Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-10-06
CONFERENCE sermon BY REV.
CONTINUED from page g.

| by the love of the other.
yet through all these misconccption
there has struggled into the human con
seriousness, the faith that God is low,
and that that love is perfectly revealed
in the teachings of the life and dcatf
of Jesus the Christ. That when Jesu!
looms upon our vision the picture O
! the good shepherd leaving the ninety
and nine and going after the one los
sheep, and when he has found it, bring
| ing it home tcndcrly, then calling hi:
! friends and saying, Rejoice with mt
! for the lost is found He is painting
picture of God When he hangs up
! on the falls OF Our imagination the pic
turc OF the boy going away from home
and INTO poverty and sin and degrade
! ton, and coming home to have the low.
| Of the Fathers heart lavIshcd upon him
the love of the father who has been
looking with longing eyes toward the
! horizon ever since he went away-and
now that he has returned penitcnt, does
not wait for him to make humble con-
LESSON, but goes out to meet him, and
with heart SO full of JOY that he cannot
speak he throws his arms about the rag
gcd lads neck and kisses him. He is
giving lis another picture of the Father.
And not only have we been held
captive by these Incompatible parallels,
these great word paintings, but we have
heard him say, He that hath seen man,
hath seen the Father, and there has
struggled into our human consciousness
that what Jesus did in his few short
years that the Father has been doing
and will do through all the eternal years
And when we see Jesus at the we'd
ding feast, adding to its good cheer;
when we see him taking the little child
up in his arms and blessing it; when
we see him standing in sympathy at
the open tomb of Lazarus; when we
see him bearing in patience the dizziness
and selfshness Of his disciples; when we
see him bringing to the SHINING woman
the sense of loss and shame because of
jurlty gone and the new hope because
OF purity to be regaincd; when we see
him companonating with the outcast
classes, and so bringing down upon his
head the charge that he was the friend
of publicans and snners'-we see the
Father.
And the faith and hope which, like
a golden girdle, binds this old world
together is that God still comes to the
feast, that he still blesses little chill
dren; that he still stands at the open
grave; that he still speaks the word of
forgiveness, and that he still mingles
with republicans and sinners. Do you
believe that? If the world could only
BE brought to believe, these lives Of |
ours would take on new sacredness
md significance.
"ln the second place, there has grown
out of this historic fact new thought
If man, separate and apart from the
accidents of time and place, position and
,ower.
"The life and death of Christ furnish
IS with a revelation of God and they
lso furnish us with a revelation of man,
or Christ not only reveals God to man.
ut he reveals man to himself
Ones general view of life determines
xactl yhs estimate Of mans worth. If
lie looks at man through the eyes of
he materialist, he will cheaper him.
ven though to cheaper him belittles the
ross. and makes cr11cifxion horrible
1istakc and waste of divine blood.
liberalism says that man was made a
tile higher than the brute. Revelation
eclares that man was made a little
over than God
"Materialism says that this world is
great mass of matter. regulated by
Tvs which have results, but no pur-
oses, and agitated into methods of I
lotion by secret force whose origin =
unknown and must forever be un-
nown. And that life is one form of
lis force. 1t matters not whether the +
fe be in man or the dog which fol- {
'ws at his heels: it is the same in
ind, differing only in degree. Jesus
eholds man standing under the stars =
IAN, Gods child, with his adorng
ffering oblations and worship while he /
hispers, Our Father who are in heav-
H. Milton made the angel fall three r
mes to space 'twixe sunny morn and +
cwey eve before he struck the EARTH {
you will take Christ's view of man a
) Gods child, and, let that conception T
III through dizzy space three days and ,
ghts, do you think it will reach the ,
vel where materialism stands? I
"Materialism says that man is sort S
refined ape, an educated animal Jesus +
eclares that man is a child of God,
ade in the divine image, capable of re- v
ecting the divine holiness and destined Y
n an immortal life. c
Christ utters no word that cheapens S
an. Unlike some theologians, he did t
1t think it necessity to say uncom- t
imentary things about the sons in Or g
er to compliment the Father. He did /
1t seem to think it necessary to roll
e son in the mud and so soil his gar 9
ents in order that the fathers robes c
light appear whittier by contrast. c
Following the example of Jesus, we c
} not need to be afraid to eulogize
an. | think that we shall suffer more Z
ON laying upon ourselves too low an r
innate than one that is too high. Man I
as much of mystery as God is. i
b asked the question, What is man. t
he question still remains unanswered. t
e have not yet sounded the lepths of il
ans nature-we have not climbed to
e heights. To think meanly of our v
Ives is long step towards becom- .
6 mean; crushing a mans self-respect a
pretty near the same as crushing the f
an. | know, there is the example of a
e publican. He was self-condemnatory t.