The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1912-04-20
THE THIRTEENTH APOSTLE
ALAY SERMON

Beloved left off I'm the Isle OF Patmos
| And the spirit and the bride say
Come And let him that heareth say
Come And let him that is athirst
! come And whatsoever WILL let hlnn
| take the water OF life freely to carry
| II down the centuries and throuShout
the known world until no hapl -.t' ois
corner OF the globe remains unreached
! by the Apostolic command lie set
| Europe on lire through the keiorna-
| ton; ChristianiZed this western CONT
mere sent the retaining message or
| to Asia and Africa and the ISLANDS OF
the sea.
While che Thirteenth Apostle had
escaped the martyrs rate that pei.i,
simon and Andrew and James ana
| Philip and Bartholomew-Ntctims all
| OF bloody tyrants-it does not follow
| that bigots and knaves have not sousht
TO nut him TO death. have not visited
stripes and stranglings Jpn him. nave
| not thrust him into dungeons ana trleu
! 10 burn him at the stake But through
| IL all he has suffered no hurt, but mas
Increased steadily in power ana bold
ness until now there rs none so ioollsh-
~ audacious as to attempt MS over
throw. He stands militant and uncon-
querable.
So peculiar was his power he could
have saved the Master when He re-
vealed at the Last supper that there
was a conspiracy 10 betray him' but
he was restrained from intercession py
dained from the beginning must come
to pass. Therefore he withheld the
alarm that would have prevented the
betrayal,
claim, lis IL II" when Christ said at
the supper there is one here who Will
betray me- The Thirteenth Apostle
never has and never viii cause the
righteous to grieve or suffer. He seeks
the chastisement OF transgressors only.
No one could have been more zeal
ously attentive--not even the impet-
uous Petcr-to the instructions I'm ser
vice which Christ gave his disciples
than the Thirteenth Apostle. When
the Twelve were told to go out two
by two with authority over uncleah
spirits. he went forth alone but able 10
surpass them all in casting out demons
from individual, industrial and govern
mental life. and i'm healing communi-
ties and people that We're the victims
of diseases that are attributable TO
neglect ignorance or Indifference. The
thirteenth Apostle has been consist
entity hostile 10 demons and epidemics
everywhere.
The regularly commi ssioned disciples
were told TO take nothing Tor their
journey. save a stan only. The Thir-
teenth Apostle took torch, instead
There was 10 be no bread, no wallet
no money in their purses. They were
to go shod with sandals and TO put moi
into a house. there abide till We depart
hence" said the Master.
The earliest equipment of the Thir-
teenth Apostle was meager enough.
Tablets OF stone were his text books;
the language OF Nature ais only litera-
ture The rainbow in the heavens, the
cloud by day and pillar OF f1re by ntght,
the parting or the waters OF the Red
Sea, the staying OF sun and moon, the
feeding OF the multitude, the smiling
OF the Assyrian army, the raising OF
Lazarus from the dead, the walking on
the sea-these and other signs and
spectacles made up at first the eve
teaching OF the Thirteenth Apostle.
Prophecy and parable made their APP
neal to the ear Then scroll and epistle
and manuscript contributed TO the
gradual unfolding OF the new faith. ,
But the whole process was painfully
slow, for these forms OF biblical mar
rattye were for the scholarly few.
Then TIE Thirteenth Apostle entered
into a humble house in Germany in
the fifteenth century. and he abode |
there until one Gutenberg wrought |
miracle with movable type; and when |
the Thirteenth Apostle shook the dust |
OF Mainz from his feet he carried with
him the forty two-line Bible" whose |
crude pages contributed to the marvel |
Gus religious and literary activity that \
gave 10 the awakening world the tow
ering figures OF Luther. Melancthon.I
Milton, and other heralds
of the new day that followed the dark 1
ness of medievalism.
The unnoticed apostle, who over
heard the Masters commission TO the |
disciples, was actually the one TO ac-l