Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1910-11-15

worldly wise people of that day or this
day would consider such a person a
fraud, a pretender, a deeeiver. AID
pearances were against him.
Jesus declared that the Father sent
obedience 10 Jehovah's will, to be his
agent and servant in the outworking
of great plan for human redemption
Those who deny all of this, and who
have awakened so much confusion
amongst Christians, and have made
the Gospel of Christ impossible to the
Jew, should give an account of them
selves and explain by what authority
they contradicted the Great Teacher
1.-THE Father is greater than IL And
when they claim that the death of
Jesus was merely farce, and that be
as Jehovah merely stepped out of the
body of Jesus and perpetrated fraud
and pretended to be dead and aroused
his disciples so to think and so 70
teach, and pretended later to be raised
from the dead-those who thus teach
and who thus confuse the minds of all
I'LL anu OGMlNt IA
plain away, if they can, the plain state
ment of the Apostle that God raised
up Jesus from the dead by his OVID
power on the third day.
cart Thou King Them"
Picture the Great Teacher walking
with his twelve Apostles, nondescript
crowd of those who heard him gladly
-nut many great, not many learned,
not many rich, not many noble Hear
him telling them-those who acknowl-
edge themselves to be ignorant and I'M
learned (Acts iv, 13)-that, if faithful
to him, he would grant them to sit
with him in his Throne" Judging the
twelve tribes of Israel" The state
ment surely seemed fraudulent, and he
had not the heart to condemn the Jews
| who so misinterpreted him. st. Peter
| did not condemn them, but distinctly
said, l wot, brethren. that in igno-
rance We crucifed the Prince of Life,
as did also your rulers acts iii, 15-10.
Can we wonder that the learned
Jews of that day were confused? They
| recovering of sight to the blind and of
strength to the withered hand of the
| impotent man; and, in the case of LaZ-
| arus, at least, they had demonstration
of his power over the dead. They per-
| ceived that these miracles were having
an influence upon the masses-that
| they detracted from their own esteem
amongst the people. They knew that
many of Jesus sayings were wonder
| fully wise and that his criticisms of
| their own inconsistencies were re-
markably sharp. Yet withal, they said,
we know that he is a fraud, because
| Of his peculiar claim to be the Messiah
and the Son of God. This claim of his
| discountenances ali of his teachings
| and mighty works. 1t cannot be true
| that he is the Messiah that our nation
has waited for these more than sixteen
centuries. God would surely send
Messiah sufficiency of demonstration
of glory and power to convince the
most intelligent of our nation, the
Scribes and Pharisees and Priests.
| What they all dissent from. repudiate
and denounce, must be false.
For the Good of the Nation.
The Jewish wise men of eighteen
| centuries ago concluded that a man
who set the masses agog with antici-
| patton of himself as the Messiah King,
yet was without an army and without
, financial backing for q campaign,
would present their nation to the Ro-
mans in ludicrous light. AS result
| they might have taken from them, at
| the word of the Emperor, the civil and
religious privileges and rights they
were enjoying. They took counsel and
| determined that in the interests of the
peace of the nation this golden-tongued
| miracle worker should either be ex-
| posed as a fraud or be killed. They
| tried first to expose him by trapping
| him in his language in the presence of
| his followers and the multitude. But
| his intellect was keener than theirs
| and the thrusts they made at him re-
! bounded to their own discomfort and
| established his own standing in the
| estimation of his followers and in the
| eyes of the people. One of these eff
| forts to show up the hollowness Of his
claims and their fraudulency and to
| discourage his followers is worthy of
| particular notice, as it furnishes us
| the key to the sentiment of the rulers
| and also the key to the real facts of
| the case which those rulers failed to
| discern.
The Kingdom In Your Midst.
The influential Jews said, Let US
| question this fraudulent Messiah re-
| specting his pretentions, not with any
hope of correcting him, but with a
view to opening the eyes of his follow
ers to the weakness and fallacy of his
| teachings. Then they will see the hol-
| lowness of the hopes they are enter
| tanning and their foolishness in leav-
| ing their various avocations to be-
| come his followers, in the hope Of sit
| ting with him in his Throne. They
will see that he has no prospect of ever
| securing a Throne and that they are
merely deluded by him in such expec
| tations. They inquired of him. When
will your Kingdom appear? How long
will it be before you sit upon your
throne and have your followers with
you in the Throne? How long before
| this Messianic Kingdom will rule in
| Palestine and extend from its borders
| to the ends of the earth? After you
| have answered us these questions we
| will ask you others respecting your
| financial support and resources-your
own qualifications. and your subordi-
nate officers: the arms for your sol
| diers and the supplies necessary for
such a world-campaign as you are
about to begin, according to your
| teachings.
The Great Teachers brief answer
entirely silenced every objection. His
| questions. had these men been Is
raelites indeed" would have been so
deeply impressed upon them that they
ell =,