The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1912-06-08
4 FAITH FOUNDATION NECES.
SARY.
Inke e.3q.4e-June Q.

leXt- BE We UOeI6 Oh the WOIs
and not hearers only, deceiving you
own selves. Jas. 1922.
The Great Teacher in t0day's les
son emphasizes the necessity o.
Knowledge and Of faith built there
upon. The blind leading the blint
represent the ignorant leading the
ignorant into difficulties. into thu
ditch. In the mental blindness OIL
TIE past many Christians assumed
that the Master here taught that thu
blind leaders and the blind follow
crs of our day would all fall into thu
II, OF eternal torment, but not so
Tie thought Is that they will STUN
bic and experience injury instead o.
reaching the desired destination.
The destination sought by the
Jews was fellowship with and rela,
tionship TO God His highest favor
II eniioned 10 Abraham, saying: I'm
thy seed Shall all the families Of the
earth be blessed st. Paul says OF
that promise, Israel hath not OBJ
tanned that which he seeketh, but the
election hath obtained it and the
lest were blinded" from. 1870
7 he entire Jewish race was blinded
and turned aside and fell into the
Eit-intO confusion, darkness, sepa-
ration from God. This was the very
matter against which Jesus fore
warned them. They were following
| he lead of the Scribes and Pharisees
and doctors of the law, all of whom
were blind leaders who misled their
too trusting followers. The disciple
or follower will not fare better than
his master or leader or teacher; he
cannot hope for better results than
his leader.
How important, then, that Gods
PEOPLE recognize the true Leader.
Jesus, that they hear His voice, and
Eeed not the voice of others. In the
present, in the ending of this GOspe!
Age, We have Il condition of things
| very similar to that which obtained
in the end of the Jewish age. We
have many great, learned and wise
nen in all the denominations OF
Christendom. as the Jews had in
Jesus day in all their different sects
|; is equally important that We take
heed that we do not follow blind
leaders today; in fact, 1t is much more
important. Why should We follow any
c, the crceds when now We have the
word of God in such convenient
form and when all are able to read
it Who cannot rejoice that recent
ly the pope issued instructions that
the Roman Catholic bishops should
encourage Catholics to study the
Bible? How it would rejoice us to
find the Protestant leaders similarly
urging the word Of God upon their
peoples!
Alas. On the contrary. We find
that many of the great and wise OF
the principal pulpits Of the world are
undermining the faith of the people
by telling them that the Bible is mol
Divinely inspired, that Moses and the
prophets did not write the book:
ascribed to them. and hence indirect
ly saying that Jesus and the apostle.
were deceived when they made quo
tations from the Old Testament ant
ascrihed them to Isaiah, Jeremiah
Moses. llabakuk. etc. These -grca
men style themselves higher critic
and endorse the theory of evolution
that humanity is UNDERGOING a pro
cess of evolution from monkey like
ness up io God-likcness. They ar
thus indirectly telling their pcopl
that there was not fall from God
image and likeness. that there wa
no sin committed. no sentence fC
sin. no Redccmer from sin and /,
sentence and that restitution is nc
;. to he hoped for nor to be desired
Acts 3:l9-al.
Surely the Great Teachers advic
: not to follow blind leaders was nevt
more needed than in our day. Blcssc
will they be who heed the warnin!
and by il will be guided back 10
: more thorough study of the words ,
he Great Teacher. His apostles an
. the prophets.
Humility A Character Foundation
Tile parable of 4 man with a hea
IN his own eye trying To pick mo
ont of his brothers eye was a fore
'ul method whereby the Master /
u culcated the necessity of humility
the part of hose who would
taught vi God Humility is here
elsewhere put as foundation vir1,
lG The Latin word for humility is b
. mus. ground This implies that il
:. The soil GU of which other Nirt,
m are produced. Those who think III
ne Know everything can learn no hi,