Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1907-05-23

mands of the Old Testament pro-
phetlc writer's. From that stand
point He is. the Son Of God and Saw
lor. But whether or no there had
been given prophecies aforetime,
there are grander and more glorious
reasons for faith in Christ as the Son
Of God. Christ is such a revelation
OF God as our hearts demand. For
as we read the story of His life we
see manifold instances of His divine
! power, purity and perfectness. Time
and again we see His godhood and
divinity in His workings and His
| words. He is the fullness of grace
and truth. Yes, my friends, in His
| miracles and His messages, in His
| acts of love and His conscience-touch-.
| ing truths, this man of SORROWS and
| OF griefs reveals His Sonship divine
| The power OF God shows through His
! physical miracles, the love OF the
Father shines through the spiritual
transformations that He wrought.
From what other lips do we hear
such deep, such soul-satisfying prom
ises and commands. Nowhere in the
! history OF all the world has there
been another such a man. Mohamet,
| Confucius, Buddha-the ethical and
| philosophical teachers of all peoples
and of every age-are Incompatible
with that personal, sanctifying Savior
| of the Christian soul, whose name is
Light and Love.
But Jesus not only meets demands
as a revelator, He is also assured of
our confidence through the fact that
His words and His life are in har-
mony. Jesus not only revealed by
word the sort of God for whom in
wardly we yearn, but He also exem-
plifed in His life the fullness of truth
which He preached. Telling of the
love that crowns the character of
God He was lovely. Preaching the
ther He was Himself spiritually con-
trolled. Telling men that the ltruth
of God and Jehovah Himself were to
be spiritually apprehended and dis
cerned Jesus walked and talked with
God. Preaching the Kingdom of
Heaven as love, peace, joy, purity
of life, the Savior went about loving
men, seeking and pursuing peace,
bringing joy into saddened souls,
leading hardened hearts into purity
Of life. Believing that the cultiva-
tion of godliness is the business of
mankind Jesus was holy, upright,
godly Himself. And it is because He
not only preached truth unto life
eternal but lived also the life that
shall gain and keep the crown of
rejoicing that we hail Him Lord.
History makes Jesus the Son of
God His clear-cut, reasonable rev.
elation of the character of God by
words so declares Him; His consist
ent practical revelation of divinity in
His daily life marks Him as Gods S
Son. And yet it is not until we have
taken His truth into our hearts, and
proven the richness and practicable
ity of His theories in our own lives
that we can yield to Him the adora-
ton that is due Him. The applica-
ton by normal man to his own
life in true fashion Of the truths of
| Jesus Christ will prove them to be
mighty unto upliftment and enlight-
|, | enment and practical principles that
shall make for good when practically
used in life. The truth of Christ will
, be found SO full of divine inspiration
and revelation, and the life of the
, man who revealed it will then be
found to be so godly that the human
heart will hail the great revealer Son
of God. Jesus Christ carcot be un-
, derstood save by those who have en-
tered into that manner of spiritual
| life that shall open their eyes unto
the divine wonders Of His life. Nc
) man can enter into the fullness OF
the truths revealed in the messages
Of the Master save as he stands ready
to be born again and move ahead il
the spiritual life. The disciples die
not glory in the divine Sonship OF
: Jesus until they had had their eye:
: opened in part to the spiritual mys
teries which urderlay the objective
5 miracles that Jesus wrought. We
, know how slow they were to see tht
t depth and the application OF His
! | principles as He preached to then
) the truth And yet with them a.
/ with us the secret Of their faith il
the Master lay in the fact that ther'
r | was no discord between the trutl
3 that He preached and the life that III
. lived. They waited the long-prom
t ised Messiah from God who shoul'
q deliver Israel; they gave Jesus
: hearing as a self-sty1ed and heaven
t proclaimed Christ; they heard tn
Q music of heavenly truth in all IN
t said. and above all they marked tn
Q fact that He not only talked divinel
J we'll, but lived even as God woul
i. live. And so they followed Him
Q | But they were not able to have con
8 fdence in Him that should enabl
= them to bear witness OF HIS o1V1n