Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-03-17
CHRISTIAN WORKS
ARE EVIDENCE THAT.
DIVINITY IS REAL
foTllITY OF CHALLENGE PROV
EN- IN ACHIEVEMENTS THAT
CAME WITH ADHERENCE TO
CHRiST'S TEACHING. SAYS BAP
list CLERGYMAN.

Al the Baptist church Sunday night.
REV. q. w Chessman spoke on Tho
Divine Challenge, text john II.Ii
Believe me that am in the Father
ana the Father in Ne; or else 81,
lieve Me for the very works sake %
From the beginning Jesus Christi
clahn 10 oneness with God was dis
believed The scribes and Pharisers
dlsbelieyed that he was the Son OF
God. Even Philip, one of his follow.
ers, doubted, saying. Show US the
Father and it sufliceth us. Jesus an
swered, Have | been so long with YOU
and dost thou now know me PhiIip2
lie mat hath seen Ne hath seen the
Father.
People today stumble at the di-
Hlnity OF Christ It is no new thing
AT the beginning of the fourth cen.
fury there was a great controversy
concerning the divinity ana human
ity Of Jesus. Arius contcnded for the
humanity and Athanasius for tho
deity OF Jesus, Jesus challenges men.
saying. If you cant take NV wor4
THAT ] and Ny Father are one. be-
Ileye me for the very works sake
In the southern seas is Fiji. sixty
years ago inhabited by barbarmq /
cannibal people. Missionaries went
there and toiled and suffered AMI
died Others took their places and
told the story Of Christ the Savior
OF men. a miracle has been wrought
FlJi today is Christian It is inhob.
ited by transformed people This
Is the work of Jesus Christ. Jesu
says Believe Ne for Fills sake
In 1884 the first missionaries went
to Korea and today there are q mil
lion Christians, bible-reading. pray.
ing Christians. the miraculous war
OF Christ in that country. Twenty
four thousand TeIegus Of South india
nave come over to Christianity in
mass movement in recent wear.
transformed people Uganda. in cen
tral Africa, a ferociOus people re
sponded to the gospel brought by
the missionary and today it is a
christian people. Henry N. Stanley
caiIs 1t An epic poem and some oua
else "A pageant of salyatiomJ Charlie
Darwin noted scientist wrote, The
success OF the Terra Del Fueya mis-. :
sion Is most wonderful and shame.
me as always prophesied utter fail I
ure '.'.........1 certainly should have '
predicted that not all the mission9r.
les in the world could have done wh3.
has been done II we stumble M tba.
divinity Of Christ, can we not believe -
Him for His works sake in these
non-Christian lands? -
The missionary himself who u
caves home, friends, native lana +, p
scientifically lay down his life anon a.
strange and pagan people. needs e, Il
blaming, What urge is there thai r
sends him to the ends Of the earth g
IN this mission Of uplift? The an II
'wer the missionary would give Won 81
s. 'Ihe love of Christ constraineth ~
ne. The missionary is work Of %
'hrist and we should believe him for "
he missonary's sake. ]"
What mean these hospitals. or. :,
asylums, schools and
hurches in our own land everywhereo
.ou find them not in non-Christian -
inds only where the missionary has -
ounded them. These wonderful in. -.
ututions have their origin in ,Jesue
hrist DO a little thinking on the vi
latter and see if this is NOT sn
WAT marvellous benefits have ac 80,
rned to this favored nation of opr.
trough these institutions. If Won -,
ave trouble believing Christ divine !
It the fact of the existence and af. 49,
cacy of these American institutions !,
elp you to believe and accent az u,
ora and Savior the Christ of God " al,
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