Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1915-10-21

Nnfs sunday preached wednesday
nisht on the Incarnation Of Jesus.
lie said:
Text. John ia The Word was made
n flesh and dwelt among us"
Jesus Christ Is world OF thought
& There are vast continents and oceans that
never will be trsversed by any mind or
n minds.
] believe that in Jesus there are vast
4 subjects which no mind has ever faith
omed or ever will such as His deity His
n humanity. His incarnation, His PERSONAL
ity, and His plan for the redemption for
the world. and influence. Although the
greatest minds the world ever produced
have all tried to master these. they have
been convinced after noble and laborious
effort that there are vast regions of
thought which stretch out way beyond
their horizon or comprehension.
Il All say their experience is analogous
q that of Isaac Newton, who. in attempt
insl to describe his search after knowl-
edge, said he felt like a little. boy walk
ing by the seashore, here and there occa-
sionally picking up some pebbles, while
the vast deep rolled UNEMPLOYED at his
feet.
And since that is the experience OF
great men, and wise men, it would be the
Aeight of absurdity In me at this time, to
q attempt to discuss these subjects 1 wish
this afternoon to call your attention to
Just one phase OF the subject, namely,
the Incarnation of Jesus.
Webster defines It:
~As the taking of the human body; the
net OF clothing with flesh"
No One Knows All About God.
81 I wish to speak of it as mystery, as
revelation. and as a prophecy To be
convinced that it is a mystery you need
: only 20 study the teachings of the Bible
Il about the incarnation of Jesus. The Bible
always presents a subject in the simplest
OF language. and never attempts an ex-
PLANTATION. The fullest simplest accounts
are found in John and Paurs epistles.
The Jews took up stones to stone Him.
and Jesus said:
Many good works have I showed YOU
from the Father; for which of those
works do you stone Me?'
The Jews answered Him:
For good work we stone Thee not
but because You blaspheme God"
What familiar words these are. But
whb understands them? But they must
be understood before you can understand
Sho DahlS OF the incarnation.
In the beginning was the Word and
the Word became flesh and dwelt
among U.S."
So that means that God became man
end<Secame incarnate In the flesh. Who
~ Fws all about God? 1 know something
oout God and you know something about
4 God, but no man or woman ever lived
that knew all about God.
H. So God ar
being Is mystery when there is about
God or. that object, or being. or thing
that which you cannot understand
That watch is mystery. can under
stand the time on it, but do not under
stand about the wheels and all, so that
becomes mystery to me when there are
things about it that 1 can't understand.
So anything is a mystery when there
Isl about It that which you cannot under
stfhd. For all scholars will agree that's
What 1t means. but on the scene comes
the FOOL, who says, Il won't believe what
4 can't understand" but you do every
day thatTyou live.
You believe that you cannot understand.
Take reason. What is that? Reason ia
That faculty of mind with which we trace
the relation of causes and effects and
Phenomena, and that which leads up to
and causes the phenomena and effect.
what Is it by which you trace the cause
of the effect5
1t is reason What Is reason? 1t is the
FACULTY by which you trace the relation
OF cause and effect.
So you see that you are wheel within
wheel.
Where did reason come from and what
~ does 1t consist of? Do you believe that
pu have reason? Yes. Reason has done
NY things. Reason has penetrated far
into Science. Reason can tell YOU to-
night fifty years from now the minute
when the eclipse will take place or when
a certain comet will swing within the
vision of the human eye.
What Reason Says.
Reason says. give the body drink. Rea-
son says, give it food. do that, there
fore my life is preserved because / care
for my body according to my knowledge
certainly.
But there are whole lot Of things
about myself that don't know. But do
v refuse to care for myself because there
are lot of things that don't know?
Can you trace the circulation of the
Ulood9 No, you will get balled up in two
minuteA
Do you understand how food as
Stimulates to the body. and makes hair.
ana corpuscles and veins, and bones, and
muscles. No? Well, will you refuse to
eat because you have not sense enough
~ understand?
Then there are lots of things that peo-
pie don't understand. Then don't YOU
butt into God because there are lots Of
things that you can't understand. You
poor fool. there are lot of things that
you can't understand that you believe
Here are mysteries on every hand. 1 am
compelled to believe. or cease to exist.
ssssns~how.
II Listen. We have a philosophy in our
day that is omniscient. If we accept this
testimony they are both wrong. The
world is held in place. by two forces called
the centripedai and the centrifugal, and
one says: Il want 10 get away from the
center" and the other wants to go to
the center, and the operation OF the two
forces produces what we call the force of