The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1907-05-17


God. Preaching the Kingdom of
Heaven as love. peace. Joy, purity
or 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-
| ton 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
! Cod. 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
| 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-
tion that is due Him. The applica-
! tion by a normal man 10 his own
! life in true fashion Of the truths of
Jesus Christ will prove them 70 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 il will then be
found TO be so Codly that the human
heart will hail the great revealer Son
of God. Jesus Christ cannot be un-
derstood save by those who have en-
! sVfA Of .ivft taI
life that shall open their eyes unto
the divine wonders Of His life. No
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 in
| the spiritual life. The disciples did
not glory in the divine Sonship Of
Jesus until they had had their eyes
opened in part TO the spiritual mys.
teries which underlay the objective
miracles that Jesus wrought We
know how slow they were to see the
depth and the application of His
principles as He preached 70 them
the truth And yet with them as
with us the secret of their faith in
! the Master lay in the fact that there
was no discOrd between the truth
that He preached and the life that He
lived. They waited the long-prom-
ised Messiah from God who should
deliver Israel; they gave Jesus
hearing as a self-styled and heaven
proclaimed Christ; they heard the
music OF heavenly truth in all He
said, and above all they marked the
fact that He not only talked divinely
well, but lived even as God would
live. And so they followed Him
But they were not able TO have con.
fdence in Him that should enable
them to bear witness of His divine
power until they had tried for them
selves the sort Of life He lived and
applied for themselves TO their own
lives the eternal principles that he
propounded and found them pract'
cal.
Men say to me, Il do not believe
Jesus was the Son of God Il can.
not accept Him as the incarnation OF
the Father" And my first question
is whether or no they are fully COM
petent to Judge. Are they in posses
sion of such spiritual experience as
will enable them to pass good Judg'
ment upon the case in hand? Many
man who has no experience in the
Christ life will without a blush re-
tian hearts. If | as a minister pre-
sumed to pass expert judgment upon
astronomical truth, having never
even seen or marked the coursings OF
the stars or gained experimental
knowledge of the wonders OF the
heaven above us, you would hoot me
from this church. Yet many man
with no Christian experience at all
will pass final and irrevocable JudS-
ment upon Jesus Christ without SO
much as a shred of personal testl'
mony that could be worthy of notice.
Jesus is the Son of God. And the
only way you can come to know that
is through the spiritual, personal eX-
perience of the fact. Jesus is the
Savior Of our souls from sin and the
| only means to a convincing knoWl-
edge of this truth is through the en-
trance of the saving truth or jesus
! Christ into your life. Jesus revealing
the truth, YOU testing, trying, proving
its reliability and reasonableness III
your own personal life.