Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1914-10-12
TEACH CHILDREN To
STUDY THE BIBLE
Continued From First Pagol

me, in my fathers store south of
Huntingdon" said DR.. Brumbaugh,
"one morning the village doctor came
in for his mail, as his custom was,
and it happened that on that particu-
lar morning no one was in the room
but myself and the doctor. / placed
on the counter his morning mail, and
just as he reached to take il he paused
and looked into my boyish face and
said, Martin, l have known your fam
lily in this valley for three generations.
never knew one of them to he drunk.
Don't you forget the family record.
II was the finest temperance sermon
that was ever preached into my boy
hood spirit, and ] made the promise
then to myself, which. bless God,
want to keep to my dying day-I shall
not break the family record
Sermon TO S. S. Teachers
His sermon, of course, was of espe-
cial interest to the Sunday school
teacher. He pointed out that the
teachings of Christ were different
from the PHILOSOPHERS of Greece and
Rome in that his appeal was to the
will of his followers and not to the
feelings or to the reason alone.
The services were opened by Mr..
Andubar a Porto Rican missionary
whom Dr. Brumbaugh knew on the
island during his stay there installing
the American system of education
Neither gentleman knew the other was
to be present, and the delight at meet
ing again after period of many years
was mutual. In his opening remarks
Mr.. Anduhar lauded DR.. Brumbaugh
for his splendid work in Porto Rico.
Teacher in Pulpit
h III
the concluding part of the seventh
chapter of st. Matthew. Immediately
following the Sermon on the Mount:
And il came to pass that when
Jesus had ended these sayings the peo-
pie were astonshed at his doctrine,
for He taught them as one having au-
thority and not as the scribes."
Continuing he said:
Nearly twenty centuries ago this
record was set down and has been read
throughout the enlightened world to
this day The remarkable thing about
it can only be appreciated when you
stop to remember that at the time that
Jesus Christ walked out of the sun
| light of Gods abiding place into this
world of sin, and lifted up His ban
ners Of hope and help. there We're two
other great contending forces for the
control of the spiritual thought of the
! race.
| "l'or more than three centuries be-
fore His coming, over in Athens, in the
great capital of the Athenian culture,
! philosopher after philosopher had
| taught the people of the world. and
| just before the coming of the Christ
| in the imperial capital of the province
| in which He was born, another great
Iccntending system of philosophy had
claimed right to be regarded as the
guidance of the human spirit.
Chrisfs Appeal to the Will
! The difference between the Greek
and the Roman philosopher was this:
That a Greek philosopher appealing to
the people, or teaching the people,
always rested his argument upon the
logic of his position. If you read the
great Greek orations, you will find at
the conclusion of each and all of them
this general statement, having proven
this and that to be so. it becometh us,
! o Athenians, rightly to heed these ut
| terances. resting the argument upon
the logic of the situation. If you turn
to the Roman orators and the Roman
speakers and teachers, you will find
that the appeal was not to the reason,
! but to the emotions of the people.
| Here in this sermon on the mount, ut
tered by the great Teacher of the
world, there is no appeal to the reason
| of the hearers. nor to the feelings OF
! the hearers, but to the Will of the peo-
pie. 'Whosoever.' said He, at the
conclusion of this remarkable sermon,
heareth these words of Mine and
doeth them. | will liken unto a wise
man: and whosoever heareth these
words of Mine, and doeth them not. |