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POPULARITY OF JESUS
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And when there came to Him five
thousand people to hear Him talk and
to see Him, people who became hun
gry, He did not hesitate to work a
miracle that He might feed them.
When He comes into the presence
of death, the bereaved mother stand
ing near, though the law says no hand
shall touch the dead, Jesus does not
hesitate to lay His hand upon the
child and bring back the departed life.
Are you surprised at His popularity?
Any man today would be popular who
thus showed his sympathy; any
Church would be popular that follow
ed that method. Have you heard the
story of 'Katherine Booth’s death?
They placed her body in its casket
and kept it in the Salvation Army
building for inspection for three or
four days, and though she was a wom
an, the wife at one time of one of
tne humblest of Methodist preachers,
now the mother of a movement that
has for its object the reaching of
the down and out; yet there came
to that place of death the nobility of
England as well as the peasantry;
there came the teachers from the
schools and colleges and universities,
as well as the illiterate who could not
read print; there came both the good
and the bad. In that crowd there
came three men, and they got around
the coffin and looked into her dead
face and began crying; then knelt
by the coffin and prayed. Then they
got up and tried to leave, but it seem
ed as if they could not leave that
spot. After a while a policeman said,
“Pass on, men; you have been here
too long now.” “We can not go.”
“Oh, but you must go,” he answered
as he took tnem by the arm. They
seemed so deeply grieved, the police
man said: “Is she related, to you?”
And they said, “Oh, not that, but
she was so good to us; she found us
when nobody cared for us, and she
has made us decent.” That is the
secret of Katherine Booth’s populari
ty.
And that more than anything else
accounts for the popularity of Jesus.
And He commanded that His Churcn,
which is afterwards to reveal Him to
the world, should follow in His foot
steps; but that commandment is, to
so great an extent, forgotten. She
has had the opportunity of following
directly in His footsteps, but to a
great extent she nas turned over her
part to other institutions that do not
name Christ.
And the work of humanity for the
most part today is being done, not
by the Church as the representative
of Jesus, but by institutions that
name no Christ, no religion. They
are enjoying the benefits which His
teaching has brought about and yet
denying the life and power and the
name of the One that has made it
possible.
In some sections of the world they
are waking up. In New York re
cently there was a congress of Chris
tian workers to discuss the question
as to the cause of the breach between
the Church of today and the masses,
for everybody is bound to realize that
there is a widening breach. The world
is getting further away from the
Church instead of getting nearer to it.
Preachers all ove r the world know
that this is true, and they are lament
ing it. In that congress one man got
up and said: “The secret of the
widening of this breach between the
Church and the populace is, in my
judgment, due to the fact that the
Church has nothing to do save to
preach salvation, and she has nobody
The Golden Age for July 20, 1911.
to preach it to; they are not there.”
He continued, saying that the Church
has transferred to the secret orders
and humanitarian institutions that
name no Christ and no religion prac
tically all the work that is done for
the uplift of the world. A movement
was started in one of our cities some
years ago by a good Christian woman
to found an institution somewhat af
ter the nature of the Young Men’s
Christian Association for the street
car men of the city; a place where
they could go when they were off
duty; the building to be erected near
the junction of the various car lines.
Thousands of men were thus to be
brought under the influence of that
place. She talked it among some of
her friends, and they said it was a
splendid idea and encouraged her.
Tuey asked what she intended nam
ing it, and she said: “I propose to
call it something like this, ‘Christian
Rest Home for Men.’ ” Some one
said: “If you will leave the word
‘Christian’ out, all right; call it Rest
Home for Men, and you will get a
great deal more money, for there are
people who will not give their money
unless it it put on that broad plane.”
She consented and they went to work
and raised the money—a great sum
of money, and when they finally sum
med it up 95 per cent of the money
was given by Christian people who
would have given it as readily and
perhaps more readily had it borne the
name of Christ. Today that institution
is blessing those men and the Church
is not known. Those men when
they walk out of that building say:
“That is what the civilization of this
age has done for us street car men;”
and they never think of the Church,
and all praise is given to the spirit
of broadness and liberality rather
than to Him who was the Founder.
And so, my brethren, I say to you,
the thing today that is costing the
Church the loss of popular favor is
lack of consideration for the people
that are m need.
And then again let me say I think
His popularity was due to the fact
that He was always in sympathy with
the common people. Seventy-five per
cent., they say, taking it the world
over, of the population of the world
is made up of what is called in our
various localities, the common people.
Now the dominant religion in the days
of Jesus was a religion of the classes.
You know it was so with Judaism. The
masses were shown no consideration;
they were even barred from religion.
At this time they were beginning to re
sent this fact. There was a general
spirit of uprising at the time that
Jesus came and entered upon His pub
lic career; the population was just
becoming aroused. They clamored for
recognition and yet the religion of the
Jews held them back, and Jesus came
in exactly at that time, and one of
His first notes was a note of encour
agement and instruction and helpful
ness to the common people. Jesus
was Himself from among the common
people. His father was a mechanic.
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With him until He was thirty years
of age, He worked at the work
bench; He had had no advantages;
•a Man who stepped out from such a
discouraging environment and become
the herald of an entirely new order;
and I say again, His first note of help
fulness and encouragement to the
people of this class.
Look for a moment at the Church.
What is she doing in this respect? Ts
she sounding a note of encourage
ment and helpfulness to the common
people? You know and I know that
in the majority of Churches if a few
leaders can be satisfied, never mind
the people; if the rich members are
kept happy, it is all right. No won
der, therefore, that the vast army of
the common people turn their backs
upon the Church. Brethren, I tell you
we must do something to span this
breach; there has got to be a bridge
across that chasm that separates the
Church from the masses of humanity.
That is your problem and mine.
But I want to say one thing more.
In my judgment, the popularity of Je
sus Christ is to be accounted for by the
fact that He was never known to
sound an uncertain note about any
thing. At the time of Jesus there was
a great spirit of doubt among the peo
ple of the world. They doubted al
most everything; they had been fool
ed and taught false and conflicting
doctrines until they did not know
what to believe. Jesus caxie and was
the one Man that sounded no uncer
tain note —no note of doubt. In the
first place, He sounded no uncertain
note with reference to Himself. On
every hand they were asking the ques
tion: Is He Christ, Is He the Mes
siah? Jesus stepped upon the scene
and began to talk authoritatively, and
the authoritative teacher is always in
demand, whether you agree with him
or not, you listen.
He sounded no uncertain note about
Himself. He tells them in no uncer-
