The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1905-05-11

declared to have Incompatible aud
crystalline simplicity, majestic re
pose, luminous transparency of
thought, one flowing from other,
forming connected development,
each eXplaining,what precedes or be
Ing further deduction. The inward
ness of the East, the home of religion,
seized and expressed with the pre-
cision of the West, the home of
science.
The analogy of the form and order
to that which is commonly called the
Lord's Prayer has been pointed out,
but in point of fact the divisions are
not mutually exclusive. They inter
penetrate, so that it is possible to
find Iseveral different arrangements,
all of which may be correct.
But this lily of a prayer may be lost
in the efforts to dissect.it. 1t is far
more important that we should dis
cover the spirit of the petition than
its mechanical framework.
crisis creates the prayer. 1t is no
litany intoned at an arbitrary hour
and by an ecclesiastic designated to
perform the service 1t is the voice
of need which can not pour itself into
any form, however venerable, and
which must, perforce, extemporize.
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Jesus stands with the little group
of men to whom He has made the
greatest possible revelation, and
whom He expects in their turn to be
revealers of His truth. He must
needs leave them. Ii they fail, all is
lost. He knows what it means to be
I'm the world, and the world against
one. He cries to heaven for these
chosen men, that they may be kept
and sanctitied, and their unity pre-
served.
Getting out Of the world, even if it
is to go to heaven" is not the most
desirable of things. If the disciples
had made their exit at the same time
Jesus made His, the world would
have been unblessed by their testi-
mony.
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Jesus was sent, and we are sent. An
analogy maintains between the Mas,
ter and ourselves. There is Divine
idea to be worked out in every human
life. This lifts us above dumb and
driven cattle. Jesus example of fidel-
ity to the uttermosl is our inspira-
ton.
flOsaiC from Commentaries
Not out Of the world: Worlds
hatred true court-colors of Christians.
Luther. Jesus knew well what it
was to be in the world.-Hofacker |
pray not that Thou should'st take
them, now at once with Me out of the
world.-Stier. That would secure
them, but leave the world unblessed
by their testimony. F. b. The
question must not be OF their going
out of the world with Me, for I.have
much to do by their means.-My
kingdom to spread and by little flock
to increase.-Luther His prayer was
Tor their protection, not for their
Observation-Disclosures. Specific in =
tercession for His own, whom He
leaves behind, commencing with
revelation proceeding through preser-
walton unto holiness Sitter. Sane
tlfy them: Keep them was negative;
sanctify is positive: asking advance
ment of the process begun. f. b.
The means of sanctification is the
word of truth. acts Xxx, 30 sitter.
For their sakes; | have altoget her
devoted and consecrated myself in
their places and for their sake.-Sem-
Ter. Sent into world: How could he
send them into the world when they
were in the world already? Because
He had raised them to a sphere above
the life of the world, and it was thence
that He sent them into the world, as
really as He had been Himself sent
from heaYen.-Godet. But for them
also: The conservation of. the disci-
pies and His sending them forth nat
urally suggests an enlargement of the
Church and of His re.-Expositor's
Greek. All one: This unity is inf
nitely more than unanimity, since it
rests upon unity of spirit and life
Tholuck. This unity has its true and
only ground in faith in Christ through
the Word of God as delivered by the
apostles, land is therefore not mere
outward uniformity, nor can such uni
formity produce it. At the same
time its effects are to be real and visi-
BILE, such that the world NAV see
them. Perfect in one The
ideal of humanity which will be
raochaI Uhon MOI,