The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1911-01-30

EXPECT GREAT THRONG

tory has gained him a national rCpu-
ton and whose lecture ON The Man
Of Gaiiiee' Sunday afternoon won the
deepest admiration of every one who
heard II and created a sensation i'll
Richmond, viii deliver the second OF
his series of six lectures in the John
Marshall High School Monday, night,
beginning at S:ao O'Clock. a throng
such as seldom appears In this city
is expected to be present tn listen To
the man who reveals the mysteries
of the ages In his talks in REPUTATION
Of Modern Doubt"
Every seat from the gallery TO the
boxes was occupied with eager men
Sunday afternoon when MIR, Vending
mounted the stage In the Academy
of Music TO deliver his lecture on The
Man OF Galilee." The lecture was
preceded by prayer by Rev. Ry-
land knight, u. d. After the prayer
Secretary Mckee. of the Young Men s
Christian Association, introduced Mr..
Vending. A solo WAS sung by Mg
Bryant, and the benediction was de-
livered by Rev +. r. McFaden.
Probably the most forceful asser-
ton made by Mr.. Vending was thar
the claims of Jesus Christ that he IL
eternal and almighty are the rawlings
of wild insanity when taken By
themselves and viewed merely as "a
problem of psychology, unless he was
a visitor from the other world
In part, Mr.. Vending said; Such
Is the condition of affairs in Europe
and America to-day that we are rap
idly nearing the crisis OF a long bat
tie between the forces of good and
the forces OF evil. which viii have IA
tremendous bearing on the vitality of
the Christian religion. Who and what
was Christ is a question which has
never had before that significance
which II Is taking on now
MFR. Vending then drew a picture
Of Christ, depicting his physical APP
pearance and describing his vast intel
leesual ability and power, saying that
Christ was "a revolutionist and not a
refoYmer. whose plans were as wide
as the universe. complete from the
start. and who said that all the world
leads up TO him as calmly as though
he were speaking of the weather.
Here was a woodworker." said the
speaker. who probably made wooden
piows and who. perhaps. knew bat
three hooks, the Old Bible Man aud
Nature. He was not Il school man.
though In All probability he knew La
tin. With but two followers he start
ed world wide religion The speech
most widely read speech IN the
world. The Sermon on the Mount
When he died. his only estate was
one seamless garment"
In Christ there WAS a strange fem
mime softness and ia his deeds to-
ward men there was delieacy and
tenderness. He was the only man OF
his kind who ever lived. You often
hear II said in Richmond that only
Af4A - All
churches. What a compliment to your
wonlankind. What sheet anchor for
the twentieth century civilization thai
Is to be-
Never timid. never weak, chris
gave the world the suhlmest exhihi.
lion Of genuine manhood the worlc
has ever seen. He had no shortc0m
ings. There was no chaff in his
wheat. He never made a compro-
mise in his life. He had the whoi,
world against him, yet he never VIA,
afraid. John the Baptist. who fearet
no other. vas ahashet In his pres
ence, yet Christ looked at Peter ant
Peters heart was broken
Christ is the only unselnsh egotis
In history and his egotism was aston
ishing. He WAS never Jealous never
impatient. His smiles We're Of plair
objects and the common people cat
read his utterances without difficulty
What he said no one can improV,
or amend. Noltaire said that the adj
1ectfve is The enemy of the noun
Emerson SAID the adjective In tn,
source of weakness. Christ used M
adtectives except those which wer,
necessary part OF the substantive
and required To complete the mean
ing of the noun. Never was he rhet
orioai. In the Lords Prayer Chris
compressed into sixty words the re,
liRio,is aspirations of humanity fol
ali times" ~,.
.'Wha: has ts4e stseFss OF Christ ffS.pf
through all these centuries ?" askct
the speaker IN reply TO the charge o.
the agnostie that Christ was invent
ed. What was there femarkabl,
about the story OF the cruciaxion i
Christ were not the Saviour Her,
was young jew Killed soon aftel
two thousand OF his countrymen hat
been sent To cruel death and tn,
story of IL is known in every countr,
and has been translated In every Ian
guage, living and dead. Nations hay,
been born since Christ left the earth
but they have taken up the story ant
believed In 1t.
Death was only the beginning witt
him. The Jews at that time and place
Lninspired. could not have write,
the matches narrative of the cruel
hxion as recorded by Matthew TIL
writer of this could speak a univers
into existence"
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