The Alaska citizen., 1916-05-08
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THE THEOLOGY OF JESUS.

Our Father who art in Heaven Matt 6:9
 Despite the shortness of His ca rcer. the carpenters Son did much constructive thinking. He discov' cred to man His four greatest ideas The equality of the classes, the equality of the races, the equality of the sexes and the equality of two worlds named heaven and earth. He knew just what He believed and knew the reason why He be lieved His doctrines are the more fascinating when We remember that theology is the queen of the sci enCes Sciences are ranked low or high. in accordance with the sub ieCts they treat. At the bottom are the sciences of rocks, stars and gases. and men study geology. as tronomy and chemistry. Higher still we see the sciences of the plants and animals, and men study botany and zoology. Because man is the lord of creation. and sciences that are of man are ranked high We have physiology. the science of man 5 body; psychology, tn escience of mans intellect; ethics, the science of mans conscience. But man lives in the presence of a Supreme Be ing greater than himself. and that power makes for righteousness Just as the sheaves of Joseph s brethren bowed in obeisance to his sheaf, so must all the sciences bow to the science of theology. Tolstoi says in summing up this question Neither philosophy nor science can explain mans relation to the uni verse. but religion"
 Many gifts unique a"d splendid have been given to man. To one is given the gift of invention, to an other the gift of imagination. to all other the gift Of philosophy or speaking or teaching; but there are a thousand great inventors to one great orator; a thousand speakers to one great thinker; thousand thinkers to enc great seer. Stralt is the gate and narrow Is the way that leads up to the heights where .l of her rule is above all. Only few people are interested In books or newspapers; very few will persist in thinking long enough to folio" through a forty minute sermon Ethi' cal studies deal with subjects con corning an unseen God, and inves- tigate the basis of righteousness the grounds of duty, the nature oi justice and philosophy of sin. Wh! do not people go to church? Every one knows he Is interested in eat ing and sleeping in getting gold and pleasure. There is a beaten path to the soup house and dance hall. The path that leads to good ideas and pure morals is strai; and with difficulty travelled, and few there be that find it.
 I. Jesus theology first teaches that God is Love. An American youth would be ashamed not to know about the Declaration of lndepen dence and the Constitution Of the United States Early does he learn the foundation of our republic liberty, equality opportunity, intel ligence, integrity. Every boy and girl with any claim to culture ought to be able to state the four funda mental ideas of the theology Of Jc sus, of which the greatest is thai God Is Love. God loves good mer and bad men alike, just as the sur shines on the wheat and on the weeds, the roses and the thorns Veg. God loves all men and in { world where there is tornado anC earthquake, sickness and death tyranny, and slavery and cruelty poverty and want and suffering And Jesus came to bring the goot news, the Gospel, that men coulc he relieved from distress and sigh ing and the ills of the body ant soul. Calling the multitude abou Him He had compassion on them as they were a flock without { shepherd. Jesus did not say: "Got Is power, God is wisdom, God | justice" all men knew that, bu He wanted to emphasize the fac that God is Love. Try as it may the sun cannot make the region o the north pole to blossom as th' rose only during that period whel that region turns it's face towar' the sun. The reason the tropic have perpetual growing seasons | that they have their faces ever tc wards the sun. Going toward Go is to the traveller like going towar the candle in the cabin as he seek shelter from the blizzard, for reveals to him food and shelte and warmth end safety. The grea idea that God Is Love cane to tn world as & sunbeam in dark room But is that all of the theology c Jesus?
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