The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1940-12-24
Two Tacoma Christmas Sermons

saviour u save "a from the ruin
Of sin.
For. aft.r al = sad ard done
% the contrary. II stu remains
true that sin has produced a. the
trouble that this world hss ever
experienced. he shall save Hls
people from every III O. life
make the isl as long and as black
as you cantor He shall save bis
people from their SINS. In Christ
= Bethlehem. and here alone,
every need OF life i fully satisfied
We Are Blinded
But 90 Ne really believe this,
Not much. let Is confess. Of our
modern life would give evidence Of
any such heart conviction. Some
how. even in this day OF sin. we
have been blinded % sin. And
yet no day could have seen more
clearly than do we the en- bodiment
and power OF sin in the heart Of
man.
Each generation has had It's
Alexander. its Cesar. its Ma
poleon, its Hitler. These men have
never been strangers 10 their own
day. There was never anything
peculiar about them. They have
all been the products OF the times
in which they lived.
Hitler il al that is fiendish and
vile. but. even 50. he is the product
OF our world. I know that al
that il worst in the thought and
actions OF modern man mas come
10 a vile head in him. But. even
so, his sins are the Nnx Of the
time in which we live.
Nothing New
We can see ourselves m him.
He has invented no new sin. He
has but gathered all the old ones
together in himself. He has in
vented no new weapons OF warfare.
He has but appropriated all the
means that others could devise TO
kill men, and TO cause relentless
in the lives OF the in
nocent
He is, as some one has writ
ten, the poisoned distillstion OF
our crimes Our own sins have
Just caught up with US. that is
all. In Hitler and what he per-
sonifies. you see what the Lord
Jesus came into the world to save
Us from.
What ! am trying 10 say is
lust this: II sin has made Hitler
ghat he is, IL sin has made mems /
hearts so vile that the present /
horrible devastation could sudden
Y become the worlds chief occu-
patton. then God made no mistake
Shen He looked down upon man
Kind and got right 10 the root Of
hings and sent into the world a
Saviour.
Act Of Faith Needed
There is but one way whereby
We can meet our present evil situa-
ion. Whatever the glories and
,eace that shall be the portion of
he world at the coming of the
ord in glory, this simple fact re-
mains sin is overcome for
'ou and me today. our lives are
leansed from all that is seen
ncarnate in a Hitler, and life for
,thers becomes less miserable, by
! simple act OF faith. whereby we
receive the Lord Jesus as our
own personal Saviour. The poet
caught something Of the wonder
ful truth when he wrote:
u Where meek souls will receive
Him still,
= The dear Christ enters in
And into the life, when He
comes. comes peace and a salts
faction that knows no bounds;
there comes the real Christmas
10Y that lasts. even as there shall
come into the world abiding peace
and happiness. when He shall
come again with power and great
glory.
Refers TO PLAY
Maxwell Anderson has written
in his play. The Wingless Victory,
the tragedy of a Malay princess,
married TO an American sea cap
tain. who takes her 10 his home
in old conservative New England.
She has been a worshipper Of the
tribal gods Of blood and thunder
but had been strangely drawn 10
the meek and lowly Christ. She
endeavors to win the friendship
and affection OF her husbands
people in this new land.
But. here in so-called Christian
America, she is cruelty scorned
and bitterly rebuffed by all whom
she had hoped would love her. In