Omaha daily bee., 1915-10-21
Sunday breaches on ellis Name
Shall Be Called Wonderful. "


all tino. The pedagosy Of today u
modelling after the manner Of christ
closer and closer every day.
Let mo also say in passing that the
originality Of Jesus IL a proof Of His
divinity. The human mind cannot create
anything IN an absolute sense. = can
build out Of almost any kind Of material
but Il cannot create.
There is no such thing ~ out and out
originality belonging to q man You
cannot imagine anything that does not
resemble something you have previously
seen. grant that you can take . COW
and dog and a horse and q sheep and
make out OF them enough animals 70
fill Noahs ark, but you must have the
COW for q beginning.
Everything you make win simply be
modification OF the various parts and
proportions OF them.
There IL said TO he nothing new under
the sun and there Ia a sense In which
Il 10 true. Everything h the outgrowth Of
something else. The first railway cars
looked like the old stages and the fret
automobiles looked like carriages. II IL
that way about everything
No man ever made a book or even a
story that was aitogether unlike all
others.
The stories we hear today on the Irish
and Dutch are Older than the Irish and
Dutch. You find stories like them In the
earliest literature. but you can't find
any stories anywhere IN any literature
that even in the remotest way resemble
the parallels OF Jesus.
Such parallels as the good Samaritan
and the prodigal son are absolutely new
creations and 80 proclaim Jesus AZ d.
vine because He could create.
rhinGu that re TouGAt Wonderful.
His teaching was wonderful In what
He taught. as much a. In the way He
taught.
He taught that He was greater than
Moses. Think OF the audacity Of III Max
ing such claims a. that TO the Jews. who
regarded Moses a. almost divine.
Think Of the audacity OF man stand
ing before us Americans and trying 70
make w think he was greater than
George Washington.
He also declared that He fulfilled the
prophecies and the law OF Moses, and the
only effort He ever made TO prove Hts
claims was to point to the works that
He aid.
The first thing an irnposter always does
n 90 overprove his case. Jesus never
turned His hand over to try 20 convince
His enemies that He was the Christ. You
have to explain coal oil lamp, but you
don't need 60 waste any breath in Givins
information about the power Of the sun
The springtime will do that. Sober pray
| ing mon and women explain Jesus.
Jesus taught that He was equal to God
He said: "IS that hateth No hatch
Ny Father also" (John Nv. 80. Did
you ever know Of anybody else making
such claiEnsf He said; Come unto Ne
| all ye that labor and are heavy laden
and will give you rest"
Offering 70 bear the burden 81 the
whole woridi Think Of iti
| He said, Lam come that they might
live. and that they might have n mOr'
sbundantiy.'
And He said; II am the resurrectsor
and the life; and ha that believeth On NE
though he were dead, yet he shall live
And whosoever uveth and believeth Il
Me shall never die"
Surely He was wonderful in that III
90 stirred them IN the Capernaum syna
gosue. whore He taught them not ~ IN,
soribes. but a. one having authority.
IL It any wonder that they were righ
after HIN for heresyf Let anyone to
day begin to teach in our church some
thing entirely new a. tho teachings o.
Jesus were and zee what will happen.
II IL wonderful In that He prophssios
II Himself. He forstold how He wouIt
die and when He would die. Il was won
derful that He should have been be
trayed, Into the hanAs Of those whit
sought His life. BY one OF His owr
trusted disciples. and wonderful that II,
should have been sold for 90 low a price
Wonderful, too. that fie should have
been condemned to death In the way IL
which He was by both the religious and
civil authorities, and on the testimony Of
false witnesses, in the name OF God, wheT
all the laws OF God were defilod In tn,
trial.
II waA wonderful that he was tormente,
and tortured 20 cruelty before being SEN
to the cross. and that He should havI
been put to death was also wonderful OF
the day Of the passover. thus Hirnsei
becoming the real passover 60 which tn,
passover lamb had 30 long pointed.
Scenes Attenains Death ON cros.
The great publicity OF His death wa
also wonderful. II IL doubtful II any othe
death was ever witnessed by 30 man,
people. Hundreds OF thousands OF peopl
were In Jerusalem. who had come from
everywhere 10 attend the passover.
TIE sky was darkened and tho sun hl'
its face from the awful scene. A grea
earthquake shook the city. the dead cam
out Of their graves unto many. and tn
veil OF the temple was rent, from top u
bottom.
And remember that Up TO that tire N
eye had been allowed 10 look bahlnd tina
veil except that Of the high priest. I'M
then only once year. on thS great da
Of atonement
He had foretoId Il 10 Hts disciples. an
has done so frequently. aiwsys sayIn
whenever He spoke OF His death. that II
would rise again on the thru day. an
yet every one Of them appeared to for
set all about II, and not enc Of theI
thought Of going 20 the sspul shre on IN
morning of the third day except IN
women. and they only 70 prepare III
body more fully for the grave, Woman
hood has always been on the firing lin'
This shows how fully they abandone
ali hope when they saw HiEi deal. Som
left the city, for we are told Of two VIII
/ went 10 F,mmaua