The Springdale news., 1917-01-26
JESUS OF NAZARETH-A Study

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 Our study has lead up to this in quiry: Where did Jesus get his know ledge of God and man and immortali- ty; did he have access to an inerrant source of wisdom from which other men are debarred and did he live his life or any part of 1t outside the cir ele of our own experience? It is easy to answer that his knowledge was inspirational and therefore. without mixture of error and Without. .timita= ton But this answer involves con tradictions that jar and if true is the end of further inquiry, for who can solve an equation if which deity IS one side Intellectual gymnasts try to solve 1t and the performance Is al ways amusing, always ending at the same place. Confining this study to- human equation, 1 am not without hope to finding the source of know ledge from which Jesus drew his teachings, dim traces of which may be found in every mans consciousness.
 It must be noted that most of the teaching of Jesus has been taught by other men before him, that the funda- mental principles of his doctrine had been floating in human consciousness from the beginning of history, and that individual instances of high mo- ral perfection shone here and there along the line of human ascent from savagery to the full orbed splendor of manhood in the great arehetypal man. Jesus of Nazareth, THE SON of MAN. i Instances of high moral character are not confined to a few individuals as is evident from the moral codes of some ancient nations recorded i1 their sacred books Reformers and preach l CTS of righteousness whose names have come down to us, left an impress on the morals of the people by pre- fcepts and maXims that have never lost vitality If we ask whence came 1 knowledge of moral law in the teach ing of the ancients, it will not be claimed that inspiration was it's sour ce. though the denial goes q long way towards refuting the theory that the same teaching by Jesus was inspired refutaton that would not seem i'm pious if we remember that moral law
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 We are now ready to answer the question, Where did Jesus obtain his knowledge of religion and moral jaw. It will be conceded that man has the faculty called moral consciousness that can be developed by education, re- Aeetion and moral living. It is fac ulty therefore belonging both to the intellectual and moral nature When fully developed, its mentions are