The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-03-14
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REV. w. c. WHITAKER GIVES HIS
 LAST ADDRESS.
Talks to . Good Number of the Uni- versality of Christ and the Gospel as . Means of
 Salvation.

Tn a simple yet eneCtive address on the Universally of Christ and the Gospel as a Means of Salvation" Rev. W. c. Whitaker. rector of St. Johns. Knoxville. finished yesterday his series of talks at the monday services in the Majestic Theatre.
 "The Gospel of Christ Is bound indi- dissolubly with the person of Jesus of Nazareth-who he was. whence he was. what he said and did" he explained. All other gospels have been fragment ary gospels, intended for certain races. or ages. or classes. boasting as much of whom they rejected as of whom they elected. Christ alone revealed that the love of God is universal. and that God wills that all men shall come to the knowledge of the truth.
 Christ alone has given to us the ideal of man. which touches all men in that He Himself embodied the qualities that men have always deemed mo- blest: that he possessed these qualities in perfect proportion and adjustment: and that the qualities cannot be read justed without marring the symmetry of His character.
 Therefore Christ is Gods power universally effective to bring man to that manhood which alone Is saliva tion. The preaching of the Christ turned the ancient world upside down and brought both Jew and Greek to new mind concerning their danger. duty. dignity and destiny.
 But the Jew and the Greek were only types of the two classes into which all upbuilding religious force brings men. The Jew corresponded to the man whose sense of right and wrong are supreme. The Greek cor responded to the man to whom a cor rect solution of problem Is essential. The tyfical Jewish religionfst was the Pharisee who did good works. The typical Greek religionist was the Gnostic who thought high thoughts. Both attempted to scale Heaven and bring in human perfection, and both failed. Sickness cannot heal sickness. nor can man enter into God's mlnd save as God reveals 1t.
 "Ail sacred philosophy and all moral desire are fulfilled in Christ. Every man that strives to become better finds himself. consciously or unconsciously, patterning himself after Jesus. Every philosophy striving to become a purer philosophy accepts the philosophy of Jesus, whose basis Is If you will know the teaching, do the will. You must taste. not theorize. to know that the Lord is gracious. Pilots Ecco Homo,' Behold the Man. is graven on the ages.
 "Jean Paul Richter well described the effect of the condescension of Jesus Christ, the first thoroughgoing slum worker of eternity, when he said of Him:
 The Christ among the mighty, the mightiest among the holy, He lifteth with His pierced hand empires off their hinges, and turned the stream of cen- turtles out of its channel, and still gov erns the ages.'
 And the end is not yet, for this same Christ has declared: "I. if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me"
 Rev. Mir. Whitaker left for Knox vile on the 3:30 train yesterday af- ternoon. Beginning Monday, Rev. Beverly Warner. rector of Trinity Church, New orleans. clergyman Of national reputation, a power among men. win be the speaker. His last ad- dress will be delivered on the 18th.