Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1905-04-13
The PULPIT.
~ 81 ooUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY.
BISHOP D. A. COODSELE
OiS''S
spbiect: The Face of Christ.

prook1vn, n. Y.-A very large audi.
,nca filed the Tabernacle Sunday to
listen 10 Bishop D. A. Goodsen. His
snhipct was THE Face of Christ"
Tha text was from II. Corinthians iv:6:
aThp glory Of God in the face of Jesus
cbrst" Bishop Goodsesf said in the
Ourse of his sermon:
As Won read the Bible both in the
Md and New Testaments you are i'm
messed with the great number OF
fines which the word "face" is used.
When you travel in Eastern lands you
find that this word is used far more
often and in many different rela tons
among the Eastern people than we our
selves are accustomed to use it.
This word face is used in reference
TO 4 mans whole character, l am told,
everywhere in the East, and we have
great many traces of it in the Bible;
and now when we come to think Of 1t
isn't it true that we are accustomed
to recognize each other more by the
face than by any other one thing. Is
| it not wonderful that upon the few
elements in the face, the forehead, the
eyes. nose. mouth and chin there
should be such an infinite variety Of
expression stamped by the great Gre
aor:
There is a general conviction among
Us that the face will work out the
inner character, so that whatever may
be the beginning of life when we have
lived with ourselves a long time we
will be pretty apt to show upon our
faces what kind of q person we have
lived with. 1t is impossible for any
person to give way to ayarice without
showing it on their face If he had an
open face once it will change; and so
the man who gives way to the forces
Of passion, whether he gives way to
lust or whether he gives way to drink,
Or whether he gives way to appetite
Tor food, it will show out on his face.
We write upon our faces what we live
With and no man can wear a mask so
completely that those who are wise in
neSe things are not able to read be-
llnd the mask.
Now, What one is there among us
mat has not desired again and again
70 nave lived when the face Of Jesus
unflSt could have been seen. I think
llefe is no devOut soul that in his
uOuDle has not said, Oh. that l
vOald look into my Masters face. Oh,
nat could,'' live as the little children
tlu a have rested my head against His
oleast and have heard Him say to me
@ lie said to them, Suffer them to
Come"
lou can scarcely go into a Christian
ho holne today where Christian education
@ nas presided where there is not at least
t ue OF more representations of the
aaee ol Jesus Christ. I have observed
ti,soIuihs i,s to our experiences, accord
r s u our wants, we fasten upon the
presentations Of Jesus Christ's face
Sttins af, are most satisfying to us, most
nou ae.lis. SO that if we are under deep
fh1ni,ehce thn ZEN of sin, we are apt to have
the %e lace Id of the suffering Christ upon
ro,,, me ,Sross, and if the sorrows of the
will H,'a nave burdened our hearts, we
cn, crnny carry there the face of the thorn
how h"neu Christ in our homes. If we
stroe aWelt upon Christ in His
anea ansln IN His power, in His resist
ono % 70 evil. in the calm majesty of
mOr,s Hno KNOWS he is innocent. we
Cbral b%lu most likely have the picture of
Of fSI +S before PLATE. From the days
tino ene Catacombs up to the present
Cbri,4.n men have been trying to put
whrs y lace before humanity, and
nom. because all souls in their greater
and dth'S' ll' III their spiritual moments
nan4a therefore, in their religious mo.
naor 40, p would like to have Him brought
nado w. They would like to have Him
Chrs+ vest thing is to SO carry Jesus
Him Sc aL1 u our heart that we shall see
The fana "nu Denold the glory of God in
Tho ave e OF Jesus Christ.
Same 0yJual Ual picture must remain the
dersla e may study it, we may un
probsfnio1 It's history. It is not at al
ma role mat any one is going to see il
Years aaellC 10 m what it took the artis
pel p D., produce, though this may hap
possiba' ft rs we grow spiritually it il
behold o, lor us by spiritual sight t,
cearlr oUr Lord. to behold Him NOR
W. W. as tie years go on.
Word da faoe we study this one word. th
ed to -+Ge' +E' We find that it stands relat
Other +hee +hh[ee great facts and to non
lacts -"t o,o know Of, and these thre
splatjoonp ope, fl5rst, revelation, then in
"io nnaliy reward. This