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...Gospels, the best is the good news from God. The bearer of it is Christ. When a man has heard the tidings of God's Love and Mercy, and when he realizes all the beauty of the new gift, he is filled with gratitude and desires to give some return, however inadequate. When he asks what he shall give Christ for his good news, the answer is, "yourself." Christ is constantly pouring out upon us the riches of God, even when we are often to blind to see them, and all the return He wants is a man's best...
...Brooke Herford preached in Appleton Chapel last evening on the world which surrounded Christ's early years. The Jews, long oppressed and maddened by the Roman rule were still clinging to their expectation of a Messiah; a king who was to overthrow the oppressor and give Jerusalem the supreme power. But at the time of Christ's birth, cruelty and bloodshed were constantly increasing, with Herod as their chief agent. The fact that the slaughter of the innocents is not noticed in secular history is significant of his career. No notice of the massacre of a few babies could...
...midst of this uproar, but far above it, Christ grew up. When it is realized that His calmness and beauty shone out from a back-ground of such wildness, how can it be argued that Christ was no more than the product of His times? How could His life have dawned in such darkness if it had not been from...
...reply to this age of questioning? It should not answer by science; because science is unsettled and preachers have only a bowing acquaintance with it; nor by trying to raise up an unpregnable fortification of theology. Christianity is something more than logic and philosophy. Christians should proclaim Jesus Christ...
...first place it is a doctrine of a person, and a person is a reality. In the second place it is a farce. If you believe in Christ he will lift you out of doubt. It is a supernatural force, and all attempts to account for Him naturally have failed. Other great men have stood in clusters of lesser men, Christ stands in a vast solitude. Christ is sinless, Christ is truth. In answer to the three great questions "Is there a God, a soul, a future life," he without doubting speaks to the soul and says "He that...