The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1922-12-24
JESUS THE PERFECT MAN.
oBy e.. Z. j.. Mooney, Editor Memphis
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There is no other character in history like that OF
Jesus,
As a preacher, as a doer of things, and as a
philosopher, no man ever had the sweep and the
vision OF Jesus.
\ human analysis of the human actions OF Jesus
brings to view a rule of life that is amazing in its
perfect detail.
The system of ethics Jesus taught during His
earthly sojourn 1000 years ago was true then, has
been true in every century since and will be true
forever.
Plato was a 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 expe-
rience have shown that he erred.
Marcus Aurelius touched the reflective mind OF
the world, but he was as cold and austere as brown
marble.
The doctrine OF Coniucius gave a great nation
moral and mental dry rot.
The teachings Of Buddha resulted in mental and
moral chaos that makes India derelict.
Mohammed offered a system Of ethics 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 III
the shadows OF gray, barren hills where once there
was greenness.
Thomas Aquinas was a profound philosopher, but
parts OF his system have been abandoned,
Francis OF Assist was Christlike in his saintineSS'
but in some things he was childih.
Thomas A. Kempis' Imitation OF Christ is a thing
OF rare beauty and sympathy, but 1t is, as It's name
indicates, only an imitation.
Sir Thomas More's Utopia is yet a dream that
cannot be realized.
Lord Bacon writing on chemistry and medicine
under the glasses of the man working in a twentieth
| century laboratory is puerile.
The worlds most learned doctors until a hundred
and fifty years ago gave dragons blood and inc
ground dried tails of lizards and shells of eggs Tor
certain ailments. The great surgeons a hundred
wears ago bled a man il he were wounded.
Napoleon had the world at his feet for four years
and when he died the world was going on its way as
ii he had never lived.
Jesus taught little as to property because lie
knew there were things OF more importance than
property. He measured property and life, the BODY
and soul, to their exact relative value. lie taught
much as to character, because character Is OF moc
importance than dollars.
Other men taught us to develop systems OF gov
eminent. Jesus taught so as to perfect the minds oil
men. Iesus looked 10 the soul, while other men
dwelled on material things.
After the experience of 1000 years no man can
find a flaw in the governmental system as outlined
by Jesus.
Gar and kaiser, president and socialist give 10 "'
complete merit their admiration.
No man TODAY. no matter whether he follows th'
doctrine of Mills. Marx or George as 10 property
can find a false principle in Jesus theory OF property
In the duty of a man to his fellows no sociologis'
has ever Appropriated the perfection OF the DOCTRINE
laid down by Jesus in His Sermon on the Mount.
Not all the investigation OF chemists, not all TIT
discoveries of explorers, not all the experiences o
rulers. not all the historical facts that go TO make VI
the sum OF human knowledge OH this day III iSZE ar
in contradiction TO one word uttered or one prncip'
laid down by Jesus.
The human experiences OF 1000 years show tina
Jesus never made a mistake. Jesus never uttered
doctrine that was true at the time and then peeam'
obsolete.
Iesus spoke the truth; He lived the truth; AM
truth is eternal. r
History has no record OF any other man LEADING
4 perfec, life or doing everything in logical orde'
Iesus is the only person whose every acuoh "'
whose every utterance strike a true note IN inc near
and mind of every man born OF a woman. lie neVe
said a foolish thing, never did a foolish act ana heVe
dissembled.
No poet, no dreamer, no philosopher loved hu
mainly with the love that Jesus bore toward All me'
Who, then, was Jesus:
He could not have been merely 4 man Tor thet
never was a man who had TWO consecutive thought
absolute in truthful perfection.
Iesus must have been what Christmas pro'la"'
Him 10 be-a divine being-or He could not nav
been what He was. No mind but an INFINITE MN
could have ,ei, behind those things which Jesus CAV
TO the world as a heritage.