Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-01-05
His own folk did not welcome


On those who have accepted Him,
however, He has conferred the right
OF being children of God, that is, on
those who believe in His name, who
owe this birth of theirs to God, not
OF the flesh or of man. So the Logos
became flesh and tarried among u.s.;
we have seen his glory-glory such
as an only son enjoys from his father
seen 1t to be full of grace and real
ity.
Making Over the World
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world is to send a man. Truth tri-
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the Logos become flesh" Only when
the divine Word, the expression of
the character of the Father, becomes
Incorporated in a man or woman does
1t begin to change society. Reverent-
truth that God can employ for His
conquests is that which has been
made a part of the character of His
servants. A man may be a message,
word" of God even as Jesus was
AS voice is the most distinctive ex-
preston of personality, surviving the
mutations of the years, so Jesus was
uniquely the Word of God, the very
| incorporation of the Supreme Will
and Character.
For verse-by-verse exegesis of the
lesson passage there is not space
here. There are seven cardinal points,
however, in the text that may be
tersely restated without ampiifica-
tion.
/. 1t is far-founded faith that
John propounds. Overlapping all
barriers of time it goes back to the
ultimate beginning, when the Word
was present in the councils of the
Creator, before ever time began,
2. AS an essential agent and ex-
preston of God, as q co-worker with
the Father, Christ was present and
participating in creation. John
does not leave standing room for
those who see in Jesus only a beauti-
full character and a sublime teacher.
| ". So
3. Life. with all that it means of
largeness and power and joy and
severity, is I'm Him." This auda-
cious chronicler affirms that there is
no real life except spiritual life. and
that is derived from Christ it's
Source. ". A. AS Tennyson de-
| clared:
Our little systems have their day,
They have their day and cease to be
They are but broken lights of Thee,
And Thou, 0 Lord, art more than
they"
4. That Life is Light. Wherever
Christ goes light accompanies: so
that myriad treatises have shown
Him to be the Light of the World I"
In our own dark time Christ is our
only light; and there is no hope for a
readjustment of civilization, except
as we see things in the light of
Jesus. Wrapped up in the truth of
Christ as the light is all the mission
airy experience of the church. For
however great the darkness, it has
not fastened the Light. ". 4, 8,
| 8, 81
s. Saddest of all the words of
human. speech is the sentence "He
came unto His own, and His own re-
ceived Him not" Because He was
'despised and rejected of men," the
suffering Saviour is the sympathetic
comforter of all who walk q solitary
way, and drink. life's bitter cup, Had
prosperity Jesus would not have been
able to meet most of us on our own
level. (v. 10, III
6. This first Son of God became
the best brother of man. He opened
the way into sonship for all the rest
of us. We have our place in Gods
household of faith because our
brought us home. We may recognize
all sons of God by the family like
ness. ". 12, 13.)
| Z. Here Is a man telling what he
knows. This is the testimony of an
eyewitness, for John wrote, I'VE be-
held His glory All these majestic
declarations of the Prologue of
Johns Gospel are the testimony of
one who had personal experience of
his subject. Back of all our creeds.
lies the simple fact of the historical
Christ. ". 14)