The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1948-12-23

AS a preacher, as a doer OF things, and as a philosopher,
no man had the sweep and the vision Of Jesus.
A human analysis Of the human actions of Jesus brings
10 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
country since, and will be true forever.
Plato was a great thinker and learned in his age, but
his teachings did not stand in his time. In big things and IN
little things time and human experience have shown that he
Marcus Aurelius touched the reflective 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. #4a $3.50
The teachings of Buddha resulted in mental and moral
chaos that makes India dereict.
Mohammed offered a system of ethics which was adopt
ed by millions of people. Now their children live in the deserts
where once there were cities, along dry rivers where once
there was moisture, and in the shadows of gray greenness.
Thomas Aquinas was a profound philosopher, but parts
OF his system has been abandoned.
Frances of Assist was Christ-ike in his saintines, but
in some things he was childish.
Thomas Kempis' limitation of Christ is a thing of rare
beauty and sympathy, but it is, as its name indicates, only
an imitation i
Sir Thomas Moore'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 lapora-
The worlds most learned doctors until $50 years ago
gave dragons blood, and the ground dried tails OF lizards
and shells of eggs for certain ailments. The great surgeon
Of 100 years ago bed a man if 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 ne hao
never lived.
Jesus taught little as to property because he knew there
property and life, the body and soul, at their exact relative
value. He taught so as to perfect the minds Of men. Jesus
looked 10 the soul, WUltc OtIel nSn wei oi p"SAA
things e.a
After the experience of 1000 years ago no man can find
a flaw in the governmental system as outlined by Jesus.
Car and Kaiser, President and Socialist give to It's CON-
plete merit their admiration.
No man today. no matter whether he follows the doc
trine OF ILLS, Marx or George as to property, can lind a
q false principle in Jesus theory of property.
I'm the duty of a man to his fellow no soclaloglsL a
ever ap~qroximated the perfection of the doctrine lad uo"n
by Jesus in His Summon on the Mount.
Not all the investigation of chemists, not all the oS liz,
coyeries OF explorers, not all the experience OF rulers, not al
the historical facts that go to make up the sum OF human
knowledge on this day in 1912 are in contradiction to one
word uttered or one principle laid down by Jesus.
The human experience of 1000 years ago show ina.
Jesps never made a mistake. He never uttered a doctrine that
Nv true at that time and then became obsolete.
Jesus spoke the truth; He lived the trath, and truth Is
eternal. ,r
feet life or doing everything in logical order. Jesus is tHe
only person whose every action and whose every utterance
strike a true note in the heart and mind OF every man porh
of woman. He never said a foolish thing, never did a loonsn
act and never dissembled. -,
No ppat. no dreamer, no philosoher loved humanity WIFI
the love that Jesus bore toward all men. Who, then, was
Jesus
- epa,d not have been merely a man, for there never
was ! man who had two consecutive thoughts absolute II
truthful perfection. IT.,
Jesus must have been what Christendom proclaims HIN
70 he-a Divine King-or He could not have been what III
was. No mind but an Infinite Mind could have been left benlnt
those things which Jesus gave to the world as a heritage.