The Washington herald., 1918-01-19

and they go to the doctors of ethical
culture and spiritual culture. you
know. but without Jesus Christ that
doesn't save anything on earth.
believe, my friend, that Christian
Science Is good. 1t has a lot OF good
things in 1t, and it has a lot of non
sense. Philosophical research
Like a physician out in a Western
State-he prepared a REMEDY for hog
cholera. He was travelling on the train
with a jurist and he said, Judge, have
you ever examined my remedy for hog
cholera?"
The judge said. did you ever cure
a hog with your remedy"
He said, THAT is not my business.
I prepare the remedy and others ap-
ply it,
And the judge said to him, you wait
until you cure hog with your remedy
before you come to me and ask me to
discuss the proposition with you
All right. And when you bring me
some new tangled religion. when you
bring me some expurgated edition of
the Bible. say:
God and His Book.
You wait until your religion and
your Bible has made a record. For
our Bible has made a record. For our
Bible and our religion has taken sin
from the hearts OF countless millions.
until 1t has saved millions of drunk
ards. made thieves to steal no more.
made the scarlet woman as white as
an Arctic spowdrift, made bias
phemers to pray, oh until you can
bring me a religion that can show a
better record than the old Gospel of
Jesus Christ. / won't consider IL, not
for an instant"
I will tell you, the old-time religion
listen, my friends, not only presents
God as Creator and Preserver and
Father. now listen. but it offers the
Bible as the Word of God, Jesus Christ
as the Son of God. the Saviour of the
World. as well as the example; and
will not allow Jesus Christ to be strip
ped Of His diety by any God-forsaken
bunch on earth. will fight them first.
I won't DO 1t. no sir.
Now, the Christ needed to save this
world, as my friend Bryan said, must
be more than a man. Goodi That is
true. The task that Jesus came to per-
form was, not a, mans task. No man
aspiring to be a god could do II. but
SOus u DCCODlc a
did it when He died on the cross. He
did 1t; nobody else has done it.
oh. but listen. The adherents Of
other religions, they say that they live
up TO their ideals better than the
Christians do to their ideals. Well,
their ideals are within the reach OF
everybody and they don't have to live
very high to live up to them. No, sir
They don't have to change their way
Of living very much to live up to the
highest ideals of their highest ideal.
But, bless God, IL is the glory of the
Christian Ideal that while it is within
sight and reach of the weakest and the
lowliest, It Is so high that it keeps
the best and the noblest men and
women with their faces turned up
wards, always struggling for higher
ideals. The Christian civilization is
the greatest ever known IN the world,
because the Christian civilization and
the Christian religion rest upon a con-
ception Of life which makes life one
unending progress toward higher and
better things. You never get so nigh
that you can't get higher. don't you
forget itA You never get so good thG.t
you can't get better. There is always
something for lou to struggle to be-
yond where you are in the Christian
religion. You can reach other ideals
in other religions, and when you get
there, why, that is finis, nothing more
to do. Ha, ha, ha! see?
Nobody to Help Her.
All right. Now wait minute. / am
not going deep into metaphysics; don't
get scared. Hers was a, desperate re-
solve, hers was a desperate case. So
Is yours; so was mine. It was tn,
only thing she could do. Ii she had
a dollar left TO have tried one mort
doctor. that procession would neyei
have heer hslfed in the streets. Of