The Sussex Republican., 1911-12-09
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BY THE REV. DIR. s. cLEAvBR.
John xIIi21: "slr, we would sc,
Jesus"


These words were spoken by certain
Greek proselytes who had come to
Jerusalem to worship at the feast of
the Passover In the days of Christ's
ministry on earth; but their request
10 bounded by no time and confined to
no age.
This Jesus for whom these Greeks
inquired was the revelation of the
character of the Great God In form
that human eyes might see, that hui
man minds might comprehend, and
human hearts might trust. For this
rexsaation the race has ever been
hearthungry from Adams day to
ours; for the sound of His footsteps
our FIRST parents waited In the Garden
of Eden In the cool Of the day; for this
Abel offered In sacrifice the choicest
Of his flock; for this Abraham left
kindred and native land, became
stranger among a strange people, and
laid his beloved Isaac upon the altar
Of sacrifice; for this Joseph endured
hardships without repining, and Moses
confronted Egypt's King with such
fearless words as ears ofmonarchs had
not heard before; for this prophets
taught and martyrs died in the days
of Judaism and in the days of
Christianity; for this the Wise men
5ourneyed from the distant East, their
camels laden with gold and precious
spices; for this the Ethiopian eunuch
came from the far southland to Jeru-
salem, and to satisfy this same heart
hunger the wisest and best of men are
prepared to suffer all and sacrifice all
today.
A manifestation of the same deep
rooted yearning Is seen in the null
tplied goods of heathenism in every
land and age. For this the Oriental
bent the knee to sun, moon and stars;
for this unnumbered thousands have
made pilgrimages to Olympus, Mecca,
Jerusalem and Rome; for this Con-
fucius taught. zoroaster wrote. Bud
dah dwelt apart and Mohammed fought
with followers enough to deluge con-
tfennets with blood. These Greeks only
put into language the sublimest race.
longings when they said To Philip;
~Sir, we would see Jesus"
This hunger of the world is insnt-i,---''
by its need. Theworld has fsnnre,p~sed
Jesus, ever afSs os --~-<ver neeoed
the Great E3eAeeoed revelation OF
u ~ ternal Father to meet and
turn backSits tide of sin and sorrow.
Without such a revelation Its efforts
have always failed. God gave man a
clean, new start In Eden, and on
Ararat, but in every instance human
nature reveals It's tendency as down
ward when not aided from on high,
when not linked to Jehovah's power
by living faith. Read history and
you plainly see how in spite of all
good resolutions, In spite Of the
heroic efforts of few brave spirits to
stem the tide of evil, sin, with all Its
attendant woes, increased, spread like
q plague, and multiplied until this
onoe fair earth threatened to become
a very hell. How strihingly manifest
this Is In Nebuchadnezzar's vision of
the great image with head of gold,
breast and arm OF silver, body and
thighs of brass, legs of iron, feet Of
clay and all finally reduced to dust,
which the wind carried away, and how
manifest also In Daniels interpreta-
tion of the dream as representing the
universal Kingdoms OF the earth.
God had started man Alright, with
everything favorable In himself and
his surroundings, and he failed. He
started q family thus highly blessed,
and 1t went down; He tried then a
and was Fastening to ruin. Now. In
Babylon, He starts a universal king
dom, golden kingdom, with every
advantage of climate and wealth and
power and learning, and Daniel as
an example and chief ruler. But, as
we follow down It's history, the golden
becomes silver, the silver brass, the
brass iron and the iron clay. This
has bean the universal tendency OF
humanity. History furnishes no ex-
ception. The autocracy of Oriental
spIendor failed to hinder the down.
ward trend. Egyptian philosophy,
Greoian art and Roman power all
tried to arrest the decay. but all alike
failed. The world needed more than
man could give to stop the plague.
It needed God-God made manifest
to men, God revealed to human sense
and understanding. 1t needed Jesus.
and sought Him, "Sir, we would see