The Washington herald., 1912-08-05
JESUS CHRIST As
CONQUERED ONE
Rev. Dr.. ]. Lewis Hartsock
breaches on This Theme in
Capital Church.
FATHER FORMER MINISTER

Rev. DIR. ]. Lewis Hartsock. pastor of
Union NJ. Z. Church. New York City.
who preached Sunday morning at Met
ropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church.
John Marshall Place and C Street, is
Baltimore nan, was graduated from
Johns Hopkins and from Yale. and is
said to be one of the most prominent
young ministers in New York. His ser
mon over the dead of the Titanic was
widely copied and has been referred to as
the most brilliant delivery of that time.
He is president of the New York City
Ministerial Union of 400 members the
largest association of preachers in any
city. DIR. Hartsock's father. Rev. 5. NJ.
Hartsock, who died four years ago. had
served at various times the congregations
OF Union, Ryland, Hamline. and Douglas
Methodist Episcopal churches of this city.
His mother owns beautiful home about
two miles from Laurel. Nd. where DIR.
Hartsock is spending a part OF his vaca-
tion. He will preach at Metropolitan
Church again next Sunday morning.
He said. in part, yesterday:
Face of the Conquered.
THE conventional pictures of Christ
represent Him as one standing pale. a
prisoner with tied hands and the blanched
countenance of one whose kingdom is but
a dream and a vanished hope.
Gazing upon one of these wan pictures
Of Christ. I said to a friend. that is not
the conqueror. but the conquered. That
Is not the Christ of Christianity The
Captain of our faith Is the enthroned
and glorified King. The suffering Saviour
is mighty symbol for a suffering bur-
dened humanity. the Christ before PLATE
meek and mild. has an important mes
sage. but the final and complete vision
of Christ is not that of the thorn
crowned King even as His mission did
not end at Calvary.
But rather that given us by the writer
OF Hebrews: We see Jesus who was
made a little lower than the angels for
the suffering of death, crowned with
glory and honor Christian thought has
suffered in all ages by reason of the lin
itation of its conceptions of truth.
Modern Christianity.
THE glory of modern Christianity. not
wtthstanding the cry against its critical
and liberal tendencies. is that ii is the
most full orbed. and loyal TO truth as
II is in Christ of any age since the
Apostles.
THE watching of Jealous souls has too
often been a conquering church. Its en-
thusiasms have centered about a creed
and a doctrine. unmindful of the truth
that we are conquerors only through
Christ
1T is from Him that the church de-
rives its life. and. in no less truth. it is
from the mind ana purpose of Christ
that II derives its programme.
There are three essentials of a con-
auering church-unity. catholicity, and
intensity.
This unity runs back to the person
of Christ. II We are one. We are one in
Him. when this text masters the mind
of the church, We shall be one in all
else.
Make Naster Music.
''The result of this unity of many
minds and hearts is like the heaping of
Goals for the fire. So that mind and
soul make one music as before. but
vaster.'
We also need wider catholicity.
THE church keeps out many people
who have a right 10 come in. There is
a belief and morality broad enough to
be the basis of unity which shall in
clude every noble souL That belief is
that God is light and God is love. and
that morality is that we love Him su-
premely and each other as ourselves.
The church of God must be conceived
of as composed of all who. in the |
strength of this belief. are habitually
striving to practice this morality. When
We speak of the Holy Catholic Uni |
versal Church do we simply mean to
say something about its territory. orr
do We mean to affirm something of its
spirit?
Must BE Intensity.
And then there must be intensity
1t has been well said: What we need is
not more men. but more man. More
OF those whom We already have.
'Intensity-behold Christ at life's be-
ginning. saying: 'wist We not that III
must and again at the close: The Son
Of Man must go up to Jerusalem and be
killed. and rise the third day
If We are to do the works of God, we
shall do them only as those energies In
US the might Of the divine must. even the
passion which beat like fever In the
heart Of the Son of God.
THE secret Of the conquering church,
is the conquerins Christ, who is greaterI
than all churches. and all theologists, and
all men. We are conquerors through
Him. By this sign we conquer"