Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1912-11-25

derfulslise Of the child, siong right
channels.
As I stand here asstSting Ia this
eeremony today. it.clrriee me bSck
to the days when / sst in the
Amen corner Of an old ashioned
church with my grandmother. and
listened to the stern and rigorous
DEGREES Of . Just God. lr takes me
back to the days when / went to
church at least FIVE times on
Sunda, and three times during
the week; when was crammed
with denuminationalisrn and
sectarianism and metaphysical dis.
cousions Of the Trinity, and
wondered if my young life would
ever be disentangled from all the
sinuosities of the battle f creeds.
It takes me back to the days when
Il was treasurer of a Sunday
School, and it WIS from the funds
there Of that. got my start in life.
But from those days with their
plethora of religion l gathered one
great heritage. and in this / know
| am the same as every other boy
whoever went through the same ex-
perieDce and most boys have.
was profoundly impressed by the
life and personality of Jesus of
Nazareth. ! see him now as saw
him then in the long hours in
Gethsemane. in the bitter agony of
spirit, when he asked the Father to
let the cup pass from him. There
he was intensely human. l see him
now as saw him then, when they
tore from his body the purple robe
and crown, which they had only
given him as mockery, and placed
upon him his own bloodstained
garments and crown of thorns.
Then he was intensely human.
see him now as saw him then on
the long march from the ancient
hall of Herod to GoIgotha stagger-
ing beneath the cross which they
pressed upon him! Then he was
intensely human. / see him now
as saw him then raised between
two thieves. stretched upon the
old Roman cross. that cross which
once was the symbol Of shame and
degradation but now is the symbol
of peace enlightenment and love
througout the civilized world.
There he WAS intensely human.
1t was in those moments of Christ
life that his humanity became q
great and living force. Before
this he had horne himself with a
divine majesty which had
awakenei alike the deeper feeling
of Pilot and the Infatuated hatred
of he Jews. But if his divinity
gave it's true meaning to his
humanity it was his humanity that
gave its true meaning TO his great
sacrifice. To the child's mind it
lis difficult to understand why
Christ, " ith mis- omnipotent power,
should submit to the terrible
torture of the crucifixon, but it
becomes perfectly plain to one who
thinks upon the subject at all, that
it was only by means of his cruci-
fixion that he beanie the great
enlightening and vitalizing force
that he is today in the world. If
he had died like other men die he
would hapeNtimply been known as
a great teacher like Mohammed or
Luther orJohn Calvin or the pro-
INDICATORS of the other great
religions Of the world. But. a. 1
said. the most human moments of
Christ's life, are those from
Gethsomane to Golgotha. 1t was
then that he proved to the coming
generations his intense love for the
race! 1t Is this great love With
which Christ spirited tho rigors
of the worlds ancient religious,
that is at the foundations Of ali
that mskes for peace, and hap
pipess and practical Christianity in