The Washington herald., 1922-04-24
AVS CHRIST GAVE
WORLD THE VISION
OF ALLOWING GOD
Pastor Pictures Saviour
As Great Popular
Leader.
|CRUCIFIED BY HATE
Resurrection Gives Promise
OF Life Everlast-
ing.
by REV. c. $. ABBOTT.


Ch.reh Of Coed Shepherd CEpisee-
PaD
The events that the, Christian
rorld has been commemorating
Turing the past two weeks are the
ost dramatic and instructive hap
sninEs IN the whole history Of
utilization.
For some days the Prophet of
ialilee has been going about doing
good and healing the s1ok- Even
HIS enemies are unable to accuse
Him of wrongdoing, although He
has dared them to examine His ca
reer and to poiat ont faults IL any
be found
Preached God of Love-
But the great thing that He did
vas TO tell the people about God
And how the Heavenly Father
would act on earth. that God Is 4
Sod Of love and purity and kind
ness and Justice and mercy and He
20 lived all this as to bring to the
apostle Peter's lips the words.
Thou art the Christ. the Son or
he living God"
Soon after this He rode into Je-
usalem as 4 popular leader. Ali
about Hi mthe crowds are shout
nE. -Blesred IS He that cometh in
he name Of the Lord" but not
rithstznding all this. HIS life
Prouses anger and hatred in many
binds. 4 hostile propaganda In be-
un under the guise of religion and
z7tionAlity- The multitude, disap
pointed In their hopes of a new
fngdom with many political jobs.
p cut In = frenzy OF passionate
haEr1n= Cruelty Him"
Fsl1sners Are Cnsked-
His followers are crushed with q
sense Of personal loss and are
SowHi down with the responsib BILL
F1y of \ lost cause but more than
hiS- thcre is also 4 feeling that
E1ey have lost God II the lie
sst Vas manifestly so divine
culh be crushed out by what was
nzn1fest1y evil what was the
n>zninx Of His living at all?
A few days later these same peo-
pc zee Christ and talk with Him;
fs-y GO out to conquer the old civ
1iza1ion and 10 lay the founda-
dreD f1e seeds Of righteousness-
They are superior to fear except
that OF losing their souls. They
look with certainty into the life OF
Ithe world TO come and they SO at
Ftfnd to relationships in this worIc
inat they Danish self-seeking ana
Sz:s from their association and
Brotherhood and attract the atten-
~
claims in wonder. Look how these
hristlans love one another"
Clune to False Ideals
What is the meaning OF this
Heat drama7
civilization wished to save ITSELF
material means and in the mass
kine- than individually. The
raders wished for the results OF
'ean living and virtuous ideals
ishout the mental and moral trou
Ible OF being individually clean or
IviTtuous.
! The crowd desired an impossible
ieaven without mental or morat
Pdort and were quite unwilling To-
see that heaven and hell are both
the results Of human action and of
human hearts and minds in their
Feaction to divine moral truths.
The sin OF that civilization was
not theological heresy but moral
blindness.
Here was life admitted on al.
sides to be free from fault, beau
tiful in Its conception of social re-
lationships and for the rrst time
in history making God real to the
plain man.
The resurrection speaks to US of
far more than mere Immortality.
for IL tells US that the character
| Of God as revealed in the life OF
[Christ is true and eternal and that
Those who seek to live by these
deals will surely find the age-Iong
opportunity of enjoying eternal
fiife, eternal liberty and the eternal
Sursuit and achievement of happi-
fss.