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CLARENCE I. HOAG
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That heroism which enabled him to
face alone that horde in the garden,
who fell backward TO the ground in
awe of him when he asked them that
simple question, "Whom seek yer
That paled the face of Plate as he
looked upon him and convinced him
that he-Jesus-was King. That in
tellect which proved its mercy i'll the
words, Father, forgive them, for they
know what what they do proved
also that his was mind that rules
and controls.
As civilization is the granary into
which have been gathered the eX-
periences and developments of the
ags, so our greatest men have achieved
their greatness through ideas Dor
rowed from Christ.
The righteousness of Wesley, the
heroiSm of Luther, the power of the
golden rule to send forth a Wendell
Phillips and a Lloyd Garrison for the
black man of America, and a Living
stone and Thoburn to India are all
evidences Of the masterful supremacy
of Christ.
Perhaps no author in English has
touched more skillfully the chords Of
human sympathy than Charles Dick
ems in his story of Little Nell but
Dickens says the great masterpiece Of
the human heart is the story of the
"Prodigal Son
Coleridge, that brilliant satellite OF
fba - cprttr,- tribute n
the Beattitudes as the finest gems in
all literature. DR.. Phillips Brooks
tells us that the invitation Come unto
Me all we who are weary and heavy
laden and l will give you rest" is the
greatest message ever spoken TO suf-
fering humanity.
Even the critics agree that the SER
mon on the mount is the greatest
thesis on moral conduct and spiritual
life ever written; but whence comes
this love, this mercy. tenderness and
wisdom?
The record of the life OF Christ
shows us that the secret OF Jesus
power and supremacy was in the in
timacy of his relations to the Heaven
ly Father.
The story of the TRANSPORTATION by
Luke tells us that Jesus was praying
when his countenance changed and
became as the fate of an angel Mark
tells us that when toiling long and
late he would recreate his physical
powers by rising before dawn and
going to a desert place TO pray. And
again of his going up into a mountain
to spend all night in prayer. He
prayed alone in the garden until great
drops of blood as sweat fell from his
forehead the night he was betrayed
and brought before Plate
There is the secret of the Master,
Christ. The Fathers thought and
plan became his thought and plan.
With Christ first, that which makes
him greatest is second and that sec
ond is the Bible In history, civilza-
ton follows the Bible; the Bible never
follows civilization. The greatest
governments today are those which
are founded upon the Bible Educa-
ton triumphs with it, Wealth is in
the hands Of those nations who have
been developed by the Gospel found
in the Bible Famines are never
known in Christian England, Ger
many or America Poverty always
exists where the people are without
the Bible. But some would say, this
is the supremacy Of the white race
and not Of the Bible, so go back 1000
years and China's civilization was
1000 years ahead of the white man in
all the nations of Europe The Anglo
Saxons of that period were savages
who wore long hair and painted their
faces, and drank their enemies blood
out of skulls, and whose only dream
of heaven was a place where he could
fight all day and kill his enemies and
drink all night then have them resur-
rected every morning so he could kill
them all over again. Yet this Anglo
Saxon race held the destiny of this
twentieth Gentry civilization; but the
change did not begin till Boniface
crossed the Alps and brought the
Bible TO northern Europe and the
British Isles.
The Bible is the dynamite which
has destroyed monarchies and des-
potisms. 1t has renovated nations as
well as souls, and has builded the
greatest kingdoms and republics, and
established the destiny Of this world
of ours.
The Bible amplihes a mans intel
lect, gives vastness to his soul and
filings new life TO man. and my final
word to you is. Give it a chance in
your own life that it may become
what the Heavenly Father has planned
it to be.