Norwich bulletin., 1916-04-17
ORCHESTRA MUSIC At
SUNDAY EVENING SERVICE.
Excellent Programme Rendered az the
Central Baptist Church BY Members
Of Sunday School.

Excellent Programme Rendered at the
Central Baptist Church BY Members
Of Sunday School.
The Sunday school orchestra OF the
Central Baptist church rendered an ex-
csiIent programme at the Sunday even
ing service at the church Rev. Joel 3.
Sloeum. d. D.. the pastor. spoke ON the
subject DID Jesus Fail? taking his text
from Heb. /: II. Thy Years Shall Not
Fail.
IN part. Rev. Dr.. slocum spoke as
follows:
Did Jesus fail7 The answer depends
upon ones conception Of failure or
success. II by success we mean the
attainment OF riches or earthly power,
| then Jesus failed; for He did not ac-
emulate wealth and He did not or
| ganize an army or develop a political
following. There are seven great fields
/ for mans acquisition-art, literature,
science. philosophy. invention. states
manship, war In none OF these did
Jesus become conspicuous And yet IL
would be folly to say that He does not
today occupy place among the worlds
greatest What then was the secret OF
His greatness? Not what He did so
much as what He was His was the
/ greatness of character. PLATE spoke
more truly than he knew when he said
| Behold the man." It was manhood
raised to its highest power.
| Charles Lamb once said: IF Shakes
peare came into the room, we should
should come into II, we should all fan
upon our knees"
Some OF the men who go down in
| history as great were great only In
spots. Caesar and Alexander the
Great and Napoleon had their weak.
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military genius, but II was also true
| Of him that he was vain and petty.
Over against these the character OF
Jesus stands colossal and incompara-
BILE. Compared with them He lowered
like Mt. Blanc while they stood like
| little holehills at His feet
| The greatness OF Jesus has always
consisted in the influence that He has
exerted. He took a little company OF
men and He transformed them by His
spirit and aroused them with His ideal
so that they would do anything for
Him, including the surrender Of life
itself And Christianity, strong and
mighty today, came from that seed.
Richter truly said: Jesus pierced
hands lifted empires on their hinges
and turned the stream of history into
a new channel" Not by political might
and not by an army. but by His pierced
hands was this accomplished.
| Did Jesus fail7 Let missions and
erature answer. More books have beer
written about Jesus than about any
other historic character. In one week
there is more printed about Him thar
about any one hundred Of the worlds
greatest men. More than two hundred
millions OF dollars are yearly contrib
uted in this land alone to the institu-
tons that bear His name.
A biographer of Napoleon wrote the
life OF the great military genius in -four
II 49, A. =
power and two 20 describe his fall. Tn,
biographers Of Jesus tell only of Hi.
rise. He goes on from glory to glory
Christianity had a marvellous growth
in the nineteenth century. Education
and Christianity went hand in hanC
, throughout the world. OF the twenty,
} six English barons who signed III
Magma Charta only three wrote thei
names and twent-three made thef
marks. It is scarcely three hundre,
and fifty years since British peers Il
e the House Of Lords were excused from
B | service in parliament because the
l were unable to write or to read. Tn
? progress OF popular education durin
: the past three centuries has bee
q chiefly due to Christianity. Durin
e the last ten years of the nineteent
n century there were gained more tina
: double the number of disciples [
r Christianity than were gained durin
: the first century OF the Christian err
4 the past four centuries has been fou
times as great as its progress for th
preceding Il centuries And who sha
= say what progress He shall make be
fore this century shall reach the close
Out of this present world-war ther
:. will come some good. He who no
moves over those vast battlefieAds
r. wounded afresh for our transgTessior
will work out His divine purposes IL
the redemption Of men. He will max
!, the wrath Of man to please Him
j. Is said that rising above the earth
n a balloon, especially over the crowde
; city, the noises at first seem discord
: ant and displeasing but as enc zoe
= further up, a point is reached wheI
: ali the confusion OF earth is blende
into music. So as We go on to kno-
e Him and as we rise higher and highs
;. in the comprehension of His purpos
,s we shall find earth's contradictions re
4 solving themselves into harmonies this
\ are inspiring to the soul
: That all the jarring notes of life
Ell Seem blending in a Psalm
}; And all the angles OF its strife
/; slow rounding into calm.
?; Did Christ fail? No, He did not IA
and He will not fail Did anybod
= else fail? Yes, everybody who did NJ
= take Christ into his heart failed.
NJ your life a failure or a success? I Z
TO not ask the question that you ma
v. answer me. ask It that you ma
Or give your answer to God. II you fe
that your life is a failure, what is Il
i'd reason for that failure? Are you liz
s. ing with and for Christ? II so, yC
cannot fail. And His final triumE
1t will be your triumph.
t Rev. DR.. Slocum closed with Il
words of Richelieu, Fail, fail? In u
lexicon Of youth there is no such VOL