Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-21
Sunday breaches Sermon on
"The Incarnation of Jesus"

7 From the beginning Of His earthly career
1000 years ago until today. In Omaha. lie
has been holding and shaping the lives
OF men and women.
Our hearts are like n great big piano:
each heart is like a key. to which lie sits
! and upon which He plays. He brings
forth sounds and notes OF sorrow and sin.
then great hallelujahs and triumphs over
the world and the flesh and the devil.
He knows the capacity of the human
heart. He knows all about IT, Explain
, why It is men and women come down the
aisles and take my hand. That explains
why it Is
1t is the name OF Jesus Christ that
moves you 20 do great and noble deeds
That explains why IL is that the name
OF Jesus Christ appeals 20 you and leads
the booze fighter to cut Il out, and the
thief to steal no more, and the accusing
man lie makes pray, and leads men to
leave sin and iniquity.
That explains to me why it Ia that
Jesus Christ moves men and women to do
mighty deeds.
But into the scene butts the infidel
lie swells out his chest, some little two
by four, and he says:
Look here. MIR. Sunday"
What is it?"
How do you account for the fact
that so many intelligent men and women
Oh the world disbelieve in Christianity"
Listen TO me. 1t is just the opposite.
There has never been time in the his
tory OF this world when the divinity of
Jesus Christ and the inspiration Of that
Book has been more generally accepted
holt
men and women that live in your day
and mine. And for you to sheer and
scott at Jesus Christ and the Bible IL a
sign that you are a fool.
Disbelievers Live in sin.
Tell you another thing: listen to me.
A man or woman becomes too pro-
gressive TO be Christian. Whenever
you become too intelligent TO believe
in the Bible as the Word of God then
your influence as a business associate
and as companion for others is at
an end
Don't you be hoodwinked, young man,
into supposing that to be a doubter Is
evidence of a superior intelligence. It is
evidence Of pigmy intellect or a black
heart, one of the two, and 1 have never
met man in my life that disbelieved
that the Bible was not the Word of God
who wasn't living in sin When can
get him to give up sin he doesn't have
much trouble about believing.
Explain to me why 1t is that mis-
sionaries leave their homes and leave
their bones bleaching on the sand
hills. People don't leave their homes
and so to Europe and all that for Shake
peare.
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their loved ones goodbye and 20 out
and live in foreign fields.
Say! I am going to believe these
things. I see sinners being saved, drunk
ards made sober men, and women being
transformed. How are you going to dis
believe all you hear sweeping our land?
Accept Jesus Christ as the Son of God
and the rest will become easy Listen.
II the embassy of the Chinese dynasty
sixty-five years after Christ had come
had gone 1900 miles farther south in
their search China would be Christian
today instead of pagan.
l tell you 1t is the followers Of this
Christ that make the world what II Ia
today.
''The word became flesh and dweit
among us"
And lastly, 1t is a prophecy not so
much of foretelling. 1 am prophesying
His name I am telling you that by
faith the drunkard can be made sober.
am telling you that the liar can be
made truthful. 1 am telling you that
God will transform you, il you will &C.
cept Him as your Christ. Listen.
II man starts out to live the kind
of a life he knows he ought to live sooner
or later something happens to make him
realize how far short he 10 of reaching
his ideal.
Here is a man that wants to be gen.
erous, he finds himself a rasping. grasp
ing. squeezing old skinflint
Here is a man who concludes he wants
to be truthful and he finds himself a
liar.
Here is a man who wants to be a pure
man and he finds himself a libertine.
And here is q man that wants his hands
to reach out. his mouth to be filled with
words OF praise and message of love and
he discovers that they are frequently
filled with obscenity and profanity and
in his failure to reach his ideal he gets
discouraged.
Here Is a man who wants to be sober
and he falls off the water wagon. He
wants to pray and he cusses he wants to
be honest and he steals. Now. In his
failure to reach his high ideals every
man starts out to live the kind OF life
that he knows he ought to live. Some
day something happens that will make