Year: 1875

ypar rnev sppeaIeu 10 an Unknown God 10 tnem
from their embarrassments ana they were saved
Then il was ia gratitude for their security they built
altar 70 the God who was unknown, and who had
proved Himself TO be superior 70 Jupiter and Mars
And il seems 10 me that when Paul made that state
ment the old dynasty Of mythology crumbed into
dust They had lost their confidence their gods and
had come 70 believe there was some other deity upon
whom they 20 rely. Then st. Paul delivered that
speech-it was kind OF inquest held the dead
body q the past The people we're hopeless, mother
buried her children and never looked up except with
tears Of despair There was


HEAVENS;


sense Of eternal justice earth everything WAS
AZ loggerheads Religion a guest and went
again. People hoped and dreamed, but their hopes
fell 10 the ground ST Paul came TO them with
story II was short, simple, plain, inclsive That
which he said was fresh, and the doctrine he taught
was exceedingly full Of hope and IL incisive
rich or poor. More than that it direct; II did
not deal in glittering generaitcs; il did not argue
II was the simple statement Of man Of God who
uttered the truth. want TO assert concerning the
doctrine Of Christianity, that IL is entirely original with
Christ that He Is


THE AUTHOR AND PIN1sHEn


OF our faith. The words OF the Bible have been
uttered before. Many Of the thoughts OF the New
Testament have been thought by men before
they by Christ Is this saying they are not
original with Christi What Is orignalityY Let US
look at the definition ana wo shall 90 down
knees with trembling hearts before the Cross OF Calvary
Christ the FIRST and last Of our faith he Is responsi-
bio for il personally. Sometimes when you are % sea
you ind floating the tide chip. II is SIMPLY an
Isolated piece OF wood and has no definite connection
with any other piece Of wood you ever saw So it Is





most beautiful saying But they have been simple
statements OF philosophy, not component parts Of
great PLAN the end Of which IS the salvation Of race
When Christ He took these thoughts and so coated
them and 1ed with His own personality that they from
the moment He uttered them, became an operative
energy in the history Of the world. Talk about orgi-
natyl There Is woman in this house
but has had dream like Milton one but has
time caught glimpse OF eternal life But when man
and puts all these vague dreams into shape,
that the author of your faith notY Arc these
things original or noty Most assuredly they are,
fttgrn RtrtfV hon,
others speak the words melt away like snow
1akos but when Christ speaks thrill passes through
the world Now, having settled that question lei me
say that the religion which Paul preached was different
from any other religion for two great reasons FIRST,
its moral demands the Gospel OF Jesus Christ requires
that man shall hold himself unspOted from the world


GOODNESS IS NOT A yARasH,


1t is a state of heart Purity is not pretence it is
genuine condition Love, justice, TRUTH these are TO
being and matters that come out
eioquently from your lips Christ demands
mans heart is engaged, then the whole man is en-
listed


one great popularity of the oden time is its great
hesitancy TO believe N immortality In Athens whole
class philosophers secuted the idea Paul. instead Of
arguing the matter stated the fact - have come to tell
you Of this unknown God" God sent HIS ony-begoten
Son on earth That Son. named Jesus Christ, died,
every dies buried and the third day after was
raised up to life again by the power Of the Almighty
Startling assertion 1t Is thing 10 talk In general
terms Of the future but to look man square IN the
face and say,





| know that he dead; ! know that he was raised
again. ~ Oh the earnestness Of a man who can talk
that way This book contains great many things
beautiful and divine There is moral therein; there
beauty and purity in that book which we cannot
fail perceive and yet that all nothing by the side
OF The stupendous revelaonwe are TO live again.
Jesus Christ gives His word Tor IL aud He
hath told US plainly enough that they who die
die not; that they who laid away
in the grave lifted up to another life. Oh, friends
do We understand this do appreciate thsf To live
for time and catch glimpse Of heaven, and then to
Glp nnd mas
God for life If this life all II We but savsh
creatures Of a day God pity US But If begin in
time as children and end never, but approach
nearer the divine light though quite reach it.
then manhood becomes dignhed, and what this lit
tie day give the everlasting day Will supply-
The scholars of the past where heyS But the lit
tie speech Paul uttered Is written In


LETTERS or GOLD


after eighteen centuries have gone by. The Chris
tianity OF Bethlehem OF Calvary, or the Sermon the
Mount but to-day aint streak of the rising and
future generation will walk IN its uli light Let
us worship the Let BE- thankful Tor the dawn.
Let be thankful FOR all but most 81 ALL for God hav
ing raised Christ from the dead and given promise
OF rich immOrtality