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nipresent, but His Kingdom is not nee
essarily enduring because It is a King
dom of omnipotence, omniscience any
omnipresencc. His Kingdom is an ever
lasting Kingdom because II is founded
on unselfishness. He gave His only
Begottcn son not to magnify Himself.
but for the salvation of all mankind.
living and yet to be, thus exemplifving
/ the highest tyne of unselfshness through
this Son whose entire career was an
example, n living example, of unselfish-
ness.
! Turn over the record of Christ's life
as we have it in Gods inspired word
from the habyhood in Bethlehem to the
ascension from Oivet and in not a single
instance will IL he discovered tnat He,
for one moment, gave Himself UP to
! exaltation of Himself. He claimed His
divine rights, to be sure. but everything
that He did was animated by the desire
to serve humanity and in this service
He found His largest happiness and
| perpetuated the idea of unsefshness as
| absolutely necessary to tho everlasting
ness of the Kingdom He represented
| This unselfishness was manifest from
the very first of His miracles at Cana
of Galiee, when He turned the water
into wine. not to crafty His own desires
but that He might bring happiness to
others The gnawing hunger of the
crowd appealed to Him, and by the sea-
shore He broke the loaVes and the
fishes to satisfy the multitude with
abundance Of food.
The pitable condition Of the demonac
In the land of the Gadarenes aroused
Ills unselfsh sympathy. He turned
aside from His immediate work to give
His attention to this man and to save
! him who always night and day was 'in
the mountains and in the tombs crying
and cutting himself with stones" To
the unclean spirit He said: Come out
of the man. The people of his own
country had Stunned their unfortunate
neighbor Jesus demonstrated to them
the worth of unselfsh human service
for. ultimately. they saw the man
whom they loathed and that was pos
scssed with the devil and had the legion,
sitting clothed aud in his right mind;
and they were afraid"
Jesus might have slept on, serene and
secure on his pillow in the hinder parts
of the ship. without regard to the fears
of the crew and His fellow pa ssengers,
but they in their terror, appealed to
Him, and He arose and rehuked the
winds and said unto the sea. Peace. be
still" and the wind ceased and there
was a great calm.
At the hour Of midnight the Saviour
quit the upper room ard the congenial
companionship Of the apostles He passed
in silence outside the city walls. over
Kedron. up toward the brow of Olivet,
into the darkeninE shadows Of the gar
den of Gethsemane There. under the
awful weight of the sins of generations
born and millions yet to be pressing down
upon Him, with heaviness well-nI,h un-
thinkable, the CORY sweat-drops starting
from every pore. He cried in agony of
soul. "Oh. my Father. if it he possible,
let this cup pass from me-" Then. re-
memberng His mission Of redemption,
His love for fallen man triumphed and
He was ready for the supremest trial
of love the passing ages have ever
witnessed
On Mount Calvary He suffered the
humiliation of n death between thieves
and in love forgave even as He died.
His side was riven by the spears Of
enemies who hated Him without cause.
your sake and for mine and for all who
will accept the Offering of His vicarious
atonement. and this is love SURPRISING
all that the world has ever known.
Greater love hath no man than this,
that n man lay down his life for his
friends. This was the love exemplfied
by Christ. and n Kingdom builded upol,
such foundation is an everlasting King
a
He gave His on'y-begotten Son. that
whatsoever believeth on Him should not
perish, but have everlasting life" The
oft-repeated question, rs life worth the
living" explains the reason for its ask
ing in the fact that those who ask have
not learned the why of the per.
manency Of the Kingdom Of God. Trey
have not caught the spirit that lay back
of the permanent mission of Christ
Those who ask this question are self
centered, They are living for self-honor
for decentralization. The life If 4
single day may be permanent in It's in
fuence II it be life lived that day in utter
unselfshness, and the largest honor, the
most lasting fame that comes to any
man or to any woman is that which
comes as the result of living for some
one else.
Those who in utter dependency ant
abandon, ask. rs life worth the liviag9'
fail to look beyond the small circle tina
surrounds their own personality. They
are like the whirlpool which, swishint
and swirling, seeks To draw everything
into it's own eddy rather than like tn,
running stream which moves ever OF
, and on. clearing away the mud in III
bed until It shows the clean, smooth peb
bles, and in Its mirrored face we SCI
glints and gimpses of the Sun.
| The answer to this disheartening ques
ton, "Is life worth the living" wa
| given by God and exemplifed by Christ
| the true meaning Of the purpose Of life
Life Is not worth the living If in ute
selfshness | simply ask myself eacl
day what I may do to advance my owl
, interests. It is not worth the living 1
? l disregard the rights of my neighbor
, Life is not worth the living unless
is builded as superstructure upon tn
} foundation principles OF the eterna
I Kingdom OF Gods unselfish love
, Brahmanism is a religion founded up
l on r system OF caste, and teaches tha
I conscious existence is an evil. It recon
!. mends bodily torture so that the sou
=. may be reabsorbed into that indefinab!
I something in the elements they ca
4 Brahma. II Is essentially an individuals
h tic religion. for 1t considers only IN
welfare of the worshipper instead OF tn