Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1914-03-15


mot create our race because eternity
went heavy on His hands and Ho was
in need ~ something TO DO Ho croat-
ed us that he might lavish Ills love
upon ua thus rendering us capable
/ ot loving Him ana all men, Christ
is Gods explanation of the universe.
God SO loved tho world that lie gave
His only hegotteu Son. that whomsu-
/ ever bclleNeth on Him should not
perish hut have eternal NE" II IL
/ Gods holy love I'm Christ that ls con
/ ductng the world toward the goal "
ultimate rodcmpuou
The lrgc and Ache of Sacrificial
Passion,
Faith In such Cod then Is the
secret and the only secret of the un-
troubled heart Surely this Is tho
/ fHith we need, the faith we must have.
or uelorIousB yield our claim to a
citizenship IN the kingdom, and iu an
Worihful spiritual rudeayor.
Among other things this faith viii
save YOU from being y.ctmized hy tho
new dugmatlsm abroad today We
have already been warned against the
now predcstlnttion Obscsscd hy
popular ideas of hcrcdity which
had much to say In my sermon last
sunday morning men easily become
moral shrhs. Standing hy ancestral
graves, they hackhonclcssly lament
Dead siros, II was AN your fault and
not mine" And this scientific fatal
ism as taught by the motorlalisic
school Il cugonists eats the vitals of
morality like gaugrcuc. The old iron
clad prcdestiuatlou- compared
with this mechanical fatalism is as
soft as June 2ophcr siRhing In the
wake ~ tornado And Just now the
new prcdostinauun has IT'S counter
part I'm the new dogmatism. The chief
characteristic OF the new dogmatsm
is the insisteucc with which it asserts
what the modern man thinks about
God. about himself, about society
about destiny Now we must know
what q man thinks In order to know
what man is, for "as a man thinkcth
i'm his heart 80 Is he" And this
modern man thinks aloud so much
that II were impossible to ignore him
He should not be ignored, he Is Of
something more important still 1t is
this. To know what the supreme
mind the mind Of the Chrlstlike God
thinks OF the modern man. Are We
not In real danger Of overlooking this
phase Of the probleml 1t is nothing
less than traglcal to see men extend
ing their Intellectual frontiers while
at the same time contracting their
spiritual boundaries.
Ali reasonable men are i'm hearty
sympathy with what George Meredith
called rational progress 1t IS the in
tellectual Conccit unaware OF the rat
lie OF IT'S dry bones the superficial
mental illumination that lacks the
urge and ache Of a sacrifical passion;
the fad to be g'ibly modern rather
than the desire to be eternally right.
Consequently a just critlque of large
sections Of current life in this. our
humanitarianism is not robustly NOR
AL; our morality is not deeply spiritual,
and our spirituality Is not vitality
Christian Therefore we need to be
delivered from the peril ghastly
smooth and tremendously insinuating
Christs Solitary Relationship to God.
The second essential necessary to
entitle US to citizenship In the King
dom is Chrstlike sonship. For the
only way to faith in Christlike God
is faith in Christ. Believe in God,
believe also in Me" Here Is our
Lords unique Sonship, together with
tho SOnship He imparts.
There Is twofold witness to Christ's
solitary relation to God the New
Testament and the history Of two
books, we come upon such expressions
as these. Jesus saith unto him,
am the way to truth and the life; no
man cometh unto the Father, but by
Me" "He that belieyeth on the Son
hath eternal life; but he that Obeyeth |
not the Son shall not see life, but the |
wrath of God abideth on him"
Jesus came to them and spoke unto /
them, saying. "All authority hath been /
given unto Me in heaven and on
earth. Go ye therefore. and make /.
disciples Of all nations, bapt2ing them
i'm the name Of the Father and Of the
NOl anu u INC IlblN Gpllllt ltd'HlIb ]
them to observe all things whatsoever f.
I command you, and, 10, l am with
you always even unto the end Of the /.
world"
Reading such words with such
Being behind them, one is not inn .
pressed with the statcmeut-as made F.
by the President Emeritis of Harvard .
University ty-that THE Church OF the +,
future will reverence more and more (
the personality of Jesus OF course |
it will do that; hut my point isi If
Jesus was no more than the supreme /
religious teacher and the introduCer .
Of the highest ethical principles, then, /.
in the light OF his claims, he is frankly .
and emphatically not entitled to rev I
ercnce at all. For his teaching and .
ethical principles, compared with his .
office as Savior. Revealer Of God, 7
Conquerer of the grave and Guide Of .
the race. would stamp him the arch
imposter Of history, were he simply n .
teacher and not the Redeemer OF the .
world The Christ of God is not An
other, II you please He is the Only
not Just timely but timeless not .
merely the hlgh-water mark OF ethics,
but the veritable water Of life TO souls
thirsty enough to drink; not simply a