The Union daily times. [volume] (Union, S.C.) 1918-current, 1922-12-22
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FRIDAY, DECEMBER %, 1922.
Jesus the Perfect Man

tory like that Of Jesus.
AS a preacher, as doer OF things
and as philosopher, no man ever
had the sweep and the vision Of 'csus
A human analysis Of the human
actions Of Jesus brings to view g
rule Of life that is amazing in IL
perfect detail.
The system of ethics Jesus taught
during His earthly sojourn 1900
years ago was true then, has been
true in every century since and will
re true forever
Plato was great thinker and
learned in his age, but his teachings
did not stand the test of time. In big
things and in little things time and
human experience have shown that
he erred.
Marcus Aurelious touched the re-
fiective mind Of the world, but he was
as cold and austere as brown marble.
The doctrine of Confucius gave a
great nation moral and mental dry
rot.
The teaching of Buddha resulted in
mental and moral chaos that makes
India derelict.
Mohammed offered system of eth
ice which was adopted by millions of
people. Now their children live in
deserts where once there were cities,
along dry rivers where once there was
moisture, and in the shadows of gray
barren hills where once there was
Creenness.
Thomas Aquinas was profound
philosopher, but parts of his system
have been abandoned.
Franci Of Assist was Christlike in
hi, saintliness, but in some things he
was childish.
Thomas A. Kempis' Imitation Of
Christ is thing of rare beauty and
sympathy, but it is, as its name in
dicates, only an imitation.
Sir Thomas More's Utopia is yet
a dream that can not be realized.
Lord Bacon, writing on chemistry
and sfnedicine under the glasses Of
the man working in a twentieth cen
tnry laboratory, Is pusrile.
The worlds most learned doctors
until . hundred and fifty years age
gave dragons blood and the ground
dried tails of lizards and shells OF
eggs for certain ailments. The great
surgeons hundred years ago blec
,noy, if ho xuoro yyn,,ndoI
Napoleon had the world at his feet
for four years, and when he died the
world was going on it's way az if he
had never lived.
Jesus taught little as to property
because He krew there were thing.
OF more Importance than property
Ht measured property and life, th'
body and soul, at their exact relative
Value. He taught much as to char
acter, because character is of NOR
irnportance than dollars.
Other men taught US to develol
systems Of government. Jesus laugh
50 as to perfect the mind of men
Jesus looked to the soul, while othe
men dwelled on material things.
After the experience Of 1000 year.
no man can find flaw in the govern
mental system as outlined by Jesus.
Car and kaiser, president and 80
cialist, give to its complete merit theil
admiration.
No man today, no matter whethe
h.. fnllnxuc th, Ioct nf M;l1o Mo-,
OK George as to property, can find ,
false principle in Jesus theory O.
property.
In the duty of man TO his fellow!
no socioiogist mas ever approximate
the perfection of the doctrine lait
down by Jesus in His Sermon on thu
Mount.
Not all the investigation of chem
lists, not all the discoveries Of explor
ers, not all the experiences of rulers
rot all the historical facts that GO tt
make the sum of human knowledge or
this day in 1912 are in contradiction
TO one word uttered or one principl,
laid down by Jesus.
The human experiences of 2,00(
years show that Jesus never made 6
mistake. Jesus never uttered doc
trire that was true at the time ant
then became obsolete.
Jesus spoke the truth; He lived the
truth; and truth is eternal.
History has no record of any 9th.
er man leading a perfect life or doing
everything in logical order. Jesus
is the only person whose every action
and whose every utterance strike q
true note in the heart and mind OF
every man born of woman. He never
said . foolish thing, never did fool.
ish act and never dissembled.
No poet, no dreamer, no philosopher
loved humanity with the love that
Jesus bore toward all men.
Who, then, was Jesus?
He could not have been merely a
man, for there never was Q man who
bad two consecutive thoughts absolute
w. truthful perfection.
Jesus must have been what Christ