The Hattiesburg news., 1916-07-28
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of things were made the condition o.
coming many of us would fail. But al
men can live up to the light they have
and this is the only condition. Cor
lnelius is an illustration, as he saw one
round of the ladder, assembled it, saw
another, ascended that, and so on un.
til he saw the great revelation that
| Jesus is God. The words of the text
are the most comforting that Jesus
ever spoke.
| The second aspect is the certain
ty of the words Jesus is king, and
king conjugates all things in the i'm
peratiye mood. There is no doubt,
but a transcendent certainty and a
magnificent assurance"
"rhe third aspect is the philosophy
OF the statement. In all the teachings
Of Jesus this marvellous philosophy il
present. Every man lives at once in
three worlds. He is first subject to
the law of matter, then of thought.
then of spirit. So God has given three
dlstinct organs of knowledge, and only
three, the senses, reason and con-
sciousness. No knowledge can come
TO us except through the organ OF it's
reception. So God has given us con-
sclousness through which to come in
touch with God, and must use that
if find Him. The reason that great
men, as Hume, Huxley and Darwin
dld not find God is that they failed to
use The right organ of knowledge. Now
II an organ fails to be used it becomes
withered and useless. A conscious
ness not used to come into touch with
God ceases to become a vehicle serv-
iceable to reach Him.
Horace Bushnell was converted TO
Christ because he was honest with
himself and properly used after so
long the organ by which to reach Him
and knowledge of Him. Then he
wrote the most remarkable book ON
the character of Jesus. since the New
Testament, The Impeccability of
Jesus Some one in a preceding cen.
tury wrote a book so remarkable that
1t excited the whole world and very
rapidly went into the forty-fiye thou.
sandth edition. The name of the
book was 'Physicus.' and attacked
Christianity Later George Romanes
wrote 'Metaphysicus,' which was pub
lished after his death, and this was
an answer to 'Physicus' which he had
written himself, and the author of
which the world had so eagerly sought
to find out, Romanes in his maturer
years came into touch with God and
Christianity by using the organ OF
knowledge intended for that purpose.
He finally used the light which he had,
and willed to do the will of Cod"
The text of DR.. Porter's address
was; "And the whole city was moved,
saying who is this ?"
Jesus was going to Jerusalem for
the last time, and, as the people gath !
cred and crowded the way they eager
ly asked, Who is this?' All the ages
since, amid all the change and decay
and growth. have been asking that
same question. Always we find this
to be the center Of every great pur-
pose among men. Old China. Africa,
and all Asia are awakening and asking
the same question.
"How strange that men after twenty
centuries have never settled it. They
have given Caesar, Plato and others |
their appropriate places, but the ques-
tion about Jesus will not down. They |
have tried to measure Christ by other
men and when they have thought their |
work completed it has been suddenly
overthrown. All this is so strange !
that it amounts to an argument. |
There is no mystery about Mohanl-
med, Buddha, Moses-these are all |
measurable, but Jesus, not SO.
I'm the gospel there are four great |
to this eyer-present question. |
and here is the first: Is not this the |
SON? Those who answered !
thus were right as far as they went, |
but fatally wrong in that they didn't |
go further.
"The second answer was given by |
his disciples, in the words of Peter |
when he said: Thou are the Christ,
the son Of the living Cod And these
words expressed not only the convic-
tion Of Peter, but of the others, who
had been SO regularly with Jesus.
'The third answer is, that He is the
Savior of the world. This is the an
swer that Jesus would try to lead all
to. The reason that men do not see
Him as their savior is that they have
never tried. The only way to know
is to experiment
Thomas gave the fourth answer in
the words, My Lord and my Cod
This was the answer the Master was