The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-05-02

worked six days and thcn rested. Il
fixed world. a fixed doctrine, settled
once for all. a liked church. fully on
stituted by Christ during h forty
DAYS. and finally a fixed word of God.
Now man. are troubled. feeling that
all is in fluX.
We rather sec that the world Is in
the making. not being made over. We
believe in a God that is working. We
believe in the Holy Ghost. Gods spirit
working in the world. When We come
10 Christ. can we say we have here
all" .. Christian men and women.
have We not rather a living Christ,
that the cross vas forever i'm the heart
of God, that he is now a living Christ.
Too much the church has made
Christ a problem for doctrine rather
than 4 fact for faith. Re patient with
people who find problems. Try to
than the formulation of their creed.
Christ was concerned not to form a
creed but to become n friend, n COM
panion TO his disciples.
Christ'> Interpretation Of God.
The central thing in life is our UNI
derstanding of God. What does Christ
mean for faith. when We look up to
God? The answer is that he means
everything. He has given all men
'oilNSPl VI NrOu. All men except
Mohammedans and aga see Good
nov in the face of Jesus Christ.
| What was the faith of men when
Christ came" What were the gods of
naganism. of philosophy? lIeine says
he once worshipped at the feet of
Venus of Milo. AS he saw her beauty,
he felt his need. but then he saw she
mad no arms; she could not help him.
So the gods of p%aganis,n can do MOTH
Ing for man. The God of Judaism
was an exalted hookkeeper. reckoning
mems merits and dement's.
What Il difference Christ made?
H." saw God in the field. in the city.
in the storm, God present in the
world as gracious and mcrciful. He
saw Goo in the best of life, only
higher and better. ii Co not of law
but of love. 1t is hard for us to
know all 1t meant when he taught us
to say Our Father That is all the
Creed We need. We look out at all
the strange. uncertain experiences of
life without fear. without despair at
all the sin We find. because we know
there is a Father VIII rules all. and
n goes out to meet the returning
prodiEal. All men are the Fathers
children. All the questions and all
the needs OF life find their resolution
for the n who can put his hand in
the Fathers hand. We can face
death. and We care not what is he
Nond If We can say Our Father So
Jesus makes the world live with the
presence of God.
Iife's Ideal.
Jesus has given lis the ideal of
life. The greatest fact in the moral
hlstorH OF the world is the person, or,
II YOU prefer. the spirit of Christ.
Comparing him with other men. the
frst thing we see is the purity of
Christ. | do not say, the sinlessness.
mat term is toe negative. When we
look at other men. We find on all of
them scars. But Jesus. whose con-
science is so tender. whose sense of
repentance. never shows a scar. He
more than any other made men feel
that holiness is not negative, but rich
and pure and strong. He has the
charm and the richness and the power
that We With all our culture can not
ind. The child. he man. pure or
sinful. the mother. all find in him the
ideal of childlike obedience. OF
strength and purity and love. And
the men who go out to fight the great
battles. all the great heroes and pro-
tagonists of life. find in him their in
SEPARATION. their ideal. the great cham
pion of life. His is the perfect hui
and Vet the burning passion and the
indignant reproof of evil.
The Master Of Men.
With the beauty and wonder of
ms character We must speak also of
it's power. He is today the living
CHRIST. That is the reason we have
not merely a Gospel history. but a
Gospel power. not a theology but a re-
hsion. not a Christian philosophy. but
a Christian experience. As the CEN
turtles pass the living Christ is the
largest power on the earth. He is the
master of IL conscience. Paul said,
IT is not I that live but Christ liveth
IN me. So all the generations say,
Christ is my true life, nay true self.
AS a living ideal he masters the on
science. More. still, he has brought
such a sense Of mans need and mans
sin as never before. even as Peter
said, when he saw Christ. Depart
from mo. for l am a sinful man
when We see ideal holiness, We cry
never rise TO the heights Of character
until We have seen sin as it is. When
We see the real holiness. We see the
aWfulness of sin. Sometime and
somehow in the life of him who sees
the ideal. will come the vision of how
far he misses the ideal.
Not only the vision. but the con-
sciousness of the possibility OF realiz-
ing the ideal. does Jesus give. He
shows us the power of God. We have
let symbol and signs and words OBJ
scure the truth. Only A person and a
spirit can save men. Somehow by a
life, the whole life with the cross at
the end. We are saved. when We come
into fellowship with that life. ]
know that spirit with spirit can meet;
the strongest influences of earth arc
the personal influences. Someway
person enters into the life of person.
And he exercises that power. We
have seen it done. / have given my
hand in Christian fellowship to a
drunkard of thirty years. with uncon-
trolla Bile appetite, and have seen him
live strong and pure because Of what
Christ had done for him. So Christ
can come to the child VIC has never
known such sin, TO the youth. and
the man. and come into fellowship
with them. So he becomes a master
OF men.
The Master of Nations.
u hin of what he is Yet to be as
the master OF nations. Nineteen hun.
dred years and the world SO evil. But
II is a world in the making. and there
Is only one spirit that shall light the
way to the kingdom of God on earth.
] remember reading years & of a
great monument erected between
Chile and Argentine on which were In
substance these words: Here at the
feet Of the Christ in whom We be-
lieve, Chileans and Argentinans swear
to keep h peac.' There is only one
flag in the land that floats above the
Stars and Stripes. the flag with a cross
on n simple background of which, the
flag that calls to his worship
At the close Of the lecture DR..
Robertson brought to the audience
the greetings of Mr.. and Mrs. Hazlett.