Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-21

pcUplo Oh edTIN LudI QlQIl nave some
conception of God. The lower down
the scale Of humanity you get the far
Their their idea Of the bible, the farther
their idea from God, but there never
has been found race Of people that
didn't have some conception Of God,
even the Aborigines of the South Sea
islands, according to their limited idea,
showing that there is in the heart of
humanity that which is reaching out
after something which he can look up
and which he expects to be guide.
And by all the sweet memories of your
childhood, all you have seen, all you
have imagined, all you have hoped for,
all you have longed for, is Jesus say
ing: Behold, stand at the .oor and
knock"
Way, the Truth, and the Life, we
speak of the personal Christ, who has
power on earth today to forgive sin.
Ever Living Words.
Over in Egypt they dug up a num-
my, and when they unwrapped it and
deciphered the wedge shaped hiero-
glyphics, they found that for 5000
years that mummy had been lying en-
balmed, and about it were kernels of
wheat of a peculiar kind, such as they
had not known, and they took those
kernels and planted them in the fer
tile valley of the Nile. Fecundated by
the sun and the rich soil, they germi-
mated and grew, and in few years
they harvested some 1900 bushels of
wheat from the handful of kernels they
found, and altho for 5000 years it had
been lying there, still it contained the
power and germ of reproduction.
Centuries ago Jesus Christ uttered
these words, but they still have power
to save men from hell, because they
are from God and they reproduce
themselves, and they do it every day.
Still they are making drunkards sober;
still they are making libertines pure;
still they are knocking infidels to their
knees; still they are causing men to
change from tricheTy and intrigue to
the marvellous precepts Of Jesus Christ,
so the christian religion is not dog
ma, or doctrine, or creed, but it CEN
tiers about personal Christ.
Jesus Christ is Center.
| You can teach Buddhism without
old Buddha; you can teach Moham-
medism without old Mohammed; you
can teach Confucianism without old
Confucius; you can preach Forecast
ism without old Zoroaster. No mat
ter what kind of man Confucius, or
Mohammed. or Buddha might have
been, you will find a line OF teaching
for every devotee to follow, no mat
ter what the Individual might have
been, but not so with Jesus Christ.
| Jesus Christ is the center, the cir
conference and the nucleus of the
bible. You can't preach christianity
without Jesus Christ. You can preach
Buddhism without Buddha, and you can
preach ,Mohammedism without Mo-
manned, but you can't preach chris
tianity without Jesus Christ, so a Uni
tartan is christian. A unitarian isn't
even in the Kingdom of God. He can't
get in. Somebody says: 'Why, Mr..
Sunday, Ralph Waldo Emerson was a
Unitarian" That doesn't make any
difference. God will damn him Just as
quickly as he will hobo. What does
God care about Ralph Waldo Emerson?
! Now, without the life Of Jesus there
would be no perfect teacher. Jesus
God to man, but Jesus came into the
world to reveal man to man. Jesus
came to reveal me to yourself and to
reveal you to yourself, and you get
| in Jesus Christ Gods revelation as to
what he wants you to do and to be,
and in Jesus I get revelation of God
so Jesus does two things-he reveals
God to me, and He reveals me to NV
self, and in Jesus see the kind Of a
man that God wants me to be, and in
Jesus Christ / know what I ought to
preach to you to tell you to be. So
without the life of Jesus there is no re-
vealer, no perfect teacher.
| The Risen Christ.
| Without the death of Jesus Christ
there is no atonement for sin, and
without the resurrection of Jesus
Christ we have staked our salvation
on dead Jew, sleeping in the tomb
of Joseph Of Arimathea; so in Jesus
have my way, my truth and my
life made clear and plain. and He
comes to me and says: 81 stand at
the door and knock, and if you let
me come in will sweeten your life
where it is bitter. make 1t light where
it is dark, where you drink make
you sober, where you are a thief
make you steal no more, where YOU
are a libertine make you pure If you
let me come into your life, and ]
will show, thru you, to the world
that christianity is something more
than going thru a little Journalism
and saying few clichety- click prayers
when you go to church.
Let Him come in! The service
God wants is service to humanity in
the name Of Jesus. I have got to
come to God, accept Jesus Christ as
my Savior, before can render any
service to God that amounts to q
snap of your finger.
Common Sense In Things.
They say Of King Croesus, who had
deaf and dumb son, that one day
the enemy drew sword and was
about to thrust It thru the king,
when the imminence Of danger was
so overpowering that the son burst
every tmpediment in his speech and
for the first time in his life he cried
out: Don't slay the king!"
Great God, should think. as
you would see the sword Of Sod
hanging over your husband to cut
him down in sin, I should think the
sword Of God would burst every bar
rier and impediment and you would
SO out and rescue him IN the name
of God. Some Of you have spiritual
locomotof-ataxia, and you nede a lit
tie spiritual digitalis to get your old
hearts working for God.
Behold! stand at your door
and knock" Some man says: "well,
give, but give in humanity's