Word: christs
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...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...
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...
...natural man says that he does not understand the spiritual life and truth, and for this reason does not care for religion. Christ lived for all men and not for the Jews alone, and they denied Christ for the very reason that he would not confine himself to them alone. In the same way God is always seeking and claiming us all, and calls us his own. The fruits of the spirit are manifest in those men who have nothing to do with the church and are in no way connected with it. However, in these same men is found...
Dreaming is not doing. The man who ran to Christ to ask what he could do for his repentance, and who, when he was told that he must give up his worldly riches, decided he could not part with them, is a fair representative of the self satisfied type. We may talk of loving this or that but when the time for action comes we invariably back down...