Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-03
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The incarnation and divinity Of
Jesus Christ, and his God-giyen power,
bywhich he performed miracles and
his infinite power to save men from
eternal punishment if they will believe
and accept him as their saviour, was
the essence of the theme taken We'd
nesday night by Rev. Mr.. Sunday for
his sermon at the tabernacle. An audi
ence Of 2.100 people heard what was
probably the piainest and simplest dis
course on the divinity and divine power
Of the son Of God ever delivered from
a local platform.
The subject was ''The Incarnation OF
Jesus Christ" taken from the text
John 1914: "And the word was made
flesh, and dwelt among US, and we be-
held his glory, and the glory as of the
only begotten of the father, full OF
grace and truth"
Divine in the Flesh.
Taking this text as the biblical
statement Of how the divinity and the
spirit Of God passed into and became
the flesh Of Jesus Christ, and while di-
vine in spirit he was yet amenable and
subjected to the laws of the flesh, Rev.
Mr.. Sunday spoke for over an hour on
the various phases Of his subject.
1t was the power of God, contained
In the body Of his son Jesus, Mr.. Sun
day said, that made it possible Cor
Christ to perform miracles and it is the
same power that makes 1t possible fo-
men to be transformed from what they
are to what God wants them to be. He
dwelt long and went into much detail
in making, plain this latter argument,
which was the keynote Of his message
and appeal to sinners. AS a result OF
this plea. thirty-three were converted.
Has Power of Divinity.
Strip Jesus Of the power Of the
divinity of God, which was in him, Mr..
Sunday said, and no reasonable mind
could believe the miracles, but acknow-
ledge that within Christ was the lin
itless power Of God, and the UNDER
standing of the miracles is made easy.
The evangelist made an effort to
Z avoid any deep .doctrinal argument Of
the subject, his purpose being to pre-
sent 1t in a simple may in which he
succeeded admirably. His sermon was
IN pary as IOllOWS:
Jesus Christsis a,.world OF thought
] mean by that. thats in Jesus Christ,
as world OF thought, there are vast
subjects that no mind has ever faith
omed. I.mean by that his divinity and
Incarnation. The greatest minds the
world has ever known have attempted
to survey and explore it's heights and
depths, but all have acknowledged that
they could not. Since that has been
the experience OF great men 1t would
be the height Of folly for me to at
tempt q discussion or explanation Of
the divinity Of Jesus Christ. want
to speak Of it as revelation, as a
!. mystery. and as prophecy. One of
the simplest accounts Of it is found in
the book Of John
Unitarians Killed Jesus.
The evangelist declared that is was the
Unitarians who stoned and crucified
Jesus. They said 1t was because he
biasphemed by saying that he was the
son Of God. who were the blasphem-
ers." Sunday asked, "Jesus or they?"
What familiar words those are"
he said. n quoting the text "Who
knows all about God? None. Some
know some things. others know other
things but no one knows all about him.
q: $50 God Is q thing. or an object or a
being. He is a mystery and there are
things about him which you or or no