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The Character of Christ of is superlatively blessed has always
Supernatural Origin.
been the opposite of what is taught
Personal
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—Bro. J. H. Garrison, editor of
in them. The dpctrine was new the Christian, has* returned to his
What think you of the Christ ? and strange not only to tlx* heathen home in St. Louis, after an absence
is an interrogation the most funda world, but-also to tlie most cultiva­ of eighteen months in England,
mental and al I-engrossing that has ted students of the Jewish law. with improved health*.
ever been propounded to men.. For The truth of all these maxims has
—rBro, Rowe, editor of the lle-
more than eighteen centuries, it lfas been carefully. realized by .alL -tliat vieu>, expects ’To be present at the
Conviction of Sin.
been the most vital question among have accepted and practiced them dedication of the Christian chapel1
Many’ good men are boldly as­
\^ all classes. Even unlielievers can They make up a perfect character. at Blaine, "Lawrence county, Ky.,
T1
le
life
of
Jesus
corresponded
to
uiot let it alone, for they feel that
on Sept. 17th, though tiui Review serting their belief that conviction
His
teaching;
for
He
perfectly
their eternal well-being might de­
used to jjmtke it ‘somewhat warm of gin-is “the great need of our
practical
what
he
taught.
Not-a
pend upon a proper answer to it..
. for those who so far conformed to times.” Thiji is encouraging beyond
man;
among
the
keen-eye«I
critics
We do not understand by Super­
Papal notions as to dedicate their expression. The very best of us
or
the
vilest
opposers
of
Christian
­
need it. No man can become .so
natural, something contrary to all
churches.
ity
has
been
able
to
produce
a
^Jn-.
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means; but that which is sujier .
—Bro. Delanney.of Paris, France, pious as to be able to neglect or
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gle
instance,
where
Jesus
violated
human, and aliove the common
is seeing the fruit of his labors by­ dispense with it. Even Paul, the
in
practice
what
He
had
taught
laws of Natute. We believe that
several persons, confessing and prince of preachers, felt that lie was
the Supernatural comes within the 1 In this JvsUs st;u“ls aloim; for Hc obeviiig the Clrrist. The wealth of the chief of sinners. Ami it must
domain of law, but it is a higher is tlie only’ teacher who has had a the Tin lies would scarcely suflice not be. forgotten that he was now
law than any with which we are perfect practice, afd the only one for thurmeans to carry on the work ripe with Christian experience. He
now acquainted. All Nature at ( who has perfectly practiced what of preaching the Gospebof the.Son was not now > a y'oung convert in
first originated in the miraculous, he taught. How account for this of God.— Messenger. •
* the first struggle, but an age«! and
without
admitting
the
divine
au
experienced Christian scholar;
ami it is impossible for the world to ,
thority
of
Jesus
Christ
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The Christ of Fiction.
hence the paramount significance of
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get rid of the idea of miracle. In
The
teaching
■
and
the
life
of
all this, however, we Isdieve there
his conviction.
The ylistinction
.7Nothing is gained by conceal­
Christ
have
stood
the
test
of
time
here suggested between the earlier
was profound method. The mission ,
ment of thq, actual issue. Two
What
has
become
of
the
philoso
­
of the Christ into this world was
and later experiences is most Vital,
rival Christs are set before us.
phers
who
were
contemporary
with
not without means ; but it was the
and an intelligent view of it would
t he one is he whom Christendom
Jesus
?
With
the
exception
of
a
7 grandest methodical arrangement of |
give us a rational conception of the
has woi>nip'’<l from its origin ; the
which man can form a conception. very few theyTiave gone into for
whole-question.—J. L.Cole, D. D.
other is-the joint creation of Ger­
"■etfulness.
to
be
heard
of
no
more
'J he Jews did not originate the
man rationalism and
poetic
The Review savs
character of Christ, for it was the 1 until the unfolding of the records of
* a remarkable
temperament__ Whose, is the fic­ case is now being ♦ tried—before tlfa „
th«*
last
judgment.
What-lias
bc-
- ■ ■ ’' opposite of all their preconceive«!
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tion ' Before modern criticism can courts of Australia. A Roman ,
ideas of the Messiah. It arose far come of the great statbsmim of
With tlie ex- place tlie Christ it has evolved from Catholic merchant left in his will a ✓
above any' conception of which the Greece and Home
its own imagination u|pn the be<|Uest of $7,000 to l«e usy*d to de­
Jewish mind was capable. Itcould ception of a few, they' too have
throne where the Christ of^the Gos­ liver his soul from purgatory. The
not have taken its origin among passed from the records of time, and
pel sits, it-must deprive the primi­ executor, who is hot only a skeptic
the gentiles, for it was entirely too have gone into the shades of forget­
tive Church not only’ of a pun but a humorist, demands legal proof
Jewish for them. That it did not fulness. What has become of the
conscience and a reasonable faith from the local priests that the con­
originate with the disciples of 1 . Jewish doctors, who lived in the
but of eVery vestige of intellect ditions of the will have been com­
Christ is shown in the. fact that day.*! of Jesus ' Their names have
and honesty. ' Whence, then, cam« plie«! with before he will pay over
even after his resurrection from also perished, and they have le!t
the undying force which is gradual- the money. The burden of an un­
among the «lead, it required but few foot-prints on the sands of
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ly winning the world to righteous expected problem is thus thrown
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miraculous power to make them time. The name of Jesus acquires
ness
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more
influence
day
’
by
.
day
:
How
on the church, as it is called on to
fully’ comprehend the completeness j
’
understand
this
without
accepting
prove to the satisfaction of a court
of his character. We must, there­
A Life of Obedience.
the
divinity
of
His
mission.'
of law, that purgatory ha.*} an
fore, conclude that the character of
The
hardest
sort
of
a
Christian
The admissions of those not fa­
actual existence, that pray’et has
Christ was of Supernatural origin,
to
transform
into,
a
skeptic
isj
not
vorable
to
Jesus
in
His
day
are
jiower to release souls from it, ‘and
ami that it required the Great
A Artist to pivsent to the world such sufficient to show that His teaching' the man who knows the most, but also that this particular soul has
an original and suclTa perfect pic- was of superhuman origin. HL the man who obeys the most. In- beefi released. The puzzle is a
question to the Jews about the bap­ fidelitv has no chance ^with the curious one, rind -—the ’ifitftfested
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The teaching of Jesus proves His tism of John .silenced them, and humblest «lisciple who follows clergymen are much perplexed by’,
«Jivine origin. It can not be said of showed that they < lespi.se« I the close after Christ in acts of loving the quandary’ in which they’ are
Him that He simply’ taught good truth. They admitted that He service. But a German professor placed.
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things ; for every' thing He taught I cast out demons, ^and tried to ex of theology, whose brain is a cyclo­
“ I'«x>ls make a mock of sin.”
was absolutely perfect. At the plain it away. Judas the traitor, pedia, living among the dust of li­ This is the lowest degradation, to
conclusion of His «grand sermon oh understood all the private counsels braries, turning Christianity into a laugh at that which tiegrades, this
the mountain, the people were as­ of Jesus, and he went to the chief problem, drying up the source of the most wretched death to mock
tonished at His teaching; for He priests to confess that he had be- ^spiritual feelings, may l>e swayed at that which causes death, mock-
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taught with authority, and not as trayed the innocent, 'flic wife of hither ami thither by every’ breeze ing even in the «lying agonies.
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their scribes. The first seven beau­ Pilate and even the governor him­ of unbelief. 1 have known Chris­
After the first «lay’ of December
ties of that sermon should convince self, pronounced Jesus innocent. tian ministers of the Gospel to be­
every honest mind of the divine After the resurection of Christ, the come semi-skeptics and loose a next, for every’ profane oath a man
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mission of Jesus. They’ refer to guard came into the city to report stong hold on many truths by put­ utters in the Stat«‘jof New York he
traits of character ami to states of the fact, and was hired by the Jew­ ting knowledge above obedience. may’ be fined one dollar and sent to
mind; and are paradoxical; for the ish priests to tell an absolutely' un­ By shutting themselves away from jail for ten days; That is the law
world's conception of the man who 1 reasonable falsehood-—J/drwosm. men and active efforts tirxave souk, <>f the Empir«' State.—/«,’.«•.
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by confining their interests to one
part of their nature, by letting the
missionary in their heart give way,
and deferring to the philosopher in
the head, they have dwarfed and
sometimes crucified their faith.—-
Journal and Messenger.-
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