The Semi-weekly leader. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1905-1941, 1909-02-20

A Lay Sermon by The Houston Daily
Chronicle.

sented with marvellous and impress
sive vividness in the form of NOV
ling pictures at the two theatoriums
in Brookhaven the first three nights
of this week, the following elo-
quent tribute to the Savior of man
kind, published as a leading editor
ial in the Houston (Tex.) Daily
Chronicle few days ago, will be
read with special interest and ap-
preclation by The Leaders, readers
who witnessed that wonderful ex-
hibition:
To the man Christ Jesus all the
world now pays the tribute of its
admiration and its tears. To the
teacher Christ Jesus all the world
comes to sit at his feet as disciples.
The unselfish life, the pathetic
death, the beautiful teachings. the
beatitudes and the golden rule COM
mand worldwide reverence. The
Confucian says that Jesus and Con-
fucius alike taught the golden rule,
the one the negative and the other
the positive of the teaching that
men should give in conduct as they
hope to receive again. The Japan
ese universities study the philoso-
ply of the Man of Sorrows; the
Arab in the desert counts him in
the list of the prophets. The Jew
is proud that his race gave birth
to the man who conquered the Cen
tile world, and everywhere that
men in speaking of Jesus do not say
''The God," they say '"The Good" ="
Men admit that he spake as
never man spake, and the sermon
on the mount has been deemed of
compass sufficient to furnish a
world creed. When men hope to
be able to listen and not hear the
throbbing of the war drum; to
hearken and not catch the groans
that rise from red battlefelds, the
sobbing of widows and the sighs of
orphaned children, that hope of
universal peace is breathed "In His
Name"
Wherever men and women con-
tend for the rights Of little chill
dren and try to press distorting
burdens away from childish
shoulders, and lift the soul-destroy-
ing weights from little backs, they
battle in the strength derived from
Him who loved little children and
took them into his arms and blessed
them.
Wherever men dream of a parlia-
ment of man, federation of the
world whose pattle flags are all
furled and conquered banners, and
see the far-off vision of the brother
hood Of races and the love of man
for man, they dream that over the
chancellor's seat in that world par
lament there will be flung the
milk-white banner of the Prince of
Peace, who taught anew that God
had made of one blood all the races
of the earth and had fashioned
their hearts alike.
Wherever men of science, leaping
with daring hearts to make good
Pasteur's prophecy that contagious
diseases can be banished from the
earth, and, battling with the
weapons of microscope and antitox-
in, with food and fresh air and
healing serums, conduct their cru
sade against the invisible dragons
of bacilli, the unseen hordes of
saber toothed microbes and devil
tentacled germs, their crusade is
inspired by the recollection of the
man who spake healing and comfort
and whose body radiated contagious
health.
So, whether the Galilean was
correct in his faith that angels
comforted him, and that the Father
whose Son he was would receive
him into living glory, as a teacher
he triumphs, and humanity accepts
his as its true King.
But the socialist and the humani-
tartan and the scientist and the
dreamers of world. health and
world-peace come into the presence
of unsheathed graves. They die,
or those they love die, and the
world yet has its battles, and its
plaques, and its horrors, and its in
iquities, and its yawning chasms
of division.
And, while these things are true,
it is not enough for them that the
Nazarene has won for himself the
greatest name in history, nor that
his influence is pervasive and a
blessing, but they want to turn to
him in larger sense and look on
him as one who had abolished death
and brought life and Immortality
to light. AS the earth receives
back its dust to it's bosom, the
human heart turns sadly from the
conception of Christ the Teacher
and Christ the King and cries out
for Christ the Savior. 1t turns
from the sermon on the mount to