St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1912-02-21

ed by the thinking mind.
What think We of Christ? OF
this marvellous force and power and
influence over the hearts and lives
OF millions of men? The question
cannot be evaded by anyone pre-
tending to even little culture. And
He cannot be ignored when seeking
to explain the phenomena of the
civilization in which we live. What
think We of Christ? What is your
answer? You cannot adequately
explain Him in natural terms. You
must employ the miraculous to ans
wer our question. / was talking
with dear friend, a physician. And
we touched upon religion. He said
frankly he ignored the miraculous.
Ignore the miraculous? How then
can you interpret Jesus Christ?
Listen! There are three essential
miracles in Christianity: The Virgin
Birth, the Personality and the Res
direction Of Jesus Christ. BY itself
you cannot prove the Virgin Birth,
nor can you easily prove the mir
aculous Personality. But when you
come to the Resurrection you are
treading on the surest ground. The
Resurrection of Jesus Christ is not
fact of history. AS much a fact
of history as the murder of julius
Caesar or the defeat of Harold by
William the Norman. And if the
fact of the Resurrection of Jesus
! Christ be wiped out of the pages of
history then you have tremendous
difficulties. For example; How are
you going to explain the fact that
the cowardly disciples became brave
men? That they affirmed, without
single exception, that after the
crucifixion they had seen, again and
again, their Master alive, although
they knew that such testimony
meant ostracism and persecution
and probably death? The rise of that
glorious blessed society which we
call the Christian Church? The sub
stitution of Sunday for the seventh
day of the week as day of rest and
worship, called the Lords Day? Such
are some of the difficulties of those
who deny as a fact of history the
Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Now
the Resurrection of Jesus is not only
fact in history but also, note the
point, a miracle. Therefore Jesus
could not have been merely an or
binary man. Thus we come to the
second great truth of Christianity,
the miraculous Personality. And if
We admit the miraculous Personali-
ty, then such a miraculous Person
atty, it is believable, could not have
come into this world in the ordinary
way, but miraculously. Thus we
have our third great truth, the Vir-
gin Birth, stated in the creed: con
ceived by the Holy Ghost, born Sof
the Virgin Mary"
What think We of Christ? For an
adequate answer, because of the
foregoing, we cannot ignore the
Man. To use Gospel language, He
is the Son of God, and the Son of
Man. He is God Incarnate, God
manifested in the flesh He is the
Agnus Del, the Lamb of God that
taketh away the sin of the world. !
He is the worlds benefactor and
Saviour. He is the Light of the
World And His blood shedding at
Calvary is the Divine plan, as fore
told in type and prophesy, for the
salvation of men. Believe on the |
Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be
saved from the power and conse-
quence of sin! BY faith He can be-
come your Illuminating Teacher, |
your loving Master, and your Blessed
Saviour.
EAST HARDWICK.
Mrs. Arthur Morse of Danville
visited at Mrs Weeks and Mrs A |
r. Montgomery last week.
Henry Rollins is in town.
Hazen Road Pomona Grange will |
hold it's next meeting at Greensboro
Cot
Feb. "a. The program for December
will be given.
Caledonia Grange meeting of |
Feb. 10 was well attended and the |
program we'll carried out. The |
social was a very pleas
ant feature of the evening.
The Lo Ehs club met Tuesday, +
Feb. 20, with Mrs. Talbert.
Miss Adine Bell is in Boston.
Fred Chase has been called to
Lowell, Mass, by the illness of his
Mr.. Dorman.
Charles .Downer was in St. Johns
bury last week.
Craftsbury basket ball team play
ed with the East Hardwick team
last Saturday night in Village hall.
Score, So to 16 in favor of the home
team.
Mrs. Babcock, who has been at
7. F. Batten's has gone home.
Mrs. Verona Weed is with her
sister, Mrs. Curtis Stafford.
Miss Marguerite Bailey of st. +
Tohnsbury is visiting Miss Marion
Miss Rita Bole was in st. Johns
bury, Monday.
The program for March 18th, Cal
sdonia Grange follows: music;
Mrs. Clarence Russell;
luet, Mr.. and Mrs. L. S. Hutchins;
'ecitation, Blanche Nelson; discus
sion, Which is More Profitable for
/ Young Man to Learn a Trade or to
)e a Farmer? G.. w. Lovejoy, Clar-
,nce Russell, Lewis Haynes and
Roland Chase; music.
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