Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1914-10-21
TO LIVE WITH GOD
Message That Jesus BROUGHT Is
UnmistakabIe to the Man
Who Thinks.

| The age-long appeal OF Jesus to men
and women OF every type can be ac-
counted for only by acknowledging
that he brought something to the
world that was urgently needed. To
say he was purer. stronger, holier
than others is not enough. An unat-
tainable vision is more likely to breed
despair than to kindle hope. Even to
say that Jesus was the Son of God.
or God the Son. is not sufficient. The
presence OF divinity in the midst Of
I humanity may be an appalling thing
/ The fact that Jesus of Nazareth has
won not only the admiration and rev.
erence OF mankind but has called out
the love and devotion OF hearts every
where and in all ages is proof that
he met the deepest needs OF human
lives by communicating something not
TO be found elsewhere
To every thoughtful person there
Is strange sense of loneliness in
life Even when in the midst of ones
family surrounded by ones friends
and in an environment of which ev-
cry feature is familiar and cherished,
there is feeling OF aloneness, a con-
seriousness that there are many points
NJ which We touch nobody else ara
Mt which nobody else touches us
There are things we never say be-
cause they would not be understood,
there are aspirations and ambitions
we choke back because they cannot
possibly be appreciated. and there are
feelings we never even try to articu-
late because we do not know what
they are or what form they should
take. Altogether apart from the we'll
known diseases OF our moral life there
Is a something that haunts US. frets
u.s. consumes us; a something that is
IKE q slow-burning fever, a perpetual
yearning or desire. a hunger or thirst;
a something that is d kind OF souLsick-
ness as intangible yet as real as the
inconsistencies OF the exile.
Message Brought by Jesus.
I We may take it for granted that
Jesus brought an unmistakable mes
sage to those who were disfgured
and diseased by the common moral
sins. He told men, as the prophets
had told them before, that they must
'NpNAN "iiu SCVh NIlt pdi uOu vi lut
holy and merciful God. But he went
far beyond that in his intercourse
With mankind. He diagnosed the ills
OF which men know only the symp-
toms. The worlds unrest was its
quest for God. And Jesus taught men,
showed men. how to establish familiar
relationships with the Father; he an
nounced that the relationship is in
deed already established if men will
only take advantage OF it; he dis
closed the presence OF the Father-God
In even the common relationships of
life-bound up with the most familiar
things of every day.
This is the Fathers world he has
created it's beauty; he knows the des-
/ tiny OF so small thing as a spar
row; he hears even the least formal
OF prayers; he awaits the homecom-
ing OF every prodigal. He weaves n
holy and an eternal significance into
every slightest thing that we do to
one another. This means that God
understands us However complex
and ineXplicable we may be to other
men and women God interprets us
| correctly and sympathetically. We
need never act with reserve toward
him. We may speak to him without
numbering and clouding our prayers
with parentheses and clauses Of care
ful reservation.