Evening journal., 1921-06-13

at the turbulent court Of Pontus
plate. they cringed before him to
right and left. and he. passing
through the midst Of them, went his
way.
when we analyze the failure or
| these friends of the Christ who hrsi
rejected him, we find theirs TO be
the commonest failure OF mankind.
They were blind TO the obvious.
Jesus Christ was just the same
Son Of God as he had shared their
simpler life in Nazareth, as boy and
friend and village carpenter as when
he moved in the larger circle OF
national affairs and preached the
kingdom Of God. as when he hung
upon the cross or came forth from
the tomb. The eternal Light OF Life
had moved in and out among them
and they knew him not. They could
think Of him only as the son OF
| Joseph the carpenter. The Light
shineth in the darkness Of that small
place-and the darkness compre-
hended il not.
They were blind to the obvious
and we need not blame them' for
so we are, and So generally speak
Ing is All the Woilu.
/ The hardest truth to see. and the
hardest truth TO believe is the OBJ
vious truth. II is not hard TO be-
lieve that God rules in heaven,
about which we know little or Moth
ing: but it is difficult TO believe that
God rules on earth. about which we
are supposed to know a great deal
when men discover the obvious
and interpret it into life and action
we think of them as men who have
struck the center OF the target Of
truth with ringing spear: and we lay
at their feet the tribute due to gem
ius
What is your great scientist but
one who can see obvious law at work
/ / in the forces OF nature, and interpret
b that familiar action into law-as
b. Newton discovered the law Of falling
: bodies. a law that governs the apple
in it's short flight TO the earth, or
3 planets swimming in limitless space ?
3 cor such a man as Darwin who
can read the law OF evolution as
A, written in rocks. in plant and ami
e NAL life?
What is a poet but one who can
express in simple and beautiful form
- some truth we recognize as obvious
y when once stated.
For a that. for a that, man is
q a man for a. that-sings the Scottish
poet. and we see at once he has
G stated a truth OF God and a funda-
l. mental principle Of democracy.
{ There is just as much romance
L OF beauty. as much OF moving COM
d edy and tragedy in the life about
r us as ever Shakespeare ever put into
s blank verse, or Dickens and host
20 OF others into fiction. had we but
10 ewes to see and mind to interpret
ID these things.
n what is the sculptor or the art
e list but one who can fashion ir
70 bronze or marble. or picture in pig
+ ments upon the canvas the beauty
Of things with which we are tami'
|, , iar2
"christ dealt with obvious mora
e and religious truth. He lives In I'M
e thought OF every generation becaus'
he based all on the realities OF Ire
,. He brought a divine meaning Int
s. the life Of the family. to youth ane
. friendship. to the work OF a car
T. penter-and this congregation could
n not conceive OF God as being inter
!. ested in things so commonplace ano
% ordinary.
"He almost never argues, but lays
down principles OF life as from God
the Creator Of life. They are based
on love and sacrifice.
y 1T is more blessed to give thar
~ to receive"
"Blessed are the pure in heart fol
they shall see God
. "He that loseth his life shall gair
It and he that gaineth his life shal
lose it,"
,, Except a man be born OF waite
- and the spirit. he shall not enter th'
kingdom OF God"
These and host OF others ar
not subjects OF human logic. but ar
o-en to experience-and Christ chal
"a icnges the world to try his way.
~ "In the words OF Dean Inge. h.
> hes brought to the world new mora
= and spiritual standards which hav
"a demonitized the old. Some thing
~ ~ which the world regarded as i'm
"a portant he regards as trivial an
secondary. Some things which tn
- world regarded as trifiing he assert
,o are essential.
"He asserts without equivocatior
:. that God is divinely interested
!. the last man Of creation-in the wei
- fare OF little children. He is inter
ested in this commencement-inteT
ested in you-glad to see the son
&. and daughters OF earth bette
~ equipped for the battle OF lif'
trained in mind and heart to serv
=. intelligently and effectively, an
a. help bring in the Kingdom.
'In measuring the meaning of thi
occasion the obvious thing is tha
o. your university. your State. you
er country and your God expect tn
OF more from you because OF the train
n ing and education which you hay
received.
ey mot many days ago was ir
vited TO attend a meeting of the co
st cred men Of one OF the cities OF Dela
on ware. Some Of those gathered ther
es made speeches. and one Of thel
lis stated that he had graduated &
ur Hampton Institute. back in 1876
ana that when he graduated he wa
lis told to go out and show whs