The Point Pleasant register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, W. Va.) 1909-1939, 1910-05-04
The Glory of
the Nazarene
By Rev. Vim. E. Tilro., DID.



a life that was life Of glory. Is the
thing that is here said. Other things
are said. but our matter OF talk is
this. 1t IS not u theological vision. but
plain record. The word was made
flesh. and dwelt among US. and We be-
held his glory
Not that to the son OF Zebedee
theological vision was wanting. To
him the historic Jesus OF his genera-
ton was an eternal. inefEable some
thing known as the Word Of God. I'm
the beginning was the word and the
word was with God. and the word
was God" and The word was made
flesh and dwelt among u.s." As speech
is Z revealing. 4 message. from the
soul invisible. so tho Christ was
word from God Further. this Christ
was with John the potent uniyersal
Creator AN things were made By
him and without him was not any
thing made that was made" Thig
same Creator and word has also life
and light 'Tn him was life. and the
life was the light OF men" There may
be existence without light. but exist
ence without life there is not, an6
that new thrilling thing. the key OF
being. the light of the world, and the
secret Of destiny. is in the Christ
Surely the invisible and overriding
Jesus shone zenith high in the eyes Of
John. and there was theological vision
in plenty. But It was this vision be-
come flesh and dwelling among us
that was the immediate concern. One
too poor for where TO lay his head
barren OF social prestige. without cul--
ture Of the schools. writing no books,
showing scant regard for organism or
institutions. setting the sword into its
sheath, beggaring himself deliberate
ly OF every arm OF power In honor
with the ages, and so mighty Us to
bend and rock the earth with hiE
tread. making men suspect him
nothing less than God, was spectacle
unspeakable for a Galilean fisherman.
Fifty years and more he remembers
what his eyes have seen. and only the
greatest words under the sun and
stars are able to tell his tale. AND
we beheld his glory"
The glor, of the Christ life may be.
seen earliest. possibly. in that 1t is
the only one of its kind. 1t was a,
unique life. Jesus Christ was one.
only begotten." In all the ages he
has no fellow When Napoleon said.
Not one is like him." he had this
vision. 1t is OF the genius OF greatness
to carve a niche for itself, to fy In it's
own orbit. to evermore walk lonely
Moses. Aristotle. Caesar. Shakespeare,
are memories OF the forgotten, and
live among the dead. So there was
never another like the Son Of Mary.
Reverence is born of respect. and wor-
ship Of the Christ may well begin by
finding him among the solitary few
History can neither be written nor.
read without mention of His name
Jesus OF Nazareth is even now Jesus
OF the planet
But the glory OF Chrlct is unique.
especially. in being such a glory to the
mind OF God. Jesus is the only be-
gotten ''of the Father" A compli-
ment o. benedicdon gathers its music
and fragrance from its source. The.
great OF earth must read their glory,
always. in revised version. The
MONDAY light OF one generation fades
in another to smoking taper. "can
no man happy until he is dead" is an
ancient epitaph. Only the judgments
OF the immortals stand. That the
life of the Christ is a glory with the
Eternal. is at once a patent Of worth
and call to prayer That worship
Of the historic Jesus is not rank
idolatry finds It's one reason here; he
is in time a veritable manifestation
of the eternal God. Forevermore the
Almighty Father exists in some fash
ion as revealer. and In this fashion
never repeats himself. 'In the begin
ming was the word and the word was
with God" Like the shock OF earth
quake or the rising of the sun this
divine word breaks into human HIS
tory as Jesus OF Nazareth and passes
on. and very rightly men tarry In
reverence at his feet That human
soul which sees in Christ unique.
solitary, unsharable revealing Of Cod
alone may worship him. He may
admire. respect. follow. but to bend
the knee and say prayers he must
see God. That there is none other
name under heaven or given among
men; that there is but one Lord, one
faith. one baptism, we adore the Christ.
And We behold his glory"
This leads me naturally to say that
the glory OF the Christ life is seen also
in its transeendence. It is a bio.
graphy evermore parting from men
and carried out OF their vision. "The
darkness comprehended It not" The
world knew him not" .'His own re-
ceived him not" Men face the Christ
not only with mortal opposition, but
with mental collapse. They reject