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without display? Men do not inven
like this.
If I We're to call in the best and
hottest of the ages what growing testi-
+ mony would they give as to His char
acter? It was out of this fulness that
He spoke with authority on human life
revealing the deep principles of spir-
irual power and growth. No one at
temrfs today to deny that Jesus is
the Master Man. He is today the
worlds standard. He speaks with au-
thority and every day people recog-
nize mora clerly that His Way is the
Way of<Life.
Men attack all sorts Of things about
the Christian religion, but they do not
| attack Jesus Christ. In increasing
ratio, in word spoken and in life lived,
He is the authority for humanity in
its relation to God in all lands where
His Gospel has been preached, ami in
a degree among millions who are only
| touched a s yet by His influence, rather
than by His personality.
But go further. Does Jesus speak
with authority about God? Does He
I
/ TO US?
In the first place we can readily
| see how entirely the revelation of God
| by Jesus Christ has been accepted. He
| revealed God as the Father.sHe taught
that mans relationship to God was
/ that of a, son, a son who has in him
the nature of the Father which nature
the son could not get rid of though
/ ha a6 hi +cN
| ate with the swine. Jesus revealed
God as hating sin and loving the sin
ner with an unquenchable love, fol-
/ lowing him over rocks and briars until
/ He finds His own.
| mo one had found out these truths.
They are unlike Judaism. They are
unlike any truths found elsewhere.
Jesus revealed God as one to whom the
soul could go out in all it's rich nature
and find satisfaction, and it's guarantee
| for righteousness and truth, 1t was
| Jesus who revealed how MANS dis
organized nature could be harmonized
with itself. with the universe and with
| God
This revelation of God has chang
ed mans conception Of the universe,
revolutionized the idea of the value
and duty of man, in the Fatherhood
and the Brotherhood upon which it i'm
sists. 1t has brought about the huh
manitarian ideas which have led to
such underworld sacrifice and service
of man for his fellows. In the orderly
process of growth the truths which He
revealed have gone on their conquer
ing way. God could not reveal Him
self SO that man would know Him ex-
cept as man. 1t was impossible by
searching to find out God. God must
come and reveal Himself as man. It
was feeling after this truth which led
to anthropomorphic systems of idola-
try. They had made God a man. God
came and took upon Himself human
flesh in order that man might know
Him. That is why He could say: He
that hath seen me- hath seen the
Father That is why He could and
did say: 7 am the way, the truth
and the life Men in every age have
put Him to the test in the crucible of
personal experience and have found
Him to be the way to a knowledge
of themselves and of God. They have
found Him to be the truth in his ex-
position of conduct, and that as they
brought their lives into conformity
with Him and His words, in Him was
the highest, the truest the real life,
the life which put them in touch with
the eternal and delivered them from
the bondage of the temporal.
'Wh6is this Being then? Men nine
teen hundred years ago said: This is
Christ the Son of the living God. Men
like Calico, Kepler, Bacon Newton,
Milton, Agassiz, Lord Kelvin, in all
the ages have made the same recogni-
ton. Gladstone said that he had
minds and all but three of them ac-
the Son of God.
I'm stating our faith in the words of
the ancient creeds we are in line with
the greatest minds and hottest lives Of
this and every age since He came.
''If it be said: But the lives of
Christians, look at them Yes, looki
But do not judge the tree by the sour
shriveled specimens of fruit hidden by |
the foliage which have never felt the |
warmth of the sun. We judge the
tree by the best fruit which 1T pro-
duces. We shall point later to the
great onward trend OF human life |
when touched by Christ. But we point |
now to the power which Jesus Christ
has today over untold millions of
hearts who are upIifted, blessed, |
strengthened, purified by Him. No |
failure of lives which are eaten by sin |
can touch the fact that He speaks now |
with authority to the human heart as
He has spoken through the centuries, |
and will speak in ages to come"
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