Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-11
FOREIGN MISSIONS,
BURDETTE'S THEME
TELLS STORY OF BLIND MAN
AT TEMPLE
Sermon Is Preceded by Musical Pro-
gram Arranged by Bruce Gordon
Kingsley and a Solo by
So Mrs. Harrison

DR.. Robert J. Burdette of the Temple
terday morning for the cause of for
eign missions, and an audience that
filled the Auditorium theater listened
to the popular pastor.
Prof. Bruce Gordon Kingsley, the
musical director, had arranged an at
tractive musical program which pre-
ceded the sermon. Mrs. Bessie Ives
Harrison, the soprano, sang the solo
part in an anthem, and with Mr.. Cole
also sang duet
Dr. Burdette preached on the text
in Acts 3-2-the story of the lame
man at the Gate Beautiful. And a GER
tain man, lame from his mothers
womb, whom they laid daily at the
gate of the temple, which is called
Beautiful. to ask aims of them that
entered into the temple"
"'The Gate Beautiful That is, the
door of the church, to which the world
has always and does to this day bring
its poor, it's suffering, it's helpless. AL
ways There is no other place.
Where else could the lame mans
friends take him? He was helpless;
cripple and poor. Could they take him
to the hospital? There wasn't hos
pital in the world until after Christ
came. What was there, then? Prisons.
Thousands of them. Could they take
him to the asylum for the incura BILE
and helpless? There wasn't an asylum
in the world for the poor and the sick
until after Christ came. What was
there, then? Dungeons; under every
strong fortress; under every beautiful
castle; under every prison. There we're
prisons, and dungeons, and torture
| chambers, and stocks, and scaffolds
and scourges, and crosses. But no hos
pitfalls. 'Slay the cripples and the in
curables,' said the science and human
ity of nations that God has blotted off
his world for their brutality.
Put the incurables in hospitals and
asylums, says charity. Make them
whole says Jesus Christ.
" 'Aeneas,' said the physicians of his
day, you will lie on this bed until you
die in it,
'Aeneas,' said his friends, you are
doomed to pass all the rest of your
life in helplessness and beggary.'
'Aeneas,' saie the philosophers, you
are wretched and useless man; end
your suffering by suicide
"'Aeneas, cried Peter, when he was
preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ
down at LYDIA one day, Jesus Christ
maketh thee whole!
Heals the Blind
"Some women, about 1000 years ago,
were clustered about the bed of a
Jewish mother in Jerusalem. Poor lit
tie blind baby they said, looking pitt
fully down at the tiny bundle of help
lessness lying on the mothers breast
the baby boy born into a sunless and
starless world that would buffet him
when 1t did not neglect him, Poor little
blind baby! Pray God he may die In
your armsp But Jesus came and
touched the darkened eyes and said
Wash, and see!' He went and washed
and came seeing.
"'Out INTO the tombs!' Away to the
foul dwellings of the dead' cried the
multitude-Pharisee, priest, Sadducee
LeVite-and the stones hurtled through
the air, shifting the hideous lepers, the
living S-dead--'Away to the place of the
dead'
But Jesus Christ laid his whitG
hand, sinless and pure, on the loath-
some brow, his tender touch lingering
like a mothers caress on the matted
hair, and said, Go to the holiest place
in all this world; go to the temple
show thyself to the priest who pro
nouncel you unclean. Be then cleanl
And the man went his way pressed
through the throngs into the temple
no man hinderlng him.
Here ] stand, straight from the
foul charnel houses of the dead, L
clean as the priest at the altar
cleansed by the word OF the Son OF
God, greater and holier than altar OF
templep
"Oh, man! that's what the gospel Of
Jesus Christ does for humanity. Blind
deaf. dumb, paralyzed, sinful, tor
mented by unclean spirits of evil de-
sire, foul with impurity, unclean will
all manner of wiekedness-hear tn,
voice of Jesus Christ, the Healing One
crying to all who will hear-'See
Speak! Walk Hear! Be clean Sin NJ
morep That is the gospel of Jesus
Christ! And there is nothing else lik'
It in all this world"
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