The Alaska citizen., 1916-04-17

the ministry. He wanted tn preach If history has told us anything it has oft reminded us that all the truths of the world that have been worth while and that have sue oeeded. have been promulgated by the preacher. He has Championed the cause of the oppres 3ed. the poor. the wrotChed. the submerged tenth" One cannot think of Swift zerand without thinking Of John Calvin: of Germany withoI. Martin Luther; of Holland without John Knox of England without Wyclif, of The Dark Continent" without David Livingstone When we want to get to the source of the change in China and Japan We Lear the names of Morrison and Hepburn Mention any college or university that has not found it's origin in the thoughts of the preacher In every age il has been the minister that has assaulted slavery. serfdom. the bondage of women. l. has been the moral teacher that has ever pro claimed the thoughts of liberty. Said Daniel Webster. Where shall you go for he beginning of free insti- tutions. save to the pulpit that has ln all the centuries been the foun- tain head of patriotism?" Preaching is man-making. man-mending and charaCt ter building It begins all its reform by starting at the source of reform-the human soul It makes men great without because they are straight within. From a crooked mind comes crooked thoughts The world has had a right to expect that Jesus would always be in the right for His soul was right
 From such soul He preached the eternal truths and they have grown wherever they could have grown. The greatest men of the world IdN t IOIIIt II OllI lIc itILl ptI d lt LOllt' Jesus entered not into the frozen life of frigid and lifeless thought, nor did he enter into the heat of torrid fanaticism. Q took the mid de ground of common sense and proclaimed the truth to His fellow men, and they have done the rest. Setting forth from Bethlehem Chris tianity has journeyed unto the ut termost parts of the earth on the calm wings of preaching.
 Jesus had special message for the poor, and that is the reason it was a message of success. It was not a message of political economy to be poor is to be degraded. Jesus saw bare feet, hungry bodies, ne, glected minds and morals dwarfed, the soul lost. A man Is poor when he has one loaf, rich when he has two-one laid up for a rainy day. He is poor when he has one tool for his toll, rich when he has two one held in reserve. Wealth buys medicine for the sick, books and art for the depressed, buys travel and change of scene when restless. buys friends and office and honor. Therefore, says the economist, put money in thy purse, for life con ,Io ok, nF bo that a man possesseth. Over against this philosophy came Jesus with new teaching, He emphasized the soul within Subordnated food and rament In all things He knew how to permanently rise, as com pared with successes for a season. Seek ye first the kingdom of God, the life is more than meat, and the body than raiment." It is quite possible for man to accumulate so many books that he does not read for a farmer to so increase his crops that he must move from his own home; to so hoard the glittering gold that it's sight like the rays of the sun upon the spotless snow
 blinds his physical eyes, so is he blinded in the eyes of his soul. The miser piles up money and starVes to death That man gets the most
 out of life who thinks most feels most, aspires most, loves most prays most.
 The great masters of the world have always come from the home of the poor They have taught that poverty is not degradation nor toll a disgrace. Jesus peeled
 Dives of his purple and put para disc in reach of the poor beggar. In allying Himself with the poor Jesus brought His message to the vast majority, appealed to the needi- est classes, and brought over to His side the men who led ir
 thought. Moses came from the slaves hut to be the worlds greatest iurist; John, the beloved" disciple, from a fishermans boat; Socrates from a stonecutter's house; Luther 1 from a miners home; Watt as a boy held horses on the street; Lin 1 coin from log cabin. It was such gospel to the poor that would ~tr