Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-12-16
CHRIST SIGNS NO
ARM|ST|CE WITH SIN
SAID REV. CHESSMAN
BAPTIST CLERGYMAN DELIVERS
SERMON RICH WITH HOPE FOR
FALLEN MAN - SERVICES AT
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.

Rev. G. w Chessman spoke Sunday
night on what Christ Thinks of
Men," saying in part;
1t was great day in the life Of
Saul of Tarsus when he discovered
that Christ thought OF him in terms
of a wonderful forgiving love. He inn
medately broke with religion oil
rigid rules and regulations and tied
up with Christ's religion of love. The
wonder and the glory of it thrilled
and thralled him all the rest of his
life One of his later expressions re-
ferring to Jesus was. Who loved me
and gave Himself for me- 1t is
great day in any mans life when this
discovery is made. Jesus in His
thinking of men does so in terms OF
a wonderful love.
He thinks of man as an INFINITE
value The most precious value in
the life of the world is man. He is
the crown of creation; he is made irf
the image of God; he is made for
fellowship with God. This was a rev
olutionary teaching in Chrst's day.
1t was the death sentence of human
slavery. of artificial class distinctions
and in this latest day is finding ap-
plication in the industrial world In
the estimation OF human life above
profits. The world, Is re-thinking
Christ's thoughts OF human worth.
"He thinks of a man as hurt by
sin. Because sin hurt man Christ
was its uncompromising antagonist
Jesus was the most tremendous at
tacker of sin the world ever saw. He
hated sin because it dragged men
down from rola grandeur, because ii
yitiated and degraded sacred human
life. because it destroyed mans fei
loWship with God. Over In France
beautiful cathedrals are in hopeless
ruins from the pounding Of the guns.
w bdll IL IL ipPhN' pdA ~ -
nothing in the way of catastrophe
TO human lives in moral ruin. wrecked
by the guns of evil. II is because
Jesus saw he enormity Of sins ray.
aging power in human lives that Hi
Indictment of sin is so terrible. II
is because His love for men is so
great that His arraignment of sin il
to terrific. force so disastrous in
the marring of the image of God III
men is a force with which He never
signs an armistice.
He thinks Of a man in sins grip
as salyable. A man may be in the
muck, but he is still of infinite value.
The church today needs to be like
its aMster. Are we? Are we getting
close to SHINING men without God
and hope in the world? We lament
the absence of young men in the
churches. Are we going out to seek
them as the Good Shepherd sought
| the lost sheep? We need to think
more like Jesus regarding the value
of men in the grip of sin and out
side the church.
Rev. Vonckx Speaks on Germany.
The subject of the sermon last
night at the Pres byterian church wa
Germany" Rev. VonckX introduced
his message by likening the German
empire to the ruins of the Tower o
Babel. wind'swept, barren, desolat'
and forsaken, but he was careful tt
make it pain that in referring tC
! Germany he did not refer to the peo
pie, but to that class of people tina
constituted the government, the mil
itary masters as President Wilson
called them. Then followed a three
fold message based on the text, "B
not deceived; God is not mocked, 70
whatsoever a man soWeth that sha'
he also reap The pastor said i
part:
"Be not deceived go not astray
refers to the deception of the human
that is so plainly set forth in the sil
ful course of Germany. The empir
was built by highway robbery.
1870 Prussia stole Pomerania frol
Sweden in l74S Austria was robbie
of SILICA; in 1772, 1893 and 1895 sh
took West Prussia, Posen and Ea!
Prussia respectively from Poland;
1864 Denmark was robbed Of lie
stein: in 1866 Austria was again he
up and lost Hanover and SaXony. ar
In 1870 she stole Alsace and l.orrail
: from France. Having multiplied h,
territory and population so MAJ
| times and attained to such larI
place in Europe, her selilshness al
greed led her to definitely plan for
world dominion. and Zu der tag al
deutschland uber allies became {
J Continued on page 3, col. 81