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Theme: Discipleship.

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On 'Wemnell Henderson, TOOK as MS
ln Iohn 2:6: He that saith he
fsn ,s.,h IN Him ought himself also to
sDss wen as He walked" He said:
van s,scinIe is a learner. He e a
A.t who sits at the feet or
suus ar and imbibes knowledge and
teas A disciple Is follower.
tho walks after another. One
Une .,.ces his feet in the footprints
W., Predecessor, who studies to
o. ,,ste the teaching and the practice
Apn.'ss-eminently the disciples of Jesus
-, are students and followers.
VI .serts they are of the wisdom of
asu. -.svealed in and through Him,
~ essence and the refinement OF
n.ss,nal and supernal truth. Distinct
s.siv they are followers, IL they be
We followers, and 1t is of such only
~ ~, care to speak tonight, OF the
VA They seek to emulate His
s.nrledge and to practice His pre-
80 and become conformed to the
.s.dsrds of His virtues. They are
u;s disciples. They glory in their
'ss.lal allegiance to Him. They exalt
~ oyerlordship and promulgate His
nn.,rciples and declare His divinity
yssy pray, and they profess to strive,
- become like Him. And all this
.ssv 40 and endeavor to be simply
~ solely because they believe IT to
- me Word of God that .He that
ssIth he abideth in Him ought him
~ also to walk even as He walked"
This discipleship is the ambition
Ans all. II is the glory Of practical
cbrlstianity. II is the outward evil
Ss,ce IN large measure of the faith
tsst moves within our souls as Chris
Han men and women. 1t Is a true
dandard Of our worth as we walk
fmong men.
put II is manifest that before we
,.n uractice the truth we must know
4. hat before we can follow we must
rave a vision of the leader, that there
ruxt be footprints ahead that we may
tread therein, that there must be ex-
ample ere there will be emulation.
10 gay this is prosaic. But none the
less It Is necessary.
All Of which is to say that IL we are
n be disciples of the Lord Jesus
Christ we must have some conception
AZ His character and IN understand
ing Of the manner of life He lived.
We must have a vision of the out
standing characteristics of His man.
hood.
It would be impossible in the space
o, time allotted to the sermon OF this
or Of any other day to enumerate the
virtues Of our Saviour or to present
comprehensivelys and fully the COM
po,ents Of His character. Tonight
We shall consider simply four OF the
traits that we must possess and aug.
nent BY His grace within us and ex-
press to His glory about us IL we
sould be His disciples. And these
traits are: l, large outlook; 2,
catholic spirit; 3, a militant right
eousness; 4, an optimistic foresight
These we must have are we to follow
Hin N> to be the sort Of disciples
He bids MS to become.
Jesus had a large outlook. Hi.
horizon was boundless. His vision
,ierced the veil of time and pene
trated the mysteries of eternity. HI
was not clrcumscribed by the limita
tons OF His family relationships, no
BY the boundaries of His birthplace
nor by the confines of Palestine
Much less was He concerned with tn
smallnesses ind the meannesses o
life which SO dominant the minds ant
stultify the spirituality of so many o
His followers. Jesus was SO en-
crossed with the consideration o
large things that He had no time Z
LEI little things annoys He was s.
busy FORMULATING principles and ex
simplifying them to men that He ha
no time for gossip. The trouble wit
the Christianity of the day Is tina
We have reversed the process @
our Lord. We are SO busy with tn
small things that We have Blu
precious little time or strength to al
tend the pressure of the large. w
are 30 busy with gossip that We fol
get the proclamation OF principle!
The Disciples of our Lord are genei
ale SO busy discussing what the
hiak 0f the manners and the meth
ods ard the clothes and the frailtie
OF brethren in the faith that the
have little time to engross themselvt
vita the largest and perdurable a
nirs OF the Kingdom OF Almight
COG. But II we were true disciple
Of the Lord we would minify the fall
bllities and idiosyncrasies of I'll
brethren In the household OF fat
whose sins are no greater than OF
own, and magnify the need of III
world, and the Importance of ster
resistance In the front rank in tn
not hight against sin, and the desir'
o'Ilty OF communion here and etc
nslly with the infinite King I
Heaven. And we would practice VIII;
We preached, and labor as we praye
Jesus had catholic spirit. The
never was a man who had firmer I
more Intimate convictions, a messai
more fnal than our Lord. His co
nfeace in His ambassadorial rel
uonship between God and the wor
vas supreme. His belief in the fins
jQ OF His Gospel was consummat
And yet He was never narrow. 7
vas tolerant of all Affirming Il
value Of the truth that He declare
ne had ever a word of encourageme
or the seeker after light. Were tn
seeker Samaritan or a Roman.
rch man or a slave, Jesus had toler
uoa Tor him. He was disdainful
az that is superficial In religion al
morals. He had welcome for eve
soul, however weak and wanderin
sno was honest. Quite otherwise
! With multitudes within His churc
tney seem to think that toleran
sno religious dishonor are co-termi
oos. They seem to imagine that {
AroSer they are the greater tn
rnoer homage to their Lord. Al