The log cabin Democrat., 1916-05-13
FOLLOW THOU ME
Message of the Savior Reveals the Power Which He Claimed
 Had Been Given Him.

with life, the most remarkable and powerful ever lived on this earth.
 When Jesus, therefore, says, All power hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth" we want to know what that power was, in order to acquire some of it and obey his command, Go ye, therefore, into all the world and make disciples of the nations"
 The first source of Jesus power lay in his teaching. And it was pow CT because it had these qualities:
 It was simple. The common peo- pie heard him gladly" The old phi losophies common in Jesus lifetime were obscure and the language was such that the ordinary man could not grasp them. Jesus taught so that day laborers understood. That was power, and it always will be.
 Jesus teaching was fundamental. It went to the center of mems sins, needs and hopes. In the Sermon on the Mount, which can be read aloud in fif- teen minutes, Jesus talks about anger, adultery, hypocrisy, murder, injustice, revenge, covetousness, anxiety and selfishness He did not teach school room distractions, impersonal philoso- phy, but the great basic sins of con- mon daily life and their remedies.
 First to Teach Love.
 Jesus teaching was revolutionary. Take four of his teachings: Love your enemies" This would and does create an upheaval in society. It was not like anything in the old pagan teaching. Resist not evil" This is distinctly upsetting to ordinary world belief and practice. The observance of it would completely change civiliza- tion. Be perfect, even as your heaven ly Father is perfect" This destroys at one blow the easy complacent morality of a world that would like to be "as good as it can be under the circumstances" It sets standard for human character that stops no- where short of divinity. "The meek shall inherit the earth" This teach. ing contradicts every worldly maxim of success"
 When we ask, What did Jesus do that made him powerful" at first we have to say, judging from worldly standards, he did not do anything. He made no money, put up no build. ings, wrote no books, organized no party, constructed no public works in short. he did nothing.
 But he did do two things. We have mentioned the first-teaching. The second was healing. He went about doing good" In Marks Gospel the account says he healed every known blindness, lameness, paral ysis, leprosy, deafness and dumbness, insanity, consumption-and he even raised the dead to life. This was an exhibition of power over disease and physical weakness which is unparal- leled in human history. And it was done for the purpose of revealing tc common everyday humanity the tre mendous truth that the Divine Being is deeply interested in human happi ness and wants to relieve humanity of pain and make 1t well and strong It was great power to possess and gave Jesus great hold in the affec tions and memories of thousands ot people.
 Cooperation With the Divine.
 What does the Prince of Peace this powerful One want of us? He wants of us what the divine has always want ed of the human. He wants his disci pies to cooperate with him in estab fishing justice and righteousness in the earth. "The government" as Isaiah says, is "on his shoulder" Yes we do not have to bear that awful and majestic and divine burden. but we can help him bear it, we can share it with him, and that is the great work of the church today. It is for us to bring our gold and frankincense and myrrh and lay them at his feet
 It is for us to consecrate to him the best we have. What will you, his disciple, give to establish peace on the earth through the power of the Prince of Peace? What will the church give to the Wonderful, the Counselor, the Mighty God, the Ever lasting Father, the Prince of Peace? Come! Let us give him our means our talents, our time. our enthusiasm He, our Prince of Peace, has wrought wonders in the world movements for world betterment. Come! Let us go to meet him as he comes confident and strong over the hills of the centuries, and, wasting no long time over the tears of our repentance, let us greet him with shout of rejoicing But are we going to help or hinder the coming of his triumph? Make an. swer, men and women of the church, as ye know ye shall stand some day before his judgment seat to give ac- count of the deeds done in the body. l For he is waiting to see what his | disciples will do All power has been | given him. Will the church "go" with that power and give it to the world and make disciples of the nations?- Rev. Charles NJ. Sheldon, D. D.