Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1909-04-29
THE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR.. ALvAH S. HOBART
Theme: The Unlisted Asset.

Brooklyn, N. Y.-The Rev. DR.. A.
s.. Hobart, Of Grocer Seminary,
preached Sunday morning in the EN-
manuel Baptist Church. Lafayette
avenue and St. James place. His
subject was THE Unlisted Asset"
and his text was Matthew 22:41-44:
while the Pharisees were gathered
together Jesus asked them, saying:
What think We of Christ? Whose
son is He?' They say unto Him, The
son Of David He saith unto them,
How, then, doth David in spirit call
Him Lord, saying the Lord said unto
my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand,
till I make thine enemies thy foot
stool. If David then call Him Lord,
how is He his SOM And NO man
was able to answer Him a word,
neither burst any man from that time
forth ask Him any questions" DR..
Hobart said:
Sometimes in the summer the Their
mometer runs up into the ninetfes,
and we call it hot weather, but we
take off our coats and attend to u
business and say to our friends: This
is summer, but after all I rather like
summer. I do not see that the sum-
mer is to be so much dreaded" And
the next day the thermometer stands
just as it did the day before, but we
are nearly smothered, and we say:
II cannot stand it at all. think this
is about the worst climate; it Is
enough to kill a man." What is the
difference? The thermometer does
not tell the whole story. To-day
there are only sixty degrees of hui
nudity, but yesterday there we're nine
ty. There Is a certain unlisted ele-
ment In the weather that the thermom-
eter does not make any account Of.
but that unlisted element makes all
the difference in the world. A man
is sick and his doctor tells that he
has an incurable disease and cannot
live, because the medical records do
not show a single case Of recovery
from that particular disease. Never
theless the man RECEIVERS completely,
and the only way the astonished doc
tor can account for it is by saying
that the man had a great fund Of in
exhaustihle vitality. That vitality is
the unlisted asset in the case.
This is the idea I have in mind
when I speak to you concerning the
unlisted asset in Jesus. These people
WduI0O W hIOW CO4 Id1A tAAAA60 dAlo
He wanted them to believe certain
things. There seemed to be some
doubt as to the Messiah, and Jesus
asked them what sort of a man they
thought the Messiah was going to be.
! "Whose son will He be when He
comes?" and they said. why, Da-
| vid's SON." Then He said, Have ye
| not read the psalm wherein David
said, The Lord said unto my Lord?''
! In the Jewish realm no man would
ever call his son Lord" How was
It? They did not know. They found,
in the Old Testament Scriptures that
| there was an unlisted asset. Now,
history presents a similar problem.
Things have happened that we cannot
accoun4 for in the ordinary way. Be
fore, or soon after, A. D. 800, the pa
gan kings Of Rome ceased to be, and
a confessedly Christian king sat IN
the centre of the Roman Empire.
Now the teachers Of that gospel did
not have philosophy like the Romans
/. or literary culture like the people of
Rome or Athens.
They suffered persecution and were
called "the off-scouringo of the world"
They had no armies, nor temples. and
yet inside of $50 years they displaced
the Emperor On his throne by the
Gospel Of Jesus Christ. How are you
going to account for that? Som show
these unframed fishermen, and that
cast-out Pharisee of the Jewish eccle-
siastical institution, had gone ahead
with the unlisted power and won
these marvellous victories. Something
was there besides, something greater
than a son of David. A humble peas
ants son in Palestine n~ronhesied that
His name should be above everything
and that all the nations of the world
should know it and bow down to It.
What do we see to-day? Why, the
statesmen of the world are being
guided by the fundamental principles
tina that peasant taught. To-day the
philosophers OF the world are slough
J Ing on all the sp~eeNlations that are