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XIII-CHRISTIAN-CONVICTIONS-
Historical Event of Jesus of Nazareth
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The Christian religion is rooted The-Gospels. are very clear about} in an historical event. It is in the that. They suggest to us that He world to-day, not because some knew the hard realities of life as 6.30 p.m. grave and wise men called theolog- these are known by a man who lans sat up Inte at night and works with his hands for the sup-|
Dee. 31-At P.W.D. Offices, one evolved out of their own inner port of a family. They tell us of lot of Crown Land at Mong Kok consciousness beautiful, theories His being hungry and tired and Tauri, 3 p.m. about God and life, but because an sleepy, just as other Men are. actual historical Person lived, They tell us of His friendliness and among men, died at men's hands, of His very human longing for the - and came through to the other side support and comfort of friends. dyes, 11 a.m.
of death. This at once raises the They do not make Him unreal by
Jan. 4. At Sales Room, Duddell- question-How much do we really suggesting that from earliest child-st., a valuable collection of Post- know about Jesus? We can no hood He was omniscient; He was ago stampa, 5.16 p.m. longer regard the Gospels as sometimes disappointed, sometimes supernaturally guaranteed history: astonished; He grew in wisdom as our whole approach to the Bible is different from the approach of some of our forefathers. But if the old sureness about Biblical history has gone, how can we be reasonably sure of anything about Jesus? Here I have only space to say two things.
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He grew in stature. They tell us, Club re-sufl. more frankly than some people like, that He was tempted. He, like others, had to meet the full force of the pull between right and p.m. wrong. He had no short cut to character: He built His character,
Jan. 7-Lecture and film show by as qthers have to do, by a long Mr. Clarke Irvine at Helena Maj succession of right choices, and Institute, 5 p.m. some of those choices were very. difficult. He knew the full force of temptation as only a really sensitive soul can know it. He suffered being tempted,
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The Swedish zhangud Affaires, Baron C. Leijonhufvud, accom- panied by the Swedish Consul in Shanghai, Mr. E. Wisen, left for Nanking recently.
A circular from Gen. Yang Sen, of Szechuan, announced that д municipality has been established in Wanhsien and that he has assumed the duties of Mayor.
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I. The careful and thorough scholarship of the last hundred years has given ua valid reasons for believing that our first three Gospels bring us into touch with reliable history. I cannot hare go inta the details, which may be He was a real man, and He had found in any good modern book on to fight for character. Yet what á Victor McLaglen, "the hero of the subject. (I suggest Dr. Peake's character He achieved! His atan-"What Price Glory" adds another Commentary on the Bible, or Dr. dards were the most exalted that success to his name in "A Girl In Armitage Robinson's The Study of this world has ever known; and Every Port" a new picture which the Gospels, or Mr. Stephen Neill's He lived up to them. Some of will be the chief attraction at the
The Wuhan Aviation Bureau is How Roadest Thou?). While we those who knew Him best said that Queen's Theatre on Tuesday and reported by the Chinese press to cannot claim that every single in- He never sinned; but when we
Wednesday. McLaglen will be have purchased nine British aero- cident happened exactly as it is study His heroic, energetic charac-
seen In the role of a jolly young planes for commercial aviation pur described in the Gospels, or that ter in the Gospels we must feel or who has a girl in every poses. Two German and five Amer every word of Jesus is reported that even that is too negative, too
Presently however, he lean planes likewise have been with perfect accuracy, the evidence bloodless a way of expressing all ceeds to discover his identity. How
learns that he has a rival and pro- ordered, goes to show that the picture of that we see in Him. He was a real he finally does this is admirably Jesus given us in the first three man, and Ile gave us a new and told in a series of hilarious situa appealed to by Shanghai Chinese The Central Government has been Gospels can be trusted. (St. John's unsurpassed picture of
what tions, with an occasional touch of residenta Gospel may have to be used with human life might be. He took our pathos.
to abolish the post of rather more reserve). In studying human nature, and with it. He made formance equal to his portrayal of chant S. N. Co., and to return the McLaglen gives a per-director-general of the China Mer- that picture we have our feet firmaomething that, without Him, we Captain Flagg in the famous war company and its properties to the ly planted on the rock of history. could not have believed to be pos- picture and it is said that he has As the late Dr. Swete, of Cam-sible. He so lived that He has be- now established himself as one of
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It is that life that is the ground II. Jesus is uninventable. If of all really Christian convictiona the Gospel portrait of Jesus is not That life is the foundation of our The charred remains of a essentially true to fact, then some further studies. For, if the life of woman of the working class was writer or writers must have im- Jesus is an historical event then it discovered amongst the ruins of agined i Either the Gospel is also something more. It a un-numbered matshed which The Commissioner of Foreign writers were describing a characteris
mean had been destroyed by fire on Affairs has been requested to lodge from real life or they were creating, It is the most significant the hillside of Sheung Shui ana protest with the Japanese authori ing one. I believe that when wol event in the history of the world. Thursday last.. The woman, itties against the training of Japan- really see and know the character If we are going to think seriously has since been ascertained, was esc and personality of Jesus as the about life and its issues, we must a widow, aged 56 years. A cow, Gospels describe Ilim, and when take Jesus into account. To come valued at $40 was also burnt in we remember His immense infu- to conclusions about the ultimate the fire.
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ence on the world, we shall be driven to saying with Rousseau, "It is not thus that one Invents." The character of Jesus is too good not to be true; the personality of Jesus is too great not to be real. If it is sometimes difficult to be- lieve that Jesus lived the kind of: Two suggestive things were sald strength of purpose to walk by ways, who is chief of the admin life and said the kind of things by men who had known Jesus when that light, but not to try would be istrative section of the Ministry of that the Gospels describe, it is even He lived on earth. St. John, in his sheer failure. In Tennyson's words, Railways, has recommended the more difficult to believe that some old age, looked back on all that he the King has bound us "by such abolition of the post of managing, one in the Jewish world of two could remember of Jesus and said, vows, as is a shame a man should director of these two rallways with thousand years ago had the skill "In Him was life; and the life was not be bound by," and to refuse to a view to reducing expenses. He and the insight to invent Him. "It the light of men." In Him was submit to His enchantments would will, it is said, not accept any salary
1 is not thus that one invents."- life; that is life of the kind and be to "abide without, among the as managing director but will con. We may take it, then, that Jesus quality that is real; that is what cattle of the field." If something tinue to draw his pay as chief of is a real historical Person. There life was meant to be. That life is like, that is what we feel, then for the administrative section and, at is no hope now of resurrecting the the light of men, the light of the us Jesus is the Lord and Master the same time, direct the affairs of theory that He is a myth. The world, the guidance that men need. of life. That is a conviction that the two lines, broad outlines of the familiar pice St. Peter, many years after Jesus will carry us a long way, a convic ture of the character, the teaching, died, wrote a letter, in which he tion that will call for truly strenu- and the death of Jesus can be spoke of Him as "leaving you anous living.
of Dr. Charles A. Logan of Toku. trusted. It is as certain as any example, that we should follow I once had a correspondence shima, died of pneumonia after an thing historical can well be that His steps." The life of Jesus about Christian beliefs with one of illness of ten days. She bad ra there was once a real Person Who constrains us to try to live like the ablest scientists whom I know. turned from a long furlough in lived and spoke and died in the him. Surely these
sayings In one of his letters (which I have America on September 19, in excel-
Mrs. Martha Myers Logan, wife
way the Gospels describe. That is express just what we, at our best, his permission to quote) he wrote lent health and prepared to extend a fact of quite incalculable im feel about Him. He has enabled me a short statement of bis per- her long record of 26 years of mis- portance.
us to see, as we should not have sonal creed. "I believe that the sionary work in Japan. Mrs. Logan What are we to make of that seen without Him, the sheer Universe of Reality is a spiritual was born in Lexington, Virginia, it fact? For us there is only one beauty of a life of self-forgetting, universe; that the Christ of our 1871, and was educated at the Mary satisfactory way to begin a study humble service, and of a highly religion 18,as He proclaimed, the Baldwin Seminary at Staunton, of what Jesus was and what Jesus disciplined character. He has Light of the world; and that whose Virginia, specialising in music means, We must begin by taking opened our eyes to the folly and followeth Him shall not walk in After her marriage in 1399 she as- man. Mr. G. Kthe tawdriness of many of the darkness, but shall have the light sisted her husband for three years Chesterton, at one point in his book rims for which men live. He has of life. And in that light of life in. home mission work in the Ken- on: St. Francis of Assial, writes an left us an example which draws us I'll walk, tIH travelling days are tucky mountains. "Coming to Japan follows: "Francis still looks more to try to take His way. As we dene. That is the first meaning in 1902, the Logans have been lead or less like an ordinary young man, stand seriously before Jesus and of Jesus. That is the first greaters in Presbyterian mission work and it is only when we look at him,ask what He means, there comes Christian conviction.
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realise what дл extraordinary young man he must have been." With all reverence I suggest that much the same is true of Jesus. It is when we begin by looking at Him as a man that we realise how much more He must have been. Whatever else He was, He was cer tainly a real man, with a man's hardships, a man's, temptations, and many at least of a man's limitations. It is worth remem- bering that the first heresy about] Jesus to be condemned by the early, Church was not a denial of His divinity, but a denial of His .complete and reál humanity. Whe- ther Jesus was more than man we shall consider later. We must begin by taking nothing more for granted. It was as a man that Ho Arst met, the people of His own -time...
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