Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-10-30

tropolis of a nation there was M
distribution of power as in moderi
times.
Neither was it on account of de
cadence OF material prosperity. His
mission was TO the poor. A graph,
picture was drawn of the poverty o
all the ancients. and of the Jews il
| particular, contrasted with the wealth
and improvements of modern times
This is due to the wonderful stimulat
ing and developing power of Chris
tianity. 1t is the greatest wealth pro
Queer the world has ever known
Jesus warned his disciples against
covetness, not because they were rich
! for poor man can be as covetous as
rich one.
Nor yet were the deep sympathies
OF Jesus stirred on account of sickness
and physical suffering. The ancient
world was sick and the doctors were
charlatans who knew practically moth
ing of the science or the art of heal
ing. Jesus healed all who appealed to
him, but this was not his mission.
The wonderful development oil medical
science and improvement of sanitary
conditions is another of the achieve
ments of Christianity.
The Jews in the time OF Jesus were
ground under the heel of Roman tyr
amy, but it was not this that so
wrung the heart of the Savior. The
despotism of the Roman pro-consuls
and of the renegade Herods, the most
dastardly and depraved rulers the
world has ever known, were strongly
delineated. When Jesus came the
heart of the nation thrilled with hope
because they thought he had come to
deliver them from this physical bond
age and re-establish the glorious EN-
pire of David and Solomon. When
they learned that this was not his mis-
sion they rejected him The mistake
people make now is in expecting a
change of parties or of officers to
bring good government.
Your house is left unto you DESC
late" What house? 1t was the temple
in Jerusalem, from which the She
kinah, the glow in the holy of HOLES
which manifested the presence of God,
had departed Here followed a very
strongly drawn sketch of the call
of Abraham and of the latters inn
plicit obedience, of Jacobs failures UNI
til. reduced to the last extremity, he
Internationally to the will
of God: of the rescue from Egypt and
the forty years wandering in the viii
of which were necessary
to teach the chosen pople their conf
Dlete dependence on God. The temph
was the center of the Jews religious
life; it was\the place where God met
ls people when they came on their
annual pilgrimage TO Jerusalem. When
Teroboam set up another house OF
Worship on Mount Gerazim God re-
used to meet the rebellions lsraelites
here and the result was they were
arred away into captivity and what
ecame of them is one Of the greatest
roblems in history. The primitive
Iethodists called their places of wor
hip meeting houses" 1t was a dear ,
Id name and very appropriate. for
lere God met with and blessed them. ,
he temple was a symbol of the in ,
Jesus had spoken of his q
Ody as the temple which would be )
estroyed and he would raise it up ,
three days. The temple was conse- n
'ated to the worship of Jehovah, but
lie degenerate Jews had desecrated il :
Y using il as a place for eXtortion. :.
esus said they had made it a den OF
lieves. 1t was covetousness which
d them into the practice of the vices
lat excited the wrath of Jsus, and
e same cause often causes Chris
ans to become dishonest. If nouns ,
,uld be compared like adjectives, one