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MESSAGE OF THE CROSS.
ITS BEARING ON MODERN LIFE.
DEAN SWANN'S ADDRESS ON SUNDAY.
At St. John's Cathedral on Sunday an interesting lecture was delivered by the Dean, the Very Reverend Allred Swann, on "The Cross of Christ and Modern Life" The first part of the address is reproduced below:-
We are to try tonight to wrestle with a subject which has exercised the minds of meu for 1,000, years. Something which has been reviewed and discussed by great brains over and over again, but above all something which has influenced and continues to influence the lives of men and women more profoundly than any other. fact or event in man's long history.
Books almost without
end have been written on the Cross of Christ, and a long as men continue to try to understand God and their relationship with Him, new aspects of its meaning and fresh apprecia tion of its power will continue to be recorded.
Therefore it must be realised that to attempt to deal with it in one lecture is an almost hopeless task, and yet one feels that, for most of us, what matters most is that we should grasp a few simple truths, and hold them fast I fear that I nm bound to be rather long, but I hope that in view of the great importance of the subject, I may have your careful attention,
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“A Hideous Shame.
All these things, which combined to kill Jesus, are plainly wrong; because some men failed morally, Jesus was crucified. This is not theology; it is fact The murder of Jesus was a hideous shame, and the moral slackness of men did it. Cowardice, selfishness, prejudica and indifference did all that to this noblest Person who ever lived. It is most necessary to appreciate this first and foremost, since certain theories of the necessity of Jesus' death have sometimes quite hidden this fact that ought always to have been most obvious, inves
Although man's sin put Christ on the Cross, it is also true to say that He put Himself there. He saw His death coming a long way off. Quite early the Pharisees had out from the Capernaum gono Synagogue and taken counsel with the Herodians how they might des troy him. When the news of the was brought to Baptist's death Him, I think we may certainly ̈see in Jesus' immediate retirement into solitude a desire for quiet in which He might prepare Himself to meet a similar fate. I have a baptism to be baptised with." He cried once, "And how an I ́straightened till it be accomplished! Towards the end of His ministry He tried on many occasions to get His disciples to understand that death was the inevitable er to the path He had set Himself tread. And when He finally ascended to Jerusalem it was with face deliberately set to meet that which He know awaited Him there I do not think it is
quite true to say that Jesus de liberately planned His death, but without question He regarded it as inevitable and faced it as such. The kind of life He lived could not be complete without the kind of death He died.
The Cross of Christ sums up in itself both God's great act of self revelation and His plan for the true health of human life. But the pity is that there are common to-day many gross misunderstandings of its meaning, with resultant dis counting of its claims upon men's minds and lives. I hope that we
We can therefore go a step far- may be able to correct some of the ther, and say that Christ thought current misapprehensions this even of His death as necessary for His ing, and to show to those who are purpose. His purpose was the win- honestly desiring to see it somethingning of mankind to full human life in fellowship with God, and His at least of the beauty and wonder method was unceasing teaching and of this thing.
demonstration of the love of God. From first to last and without the least failure Jesus lived out a life of perfect love. He was utterly given up to loving His fellowmen as the result of loving His Father. His method of winning men to God was just that of loving them, and by 20 doing He called out their love for Him, and, through Him, for the Father.
For the message of the Cross is sorely needed to-day. This is the justification for the choice of the title under which this lecture has been announced. I have no inten- tion of attempting an analysis of modern life in the light of the Cross of Christ or of applying the mean- ing of the Cross to different de partments of modern life. I only
hope to shew that the Cross has
Now as love was the supreme motive of Jesus' life, so it shines brightest in His death. Being what
a message for us of the present day He whs, He could not stop His just as it has had for those who mission of love even though it were to cost Him Bis life. "Hav- have gone before us. Its message is manifold and very wonderful, ing loved His own, He loved them for it promises strength to the unto the end." struggler, fresh start to the sinner, hope for the despairing and fulness of life and joy and peace to all and sundry.
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Indomitable Love.
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Limitations of Thought.
I agree that any definition is dangerous, because human thought and language are totally inadequate for the task. But in actual fact we do not raise the question as to who Jesus is. The question simply asks itself. It forces itself upon us. We cannot escape it, and we cannot in intellectual honesty evade the duty of answering it. Have we not something of a key put into our hands by the words we have quoted "Having loved His own, is the statement of one who knew He loved them unto the end." This
Him very well. "Having loved His own." Who are His own? Whom
will never see again until the King The world has never seen, and
dom of God shall come on earth, such, indomitable love persisted in in such impossible circumstances. did He love from beginning to end
a matter of undebatable Forgetfulness of self and thoughtful. Every single aoul with whom He
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as a faulty report, but not all of them. There is no room for doubt that such things were said by Jesus of Nazareth. And yet. He said that He was meek and lowly of heart. And was He not 7 Anyone else who
made such claims for himself, at the same time professing meekness, would appear ridiculous. But these claims of Jesus have always com-
ended themselves to the unpre- judicad as justified, and, more im- portant still, the truth of them has actually been experienced in life by hundreds and thousands of men and women since He walked on earth.INDIAN
There is something more than human "here.
One could go on, but there is no
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experienced by thousands of men and women of all times, who have definitely associated these benefits with the Cross of Jesus Christ. Men and women have achieved hope and peace and joy through asso- ciation with Christ Crucifed. This is a simple fact which needs no proof. Explanations of the fact have been many and various, and in some cases very curious. We shall have to mention some of them in a few minutes.
But before we can deal at all successfully with the whole subject, we need to be clear about certain or be in a position to appreciate it. facts connected with the death of Christ iteuli
weak and wicked alike, and net when the early Christian Church came to think out what Jesus only those of His own day but all men everywhere and always. There meant, she was forced into record is something universal in the lavishing the conviction that while He was fully human, He was also love of Christ.
divinc, And men and women ever since have most gladly and thank fully accepted His saying that He that hath seen Me hath seen the Father."
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From this one consideration alone we are driven to feel that the word Human is not big enough to contain the immeasurable depths. and infinite capacity of Jesus' love..
Brig. Gen. William E. Gillmore, who is in charge of the present 1930' Bounced that he will help to uaber. in the baseball season of the Pacific. Coast League here to-morrow...
to such lengths in the face of such provocation. It will be worth our while to dwell on this. The eve
A baseball attached to a par- of the day of crucifixion He spent
chute will be dropped from an in preparing His disciples. In
neroplane "just before the opening Gethsemane. His concern is for then that they shall not fall into
of the Senators-Missions game, General Gillmore himself will on temptation When the band of soldiers arrive to seire Him He
deavour to catch the ball as it is. wafted slowly toward the ground. steps forward to shield His disciples
Remission of Bin.
Inquiry by Senate. But this, of course, is only a be and to ask that they at least may
Throughout the Gospel record and Washington, April 7.-Lieutenant go free. When Peter loses control ginning. We have to face the in the Acts, and in the Epistles we Alford Williams, the well-known, and strikes the High Priest's "ber- vant He is distressed at the w Gospel stories and reckon with find the mission of Jesus described Navy speed fier and Schneider Cup.
actual facts as we find them there. given. In the midst of the eruel. For example, we have to reconcile
ns primarily one of Remission of contestant who recently banded in
not of anger but of sorrow at Peter entire lack of consciousness at malady, and that so long as it per be the first witness to-morrow at the mocking He is able to flash & look the utter goodness of Jesus with His Sis. It is taken for granted his resignation from the service to that Sin is man's most desperate take effect in the near future, will on his cowardly denial. Even be personal failure or sin, Thìs, in all fort Pilate there seems to be a other good mep, is the infallible sists, man's true destiny of ful opening of a Senste sab-committee ness of life in fellowship with God inquiry into the status of America's No one can possibly argue that touch of pity for the Governor's indication of their goodness. In is impossible.
air forces. Jesus deserved to die as He did. weakness and vacillation. As He the ease of all other men,
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The name of Jesus was given be Senator Lawrence D. Tyson of George Barclay writes as follows:-drags His painful way to Calvary increasing holiness grows the senso The crucifixion was ź monstrous He wants no tears from the women of am Paul, one of the best of cause He should save His, people Tennessee, chairman of the sub- from their ains, and from then oncommittee, will direct the inquiry wrong. How did it happen! Like around on His account, but thinks men, called himself the chief of wards there is reference, after re-along such lines as the question of every other monstrous wrong, it of what will come upon them if sinners. But Jesus, the holiest of Ference to His work of Remission of the comparative strength of the happened because men were cruel the temper of Jerusalem is main men, had no such conviction of an
United States with relation to other and selfish and weak. Look at tained. In the agony of the Cross worthiness. There is something some of the men who brougth Jesus itself Bis thought is first for His greater than human" here. to His death. Judas betrayed an mother, then for those who have
Or again, we have grown, so ne thereHe actually innocent Friend who had treated nailed Elim him with unfailing love and trust. makes excuse and prays for them-customed to things which Jesus said about Himself that they have Annas and Caiaphas were church and at last, as Bir life is passing, ceased to take our breath away Teaders who found that the teaching He can give His attention to the We would do well to think of them of Jesus would interfere with their thief on the cross beside Him. privileges, and who thought more Was there ever such a prodigal afresh, and to think hard.
Here is a village carpenter stand of what was convenient than what and reckless display of utter uning up and saying such things as was just. Their prejudices and selfishness and unquenchable love! their position mesat more to them "Having loved Bir own, He loved these
Come unto Me all that are than truth and right, Pilate was a them unto the uttermost,"
Who is this man Who is this weary, and heavy leden, and I will civil servant, whose, Roman sense
refresh you” wh of justice was warped by his feat Jesas 1
"Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me."
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Yo have beard that it was said of old, but I say
Everyone who tball confess Me before men, Him will I confess be- fore my Father in Heaven."
He that loveth father or mother more than Me is not worthy of He that bath o secno hata seen the Father."
of losing his post. He knew the There have been volumes without fair and just thing to do with Jesus, number written on the Person of but he was afraid of offending his Jesus, and much theological strife subjects lest they should complain on the subject has stained the to the Emperor. Conscience pulled Christian record. With the result one way, and cowardice the other that many good folks to-day say, and cowardice won. The crowd who Need we ask this question 1" shouted for the crucifixion were it not better to take Jesus as easily led people with no fixed the most glorious man the world principles of their own; thoughtless has ever known, and to go no Me ly they followed their accustomed farther "Don't we do Him leaders, without stopping to con- more honour thus than by attempt sider the right and wrong of what fag something which is beyond.
-us1" they were doing.
It is true that perhaps any one of there sayings might be challenged
Sympathy for Mr. Kou is request-
In its first years the Church gave Powers, and also the comparative itself to the proclamation of this ability of its military acroplanes. message. St. Paul annonces; "Bet It was intimated to-day, that the, it known unto you, brethren, that subcommittee may also investigate through this man is proclaimed reports that there is some lack of unto you, the remission of sins." co-operation between the Navy's Paul himself is sent to the Gentiles, lying and non-flying branches as he says," to open their eyes There is a possibility that this may that they may turn from darkness expand into a general investiga to light, that they may receive re- tion, Taission of sins." The writer of the Epistle to the Hebrews follows on with the statement, At the cad of ed. by the Chefco Daily News: the ages hath He been manifested, to put away sin." And finally St. Several days ago the wife of a Mr. John begins his record with the Kou, a native of the Wangchis Baptist's pointing to Jesus ne the Tag village on the west of Fushan Lamb of God who is to take away Haien, was captured and taken the sin of the world, and sums up away by brigands. It is said that, His Gospel in the words, We the original plot of the bandita was know that He was manifested to to take captive Mr. Kou's cousin. take away sin. Finally one must However owing to the pre-movement notice that there is in the new of his cousin's family such disaster. Testament a close and invariable unfortunately betel Mr. Kon The connection between the remission of bandits required ten thousand dol sin and the death and resurrection fare for the "ransom of the woman, which sum is awfully heavy for Mr. of Jesus Christ,
Kou to provide..
(To be Continued.)