The Springdale news. [volume] (Springdale, Ark.) 1887-1990, 1917-02-23
From the Deopls
JESTS OF NAZARETH.

JESUS OF NAZARETH.
God is an unutterable sigh in the
innermosts depths of the soul Old
mystic.
The life Of Jesus was Theocentric.
God was always in the foreground of
his thought, giving him a soul equip
Disc far above little personalities
small triumphs or common discourage
ments He accepted the universal
generality, the existence of God, and
saw in Nature the visible side Of the
Infinite The lilies of the field and
the birds of the air spoke to him of the
loving care of God in language his
heart understood, in words that dull
materialism never hears. He assum-
ed the existence of God as an undeni-
able fact, and formulated no dogma by
which to measure belief in God, or def
milton by which to help belief
Pope, priest and royal defenders of
his simple teachings have supplied
the omission.
Supreme being is not and cannot be
matter of proof. because no certain
premise can be established for foun-
dation of the argument. Having no
foundation on which to place his full
crum. Arehimides could not move the
world and he showed his good sense by
not trying to move it. The truth of
the existence of God lies in the world
of common consciousness, and like the
existence of conscience, cannot be
demonstrated to the man who has no
conscience. THE fool says in his
heart, there is no God" and the fool
is right, for to the fool there is no God
and cannot be to the man without
moral consciousness. The highly dew
eloped moral consciousness of Jesus,
gave him the high vision of God and
in a beatitude he declared this vision
seeing power is of the heart BLESS
ed are the pure in heart, for they shall
see God not some time in the future,
but now if the heart is pure. \ dis
tinguished philosopher tried to prove
his own existence and admitted he
could find no better proof than Ego.
cogito sum-" think therefore | am.
He tried to prove the existence of God
by this formula, but it does not fol-
low because | am, therefore God is
Jesus believed and taught the per-
sonality of God. The existence of God
in human consciousness is more than
an abstraction We can have no NOR
al consciousness of abstract power, as
gravity. etheric waves or universal
life, distractions that have no person
atty, nor can we have moral con-
seriousness of moral attributes without
personality To the pure in heart,
moral concept is inerrant, but mental
concept may be wrong. \ man may
have wrong conception of the physical
universe, of God as Creator, neverthe
less may have true moral conception
: of His moral attributes and we not be
afraid to entertain the thought that
the mind of Jesus operated within the
, lines of this experience. There is a
difference between the way to God and
: the way of God.
1t is no reflection on human intellect
that it questions the personality of
| God, for it is the most stupendous pro-
position ever submitted to the bar of
reason and is unreasonable because of
our limited knowledge of personality.
But because it is unreasonable, 1t IS
not therefore disproved, for that which
is unreasonable to day, may be dem
, onstrated fact tomorrow. Intellec
, tual power is not marked by dogmatic
assertion as some seem to think who
deny the existence of personal God.
That Jesus did not discuss the pro-
position nor formulate any dogma
with reference to it, shows his know
|, ledge of the plane on which the pro-
position rests The man whose pow
ers of mind and heart are in perfect
coordination with the law of right
eousness, knows the truth and sees
God. and the vision holds him true to
the laws of highest manhood, as the
pole star holds the needle. lnwrought
in the moral consciousness of Jesus
was the will of God, as vital to his
moral nature as breath to his phyhical
being. As son walks with his
father, so he walked with God
In another and final article, we viii
study his teaching in its historic set
ting.