The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1915-04-18

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Raymond Maxwell before the Mems
1nston Methodist Episcopal church
man spake before or since. Now,
that very man, whose life as a mere
man IS without parallel In goodness
and purify, said that he was an Am
nassador of God, OF that great unseen
power that fashioned the universe
and that Ebreathes the breath OF life!
into the5neW borll babe When he
said that he either told the truth or:
he falsifed. Was he false? IF SO, he
was the greatest hypicrite OF the ages,
and ne. the man who lived the nobl-
est OF noble lives. was humanityss
greatest falsitier. Irreconciliable! In
conceivable Unbel ievable! IA man
who lived the truth must have told.
The truth. take him at his word
Wnen ne said. II am the way; the
truth. and the life. = And I believe
that John the Apostle historian knew
What he was talking about when he,
IN referring to Jesus as the .tWord,'
said: ri
In the beginning was the Word,
and the Word was with God. and the.
Word was Cod
But suppose We can not satisfy our
minds clearly about the matters last
considered. y. Let me imagine, merely
Tor the sake OF the argument. that a
lingering doubt of Christ's divinity.
still exists in my own mind. Then
What? Still I say that it is common
sense for man to be a Christian
and to conform his life as near as he
can to the teachings OF the man OF
Gallllee, because those teachings are
the best that we have and the best
That We can ever hope to see. And
let US not forget that He said that IL
any man shall do Gods will he shall
Know the doctrine. AS our faith and
sincerity increase our vision broad
ems.
Christie Son OF God-tte Am
assador of the Infinite to the finite
taught right living for right living's
sake. not primarily for the hope of
future reward. He did not hold out
the hope Of future happiness as an in
centive for good, as fond parent
might hold before the eyes Of a child
sugar plum and say, BE good and
You shall have it, conceive that
Christ taught in effect. Live right Tor
rights sake. may be wrong in my
conclusion but believe that a man
Who undertakes ito put on Christian
ltE merely because he is afraid to die
unchrl6tian comes very near to being
a moral coward "A man. to be con
sistent. ought to live and to die by
the same standard; and If his inner
most consciousness tells him that he
Goes not Want to die without Christ,
he ought not to und ertake to live with
out Christ. It's hardly square.
Cllrist's Teachings Good.
Chrlst's teachings are good; they
are the best the world has learned;
they are good to live by; they are.
good to die by; theyemake good cfti-.
zens out of men. It's common sense
to get In harmony with such teach
lnEs. Its common sense to be q
Christian. Oh somebody. says,
don't talk Christianity to me- The
great European war among so-calIed
Christian nations puts damper on
Chr i: nifty. Not SO, my friends. It
is humanity that is on trial, not Chris
tianity. The teachings OF the Master
are all right; the only trouble is that
that people Of the nations have not
yet been able to conform themselves
to those teachings Thousands and
tens OF thousands of individuals the
world over do live the Christ life, but
as nations the goal has not been reach
ed. But another says, "why does
a great God permit such great SUI
1er1ng and devastation, III In fact it
be within His power to stop it ?n No.
man can answer with authority, but
this we do know, that 1t ill becomes
us poor finite limited creatures to un-
dertake to call God to account, to at
tempt to measure by our own petty
scales and yard sticks, matters per-
tanning to the God OF the universe
to the giver Of light. Gods dealings
with humanity in the great war are:
just as much of a mystery to US. just
as incomprehensib1e as the creation
Jf the universe, as the making OF a
blade Of grass. God reigns, His ON
nipot ence is supreme. The coming OF.
the Christ was not in vain The.
march OF humanity Is ever onward
and upward with the Christ life for
its goal. Verify do I believe that this,
the 9Th day of April in the year OF
our Lord, SIS, is the best day the
world has seen, and that tomorrow.
Will be a better one. 3f5 #
Manifold Opportunities.
For Christian work-for brother
| hood work, the opportunities are man
fold and the field is limitless. There
lis, however, no element OF the work
more important than the conversion
Of the boys and girls. 4