Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1909-11-01
JESUS LOCKED
IN sANCTuARIES.
Not Enough of His Influence in
the Every Day Life Of
People.
REV. HUMPHREYS ERMoN
Faith and Practice Required In
Gaining SUCCESS and Hap
piness.

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s@christ In Everyday eLifes @tas the
text of foreefni SERMON delivered at
the Central Prssbyferian dhureh hast
asening by abe pastor. Rev. Marion
HnInphrsys BE chose for his text.
! John. 2t:4. s.Jssns stood on the shore;
hut his disciples knew not that It was
Jesus. Rev. Humphreys said in part:
- There Is nothing the life Of any
-one OF ds beyond the Interest OF Jesus.
and FIis5own life pro yed that the more
cSlnhonpiace theS Incident and the
more downcast and the more outcast,
the NE, the greater the interest Of
aJesafs But hiss professed disciples to-
day are liable to the charge OF the
world. They have imprisoned Jesus in
the churches, because manFg do not
lmanfsesh Christ in everyday Life. They
$ do not expect to take Him with them
siirit0s the work-a-day world; they do
siaot expect to find Him there. and we
shosld mot wonder If the world points
ginger Of rebuke at some of the pro-
fessea Christianity of today as an at
tempt to. fmprison In our churches the
Fxaendb brittle wanderer, the worknanss
Helper, the One whose chief work was
TO go out and seek the lost, find the
outcast, lift up the fallen. If we study
the life OF Jesus. we find that it was
pFeeminently linked with the common,
even the commonest, things OF life.
What sort of Christ would you have
to be the human incarnation of God
upon earth?
Modern Selection.
ct suppose we would, and naturally
SO, select the finest type of human,
form, grace, beauty and perfections
The finished product of the longest
line of cultured and refined ancestry;
the child Of genius, scholar, king.
We would shield this divine creature
from any contamination of the world,
free from all that is course or COM
mon, and when the fullness of time
should come for His appearing, we
should have Him come Id all the spien-
dor and pomp and triumphant glory.
But not so, the plan OF God for a true,
and helpful, sympathetic and. loving
Jesus He hath no form nor kcofnslI-
ness; and when we shall see Him there
5is no beauty that we should desire
Him. Heais tiespised and rejected. OF
men; oppressed, afflicted. taken from
prison, from judgment. and cut OF out
Of the land of the hying.. Isaiah IS.
Born OF humble and poor parents.
Graded in the Manager, not twfeFe to
lay his head Is this the divine chuice-
Of Christ for. the dignity for the
culture, for the wealth, for the refine
ment of much of the church OF today?
No rose of Sharon more select than
He. No lily OF the valley. more Wisely
chosen. The fairest of len thousand,
the One altogether lovely. This is the
divine choice of Jesus for the market
place, the counting house, the store,
The street. the social life, the home, In
TACT, for every scene and circumstance
Df everyday life. And, furthermore,
such conception Of Jesus is the theme
Of countless sermons in almost every
Christian church. Every prayer is for
The coming OF His kingdom. and anth-
ems of His praise fill the sanctuaries of
Christendom every Sabbath. We sing
me our churches on the Sabbath: Jesus
Shall Reign Wherever the Sun Does
His Successive Journeys Rum" and
hen go out--teo many of us-to for
get that our social life, our home life.
pur business and the markets are In
The course of the sun.
Leave Life Lines Behind.
1--WE sing with considerable enthusi-
ism, Throw Out the Life Line and
Save Them Today and too often the
lcceIeration Is principally and with
iegree of consolation on the Today
or too many of the life lines are left
N the auditorium of the sanctuary or
The endeavor parIors or in the base
nent of the church. Again, we sing
Rescue the Perishing, Care for the Dy-
hg. It is easy to sing it in our praise
service, but could we sing it or back
I'D our singing with some actual work
IN Third avenue and Twenty-first
street Of our own city, or in like places,
my hour of the day or night? The
sheory and practice of Christianity de-
Aand these things. The practice is the
Dgical fruit of the theory, and yet, be-
ieve me, the church cannot be called
/ useless theoretical institution. for
would be clearly understood to main
n order to reveal Jesus in everyday
life. The man is mad who denies that
through the church has been wrought
The greatest good the world has ever
received. 1t is suicidal to all home and
lociaI life to say that the church has
10 mission in the world
Tool shop of Grent Builder.
The church is the tool sh1n of n great
builder and repairer. 1t is not a fac
lory nor polishing room, from which
20 turn out finished products; but sim
ply the builders tool shop, where
christian men and women are gathered
n once or twice or more week. They
ire Instruments in the Great Builders
possessions. They have been In good
lse all week, building some house of
sharacter, repairing some breach of
conduct, mending some form heat