The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1915-03-20
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WALKS AND TALKS
WITH JESUS"

| WITH JESUS"
HE services of the afternoon were begun by the ZION
WHITE-ROBED CHOIR singing in Professional "GOD,
OUR FATHER, THEE WE PRAISE"
GENERAL OvERsEER VoLIvA then offered the following
God be mercifu unto and bless us
And cause Thy face to shine. upon us,
That Thy Way may be known upon the earth,
Thy Saving Health among all nations,
For the sake of Jesus Amen
"RoCK OF AGES" was then sung heartily by the Choir
and Congregation after which the Ninetyrs Psalm
read in concert by the attentive worshippers.
All united in the Lords Prayer, and with heads still
bowed the first three stanzas of 81 Am PRAYING YOU
sung All then their feet sang
lily the last stanzas the chorus being repeated several times
each time with fervor.
After two of silent prayer the Choir sang
the Hymn, Il GAVE MY LIFE FOR Thee and being thus
prepared GENERAL OvERsEER VoLIvA made the following
prayer and delivered his address.
Let the words of my mouth and the medtatons of my
heart be acceptable in Thy sight, and richly blessed in the
name of Jesus the Christ in the power Of the Holy Spirit
unto this congregation, Lord my Strength and Re-
deemer. Amen
In the Gospel according Saint Matthew the Twenty
sixth Chapter the last sentence of the Tynnth verse;
these words appear.
Nevertheless not as I will but as Thou wilt"
Mr. Geike in that wonderful book of his entitled The
gives
The life of Jesus Christ must ever remain the noblest
and most fruitful study for all men, of every 1t is
admitted by those of other faiths that He at
great Teacher and living illustration of the truths He
taught The Mohammedan world gave Him the high title
of the Mash esah) and set Him above all the prophets
The Jews confess admiration of His character and Words
exhibited in the Gospels Nor there hesitation
the great nteecs of different whatever their special
position towards Christianity whether it's humble disciples
openly opposed it, careessly Indifferent vaguely
latitudinarlan.
eve all know how lowly reverence is paid to Him in
passage after by the greatest intellect
known in it's wide manysided SplendOr. Men like Calico
Keper Bacon Newton and Milton set the of
Christ above every other To show that other subject of
study can claim an equal interest Jean Paul Richter tells
at the Christ Him. Who being the hottest
among the mighty the mghest the holy lifted with
His pierced hand empires off their hinges and turned the
stream of centuries out of it's channel and still governs the
ages" Spnoza calls Christ the symbol of divine wisdom
Kant and jacob hold Him up the symbol of ideal perfec
on and Scheng and Hegel that OF the union OF the
divine and the human II esteem the Gospels says Goethe
thoroughly genuine for there shines forth from them
the reflected spendor of submity proceeding from the
person of Christ of divine kind only the divine
could ever have manifested upon earth
How petty the books of the philosophers with all
their pomp says Rousseau, compared with the Gospel!
Can be that writings at sublime and simple
work of men, Can He whose life they tell be Himself
than mere man? Is there anything in His charac
of the enthusiast the ambitious sectay What sweet
what purity in His what touching in His
teachings! What oftiness in His maxlms what profound
wisdom in His words What presence of mind what deli
cacy and apness in His reples What empire His
passions the man. where is the sage who knows
to act to suffer- and to die without weakness and with
out display? My friends do not invent like this and
facts respecting Socrates which doubts not
so well atested those about Jesus Christ These Jews
could have struck this Tone thought of this moral
ty and the Gospel has characteristics of truulness
grand striking perfectly inmitabe that their in
ventors would be wonderful than He whom they
portray Yes if the death of Socrates be that sage the
life and death of Jesus those of God.
Thomas Carlyle repeatedly expresses similar
erence Jesus of Nazareth says he our dvnest symbol
Higher has the human thought not yet reached symbol
of perennial infinite character whose significance will
demand to be inquired nto and made manifest
Charming of Boston, the foremost in his day among
American Unitarans is equally marked in his words. The
character of Jesus says he is wholly nexpcabe human
principles Matthias Caudius of the peoples poets
of Germany last century, writes to friend No
thus loved las Christ did, did anything truly great
and good Bible tells of Him enter into the heart
of man. 1t is holy form, which rises before the poor pill
grim like star in the night and satisfies his nnermos
craving his most secret warnings and hopes Jesus
Christ says the exquisite genius Herder is in the nobles
and perfect sense, the realized ideal of humanity
mo will the first Napoleon of being either
pest weakminded He strobe the world in his day like
Colossus of gigantic intellect however worthless and
depraved in moral COnversing one day, at st.
Helena his custom about the great men of antiquity
and comparing himself with them he suddenly turned round
to one of his suite and asked him. Can you tell who
Jesus Christ was? The officer owned that he had not yet
taken much thought of such things. We'll then, said
Napoleon will tell you He then compared Christ with
himself and with the of antiquity and showed how
Jesus far surpassed them think understand somewhat