The Detroit times., 1916-11-04

lie taught FOR It's simplicit5 and
CleaTness, aud adaptation TO the IN
dividual. You DO not anywhere find
Him seeking tho multitude, but He
never avoided the individual. and
Ills teaching was always adapted TO
The comprehension OF those whom
lie taught II is laid that the com.
mon people heard Him gladly, and
this shows that they understood
what He said No man had TO take
dictionary with him when he went
10 hear the sermon on the mount.
lie illustrated His thought and
made plain His meaning by the
most wonderful word pictures
we are told that without par
rb'" spakc He not 10 any man. He
people sec things and see
clearly II is wonderful that
this humble Galilean peasant who
may never have gone 10 school a
day IN His life should have made
himself a teacher o. teachers OF all
time. The pedagogy OF today is
modelling after the manner OF Christ
closer and closer every day.
Let me also say In passing that
the originality Of Jesus is a proof OF
Iis divinity Tho human mind can
not create anything in an absolute
,nsc II can build out of almost
uy kind OF material, but II cannot
rcate There Is no such thinR as
ut and out originality belonging 10
a man You cannot imagine any.
hing that does not resemble some
hing you have previously seen !
rant that you can take COW and
dog and horse and a sheep and
make ont Of them enough animals
. fll Nuah's ark. bat You must
have the COW and M" dog and the
orse and the sheep for begin
.inE
"Evcrythnr vow made will simply
80 q modification Of The various
larts and proportions o' them.
Thers ls said 20 be nothing new un.
der he sun and th"r" is sense IN
which II Is true. Every thing - the
outgrowth o' something else The
inst ralVavCars looked Ike Tho old
stages and the lrst automobiles
looked like carriages. II is that
Nay about everything No man ever
made 2 book or even story that
ysS altogether unlike all others.
The stories Ne hear TO-DAY on the
IRISH and Dutch arc older than the
r-i.a and Dutch Iou ind storie"
f!l. them in tho earliest literature
Iiu YOU cant fnd any stories any
here In ans literature hat even i7
lo remo'est way resemble 'he par
nca ~ Jesus such para bios Js
ihc Samaritan and 'ho prodigal son
~. absolutely new creations. and SO
proclaim Jesus as divine because Tie
could create.
"UI- teaching vas wonderful in
what He taught a. much as in tho
Nav Uo taught lie taught that We
was greater than Moses. Think oi
mo gudaCjt, ~ IT, Making such
falm1 as What 20 thc Jews. who
rprlrdcd Moses as almost divine.
Think OF the audacitv of man
and tug before us Americans and
rSiug 10 make us think he was
.~cat.r than George Washington
ln also declared that lIe fulfilled
tne prophecies and the law of
Moses. and The only effort lie eyer
made 20 prove His claims was -
point 10 the works that He did The
FIRST thing an impoRter always does
b. 20 oycrprove his case. Jesus
never turned His hand over 20 try
20 convince His enemies that lie
wax the Christ You have 10 eN
plain coal oil lamp. but YOU don't
need 70 waste any breath in giving
information about the power OF the
sun
The springtlme will do that.
sober. praying men and women ex-
plain Jesus.
Eaual with Father
Jesus taught that II" was equal
20 God He said He thar hateth
me hateth my Father also tJohn
1y.93l Did you ever know oi any
body else making such claims He
said. Come unto Ne. all ye that Ia.
Dor and are heavy laden, and ! will
give Won rest Offering 10 bear tho
burden of the whole world Thiul,
OF - He said . am com" that
they might have life, and that
they might have ~ more abundant
" And lie said Z am the resur.
rection and the life: and he that
belicveth In Nc, tho he were dead
yet he shall live And whosoever
liveth and belicveth in Me shall
never die Surely He was wonder.