The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-01-14
Topeka DAILY STATE JOURNAI-FRIDAY EVENING JANUAI

Moreover my flesh also shall dwell in
hope:
Because thou wilt not leave my soul unto
Hades.
Neither wilt thou give thy Holy One to see
corruption
Thou madest known unto me the ways of
life:
Thou shalt make me full of gladness with
thy countenance.
Brethren, may say unto you freely of
the patriarch David, that he both died
and was buried, and his tomb is with
us unto this day. Being therefore a
prophet, and knowing that God had
sworn with an oath to him, that of
the fruit of his loins he would set one
upon his throne; he foreseeing this
spake of the resurrection of the Christ,
that neither was he left unto Aades,
nor did his flesh see corruption. This
Jesus did God raise up, whereof we all
are witnesses. Being therefore by the
right hand of God exalted, and having
received of the Father the promise of
the Holy Spirit, he hath poured forth
this, which we see and hear. For David
assembled not into the heavens but he
saith himself:
1.-The Lord said unto my Lords, Sit thou
on my right hand.
Till make thine enemies the footstool of
thy feet
Let all the house of Israel therefore
know assuredly, that God hath made
Him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus
whom ye crucified.
Now when they heard this, they
were pricked in their heart, and said
unto Peter and the rest of the apostles,
Brethren, what shall we do2 And
Peter said unto them, Repent We, and
be baptized every one of you in the
name of Jesus Christ unto the remis-
sion of your sins, and We shall receive
the gift of the Holy Spirit For to
you is the promise, and to your chill
dren, and to all that are afar off, even
unto Him. And with many other
words he testified, and eXhorted them,
saying, Save yourselves from this
crooked generation. They then that
received his word were baptised: and
there were added unto them in that
day about three thousand souls.'
Linking the Old and the New.
Over in Japan many of the Chris
tians practically discard the Old Tesla
ment. In effect, many of us do the
same. Not so Peter. He took his text
from the Prophet Joel, and boldly af-
firmed that the great dream of the
Jews had come true, the prophecy had
news was that the long expected and
oft predicted Messianic era had come
to pass He did not shrink from pro-
claiming truth because its very
vastness made it seem almost incred-
ible. The supreme optimist is the
preacher of the Good News. The pes
simist is one who has not the courage
to tell the whole truth about the COM
ing of the Kingdom.
Some Bible students nowadays are
so bent on the minute Interpretation
of prophecy that they have no vision
for the vaster application of the truth.
Unlike Peter, they do not link up the
| old with the new in way that makes
for changed life. Light minds face
| peril in the study of prophecy; but for
| all who can differentiate the essential
| from the non-eSsential, the fulfillment
of the Old Testament Scriptures in
/ Christ is soul-nourishing study.
This great sermon of Peters all
! headed up in Christ; it was what the
! theologians call "Christocentrlc.' 1t
produced the witness of the Scripture
| to Jesus, gave the testimony of the
apostles themselves, appealed for con-
| firmation to the experience of the
/ listeners, and applied the Gospel to the
needs of the people. gr
With sympathy as we'll as with fear
lessness Peter addressed himself to his
4 hearers as men and brethren" They
were motley lot, but he saw them as
kindred to himself, and children of the
one God. The art of getting next to
his crowd was understood by the
Galilean fisherman who had been
! Gd1ieu al the SCIlOOl Oh the IdctIul
| Christ.
Then the truth was driven home un-
til each man felt himself sharer in
the rejection of Christ, and cried aloud
for mercy. DR.. Bonar has expressed
this feeling of contrition:
Il see the crowd in Pilates hall,
1 mark their wrathful mein,
Their shouts of Cruelty appaI,
With blasphemy between.
And of that GIouting multitude
| l feel that l am one;
And in that din of voices rude,
| recognize my own.
| Il see the scourges tear His back,
| l see the piercing crown,
And of that crowd who smile and mock
l feel that 4 am one.
| Around yon cross the throng I see,
| MOcking the Sufferers groan:
| Yet still my voice it seems to be,
| AS if l Knocked alone