Los Angeles herald., 1906-07-02
CHRISTIANITY HOLDS
NEW LIFE TO MEN
ANSWERS THE YEARNING FOR A
NEW MANHOOD
New Birth Is Greatest Miracle, De-
cares Pastor Ryland to Trinity
Methodists-We Grow by Receive
ina Truth In Our Minds

Rev. e. P. Ryland of Trinity Meth
odist Episcopal church, south, preached
Sunday on THE Life Giver."
THE glory of our Christianity is that
it promises men a new life," said Rev.
Mr. Ryland.
"It is not too much to say that many
men are feeling the need of a new start,
a new manhood. Life has proven a
failure and they are wishin@that they
might start over again-might have a
new beginning.
zone has been making constant
effort to accumulate wealth. He has
become conscious of the worse than
brutal motive of it all. Not satisfied
with the securing of all he needs, he has
been struggling to accumulate by any
means more than he could use in a
thousand years. But now he sees the
folly of it and is wishing for new
start in life, a new motive, new love.
Wish for New Start
"In many ways men come to know
that the lives they have lived were
unworthy and they wish it might all
start over again. That is the very
thing Jesus the Christ came to make
possible.
"This conscious need of men is an
swered in the word to a Jewish leader:
You must De DOTH again.
1T is new creature that one be-
comes in Christ Jesus indeed. He is
the head of new humanity.
This making one to be a new cre-
ature this new birth. is Gods greatest
miracle. The raising of Lazarus was
a great miracle. The making of a
Mary Magdalen was greater. The call
ing back to life of the widows son was
a great miracle, but the making of a
new creature out of the woman who
washed his feet with her tears was
a greater miracle.
Is Being Wrought Daily
"And the miracle is being wrought
every day in this modern life of ours.
MEN, wishing that they might have
a new start, might be different men,
are finding the new life, the new man
hood in Christ.
"And the receiving of the gift of life
is distinctly an appropriation and not
a renunciation. The new life in Christ
is distinctly broad and full life. Only
evil is narrow. Death of sin is narrow.
"The Christ life, with its breadth of
love and hope. and sympathy and SER
vice, is the really rich life
"In Christ we learn to live broadly.
To become new men and women in Him
is to appropriate the very best things
primarily renunciation.
"And this new life is made strong by
Christ.
Bread of Life
"He Is the bread of life We grow by
receiving truth into our minds. We
grow spiritually by receiving the Christ
truth.
IT cannot tell you how Christ will be
bread of life to you. But to me 1 feed
on him by coming much into contact
with him. L try to haunt his cross; to
infect myself with his motive and his
passion for men,
1.-THE thinking his truth so enables
my life, the life he gave me, to grow
strong.
"If you are conscious of being brought
under life motive lower than that
that moved him, then draw close to his
cross, look upon him with the eyes of
your SOUL ask him what motive should
be yours-thinking at once on his mo-
tive when he came to work out mans
redemption, and you will find yourself
growing strong through him. He will
be to you the bread of life."
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