AN INTERESTING SERMON.
By Rey. Isreal Putnam.
Text: St. John 1, 4: "In Him was
life, and tbe life was the light of
men."
Light is tbe first born of creation,
tbe crown and glory of tbe visible
world; and so far as is known, tbe
most beautiful and glorious of all tbe
material things in tbe universe of God :
And what tbis light is to tbe material
world, Jesus Christ, tbe light of men,
is to tbe social, industrial, political
and religions world.
When we wonld describe an awfal
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.there is no light there. When we
wonld desoribe an awful soone of re
ligions desolation and death we say
there is no Christ there.
Tbe life of Jesus Christ is, and mnst
over remain, tbe loftiest and most
frnitf nl study of men. It is admitted,
by other religions, that He was a
great Teaoher, and nest of all, a living
and active example of what He taught.
Tbe Moslems give Him tbe high title
of Messiah and Joseph ns thought it
not lawful to call Him a man, while
tbe Rat bis confess admiration of His
character and words: JNor is there
any hesitation among the great intel
lects of different Bges whatever their
special relations to Christianity;
whether its humble disoiples, or open
opponent, or the carelessly indifferent,
or vaguely latitndinarian.
Lowly reverence is paid to Him in
passage after passage by Shakespeare,
Bacon, Gallileo, Kepler, Milton, New
ton and may others of the same type
ot meu, sot tbe name of Jesus Christ
above every other. Jean Paul Bichter
said: "Tbe life of Jesus Christ oou
oerns me because He was tbe holiest
among tbe mighty and tbe mightiest
among the holy: And that with bis
pieroed hands He had lifted Empires
off their binges and turned tbe stream
of centuries out of its ohannel, and
still rules the world." Spinoza tbe
brilliant metaphysician of tbe Israel
ites, called Him "The symbol of Di
vine wisdom." Jacob! and Kant hold
Him np as tbe ideal of perfection.
And Sohilling and Hegol as that of tbe
union of tbe Divine and tbe human.
Goethe said: "I esteem tbe Gospels
genniue for there shines from tbem tbe
refleoted splendor of a sutlimity pro
ceeding from the Person of Jesus
Christ of so Divine a Kind as only tbe
Divine could ever have manifested on
earth." Rousseau said: "How petty
are the books of tbe philosophers with
all their pomp whon compared with
the Giwpels.
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Writings so lofty, so deep, and at
once, so simple and sntlime cannot be
tbe work ot beings so weak and nnboly
as tbe best of men are. Can He whose
life they tell be Himself no more than
they wbo tell it? Is there anything
in bis cbaraoter that tells of ambition
as set forth in the lives of men?
What firm sweetness in bis disposition?
What purpose and purity in bis ways!
What touobing authority and graoe In
bis teachings I What loftiness and
loveliness in bis maxims! What pro
found wisdom and knowledge in bis
words 1 How appropriate and noble
bis rebnkesl What presence of mind,
what delioaoy and aptness ib all bis
replies 1 What au empire over his
passions! His bitterest enemies never
cast a stone at bis character, for He
was holy. Wbere is tbe man wbo
knows how to live and suffer and die
for those wbo hate him without weak
ness or desplay?
Tbe Jews oould never bave struck
so high a tone of morality and the
Gospel has characteristics of truthful
ness and Spirituality, so grand, so
strikiog and so completely inimitable,
that tbeir inventors wonld be even
more wonderful than He whom they
attempted to portray. If the life and
death of Socrates, or any other, be that
of a sage, tho life and death of Jesus
Christ is that of God manifest in tbe
flesh.
Thomas Carlyle said: "Jesus of
Nazareth our divinest symbol ! Higher
has tbe human thought not yet as
cended." Matbiaa Claudius wrote to
a friend concerning Jesus: "It is a
holy form which rises before tbe poor
pilgrim like a star in the night, and
satisfies bis innermost cravings, bis
most secret yearnings and hopes."
Nepoleon strode tbe earth like a Co
lossus a gigantio intellect. At St.
Helena be said, one day: Alexan
der, Ceasar, Charlemagne anl myself
bave founded Empires, but by what?
By force, but Jesus Christ founded bis
ty love and today millions would die
for Him. Men wonder at tbe con
quests of Alexander, bnt there is a
Conqueror Who draws men to Himself
for tbeir highest good, Who unites to
Himself, incorporates into Himself,
not a nation, but the, whole human
race." DeWette wrote in bis com
mentary: "Tbis only do I know that
there is salvation in no other name but
tbe name of Jesns Christ."
Thus we see that from bis oritios
and enemies come words of high re
spect and revereuoe: But what is it
when we tnru to those wbo believed in
Him? What, religion ever saw a vast
army of martyrs willingly dying for
personal love for the founder of their
faith? Yet tbis has always been true
Has Difficulties with
of Christianity. It is said when Peter j
was led to cruoiflxion be continued
for considerable time to exolaim;
"None but Cbrist! None but Christ:"
Also that tbe aged and saintly Poly
carp about to be burned to death in
tbe amphitheater at Smyrna, ans
wered tbe Governor, wbo sought to
make him revile Cbrist; "Eighty and
six vears bave I served Him and He
never did me wrong, and how .can I
now blaspheme mr King Wbo has
saved me?" Thousands of suoh illus
trations could easily be produced.
Why tbe religion of Cbrist attracted
snob permanent admiration is not very
bard to be understood. Principally
religions teaobing of that day was set
forth in tbe doings of John tbe Baptist.
He was confined largely to the asoetio
solitudes of tbe desert. Cbrist brought
religion into the homes and everyday
life of the people. For tbe mortifica
tions of tbe hermit He substituted tbe
labors of aotive benevolence. For tbe
fears and gloom whiob shrank from
men He brought tbe light and example
of piety which made eaob aot of every
day life religions. He found tbe do
main of religion fenced off as some
thing distinct from common duties:
And He threw down the wall of sepa
ration and threw open tbe whole world
to the true light from Heaven. He
lived a man among men, sharing their
joys and sorrows, dignifying the bum
blest details of life to be need to give
glory to tbe Father.
Henceforth tbe grand revolution was
inaugurated which taught that true
religion does not lie in selfish, or
morbid devotion to personal interests,
whether in tbe temple, or in tbe des
ert; but in loving deeds of self-sacrifice
for tbe good of others. The absolute
unselfishness of Christ's oharaoter, is,
indeed, ita most lofty and inspiring
oharm. His own life was self-denial
throughout, and He makes the same
dootrine the test of all truly Godly
lives. It was He Who said these very
uncommon and most remarkable
words; "It is more blessed to give
than to receive." It was He Who
tangbt us that life, like the corn, pro
duced fruit only by its own death Who
gave us tbe ideal of life in bis own ab
solute self-oblivion.
We feel instinctively that tbis Gos
pel of love alone is Divine, and that
we cannot withhold onr homage from
tbe only perfectly unselfish life ever
lived on earth. He demands repen
tauoe from all, but hints at no need of
it for Himself. In his matchless low
liness He set forth personal claims
wbioh io a mere man would be the
very delirium of religious pride. He
was divinely patient nnder every form
of suffering He met. He was a home
less wanderer without a pillow:, Yet
all things were his. He was hungry
and thirsty, worn and weary. He en
dared craft and violence, pride and
poverty, the taunts and jeers of ene
mies, and betrayal of friends, and at
last died au ignominious death.
Conolded next week.
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(Publisher.)
Department of tbe Interior,
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June 22, 1908.
Notice is hereby given that Catha
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Tp 2 N, R 36 E., W M ., has filed no
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DeWitt'a Witch Hazel Salve. It ia
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I bought a fifty cent bottle of KODOL DYS
PEPSIA CURS and the benefit I receired
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May you lire long and prosper.
Your very truly,
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is worth more to ones health than any other medicine kno-
Do not fill your stomach with arsenic, calomel, quinine v . t
debilitate the system, leaving symptoms that it takes years
obliterate. Herblne is purely vegetable containing lioihii
injurious, and is a gentle harmless purgative.
fTTPP CONSTIPATION, CHILLS AND
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the best medicine for the liver I ever used. It acts gent
ly at the same time thoroughly."
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