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Jesus the Perfect Man.

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the sweep and the vision of Jesus.
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life that is amazing in its perfect detail
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during His earthly soiourn 1000 year
ago was true then, has been true ii
every century since, and win be tru,
forever.
Plato was q great thnker and Learned
in his age, but his teachings did no
stand the test OF time. In big thing
and in little things time and human ex
perience have shown that he erred.
Marcus Aurelius touched the reflective
mind of the world, but he was cold anl
austere as brown marble.
The doctrine OF Confucius gave grea
nation moral and mental dry rot.
The teachings of Buddha resulted in
mental and moral chaos that makes
India derelict.
Mohammed offered system of ethics
which was adopted by millions of peo-
pie. Now their children live in deserts
where once there were cities, along dry
rivers where once there was moisture,
and In the shadows of gray, barren hills
where once there was greenness.
Thomas Aquinas was profound
philosopher, but parts of his system
have been abandoned.
Francis of Assist was Christlike in his
but in some things he was
childish.
Thomas Kempis' Imitation OF Christ
is thing of rare beauty and sympathy,
but it is, as its name indicates, only an
imitation.
Sir Thomas Moore's Utopia is yet a
dream that cannot be realized.
Lord Bacon writing on chemistry and
medicine under the glasses of the man
working in twentieth century labora-
tory is puerile.
The worlds most learned doctors I'M
i'll hundred and fifty years ago gave
lragon's blood and the ground dried
;ails OF lizards and shells of eggs for GER
ain ailments. The great surgeons a
hundred years ago bled man if he were
wounded.
Napoleon had the world at his feet for
our years, and when he died the world |
vas going on Its way as if he had never
lived.
Jesus taught little as to property be-
ause He knew there were things of more
than property. He measured
and life, the body and soul, at
heir exact relative value. He taught
much as to character, because character
5 of more importance than dollars.
Other men taught us to develop sys-
ems of government. Jesus taught so
s to perfect the minds of men. Jesus
ooked to the soul, while other men
welled on material things.
After the experience of 1000 years no
nan can find flaw in the governmental
ystem as outlined by Jesus.
Gear and kaiser, president and So
ialist give to complete merit their adj
No man to-day, no matter whether
Ie follows the doctrine of Mills, Marx or
George as to property, can find false
rinciple in Jesus theory of property.
In the duty of man to his fellows no
ociologist has ever approximated the
perfection of the doctrine laid down by
esus in His Sermon on the Mount.
Not all the Investigations OF chemists,
lot all the discoveries of explorers, not
III the experiences of rulers, not all the
historical facts that go to make up the
UNI of human knowledge on this day in
912 are in contradiction to one word
Uttered or one principle laid down by
esus.
The human experiences of 9, 900 years
how that Jesus never made mistake.
esus never uttered doctrine that was
rue at the time and then became OBJ
olete.
Jesus spoke the truth; He lived the
ruth; and truth is eternal.
History has no record of any other
nan leading perfect life or doing every
hing in logical order. Jesus is the only
,erson whose every action and whose
very utterance strike true note in the
leart and mind of every man born of a
woman. He never said foolish thing,
lever did foolish act and never dis
No poet, no dreamer, no philosopher
owed humanity with the love that Jesus
,ore toward all men.