The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-09-04


hand upon them and healed them all.
Was 1t poverty? For their sakes He
became poor, that He hight minister
unto them with true sympathy. Was
1t sorrow? He wept with them. But
higher than these is Ills teaching OF
the moral law. II say unto you, love
your enemies: bless them which curse
you; do good to them which hate you,
and pray for them which dcspitefully
use YOU and persectlte. YOU"
This He taught, and this He did.
When He was reviled, He reviled not
again; when He suffered He threat
cned not; He gave His back to the
smiters, and Ills checks to them that
plucked off the hair; He was brought
as lamb to the slaughter, and as
sheep before her shearers is dumb, so
lie opened not His mouth; but in His
heart arose a prayer! IF any man
have not the spirit Of Christ he is
| none Of His"
He teaches US to forgive, and thus
| be like your Father. How often, Lord?
"Till seventy times seven" or in other
words. forever. Who can do this? We
might forgive, Lord, but we cannot
forget. Then you do not really for
give-forgiveness wipes out the past
and animates for the future.
| Who, then, can be a Christian? "A
man may be Pharisee, fasting by
rule. and paying all his debts, and yet
know nothing of Christianity. On the
| other hand, a man may be full of
| faults and yet he may be Christian.
! We distinguish, and justly, between
one fault and another. And yet we
must insist that in spite of all out
| side appearances everything depends
upon the spirit and purpose OF the
heart. Out Of 1t are the issues of life
very intermittent. very brokenly, may
they flow, but after ali 1t is the action
Of the heart, without which there can
be no life.
Under the All-Seeing Eye they pass
the drtlpkard, the unc7ean. the liar, the
thief-and He knows the secrets Of
their heart their trials and their fall
He also knows their effort to free
themselves from the chains of those
sins which cling and drag then
down. oh. the patience and forbear
ance of Christ! We are So free t
judge and condemn, He SO long-suf
fering and forgiving. IF any MAJ
have not the spirit OF Christ he i
none OF His"
4 So perverse Is human nature tina
some Christians of loud profession
pride themselves upon th1 pride
; There is more said against pride Il
the Bible than against drunkenness
vet there are many who draw them
selves up and say, You must remembe
I am proud! But "He pours contemp
on all our pride" Pride of brit
(Matt.' i. IS, ~, pride Of beauty qsa
lii. %. pride of wealth (Matt. vii
20). pride Of position duke VII. ga,
pride of learning (John VII. 2O), prid
of reputation (John vii 20), pride Q
success .(Matt. XVI. 55-5s, xvii. 4s
pride of power (Matt. XVI 5s).
III any man have not the spirit Z
"A Christ ho dsrnone, of His"
Judge. therefore, yourselves brethre,
that We be not Judged of the Lord.
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The Associated Press solemnly ar
= nounced that the Colonel had "quit
day. at Omaha; but notes among HI
: activities that he took breakfast wit
/ THE reception committee. luncheon {
s. the Field Club. and dinner at the Oma
q ha Club. three square meals in or
n day when the custom of The most care
n full gastronomists is to eat only or
= meal a day 1t is all right, howeye
If the Colonel wishes to eat himse
IS to death, we are willing; but we WouI
n suggest that the cooking out West
Is very bad and that Indigestion is II
r, worst of all human Ills. If the Co
y onel should contract chronic dyspel
le STA on this trip. there would De
s living in the same country with hil
a j..
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l. that Alaska was not "the little plac
he expected to fnl it, but he "di
;. covered an empire We are not su
; prised at this, as Wickersham h
been living in New York. We dou
- that he has ever been south Of the 7