The Neshoba Democrat., 1910-03-03

spite or all adverse indications; hs
saw its possibility through despised in.
| strumentalities he seized upon a ma
tive human capacity, which we call
faith, to realize his vision. From this
| program of Jesus there has come the
stimulus that has revolutionized every
life and nation it has touched, and has
given to the Christian fraction of hui
manity the virtual monopoly Of the
learning, the arts, the industries of the
world.
Jesus only began to do and to
teach as Luke tells u.s. He has been
doing and teaching ever since he left
the earth. The Teacher who declared
that the truth shall make you free,'
has given us the spirit of free inquiry
which has yielded our sciences, and
all the precious fruits that have come
from them. The Jesus who went
about doing good" has been the con-
tinuous philanthropist, and all the
mighty personal and institutional min
istries for the uplift and comfort Of
mankind which Christian nations have
wrought are but the prolongation Of
his ministry. There is no one in the
world to-day so alive as Jesus. And
this life he reveals not only in the
lives and social institutions of those
who are his followers but also in the
very atmosphere of the Christian civ
ilization which is inbreathed by myr-
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the Christ
Neighborhood and Brotherhood.
To-day, as in the first century,
! other civilizations of the world are
feeling the touch of his power. The
| arts and inventions of the Christian
peoples have made communion be.
tween all nations so close that now
there is no more sea-" The very air
carries our messages to one another.
This means neighborhood What is
called western learning" is Chris
| tian learning and the unchristian
| world is asking for it. The double
task of purifying our own civilization,
| and of giving it to other nations is
| upon us. To help us in this the liv-
ing Christ is still teaching and work
ing.
A recent writer ("The Three Great.
est Forces" by William Wynne Pey.
tom, has treated of : "The Incarnation
| as Dynamic of Western Civilization"
| To the coming of Jesus he ascribes the
| unification of the manifold sacredness
around us; the unfolding of our sense
of kinship with God and our fellows;
| the revelation of the unity of the hui
| man race, and consequent changes in
| the relations of men with one another;
| the calling of a sense of the essential
worth of human nature; the unveiling
of the spiritual quality of industry
| and drudgery; the enhancing of the
worth of the body; the TRANSPORTATION
of sex, with ensuing effect on morality
and the family; and the glorification
of love. These eight items by no
means exhaust the catalogue of what
Jesus has done-is doing all the time
but are some lines of the index to
| the divine volume "Gesta Christi"
that records Jesus contribution to civ.
| ilization through Christianity
Well may our religious Christmas
| be merry and eXultant. The secret of
| the distance between Bethlehem's
manger and our modern highest en-
| lightenment is Jesus himself He is
the light of the world" His life is
"the light of men" All other great
movements that have blessed mankind
in the Christian era are only impulses
| from this dynamic of the incarnation.
In his footprints as he walks through
the world there spring up mankind's
noblest institutions. Only evil feels
waste and woe where he treads. Since
he was born history is his story.-Wil.
| liam c. Biting in The Standard.