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8 THE PRESBYTERI
when he offered him all the kingdoms of the world for
a bend of the knee! The simple life for the Christ!
The simple life for the Christian ! Christ and Christian
living the life of the master-man. Xot matter, though
the wealth of the world may be had with its pleasure
and power! Hut mind, that one may discern the beauty
of holiness! P?ut moral, that one may display the
beauty of holiness!
Then gaze upon this panel of spiritual senamtion
The interpreter of the mysteries of the Holy of Holies,
in his description of the only and ever-living High
Priest, grounded his right to stand continually in the
presence of God on his separation from sinners. Xot
separation in the physical, for he was in the world
jostling and jostled by the surging mass of unclean
that thronged the highways and byways of that populous
period. The woman of the street wiped his feet
with her hair, the woman of the well watered him
where Jacob drank, the woman of the bloody issue
touched the border of his garment. Between leper
and lecher, possessed and publican, traitor and thief,
he trod the pathway of Victory over sin, in separation
from sinners in tlm c *'
ocparauon 111 the spiritual
means separation in thought.' Bumping backs and
breasts with the sons of Belial but thinking the
thoughts of the sons of God. Would the Christ convert
his intellect into a trough for the slop and slush
of the swineherd? No; only the things that were beautiful
and true and good flooded the reservoirs of the
master-mind. Rubbing against the fluttering moths of
pride and prejudice and passion, but swayed in his onward
and upward and heavenly aspirations by humility
and patience and chastity alone. Would the Christ fan
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me ciesires ot the voluptuary until his heart was atlame
with the passions of lust? Xo; he stood out and up
and apart, the sublime moral Colossus of his age. He
strode in the walk of the wicked, yet walked not in the
paths of sin. The master-man with head and heart high
above the miasma of mortal-man. Running aneck in
the race with the worldlings of the Augustan age , he
watched a Herod sell his soul for incest with a sister, a
Judas his Saviour for the shining of Sadducean silver,
a Pilate the Prince of Peace for a tid-bit of Herodian
truculency, and with a conscience convulsion he
chasmed a breach hctwixt such mad-men and the master-man
by the bursting of his own heart, that a thief
might be saved and sent into the glory-land of God.
What concord hath Christ with the sons of Belial?
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biuumj; niciii an a De separate, for the
Christ and the Christian!
And gaze upon the panel of sweet sympathy. When
the frockecj followers of the current ceremonialism
gathered their garments in tighter folds, for fear of1
pollution from the passing pubdican, the Christ with
hilarious iconoclasm dashed down their ignoble ideas
by sitting and supping with publicans and sinners'.
When the learned in the Law and the Prophets, Sadducce
or Pharisee, thought it the thing supernal to sit
within the courts of the Temple and spin casuistical
interpretations, he was found with the sick of Bethesda,
touched with their infirmities and affording them freedom
from every impotency. When prophet and priest
A.N OF THE SOUTH. March 31, igog.
would not be satisfied until they taught beneath the
towers of the great town, he passed from village to
village preaching the gospel of the kingdom: and when
he saw the sheep scattered abroad having 110 shepherd
He was moved with compassion 011 them. lie was
indeed the man Great-Heart, in the world not to be
ministered unto but to minister. Sharing his sympathy
with the woman of sin at the feast of the Pharisee.
Lifting the burden of the woman of sorrows at the
well of. Samaria. Drying the tears of the widow of
Xain with a touch of compassion and a word of sweet
sympathy. Weeping, yea weeping the tears of a man,
with the sisters of him whom h? t>_i. ? ?
xacnoia tnc
master-man of the ages treading the pathway of life
plucking and planting! Plucking the rue and planting
the rose. No wonder that a million men and millions
more are enraptured with his work and way.
The Christ and the Christian arc one. The imperative
of inspiration is that the branch bring forth the
fruit of the vine, that the bride be garbed in the garments
of the groom, that the life of the Christ be the
life of the Christian. It is imperative that the grace of
godliness?God-likeness?be the ruling principle of the
overcoming life. Men, I have written unto von
we are tlie sons of God. Men, we are the sons of God
because we are one With the Son of God. In the Son of
God we live and move and have our being. '*Beloved,
we are the sons of God right now: and it doth not yet
appear what we shall be; but we know that, when he
shall appear, we shall be like him ; for we shall see him
as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him
punfieth himself even as he is pure."
Okolona, Miss.
TESTIMONIES TO MISSIONS.
By Rev. F. T. Charlton.
Li Hung Chang, before his death, was pronounced
"the greatest living Asiatic." Gen. U. S. Grant, on his
return from his tour around the world, said that lie
had met three pre-eminently great statesmen. Li Hung #
Chang was one of the three. For many years he was
prominent in Chinese official circles, and waS possessed
of broad and accurate information in regard to affairs
in China.
When Bishop Hendrix visited China in the interest
of the Mission Work of his Church he was accorded an
interview with Li Hung Chang in his palace in Peking.
Through the bishop the prince sent to the American
churches this message: "Say to the American people,
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ikj, me, ocuci over more men for the schools and hospitals,
and I hope to be in a position both to aid and
to protect them." When told how many American
missionaries there were in China he said, "More are
needed," and, after a moment's reflection, lie repeated,
"More are needed."
When he ramp tn ? ''x-' *
4>.iiviiva as \^iuiiesc ainDassaaor,
Prince Li was tendered an address of Welcome by various
missionary societies doing work in China. lit
his response to that address he wrote:
"Gentlemen:' It affords me great pleasure to ac'knowledge
the grateful welcome to this country offered
to me by you as representatives of various boards and