
A SERMON BY THE BAPTIST
CLERGYMAN.
''Chist's Divinity" Was The Sub
ject of Rev. Thomas P.
Holloway In
Morning.

At the eleven O'Clock, service yester-
day morning at the Presbyterian
Church, the Rev. George S. Bell, pas
tor the sermon was preached by the
Rev. Thomas p. Holloway. pastor of
College Avenue Baptist Church.
There was large congregation pres
ent, including Mrs. Wartield, wife of
the Governor. The subject of the ser
mon was IAN Untraditional view of
Christ's Divinity. - The text was
John. lst chapter, 34th verse "This
is the Son of God. > The minister
said in part:
"Does the mariner feel called upon
to apologize for leaving the narrow
and shallow stream TO head his craft
toward the open sea ! So with no
apologies do we turn our thoughts
this morning TO that ocean of truth,
the divinity of JESUS Christ. And
while the line of thought may be a
departure from traditional thinking
about this subject, it will have the
support of Scripture.
81. Christ's immanenee in nature
evidences His divinity. He is imma-
nent in nature as the active agent in
its creation. John .; Eph, SO;
Rev. 4 IL. Took God to create the
universe. He is .immanent in nature
as its sustaining, unifying and vivify
ing force. He il before all things
and by Him all things consist. Sci
ence now recognizes that force is
spiritual. Jesus is force, sending
through all the multiplex agencies of
the whole universe which He created
the pulsations of His divine energy.
He is the universal medium of commu-
~. 4.
between clod and God. He is the
sympathetic. vital connection between
the centre which God the Father and
every point of the outermost circle of
the universe. Christ is the permeat-
ing life and glory of created things
and yet infinitely above them in the
unapproachable glory of His divine
personality.
"2. The manner in which Christ
saves from sin is a proof of His div:n-
ity. He who is life came in the body
of His humiliation that men might
have life apd have it abundantly.
He permitted at Calvary the breaking
of the flood gates of His life that its
inexhaustable waters might pour into
all the sin n-clogged avenues of the souls
of men flushing them clean and beau
ity is not salvation through empty
forms, bu the filling of human souls
with Jesus Christ's own life.
80. The divinity of Christ is seen
in the inexhaustableness of His ma
ture. If Christ were altogether with
in the comprehension of any human
being at any particular moment OF
His existence, then He would not be
divina in tho fulI eauea of that word
but throughout all the centuries the
greatest men have studied Jesus and
have ended their studies, exclaiming,
Here is an exhaustless subject for in
vestigation. Christ was crucified be-
cause the Jews could not squeeze Him
within the narrow compass of their
own pigmy moral and mental dimen-
sions. Tbey put Him to death because
His tall form caught the glory the
Eternal Fathers presence while they
stood within the deep and obscuring
shadows of sin. The Head that radi-
ated the sunshine of heaven had thrust
upon it the crown of thorns.
"a Our Lords unclouded optimism
proves His divinity. The optimist
has confidence lin the ultimate success
of his cause, confidence growing out
of recongized interest power. Christ
was the supreme optimist because He
was constantly conscious of divine life
and its consequent power. He pre-
dicted that His humble disciples
should sit on thrones. Before His
death He spoke with calm and positive
assurance of His resurrection. While
voluntarily dying on tie cross He gave
eternal life to penitent thief. +"