The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-05-09
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Subjects The Son of God.

Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson. pastor
took as his text II Matt. SO. "Of n
truth Thou art the Son of God" He
said:
In this expression of the faith Of
the boatmen in the Christ as the Son
of God we have the consensus Of n
host of men and women who, for
nineteen centuries, have followed the
gentle Galilean The disciples pro-
claimed their faith in the reality of
the Sonship OF Jesus after a visible,
external, objective exhibition OF His
power. In ages past however. many
song-sung martyr and many an
unknown saint has held firm TO the
same faith, seeing only with the spir-
itual eye. And to-day every sincere
follower Of our Lord Acknowledges.
with Joy that passes all human un-
derstanding, "of truth Thou art
the Son of Cod" From the fullness
of rich and enriching spiritual ex-
perience do we. here and now, re-
iterate our belief in the supreme di-
vine Sonship of our Savior and our
Lord
Jesus OF Nazareth-the place from
which nothing good was held to come
the Messiah of the chosen people
of God, proclaimed by angels, adored
by the wisdom of the East; youthful
confounder of priests and prelates.
He it is of whom the apostle writes.
Jesus-the man of parables and of
miracles; Jesus. the eXpounder of
those wonderfully well-put doctrines
contained in the Sermon on the
Mount; Jesus the Christ, the King of
Israel, the Savior Of the world. He
is the divine human Of whom the
disciples said: "Of q truth Thou art
the Son of God"
Let us look for a moment into the
Claims of this Man, this despised Naz-
rene, this carpenters son, to the
tile and to the Office of the Son of
iod. Has He any claim that we are
bound to respect? Is there any rea-
son why we are called upon to serve
Him, shall we believe upon Him, or
shah we reject Him. What. in the
last analysis. is the proof that is final
that Jesus is divine
If you will glance through those
pages of the Old Testament which
give the history of the life and of the
hopes of the ancient Jewish people
you will find that, running through
them all, the coming Of q Messiah
that Is to say, a Savior-is prophes-
led. To His people God has promised
a King who shall give to them eter-
nal power and an endless peace.
Step by step, incident by incident is
unfolded in the old prophetic books
the coming of Christ.
Thus we see that the Man who is
to be the Son of God, the Messiah of
the Jews. the King of Israel must be
man who measures 10 the standards
of the God-giyen prophecies of the
centuries.
SO much for the historic demands
upon the claims of the Messiah No
less imperative, however, is the need
that the Man who is to be the Son
OF God and the Savior of the race
shall be such a revelation of God as
our hearts demand. You and ] can
not trust in the Son of God save as
He meets the requirements of our
reasoning faculties and highest sense.
The Christ must not only be a God
declared Messiah, but also a self
proven incarnation of Almighty God
He must not only bear divine letters
OF recommendation to us, but also
convince MS by a living divinity that
He is what He claims to be. And
above all the truths of His messages
must be proven practical forces ia
our own lives ere we can believe.
Jesus Is the Son of God, the Savior
Of the world. the Messiah of the
Jews, the King of Israel AS we have
seen the man who is these must
measure true to the standards of the
God-given prophecies OF the centur-
les. Jesus so measures. Throughout
The whole of the New Testament the
revelation of Christ as the fulhllment
of prophecy is set forth. He is the
Messiah. He is the King whom God
has promised to His people Israel.
He is the Son of David for whom the
holy men of many generations
yearned. Christ satisfies all the de-
mands Of the Old Testament pro-
pheuic writer's. From that stand
point He is the Son OF God and Saw
ior. But whether or no thNre had
been given prophecies aforetime,
there are grander and more glorious
reasons for faith in Christ rs 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 pcrfectness. 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 conEcience-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,
1onfucius, Buddha---the ethical and
philosophical teachers of all peoples
nd OF every age-are Incompatible
ith that personal, sanctifying Savior
4 the Christian soul, whose name Is
Light and Love.
But Jesus not only meets demands
as a reyelator, 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-
plified 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
essential spiritual nature of the Fa.
ther He was Himself spiritually con
trolled. Telling men that the truth
of God and Jehovah Himself were tC
.be sD'ritually appreherisd ana dis
cerned Jesus walked and talked with
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