The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1924-10-10


Gospel OF Jesus Christ because it ha
the power to exalt the nations of men
My third reason that | desire to Civ,
why | am not ashamed of the Gospe
OF Jesus Christ is that the best thinker.
OF the world have held to its validity
! am aware OF the fact that peopl,
sometimes think that the contrary i:
true. that educated folk lose their
interest in religion but this is con-
frary TO the truth. Even Huxley who
was pronounced an atheist in his day
paid this tribute to the Bible: Il
have been strongly in favor of educa-
ton without theology but must con
fess ! have been no less seriously per-
picked to know by what practical
measures the religious feelings which
IS the essential bases OF moral con-
duct IS to be kept up m the present
utterly chaotic state of opinion on
these matters without the use of the
Bible 1t was Thomas Jefferson who
said, Il have said and always will
say that the studious perusa of the
sacred volume will make better citi-
gems, better fathers and better hus-
bands. Thomas Carlyle. the rugged
old English essayest and philosopher
said, Jesus is our divinest symbol
whose significance will ever demand
to be anew inquired into and anew
made manifest"
Then again | am not ashamed OF
the Gospel OF Jesus Christ for a fourth
reason The Gospel of Jesus Christ
hts the needs OF the individual life.
oh how the gospel fits our needs
along the highway of life, II must
can bear my burdens, endure my
sorrows, though the dearest friends of !
earth forsake me. But | must have
God who will sympathizc. God |
who will understand. Matthew Arm
old said: TO the Bible men will re-
turn. because we cannot do without
H. The true God is, and must be.
the God of the Bible"
This Gospel of my Christ meets the
burden bearer upon the dusty paths
Of life. toiling its hill under its search
ng sun. The Gospel OF my Christ
tits the burdens from tired, weary
1t meets the discouraged
md dispairing and sends them on
heir way with buoyant step and sing
ng heart 1t even meets the solemn
unerai procession upon its sorrowing .
way to the city of those who sleep. :
I wipes away the tear of sorrow and
avs. II am the resurrection and the
lie, he that believe in me, though
'ere dead, yet shall he live" Let
ne nail pierced hand of my Christ
c laid upon the broken heart and the
'orth OF the Gospel of Christ will be
ssured. The Gospel of Christ fits
ne needs OF man, as the key fits the
'ck as the glove fits the hand, as
ne half the hinge fits the other half.
ience | am not ashamed of the Cos
ell OF Christ
Last but not least | am not ashamed
the Gospel OF Christ for the rea-
On given in the words of my text r
MS morning: Because it is the :
over OF God unto Salvation | am
ware. friends. that it is considered
'ther old fashioned to say anything
owadays about sin, about The atom
ent. about mans need. of salvation.
I'd vet want to insist that there is
other power by which man may
saved, save through the atonine
'wer of the Christ.
Now and again men have sought to
I'd salvation in systems of philoso-l
~ But systems of philosophy
we all been plans for self rereu-
alton. They do not take into ac-
un' the fact that man can not
himself by his own boot straps. r
DIV and again men have proposed :
save the world by science and in
nhon, hit men out of proverty and |,
peless dispair, clothe and feed them
improving the arts OF production.
hten the hours OF toll by science
d invention, that men may have
sure for the higher things OF life
d you viii save the world. But
we ind 1t to be true, friends?
'es II not as frequently happen that
urs OF leisure are less productive
good than hours OF toll? Science
place OF saving the world came very
arly entirely wrecking it in the
zines OF destruction, of the great
orld War Egypt had a science
usands OF years before the revival
Ia. a