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HOW TO READ THE GOSPELS VII
Jesus' Teaching On
Forgiveness
THE PLACE OF REVERENCE AND IMAGINATION
There is no condescension ia true greatdess not because true great neas will not deign to condescend, bub because where there is condes cension there is no greatness. The best of all human greatness is re- verence, Reverence for God, revert ence for man, reverence for reality in all its forms.
FORGIVENESS AND
. REVERENCE, You and I are often puzzled about forgiveness. We seek for it in vain. Jesus' heart was all for- ing of Christ to us means that in siveness. The secret of that for- the heart of God there is reverence giveness was disclosed in the feet for men. Our worship of God is washing Jesus forgives not because but the answering back of rever was right to forgive or because ence to reverence. Man is not just it was His father's will to forgive: man. He is God-reverenced man, but because the very soul of Him God-loved man. And the power of was reverence for God, for Man, for God to make men more than men, Nature, for Reality in all its Sens of God, fellow-workers with aspects. In that reverence lies Him, one with their Father in their purity of heart, and meekness. In Father's house, is nbst easily seen it is the soul of the peacemaker, in the reverence which is the heart and the secret of all holy and of His torviveness. You or I may humble men of heart, Forgiveness feel useless, mean, wasted, ineffec is the natural expression of rever. tive, but for each one of us there ence for the personality of the other is in the heart of God the reverent person that reverence which calls and forgiving love which was in the best that is in you out of you Christ. Let us ever more live in to help them. We say sometimes, that love. Let the light of it Yes, I forgive you, but lighten out paths: shining before can never forget." These words us that we may glorify Our Father. mark i mind devoid of real rever- So may we revere Him who is allence for the other person. Most of reverent, and has reverence and our efforts to achieve forgiveness do love for all creation.
not start far enough back. We do not recognise that our real failure is a failure in reverence for what is other than ourselves. A man who. cannot forgive is a man without re- verence in his soul.
PUNISHMENT AND FOR- GIVENESS.
Bishop Hall preaching yesterday evening the seventh of his series of on How to Read the Gospels,” said :—
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Jesus shocked His contemporaries by consorting with the unrespect able. He found them better kðíl· for the seed He was sowing than the "righteous." In these address Is there then no truth in punish- as I have consorted with emotionment, in the natural response of one of these less respectable words. mat to those who damage him? If I have shown that Jesus preferred my brother sitt gainst me the the company of emotion to the com-natural man wants to hit back. pany of reason.
And Peter said "How often am
Jesus starts from another centre. He says with a smile, and don't forget the smile which is so often in Jesus' teaching. Ha says with a smile...Seventy times seven." The stang of a few years ago would have been a good translation "Umpteen times" But is it then true that sins do not matter? What are you to do to the person who destroys something precious, to the man who soils both the mind and body of young girl, to the man who takes the savings of women and children and looses them in an attempt to make his own fortune: the child who wantonly destroys his sister's doil, who wilfully disobeys his parents What about punishment In such cases ↑ Start where Jesus starts, with reverence for the per- son, and punishment will have new objective which is recreative, redemptive, restorative, "and not retributional.or merely restraining. At this point we are up against the old difficulty. You cannot ima- gime Christ-as-a-policeman, or *
But judge, or a prison warder. that is not to say that Christians cannot be those things. Jesus him- self deliberately avoided the respon sibility of parenthood. He close a way for himself in which it was possible to show forth in a blazing light, the reverence in the heart of God for men. He expresses that in every act and word. We are not necessarily called to free ourselves
To-day I want you to keep com from the ordinary responsibilities
pany with another outcast "ima of life, to live exactly as Jesus did. gination. It has been left to the But his way of reverence for God most brilliant modern thinker, Pro and man is the light in which we fessor Macmurray, to vindicate shall see light in our own way. imagination. In his recent book The priest and the Levite had "Interpreting the Universe" he more respect for public opinion and claims it truer to say thought is a anxiety to avoid a scene than for form of imagination than to say the person of the man lying by the imagination is a form of thought. wayside. Jesus challenges us at the Imagination that made Science: heart of our reverence for others Imagination that has made art.-- not by giving us a rule for our own The imagination of Drake and his ronduct, but by washing our feet. like made the British Empire. It is only when we accept as Peter Imagination cannot live in a world did His reverent love and care for playing for. safety. When there is us that we come to know the divine no vision the people perish. I have reverence in the heart of all time insisted that it is only by honest love. Then from our heart, will be-
use of the emotions that you can gin to grow the same reverence, the reach the secret of the Gospels. same lore, the same spontaneous So, only by honest use of the forgiveness. Our natural reactionmagination can you use them to to things that hurt will be to see the full. Imagination has been always the other man's point of outcast because it has been confused view, and any punishment that we and with day dreaming. But strict have to give will be recreative and reasoning may be as unreal as day restorative. This experience needs dreaming and as dangerous. Reason a poet to describe it. Mr. Muse Emotion and imagination must each field says:
be verified in reality, as the scien
ist verifies his imagined hypotheses and his reasoned calculation of his pet theory into the plain facts of in reading the Gospels to use your illuminating experimente. I ask you
imagination. But also to verify that imagination in experience.
"I did not think, I did
strive,
The deep peace burnt by
alive;
not
me
The bolted door had broken in, I knew that I had done with
sin,
I knew that Christ had given
.me birth
To brother all the souls on
earth,
|
THE FEET WASHING. “
I
to restrain the natural man!" Ethics Before Jesus' even the ethics of Deuteronomy were, "re- sraints upon the natural man.' The ethics of Socrates; Plate, Con fucius and the rest are at heart restraint upon nature in the raw which is so seldom mild.
LESSON SERMON
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST-HONG KONG "Doctrine "of Atonement" was the subject of the Lesson-Sermon which was read in all Churches of Christ. Scientist, on Sunday, October 15th.
The Golden Text was: **All things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ. and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation" (11 Cor. 5.18)
"Among the citations which com- prised the Lesson-Sermon was the following from the Bible: "Ther crew near unto him all the pub- Licans and sinners for to
hear
receiveth sinners, and eateth with him. And the Fliarisees and scri- bes murmured, saying. This man
them.
The Lesson-Sermon also includ-
the Scriptures" by Mary Baker and suffering, every effort for re- Eddy: "Every pang of repentance form, ere good thought, and Jesus' atonement for sin and aid i deed, will help us to understand
tinues to pray and repent, sin and its efficacy; but if the sinner con- be sorry, he has little part in the with God, for he lacks the practi- atonement in the at-one-ment cal repentance, which reforms the heart.
D. 18).
And he spake this parable unto them, saying.. What man of you, having an hundred sheep, it he lose one of them, doth and Use your imagination to consider leave the ninety and nine in the And every bird and every beast the story of the Feet Washing n wilderness, and go after that Should share the crumbs broke the night of the Last Supper. For which is lost, until he And it?
at the feast."
a long time I believed Jesus to be And when he hath found it, he REVERENCE IS CREATIVE, following the prophetic instinct layeth it on his shoulders, rejoic
Zedekiah the Job sees a vision of the cterial
son of Chennapahn I say unto you, that like- wise Joy shall be in heaven over God creating the universe, and the who had made him horns of iron, one sinner that repenteth, more morning stars sing together, and With these thou shalt push Syria persons, which need no repent-
and said, Thus saith the Lord than over ninety and all the Sons of God shout for joy until they be consumed. Anda ance" (Luke:1-6,7.)
nine just Jesus gives a picture of wanderers the prophets prophesied so, saying, brought back home and of "the joy up to Ramoth-gilead, and pred the following passages from the in the presence of the angels. of per: for the Lord shall deliver it God" when they come back reinte the hand of the king." Jewish "Science and Health with Key to Christian Science textbook, pentant In each case. The joy of prophets had always - a the angels is in the creative power dramatic instinet.
profound of God. And for men
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