Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-06

; prayer, attend to it and grant him h
petition. So worthless that he needle
to pray; so precious that it was of som
use to pray. This incident does nc
so much prove mans actual devilshnes
as it does mans potential salntliness.
"Dr. Parkhurst says that the inherer
grandeur of man might be illustrated i
many ways, but the most impressive O
them all is III that when the Eterna
Spirit would come forth from the dee
recesses of concealmcnt He found II
man the Man of Nazareth, but mar
a being, sufficiently wide in capacious
ness to serve as an abundantly room,
tenement for the Spirits occupancy
Since the creative morning, when maj
was framed after the likeness of hi
Maker, no such overwhelming creden
tials to the inherent sublimity of tn,
human was ever afforded as in that ac
of God by which he made a man, thu
man Jesus, to be no merely the repre-.
sentative of himself, not merely the
delegate of himself, but made him tc
be the expression of himself-his owr
infinite personality come out into visi,
bility-humanness SO instinct with the
essentials of deity as that bundle of ii
could serve as the brightness of the
Fathers glory This is the good news
concerning man. He is divinencss run
in finite mould. That is what Beth
lchcm means That is what Calvary
teaches. That is the meaning of both
the incarnation and the crucifxion. The
worm theory of man might answer for
the days of Job, but it singes into ashes
under the hot light of the incarnation.
Soul, patterned after the Everlast-
ing Father, offspring of God, stand up
to the dignity of your divine bequest !
We could not live the life so many of
us are disposed to live, lives that are
small, grasping, mean, unbrotherly, that
have no ambitions that transcend the
grave, if we had but the beginnings of
a sensitive appreciation of the dowry
whercwith God has endowed us.
"Along with this purified and loftier
conception of God and man, there is
coming or has come new conception
of the curing of sin and new expert
ence in curing sim
In the ancient days. before the COM
ing of the Deliverer, fear was the great
deterrent used to correct or prevent
sin. And the fear was created and
stimulated by punishments more or less
severe.
Jesus taught radically different doc
trine and introduced into mems lives
A radically different purpose. He taught
that the way to cure sin was to suffer
for the sinner. The world said, Put
the suffering on the sinner and you will
cure him. Jesus said, Suffer for the
sinner and you will cure him.
"And this he taught by both precept
and example. Men sinned against him
every day, but we never hear of his
having used his power to punish them.
He was asked once to do it and he
refused. A Samaritan village had re-
fused him shelter and hospitality, and
one of his disciples said, Call down fire
and destroy them Elijah did that
But Jesus said, You do not know what
manner of spirit you are. The Son of
Man is not come to destroy mems lives
but to save Them Don't resent an in
suit. Bear it PATIENTLY I wonder how
many of us practice that method.
what he taught he lived. He was
wounded for the iniquities of men. He
vas bruised for our transgressions' He
carried mems in6rmities; he bore mans
sorrows. He entered into the trials and
of man. He entered into
he lives of men-common men, strug-
Cling in real, undramtic struggles and
he shared their struggles with them.
And his forgiveness was like the for
yiveness that he told his disciples God
exercised for men. Forgive until sew
ent ytimes seven, that We may be the
children of your Father
"Most of us have seen Tissot's great
pictures, pictures which tell in re-
way the story of Christ's life.
The most wonderful of all these to me
is the picture of what Christ saw from
the cross. The cross is not in the pic
lure, nor is the Christ. But you stand
n imagination where Jesus hung suf-
Fering and you look out on the scenes
which met his eyes. There is Mary,
PROSTATE on the ground, fainting. There
It distance is the little group of fear
Jul disciples; there is the centurion with
| look of bewilderment in his face;
here are the soldiers, untouched by
'ity, gambling 70 ribs robes. There
are the heartless ones calling, He
saved others, himself he cannot save
Both statements were true, for he could |
lot save others and save himself. Love
las never been able to save itself. There
ire the long-robed priests, looking
comfully on and saying, Let him come
Town from the cross and we will be-
ieve in himp And on them all the Son |
If Man looked down and his great low
ng heart cried out, Father, forgive
hem, for they know not what they do::'
That is what Christ did to save men
le suffered for them.
1.-THE world has tried good many
'lans for saving men, but the centuries |
rave not and will not improve on the
Irvine plan-the plan of the one who |!
owed men into goodness with a love ]