The Lexington advertiser. [volume] (Lexington, Miss.) 1904-1985, 1961-12-28

lie saying mo retaliation at all" the
old Law saying, Glove your neighbour"
He saying Love your enemy" And =
this is important = what He says is
offered, not as legislation, but as pro-
viding guiding principles in accordance
with which, by Gods grace and help,
we are to strive to live.
Taken seriously, this is disturbing
teaching. You know the reactions it
provoked in the leaders of church and
state. They felt that Jesus was danger
Gus, subversive. They bribed one of His
friends to betray Him. They tried Him
on a charge of creating a disturbance
= He stirreth up the people," They
flogged and then crucified Him.
Too Dynamic To Be Safe
About all this, Dorothy Savers de-
serves to be quoted. | know of no n
certainly no clergyman, who has stated
the case so trenchantly.
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thought Him too dynamic to be safe.
1t has been left for later generations
to muffle up that SCATTERING PERSONAL
ty and surround Him with an atmo-
sphere of tedium. We have very eff
GENTLY pared Him meek and mild and
recommended the claws of the Lion of
Judah, certified Him as a fitting house
hold pet for pale curates and pious old
ladies. To those who knew Him, how
ever, He is no way suggested a milk
and-Water person; they objected to Him
as a dangerous firebrand.
"True, He was tender to the un-
fortunate, patient with honest inquirers
and humble before Heaven; but He in
suited respectable clergymen by call
ing them hypocrits; He referred to
King Herod as that fox; He went to
parties in d%isreputable company and was
looked upon as a %'glutonOus man and
a wine bibber, a friend of publicans
ard Sinners He assaulted indignant
tradesmen and threw them and their
belongings out of the temple. He drove
a coach-and-horse through a number
of sacrosanct and hoary regulations =
Officialdom felt that the established
order of things would be more secure
without Him. So they did away with
Him in the name of peace and quiet
ness"
A Disturber OF Conscience
He was a disturber of conscience.
Bachchazeus wasn't long in His COM
pany before he was making restitution
for shady business practices. He looked
ON Peter and Peter went out and wept
bitterly. He fixed eyes on Plate and
the Roman judge who knew in his bones
that there was no fault in his prisoner,
was flustered, figety, unhappy at once.
He averted His eyes from the accusers
who brought to Him the woman taken
in adultry and convicted in their own
conscience, they went out one by one,
beginning at the eldest to the last"
"He has never ceased to be a dis.
turber of conscience.
"Shaftesbury, disturbed by the
ethical Implications of Christianity,
went into Parliament to secure an inn
provement in the working conditions
of young boys and girls. Because of
his troubled conscience there came the
Mines Act in 1912 and the first Factory
Act in 1847.
Hugh Walpole wa once busy work.
ing on a novel when he seemed to see
two eyes starring at him. They riveted
his attention. eco away" he said, I'm
busy" But he could not escape from
those eyes. He had drastically to alter
the plan of his novel.
The Eyes OF Christ Are Upon Us ,
The eyes Of Christ r upon us.
He is the disturber and educator of
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