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...himself for his own sake. Within the last few years there has arisen a spirit of socialism regarding the individual as of no consequence, but the good of the whole world or the whole nation as the only thing worth considering. The Christian point of view is explained by Christ's words, "for their sakes I sanctify myself,"-the cultivation and elevation of the individual as the means with the good of the whole world for the end. Christ does not regard the individual soul as of little consequence, but neither does He regard the salvation of the individual...
...Leighton Parks opened the service. Dr. Lyman Abbott, who preached the sermon, his last as a college preacher, took as his text, "We have found him of whom Moses in the law and prophets did write, Jesus of Nazareth, the Son of Joseph." From their earliest history down to Christ's time the Jews had looked with a broader or narrower vision for a deliverer of their race. This forward looking was the distinguishing feature of the Jewish religion. So that when so simple men as the shepherds heard the angels' song they needed no interpretation of the message. Confucius...
...these are the laws of society, high human ideals, knowledge of God, and power to make ourselves what we wish to be. We have found one who fulfils these aspirations, whose teachings, if applied, will solve the whole social problem. Socialists, Anarchists and all have their plans, but in Christ and the New Testament we find the principles and spirit which will make the world what we wish...
...individual also Christ offers the great object of their seeking. We find in him ideals for all, one to whom even skeptics have come to point as a perfect example. I would not set him in place of God. "I am the door," he says of himself; by him I would enter to know God. The whole world is looking for this knowledge; the world is an Athens and everywhere is the inscription to the Unknown God. But we worship no longer an unknown God. We have found Him; and in Him one whom we can love, reverence, and imitate...
Thus we see that the principle of unselfishness is not merely something taught in a book called the Bible, or the myth of some philosophy, but is the principle that underlies the department of the universe. This is why Christ is exalted. Men always have felt that they must have heroes, representative men, who were honored not so much for what they did themselves as for the principles they represented for which the masses also had worked; and in this way Christ stands for the highest thought of man, is its best representative and therefore receives our homage. The nature...