The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1910-01-29


bread ana wine to symbols OF gisan-
tic lie and Christian people every
where into the most miserable Of
men. At the mere suegestion that IN
arctic explorer. reporting q discovery
of the north pole, may have deceived
the world, men have gone white In
astonishment and alarm. TO md out
that Jesus of Nazareth II only Jesus
Of Nazareth would be to discredit
eighteen centuries of civilization. to
sink the stream Of modern history I'M
derground, to learn that empires may
build safely on deception az on the
truth, and that the sanest, brightest
hope man ever knew IL the giant do
spair Of all the ages.
No man worships down. No man
worships at q level. To his own mind
every man worships up. It may be
stick or star or beast or the vision
Of his dreams. but It Is always and
forever up. A Christ that IL not above.
beyond. elusive. INFINITE, will never re-
ceive sacrifices or hear prayers. He
may have q virgin birth, work mir
acles. rise from the dead. ascend tho
skies a. the stairway Of his home, and
need not doubt or be alarmed. !
could do him reverence were he not
somehow superhuman. Such Christ
may astound me. but he does not sur
prise. He 10 the very Christ would
look for. my Master. the Lord Of my
life. Such IL the Christ Of God. the
transcendent Christ. And we beheld
his glory"
The record ID hardly given Justice
II we do not say that the glory of the
Christ life Is seen In that It Is every
where superlative. It was glory
full of truth and grace" "Of his full
ness have all we received" He IL
evermore the indispensable One.
When scientist will study sum
shine he runs It through a prism and
confines It to the limits OF his desk
The thing that floods q universe does
not vanish or change in two feet
square. SO the immortal Christ. light
Of the world, shut up in the short
years Of his Palestinian abiding.
shows still the primal glories of the
eternities and the Fathers house.
Does he bring grace and truth to thu
earthf He IL full of grace and
truth" Does he speak with menf
"Never man spake like this man."
Is he accused of ~rongf II find no
fault in this man." Does he feed the
multitude from lunch box? They
gather Of the fragments by the bas-
ketful. Does he heal the sick? It II
not q matter Of visits, mumbling and
income. but men take up their bed
and walk. Is there an hour when
speech Is folly? He answers not .
word and the mighty Of the earth
marvel. Finally. with his life at his
back and his face to the sky he cries
in triumph, at is finished" and meets
the Eternal with his record. Always
and everywhere he IL the superlative
Christ.
OF course the Christ might have
done very differently. Revealing truth.
he might have told us wholesale the
minds Of men, the discoveries Of the
ages and the secrets of destiny.
Bringing the grace Of God. he could
have driven poverty. sickness. sin and
death from under the sun. Command
ing righteousness In the earth, he
might have sent the spirits Of the
dead to enforce his will. Surely he
might have done differently: but be-
Ing the superlative Christ he could
not supposedly have done better. The
alarming message Of Jesus is that he
Is the last and farthest reach Of the
mind and hand Of God. TO 20 far.
Their would be to do worse, to be less
wise and loving, to set weakness in
the seat of power and to furnish the
earth at last the thing II IL hungry
for. real excuse for sin. A God
who might have done more and better
for his children and withheld his hand
would be dumb on his own judgment
day. The superlative Christ is the
exhaustion of divinity for the good
of men. Unique, transcendent, unsur-
passable, 'the same yesterday, to-day
and forever" we behold his glory
Northwestern Christian Advocate.