Orange County observer., 1907-12-12
Subject: knowing Christ.

Brooklyn, N. @Preacning on the |
above theme at the Irving Square
Presbyterian Church, Hamburg ave-
nue. and Weirfield street, the Rev.
ira Wemmell Henderson, pastor, took
as his text, Luke 24:31,32: And
their. eyes were opened and they knew
Him, and He vanished out OF their
sight. And they said one to another.
was not our heart burning within us
while He spake to us in the way.
He said:
If there is any one thing for which
I am at all envious it is that might
have had, in Gods providence, the
same opportunity that these men had
to talk face to face with Jesus; to
have had an intimate, personal. hui
reality in the bodily sense. If there
is any particular men of whom / am
| envious, it is those disciples, who.
from time to time. went with Jesus
Ion His ministering tours; who knew
Him, as we do not know Him-since
He has gone hence; those men who
heard His voice, who could look up
; into His face while He spoke to them,
who could hear Him in the accents of
their own language, which they were
!. able to understand with the human
ear. And while am cognizant of the
: | fact that we can get Just as close to
t Jesus, spiritually and personally, as
+ these men ever got in bodily and
material sense, there is to me Pc
;. culiar charm wrapped around their
: lives, owing to the fact that they
talked with Him, that they really
|, held conversation with the Lord ane
e could see Him and understand Hin
l. and love, Him as man.
; You know how these two men wer'
, walking by the way when Jesus CAM
= and spoke to them and interpreted t
= them the Scriptures. They were un
. able to see Him, because He wa
then to be discerned only spiritually
And after few moments their eye
were opened and they knew Him an
ID He vanished out of their sight. An
- they said one to the other, "Was nc
our heart burning within us as II
spake to us in the way?"
W There are great many Christia
81 people who have never heard jest
lg speak to them; who have not tt
it faintest sort of idea Of what 1t NEAR
ut to have communion with our Lore
is people who have no spiritual perce1
- ton; who are but babes spiritual.
:. who have not had their eyes opene
ps to the contemplation OF spiritu
I1e things; who have no realization
RS they should have-that Jesus is co
IN tinually speaking to them by the wa
ge Their eyes are closed because th
oh have never gotten spiritual power.
no It is a peculiar thing about Chr1
- tianity that you cannot tell wheth
?" the Lord can be spiritually discern
until you get into spiritual relatio
- with the Lord. You cannot tell Wh
was the spirit that thrilled a
IN throbbed through the hearts CT the
-. men, until your own heart has be
o oe, throbbing and thrilling with t
ast knowledge that you have been talki
ON with the Lord. But as soon as
di- have had definite and experimen
La communion with the Lord, you bei
by to understand what was the feeli
of of those men who talked with Chr
.o1- and whose hearts burned will
them.
a lam not to define to you this mo
sts- ing. what ought to be your spirit
.ue- experience. Some of us think that
was ought to hear some voice speaki
res audibly, to us; that we ought to h'
some oral communication that
strike upon our ears and conve!
| definite, distinct impression. But
| very moment that you are consci
real of committing a wrong act or t
you are doing right before God. t
ssel, very moment He is speaking to
! be by the way. The very moment t
-ex- you open these Gospels, writings
more epistles-thes explanations and
plications of what Jesus meant
moment your soul is filled with
t."-I divine glory and illumination,
may be just as sure that He IS spe
] ing to you, as that He spoke TO q
has two going to Emmaus. 90 not =
very 1t is necessary Ior you " ,.a na hsnr :
.ceed chill run A up anu aa., ,o"u have
scale nnm,eaea oru de IN the .f1esh that you j
hean talking with q Divine poWel