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did. Have you ever noticed how Jesus. did look at his fellow mon How helpful [Below we give the second of a series and encouraging. He was? How to use of three sermons under the style of our own terms, decent He was to people. Summary of Christian Faith, which the How He gave hope to quite hopeless Rev. R. J. Northcots, the local (haplain people like the thief on the cross, How to the Forces, is preaching at St. John's He could be patient and, even make use Cathedral. The Arst, The Roots off a foolish, gossips woman, like the Fah," appeared in our columns last woman of Samaria. How he gave cour weck.]

age and made a man of an insignificant, mean little fellow, Skb Zaccheus. And,

Eru. 210-To know the Love of Christ in the literature of the world, is there

that passeth knowledge.

anything more perfect than the way Jesus dealt with the woman taken in nanitery, while the storm of righteous indignatio. from the men who had dragged her along. broke over the wretched woman's head,

The flower of the Christian Faith is, of course, Dur Lord Jesus Christ, au the best record of His life is in the four Gospels. Mr. H. G. Wells in an article Jesus stooped down and with his finger he contributed to John London's wrote on the ground." Has any age in Weekly said, "If I were asked to pama history shown a more sensitive apprecia any specific books that everyone should tion of the difficult questions involved in read I doubt if i should name any ex- that story. If we try to rend the Gospels cept the Gospels and Plato's Republic. I As we suggested, with a fresh mind, as name the Gospels because I do not think if we had never read them before, the they are read enough as books, or at beauty of the character of Jesus is at least-how shall I put it-familiady and times almost overwhelining. Jesus hail, tearlessly enough. Alany people still read | na we should say, such a lovable disposi- them as magic books or oracles Ther tion. Jesus really loved people. When he get them mixed up with a lot of theology. met the rich young ruler, the enthusiastic They miss the reality that in these Gus young man, whose spirit was willing and pels someone is telling them something, whose flesh was weak, Jesus beholding Very plain and great about the Kingdom Him loved him." It was not that He was of Heaven and the Fatherhood of God." blind to a man's wenkeesses, "ho knew There is a great deal in what Mr. Wells what was in man **but whatever He knew saya, It is difficult for us to read the about then He loved them just the same." Cospels with a fresh mind, as if we bad) When He saw what we should call a never read them before. We naturally great.. ignorant crowd, following Him, associate what we read about Jesus with what we have been taught about Him fran our childhood. We forget that when Jesus went to man and asked him to

• conteland follow Him Jesus did not mean to that man what Jesus means to us. To the first disciples Jesus was in no sense d. The kind of men he called, would never have listened to such a claita. To then Jesus was a good man who was out to do good, and The asked them to come long as His friends and help Him. And the disciples were themselves good, and brave enough to give up their ordinary Occupations to go with Him on His mis sion to preach the good news of the King dom of Heaven and the fatherhood of Lio. It was only the remarkable sue cess of the mission, and the power of the personality of Jesus, that made them think that Jesus was the Messiah. Even then by Messish they did not mean what we mean by Christ. They thought of Him as the Promised One who was going to redeem the shattered fortunes of their country. But when the popularity of Jesus waned, and people became a little

I am nothing, it profiteth me nothing." nervous of being reckoned among His St. John makes is a test whereby a man followers, Jesus turned to His disciples can find out for himself whether he really and said, "And will-ye also go away?"

is a Christian. “Hereby," he says, "We And Peter answered "Lord to whom shall know that we are of the truth, because we go thou bast, the words of Eternal we love the brethren. Some of you who Life

when Jesus beheld the multitude be was moved with compassion "anw the pathos. of a crowd. Even Jerusalers, that killed the prophets, and hated Jesus,and all that He stond for, "How often would I have gathered thy children together," said Jesus, “as a ben gathereth her chickens under her wing," and, ye would not." tainly, if God is love, the light of the glory of God must hare shone forth in the face of Jesus Christ.

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I know it is easy to let one's sentiments run away with one's sense when talking about the love of God, but we are all inclined to forget, first of all how typica!" it was of the character of Jesus, and secondly what an important place it took in the religion of the early Church. St. else Paul puts it before anything

Though I have all faith so that I can it and says, mountains," he remove though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though. I give my body to be burned," and have not this kind of Love,

In their three years companion.have read Mr. A. 8. M. Hutchinson's ship with Jesus the disciples bad learnt new novel "One Increasing Purpose to depend on Him for everything even will remember what Simon, the chief for the next day's food. In sickness or character, says when he talks about danger, in all the many trials that came Christ: "Just as Christ was once on upon them during their pilgrimage the earth among men, so. He over since has not only always turned to Jesus, but been, and is today, resident among men, always found that Jesus was sufficicat for resident in every man-in you, in me, in their needs. Moreover His own teaching

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we live, those whom we only pass and see, is simply the Christ that is in them" appearing in them." As soon as Simon realises this he says, "I went quickly in the face of every single one I saw in along to where I should see people, nad greater or in less degree the touch the presence of Christ, and I knew that it was what there is of Christ in me that thus was responding to the Christ in

All I can: these my fellow creatures.",

say is that Mr. Hutchinson's words are a commentary on the words of St. Johri. his brother, he is a liar; for he that loveth If a man say, I love God, and hateth

not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?" RECORD OF CHRISTIAN FAITH.

of Eternal Life. They had not conscious ly begun to think of Jesus as God, but gradually and unconsciously Jesus' was taking the place of God in their lives, To use a modern phrase He began to have for them the values of God. Even after the Resurrection and after Pente- east, when the faith that had been be wildered and broken by the Crucifixion, was restored with such wonderful enthu siasm, so that people thought that they were drunk with new wine, they were so full of joy and wonder. Even then, when they ran around preaching Him every where, they did not speak of Him as Gcd, they spoke of Him as Jesus of Nazaretha Man approved of God"

Jesus of Nazareth wo went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed No doubt there are some present to-day" with the devil, for God was with Him" who feel that what I have enid about It was not until St. Paut came along that goodness, and about Christian love, is the disciples were able to see clearly for a very poor account of what the love of themselves how Jesus Christ could he both Christ has meant to them. Jesus bas God and man. St. Paul was the first been to them what he was to the first Christian with the necessary ziental disciples. It would be too cold an ex- equipment to present the experiences of pression to say that Jesus has had for the disciples with Jesus as a consistent them the values of God. Jesus has been theology. Comparatively recently in this their companion, their guide, their friend. pulpit I went in detail into this subject, Through the experience of many years and I do not want to return to it to-day. He has never failed them. His words STUMBLING BLOCK TO FAITH. and His presence have been the very breath of life. Like the first disciples What I want to do this morning, in too, whether they could define their view of what we have said about the theological opinion of Christ or not, they way the disciples came to believe in know with an assurance that nothing can Jesus, is to consider whether we look at bake, that neither life nar death, now the things Jesus taught us in the way things present nor things to come, can Jesus meant us to Not very long ago separate them from the Love of God enthusiastic Christiana would accost un-which is in Christ Jesus Our Lord." wary pedestrians with "Are you saved Even ordinary people like ourselves, must or, Dé you believe in the Lord Jesus feel how very much more, and on I cannot conceive of anything less like Our Lord's own method of approach. My whole idea of God would be confused if I thought that the first question He put was about what we believed, or what we thought of the condition of our own soul, It seems to me that the whole Bible, especially the New Testavient, anys on every page of it that what God wants to know is whether people are genuine, whether people are doing their best, are

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altogether loftier plane, there is to say about Jesus. When we look into the amazing record of the Christian Faith When we see how it started from what was historically nothing, and yet did in historical fact bring new life, and a new and nouler view of human nature, to the whole civilised world. When we consider that today it is the only religion that occupies the serious attention of what we call the educated world. When again they really out for the good of the world missionaries, from all over the world

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time to talk about what God means, or Moreover it is coming as it always has spoke of Jesus D, God of God, Light What Jesus means, unless we are agreed come, as it were through the, hack door, of Light, Very God of Very God." But upon this point that God stands first through the manger and the castle shed, even if our lips falter, where the church of all for what is good, and to follow through villages and quite humble folk; of God is sure, let us at any rate be sure God means to try to be good, and to do that God is choosing, as He always has of this; that into a question so intense, good. In more eases than we realise the chosen, "the weak things, and the things lish people, who have not considered real stumbling block to faith is that men which are despised, yea, and the things

where angels fear to tread, only very are deliberately denying, in their lives that goodness for which religion that are."

own which are not to bring to nought things the matter at all, would be bold enough to say that the day of Christ had gone. standa.

Robert Browning, who pondered deeply, When once a man is clear on this point, I say when we turn these things over it and had so many wise and splendid things when once he realises that God is out for our mind, thinking now on one side, and to say, was nearer the truth when be said good, and wants men of goodwill to fol.now on another, of the many sides of of, Jesas: low Him, he need not bother his head Christian faith and experience, we must very much because he cannot look upon

wonder sometimes whether the Church Jesus as God. Let him look upon Him was not only speaking in mysteries, but as man. Let him ask himself if he has declaring a profound truth when she ever edine across a character comparable (Continued at foot of next Column}

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