Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1910-01-24
Or, Gray Speaks to Two
Large Audiences.
Services Interesting and Listen
ed 10 With Close Attention.
Last Meeting at City Hall Comes
tuesday Evening.

City hall was filled Sunday after
| noon TO listen to DR.. Gray on the
Deity of Jesus Christ" A large au-
| dience also greeted the speaker at the
| evening service, which proved equally
| interesting Today and Tuesday will
| be the concluding days of the cam
| paign. This evening at City hall and
| Tuesday evening at the same place.
| Tuesday afternoon a service for the
| ''shut-ins" at the Penney Memorial
| church.
| DIR. Gray'S sermon Sunday afternoon
was mastery effort and was in SUBJ
stance as follows:
Text: Matt. Xvi16: "Thou art the
Christ, the Son of the Living God"
| Christ is the most versatile charac-
ter of history; His story can be told
in every language, and His service
| gives surprising joy to all who enter
it. When a memorial service was held
in honor of Stephenson, the inventor,
the men who had worked with him in
the machine shop marched in a body
TO the place of meeting, and one Of
| them carried banner on which these
words We're inscribed: He was one
|
| are honestly seeking the worlds good
| can say of Jesus, He was one of us.
| the physicians, looking away to Him
| who went about heading all manner
| of Diseases" can say, He was one of
us. The teachers. looking to Him who
| taught as no man before or since has
taught, can say, He was one of us.
The deaconess and sister of charity in
the heart of the city's slums, behold
| ing Jesus who had compassion on the
| multitude, can say. He was one of us.
| Indeed He is the most versatile char
acter of history.
! want us to think of Him today as
the Son Of God. and I pray that the
| same Father who gave Peter the in
| formation of the text may speak to
| each one of us, saying, This is my
| beloved Son in whom I am we'll
pleased" If Jesus is the Son of God,
then we can trust Him for life and
death and the judgment; whereas if
| fte is only man. to whom can this
tired, SHINING world go for comfort
snd salvation?
| In the first place let us study the
| claims which Jesus made concerning
| himself; then let US look at the facts
| Of His life and the necessary con-
I ciuSlons. and then to the place which
fit occupies in history and in the world
| today: and lastly to the testimony OF
many witnesses.
Jesus claims the absolute obedience
and love of man as His own right.
He that lnveth father or mother more
than Me is not worthy of Me; and he
that loveth son or daughter more than
Ne is not worthy of Me-
Jesus claims to be the Messiah Of
the Jews. THE woman saith unto
| Him. l know that Messiah cometh,
! which is called Christ; when He is
| come, He will tell us all things" Je-
sus saith unto her, Il that speak un-
TO thee am He"
Jesus claims to be in himself the
| power OF the resurrection and of i'm
| ilnrtal life. Il am the resurrection and
| life"
| Jesus claims to have unique power
| over His own life. mo man taketh it
| from Me, but l lay it down of My
self. l have power to lay it down, and
have power to take it again.
Jesus claims the power to forgive
sins. THE Son Of Man hath power on
| earth to forgive Sins" Thy sins be
| forgiven three
! Jesus claims to be the final judge of
all men. For the Father judgeth no
man, but hath committed all judg-
| ment unto the Son.
Jesus claims the power and right to
| send the Holy Spirit.
Jesus claims to he substantially the
| same as the Father. Il and the Father
| are one"
| Jesus permitted His associates to
think of Him as Lord and to call Him
Lord Doubling Thomas exclaimed.
MY Lord and my God" Jesus did
| not rebuke him. Very manifestly Je-
| sus Christ believed Himself to be the
| divine Son of God. and humanity to-
day is glad to take Jesus at His word.
THE FACTS OF HIS LIFE.
| Not only do we have the testimony of
| the personal claims which Jesus made
Tor himself, but there are the facts of
! His life, which are well attested, and
which cannot be explained apart from
His ieity.
No less an authority than Lecky, in
his History of Morality" has said:
| The simple record of three short
years Of Clrists active life has done
more to regenerate and soften man
kind than all the dispositions of phil
osophers and all the exhortations of
moralists." "It is certainly true that
| today, 1000 years after it's Founder
died death of shame. Christianity is
literally the biggest fact in the world.
| No other single force that can be
namd touches so many lives. or infiu-
ences so profoundly the course of his
tory. History, indeed, is unintelligible
without it,"
| If Jesus Christ is not the Son of
God. then the best brains of the civil
lied world have been deceived by a
carpenters son. From Gladstone, back
ward and forward. the towering men
| of the ages have been followers Of the
| Nazarene. 1t was Jean Paul Richter
who said: Christ who, being
the hottest among the mighty, the
| hightiest among the holy, lifted with
His pierced hand empires off their
! hinges, turned the stream of centuries