Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-23

hasty scanning of certain of His
qualities and characteristics. as we
have studied them for quarter of a
year, should help us to follow a plain
path through the jungle of a tangled
time.
Christs life was mission. He
knew Himself q sent Man. He was
the Word" of the Father. In lesser
degree-we have His "As-so" for
teach disciple of Jesus may be
a word of God. an expression of the
divine will to His time. For it is by
the Great Christs, and by the little
Christs, If that phrase may be per-
mitted, that God manifests Himself
to the world. This sense of the urge
of life, of its sacredness, of its inner
voice crying night and day, II must
work the works of Him that sent me-"
is what sets one apart in the very fell
lowship of Jesus Himself.
lie had seeing eyes. How few are
the poet-visioned, who perceive the
glory in our common day! Landward
from New York City. and from At
lantic City, and looked upon daily by
hundreds of thousands of persons, are
great stretches of marshes. But 1t
was left for Sidney Lanier, with his
touched eye, to see in the similar
marshes about the little town of
Brunswick. Ga, the larger meaning
of life and eternity; and now The
Marshes of Glynn' are known wher-
ever the English language runs. Jes-
us saw into lite's real meaning. Moth
ing escaped Him, whether it was the
significance of wayside flower, or
the need of wayside beggar. Since
life is largely a matter of eyes or no
eyes, why should we not all seek that
vision which is not blind to beauty and
blessing in the commonplaces of every
day?
Along with the seeing eye-note
this, all cynics and dilletantes-Jesus
had the gentle heart and the helping
hand. Nobody is following Jesus who
moves among his race without COM
passion and ministry. There is no day
so empty that it does not give oppor-
tunity for deeds done in the Jesus
spirit, and in His name. Little does it
avail to know, if the knowing is not
accompanied by doing. If the words
of Jesus should be lost, but the record
of His life remain, we could read His
mind in the forms of His ministry.
Especially significant for this our
day is the truth that Jesus had clear,
simple conviction. No complicated
and subtle sophistries entered into His
philosophy. How elemental were His
teachings, as compared with those of
Buddha and Zoraster and Confucius!
All of these convictions of Jesus were
related to life. Every one of them
could be practiced. Nowadays, so
many of us have muddled minds, and
our beliefs seem all in a twilight zone,
and no truth possesses us sufficiently
to command our life, that it is inspir-
iting to come into the presence of the
Perfect Life, which knew some things
for a truth, and without hesitation
or fear went to the cross for them.
The man who has no belief for which
he is willing to- die, has no belief by
which he can really live.
Above all else, this Jesus whom we
have been studying clearly saw the un-
seen. Spiritual things were more real
to Him than the Pharisees who threat
ened Him. or the crowds who mobbed
Him, seeking gifts, or the cross that
loomed ever before His eyes. His ap-
peal was ever to the Father whose
presence was His strength and His
life. God was more near to Him than