Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-10-23

NhN race iHhk ne WIS fNf WITCH
model the sublime original. to be- inii-
tatcd By an true mon and women: but
many " one. while admitting his
unique perfection stin ondeavors 10
withhold belief and acknowledgment
IN the reality Of his divine nature.
Macarthur pointcdly says that
I'VE ought. as students OF literature
and life. 90 account for Jesus the
christ We strive % account for So
crates aud Plato. FOR David and Isaiah,
for Paul and fnther Washington and
Gladstone for Lincoln and Mckinley.
Arc We not under the strongest posi-
bic oblleations 10 account for Jesus
christie Men say that Jesus CHRIST was
good. but that iic WAS not God. out ~
their own mouths these men convict
themselves of Inconsistency IN the To-
cutious and illogtcality In their reason
iugs n Jesus Jesus christ is not God
lie IS not good lie IS either an un-
pardouahie egotist or a hopeless luna
tic or lie IL the Christ ~ God. aud
claimed 90 be God. ana 70 His claim
be NOT true how can lie be good p
And those who dispute his divinity
and yet praise his perfection are sim
gularly Inconsistent Jesus was the
Son of God or he was monumental
imposter-a very Bclzehub. as declared
the Phaiisoes unless he aud the Pa
Their we're one. In accordance with his
own. oft-repcated declarations. he was
not the best. but the worst Of men. "
not the Son Of God lie who declared
before Abraham was. | am" He that
hath seen Me hath seen the Father"
and who In that final affirmative yea"
when he answered the high priest at
his trial with the greatest words that
history has ever recorded. was not
merely a perfect man. In answer to
tho specific question as to whether or
not he was tho son OF God he declared,
Thou sayest truly" and the high
priest rent his robe, exclaiming HE
hath spoken blasphemy" And so he
had, unless he had spoken the truth.
1t Is Just here that those who question
the divinity OF Christ are hopelessly
at fault
And great thinkers in all ages Of
the world have freely testified 20 their
conviction that Christ is God as wen
as man. The Jews themselves, as DIR.
Geikie has shown. express great adj
miration for the character and words
or Jesus: the Mohammedan world
gives Him the high title Of Messiah; the
myriad minded Shakespeare paid Him
lowly reverence. and men like Calico.
Kepler. Bacon. Newton and Milton set
the name OF Christ above every other
name. Gcikie also reminds US that Jean
Paul Richter. whom his countrymen,
call Der Einzige," the unique. tells US
that "the life OF Christ concerns Him
who, being the hollest among the
mighty. the mightiest among the holy,
lifted with His pierced hands empires
on their hinges and turned the stream
OF centuries out Of its channel and still
governs the ages"
Spinoza, the great philosopher, a son
Of Portuguese Jews. a disciple OF Aben-
Ezra and Descartes. calls Christ the
symbol OF tho divine and human.
Goethe. the Acknowledged prince OF
German poets. and one OF the most 40
comlished men OF the eighteenth cen
tury, says, Il esteem the gospels to be
thoroughly genuine for there shines
forth froin them the reaeeted splendor
Of asublimity, proceeains from the per-
son OF Jesus Christ. OF so divine a kind
as only the Divine could ever have
manifested upon earth"
Mon OF war bear the same testimony.
Napoleon said; II think understand
somewhat OF human nature and l tell
| you all these (the heroes OF antiquity
were man. and / am a man. but not one
is like Him; Jesus Christ was more
than man Alexander. Caesar, Charlie
imagine and myself founded great en-
/ pires; but upon what did the creations
Of our genius depend7 Upon force. Je-
sus alone founded His empire upon love
and 10 this very day millions would die
for Him" Compared with such wit
nesses as these. the opponents OF Jesus
| Christ today are pigmies 50 contemptl-
BILE in mentality and so questionable in
morality. az to be ruled out OF every
court OF testimony, where intellectual
ability and moral worth have weight
And similar words may be taken from
the recorded sayings Of nearly all the
notables OF earth.
Long before Christ came. Plato de-
clared that I'VE must wait an some
one comes who can teach us the truth"
This Is why Christ is called the desire
OF nations. Men longed for the reve-
lation Of such a parsonage. Now as
the light OF the world. few and incon-
sistent are they who admire his per-
fectlon yet reject his main claim.
And n the soriptural question what
think ye OF the christi" were 10 be put
anew to the most eminent thinkers and
scholars OF mankind. the answer would
| IL Nnrv .lnlllnr 20 fhoaa nlraadV nllniad.