The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-02-18

based on the originality of discover CTS. but on the testimony of wit nesses, What we have received into our hands we pass into yours" The resurrection is stressed as carrying with it all the rest, preceding and succeeding.
 The Christian church was not orig inally an academy of philosophy and research in which brilliant men gave us the benefit of their discoveries, as is the case with the disclosures of our scientific masters, but a company of honest men who told us what they had witnessed straightly.
 Cost Them Everything
 Dr. Percy Grant throws discredit on the facts of cur Lords life, and so on these chosen witnesses. I, for one, will take by contrast the tes-
 timony of the missionary apostles backed by what it cost them to hold to it. It cost them everything. In what is pr. Grants competency su- perior to theirs? Theirs IS testimony,
 his is speculation; and thin enough at that.
 What is it hoped to gain by at tempts to speculatively whittle down
 Jesus Christ to fit mere mans habiliments plus nothing? If the comparatively great have not been able to do it what prospect of sue cess have the comparatively little?
 Who has succeeded? Was the Foun- der of this faith and practice born of a virgin? Who will deny that He was pure enough to nave been, his life through. Then why not ac-
 cord what the nature of the case seems to demand. Convict Him of
 sin, and then bring on your ques- tion.
 Why does the crucifixlon of Jesus remain unique amongst the hundreds
 of thousands? Did he rise from the
 dead. The world will never cease to treasure that continuation of its dearest htpes. The very grave pro-
 claims, not disclaims 1t by infer ence. Will men cease to worship Him? Never whilst they continue to love Him.
 T believe l may speak for a wide brotherhood when I say we are not
 much concerned about the meta physics of Christian doctrine and still less with mere physics hammer ing faith as indiscriminately as it
 would hammer rocks. say we are
 not much concerned to examine or exact definitions. What we do know
 is that we need such an one as Jesus Christ and we need Him in these relations to us that He claims to hold.
 What does "redeemer" postulate? Mechanically I cannot tell, but I feel that for me somehow Jesus Christ fills the bill, and l am content to have Him claim me on His own terms --in confidence, gratitude, service. love and worship. He wins my trust Finally:
 The world has always craved a
 Goldman. For long its nearest ap- proach was human gods. devised and
 invented. Pitifully, disastrously hu- man they were, the gods of classic
 mythology Gods that came 0own but never drew up. Men never sue ceeded in devising God that did
 not enslave, oppress and degrade.
 Fear dominated worship. The main content of prayer was "Don't hurt us"
 In the fullness of time came Jesus, living the human life of God, dying the human death of God. Death his servant to whom he said, Do this and laid down His life; then GO,
 and the empty tomb became the theatre of witness to the Resurrec- tfon and the Life.
 Anu SD men uHyltlulus
 tions were fulfilled; the human and divine unified in, an indIssoluble per sonality embodying both in unim- paired integrity.
 The haze of hope and fear and doubt and wistful longing. luminous in the Old Testament. but still luminous haze. so to say soiidifies, and out of it looks a sweet human face. and hands reach out to draw
 me near, and To. reassuring human voice, Tt is I, be not, afraid
 The man Christ Jesus: My Lord and my God"