The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-07-19
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{ unto you Is born = Il n Saviour
st. Luke H. II.
This is what the world wanted.
f Is what the world always wants. An
this need is mono the less great becaus
sometimes tt is not known. i,
What does hungry man need?
Electure, or pure foodi What does
drowning man want? a discourse Of
the ebb orflow of the tides? You woul
4 not mock drowning man! What h
needs now is strong grip--a friendl,
rope. Get him out first. bring him int
4 safety. He can deal with the metaphy
sizes Of the occasion when he has leis
urc.
Everything depends upon what W.
really want. The poor, tho Borrowing
the forlorn--those who live, one hard
" knows how. in the alleys and Stun:
of our great cties-what do they want.
Others may be content with mctaphy.
sizes and philosophy. but they want 9
Saviour and a Saviour" they must
have.
J The world did not want an adviser
The world had advised itself almost
into hell.
The world did not ask for specula-
tor. Everything that man could do
had been done. Men sat in the dark
ness Of their own wisdom.
The world did not want a reformer--
one who would devote his time to ora
torical changes of men and things.
Tho world wanted Saviour. 1t is
a pathetic name. 1t IS not an official
title; it is not a person robed in scar
let and clothed in majestic haugh-
tiness. Saviour" is an angel OF mercy
with tears In His eyes; arms mighty as
the lightnings of God, but breast.
all tenderness and sympathy. Saviour.
is complex. word. 1t holds in 1t all
OF history; all the possibility of proph-
ecy; all the mystery. Of apocalypse; the
tenderness Of the loving mother, with
a majesty humblins the pride Of kings.
Let us look at the world as it was
then. with the eyes of an earnest OBJ
server. What kind of world was it?
We will leave out for the time being
the religious aspect-set aside the
word sin. How was the old world then?
Men We're hostile to one another. That
is an undeniable fact. The spirit of
enmity was the prevailing spirit, and
the question who should be uppermost,
who should rule, who could best plum
der, overthrow or destroy. That was
the aspect presented by one large sec
ton Of the world.
There was another section, apparent
~ refined and cultivated, but it had re-
fined itself into WEAKNESS. cultivated !
itself to surfeit. And with it ali was |
an intense selfishness and complete |
to the rights Of others. On |
the other hand, it was world given [
over to daily unaccountable suffering. I
That suffering world is before us to-
lay, and day by day It's misery is
more appallingly apparent Every heart
knows its own bitterness Life cannot |;
brow off its load When we laugh /
we are sad. If for moment we make
Holiday, yet there is whisper in the
leart that Will no. be stilled.
There may be no positive disobed-
ence or infraction of the Divine law
hat we can place. yet there is suf-
erng. The loved child lies dying. The
leart is breaking. the home is violated
" invisible but mighty enemies; there
S cankcr in the purse, a rust in the
odd and everywhere sin and sorrow
nd distress, This Is the world; what
viii you do with 1t? What does that
ind of world want9 1t wants a
aviour-none other can help or com
ort it.
Jesus Christ, the Lord of Glory. left h
lis heavenly throne, and, moved by [,
tying love, came to this world to be Il
his "Saviour' Whatevd may be said
Or or against Christianity, there is i,
he fact that Christ sought to van
uish hostility by the creation of 4,
rotherhoed; to mitigate human suf-
aring BY sanctifying IT. He addresses
himself not to a little section OF the
~ ~ Liz SISdt, OEgsit
philosophers, but 10 its very heart; that >
cart which is broken. the soul that Is ]
] agony. the life that is well-nigh /,
opeless To these lie comes and Of G
,rs to be their Saviour" It is a !
oble, a glorious proposal. z
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OF Miss Ethel Rooseyelt's birthday
motion to-day.-i 1t WAS teIesraphed:
rhe President will Join in the fun
I'd help make things lively This Il
III be no new experience for one who i
rs been. for seven long years, the Ec
fe Of the Party. e
The Washington Hesald Is ill-ad-
lsed to try to make a flutter over r.
lat newly discovered star with III
VentS- nine suns" A newly discovered Is
ar with twenty-nine sons now, would III
something worth presidcntial no
ce. 9
The election board OF the InfinitiVe :
olitters Union is now sitting on the !
OF the Washington Post, Ii
hich yesterday regeI TO respectfully
iGgest some thing or othe ~ "a
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