The Athena press., July 10, 1908, Image 6

AN INTERESTING SERMON.
By Rev. Isreal Putnam.
(Concluded.)
Nothing of all this, for a moment,
tarued Him from bis path of love and
duty, His last words almost, like bis
whole life, were a prayer for those who
returned Him evil for good. He was
absolutely superior to everything nar
row, local, so that He Himself, a Jew
according to the flesh, founded a re
ligiou in which all mankind are a
common brotherhood: And his digni
ty, calmness and self-possession before
i ulersets Him above them all. His
freedom from superstition in an age
which was superstitious almost beyond
example; His superiority to the merely
ritual and external in an age when
rites and externals were the sum of
religion; His profound teaching of the
Holy Spirit at a time when very little
if really anything at all was said
about Him; all these, not to mention
the many others, explain largely the
mysterious attraction of bis obaraotor
and wonderful career.
When we turn from bis cbaructer to
big teachings the claim of bis Life on
our reverent, careful and earnest study
is further greatly strengthened.
"Never man spake like this man." To
Him we owe the spreading of whatever
was good in anoient Judaism; from a
mere creed to a religion for the world.
Tbe Old Testament gives a sublime
discription of God as Creator, tbe All
Wise and Almighty Ruler of all things;
the Being of Infinite mystery Who
will not clear the guilty, tut yet is
meroiful and gracious.
But Jesus Christ brought the char
acter of God to us as a God of love.
Tbe Old Testament calls Him tbe God
of Abraham, Isaao and Jacob, but
Jesus Christ proclaimed Him the God
of the nations, the common Father of
h11 mankind. The principles of
Christianity are as sublime as this
oxalted conception of God and spring,
at once, irom it. 9 'be highest ideal
of man must ever be all-embraoiug
love. Outward service alone is as
soundng brass: Tbe pure heart only,
loves aright. A religion resting on
such oases surely bears the seal of
Heaven. Love lying at the bottom
tbere,6au Le no limit to duty, nor can
our service be bounded only by our
possibilities of performance for with
that undying prinoiple shed abroad in
our hearts the desire to transfer its
blessedness to others will never cease
so long as we continue to beed its
heavenly leadiug. Tbe perfect holi
ness of God can alone be tbe standard
of our nspiratious; for love moans
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obedience and God cannot look upon
sin with allowance. To be a perfect
Christian is to be sinless through the
obedienoe of love made perfect.
Let na not forget that we must un
derstand in our obligations to Christ
tbat outside of tbe Jewish world anti
quity knew really nothing of what
we call sin. There was uo word in the
Greek tbat stood for what we mean
by it. There was either uo guilt in an
action, or tbe gods were to blame, or
the action could not be resisted.
There was no aim in prayer, or sacri
fice, or festivals save to remove
physical defilement. Tbat tbe moral
nature, tbe will, or tbe soul oonld be
made any better ly worship appears
never to have dawned upon the mind
of tbe Ancient Greek. Nor was tbe
Roman but little, if any at all, better
iuformed of sin than tbe Greek. Seneca
had only a blind pride tbat mixed God
and nature together and regarded man,
as even superior to God Himself, for,
said be, tbe Divine nature reaches per
fection only in man. Compare with
this degrading notion of God with tbat
ot being high and lifted up. of awful
holiness and infinite love and the doc
trine of human responsibility, as
taught by Christ, and tbe study of bis
life becomes tbe loftiest and grandest
of hamaa duties.
A life beyond the grave was little
believed in anywhere in the Pagan
world. Christ brought life and im
mortality to light.
Such doctrines as these illustrated
by such a holy life and crowned by
such a voluntary and victorious death
could not fail of creating a mighty stir
in the minds and manners of men:
And the leven thus oast into the lump
was destined to transform society, for
good, in ever increasing measure, in
all directions, until righteousness shall
cover tbe earth as the waters cover the
sea.
The grand dootriue of the brother
hood of man, as man, is in ifself tbe
pledge of infinite results. i
An essential prinoiple of all true
progress must ever be found in a pro
per sense of tbe inherent dignity of
mau-bood; especially in relation to
tbe truth tbat tbe whole human race
are essentially equal in their faculties,
nature and inalienable rights, all of
which was unknown among nations of
antiquity.
Tbe fourth bonk of Esdras says:
"On our aocount Tbou hast created
the world. Other nations are like
spittle or tbe droppings from a cask."
Rabbis tell us tbat one Isralite is
worth more in God's sight than all tbe
other nations of tbe world.
The Egyptians, with all their priestly
wisdom, as well ag the Cartbagenians.
Phoenicians, Etruscans. Macedonians,
Romans and all other nations, exoept
their own, were, by the Greeks, stig
matized hy tbe contemptuous name
barbarian. Socrates-gave expression
to tbe sentiment of his countrymen
when he thanked tbe gods daily for
being man, not beast, male not female,
Greek and not barbarian.
Tbe Roman considered all who did
not Lelong to his state an enemy.
Wbcte there was no loague between
Romans and those who were not Ro
mans tbe only law was tbat of force,
they therefore bad a right to plunder
subdue and make slaves of all whom
they chose. Celaussaid: "Tbe man
who can believe it possible for Greeks
aud Barbarians, in Asia, Europe and
Libya to agree in one code of religious
laws mnst be utterly devoid of common
eeuse."
But Jesus Christ broke down tbe
strong blaok wall, conquered human
ignorance, set up tbe shining standard
of universal brotherhood, and revealed
God as tbe common Father of all thd
essential equality of man, and his re
sponsibility to God, tbe germs lay hid
of great and grand truths, but yet im
perfectly realized, even at this late
date. To this we owe the conception
of the rights of individual conscience
as against outward authority. There
was no such thing before Christ came
in tbe flesh.
In Greece tbe will of tbe state was
enforced on tbe individual. Morality
was limited to what was voted by the
majority. The state was everything,
man really nothing.
"One is your Teaoher and all ye are
brethren :" These words were destined
to create a mighty revolution in the
affairs of men.
Before Christ was born slaves were
mere chattels. An old Roman law
punished tbe one who killed a plough
ing ox with death, but tbe murderer
of a slave went scot free. Crassus,
after tbe revolt of Spartacus crucified
10,000 slaves at once, and Augustus, iu
violation of bis word, delivered 30,000
to their masters for exeoution. Trajan
continued the massacre of 10,000 more
for 123 days.
The doctrine of universal brother
hood was tbe ax laid at tbe roots of
this foul tree of the desert, this detest
able orime of the oenturies, until,
thanks be to God, the rattling of the
chains and crocking of the whips
around tbe often bleeding and weary
body of tbe poor slave is no more heard
in all the ends of the civilized world.
Tbe Son of God no less distinctly
lifted up bis voioe against tbe horrors
of aggressive warfare, proclaiming it
a revolt abhorrent to nature and iu
square conflict with the law of univer
sal brotherhood. "Peace on earth
good will to men has echoed mightily
down the oeuturies, and though war is
not yet entirely past it is greatly less
ened and good indications exist show
ing that at no very distant time the
nations will learn war uo more.
The poor in antiquity were in almost
as bad a plight as the slave. "How can
you let yourself down so low as not to
repel a poor man with scorn?" Is a
question asked in the Imperial days of
Rome. Hospitals and Infirmaries for
the poor aud siok were unknown.
There were herds of beggers and Seneoa
observes-tbat most men fling an alms
to one of them with repugnance and is
careful to avoid all coutaot with him.
The Jews thought the poor were
justly bearing the penalty of some sin
of their own or their fathers. The
forlorn and downtrodden of earth
surely received a precious charter of
human rights when Jesus Christ pro
oaimed tbat all men are brethren.
The condition of woman in olden
times was not muoh better than that
of .the slave. She was tbe property of
her husband and if single she was a
mere play thing of man, but Christ has
lifted her burden and lighted her path
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(Publisher.)
Department of tbe Interior,
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June 23, 1908.
Notice is hereby given that Catba
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