Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-13
FATE IN KEEPING
OF A LAMB, SLAIN
DR.. RyIand, in BaCcalaureate Ser
mon 10 U. of S. C. Graduates,
ExtoIS MeekneSS
DEALS WITH DAYS PROBLEMS
Says Man Should Stop Looking
for a Lion to Lead
Him
WITH DAYS PROBLEMS

1--WE are ever looking for a lion to
lead us and God has placed our des-
tiny in the keeping of lamb, slain.
viii the Christian church meet the
problems of the world that are pressing
for solution?" said DIR. e. 2. Ryland,
pastor of the Hollywood Methodist
church. in the baccalaureate sermon
before the graduating class of the UNI
yersity at the University church yes
terday morning.
DR.. Ryland said in part:
THE question of the tomorrow OF
man is ever being asked. What is to
come to humanity out of the conditions
of the present day? Let us inquire as
to the vital questions of our own day
and then ask If there be any Just
ground for confidence that Gods plan
is being wrought out by some strong
hand. Let us look our own day
souarely in the face and ask what are
its vital issues. Certainly among the
great questions of today is that of the
church. A keen critic of our times
saws: The great mass of the people
are passive and drifting, waiting for
the clear call of new leaders,
In the face of world questions, Will
the church fulfill her mission? That
mission is the Christianization of the
world-something more great and more
simple than the endeavor of western
sects to reproduce themselves in the
east To Christianize the world is
proposition that challenges us to mea-
sure UP to the cosmopolitanism of
Jesus Christ-for whom there were no
sects and no ecclesiastical politics.
MANS RECORD IN HISTORY
in the history of the Christian
church is the best record of man. VIII
the church meet the world problems
that are pressing for solution?
Another question that is very large
in our day is that of the moral
standard. Many drift without moral
COMPASS, Many are taught that there
is no need OF compass-all directions
are alike good-there is no moral
standard because there is no sin and
each life is to go it's own way for all
courses lead to the same destiny. In
commerce, in the professions, in poll
tics in individual conduct, what is
right? We seem to be all but hope
lessly confused as to our moral stand
ards.
DESTINY OF SOUL
Another tremendous present issue is
that of the nature and destiny OF the
soul 1t is closely related to the queS-
ton of the moral standard. The editor
of a Wall street daily wrote not long
since that it was his conviction that
low standards of commercial honesty
result from a loss of belief in immor-
tality. What is a soul? Do the mind
and brain interact? Are the mind and
brain following a law of parallelism?
Are the mind and the brain Identical!
Does the mind use the brain as a
musician uses the violin? What is a
soul? Regarding this question many
in our day are grouping in uncertainty.
"Out of these disturbing uncertain
ties out of the present completion ana
conflict for advantage and combina-
ton for power, out of the conflict be-
tween democracy and aristocracy, be-
tween socialism and Imperialism, be-
tween poverty and wealth, is there
hand that is working toward the con-
summation that God wills?
LAMB Is MEEKNESS
"What is signified by Christ as the
Lamb? A despised word answers the
question: 'Meekness.' We are over
much welded to the thought Of mastery
by force.
"Neitsche has more disciples in our
day than we think. To him, the lordly
egoist, who exploits other men and rises
on their dead selves, is the proper huma
man ideal-the oVerman. The moral
man who lives for others is weakling
"a degenerate. Might is right, and this
COINGpI lldS DCCIl ONSA SAAAC"iA
false and slavish concepts of the
Nazarene. But to the meek belongs
the tomorrow. Meekness is strength
controlled by great love. Strength
mastered by love-that is meekness and
that is Christ.
But he is a Lamb slain. His own
profoundest principle of life is this
He that loveth his life loseth it and
he that hateth his life in this world
| shall keep it unto life eternal
! Armies and navies and coast de-
/ fenses and all such garish display of
/ power may belong to the world wisdom
of our day, but they do not belong to
/ him who with patience and love is
evermore possessing the earth. Men
will not ultimately be ruled by external
powers, and no man is worthy to mas
/ ter humanity So"