Irwinton bulletin. (Irwinton, Wilkinson County, Ga.) 1894-1911, May 08, 1908, Image 3

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Newspaper Page Text| : | ‘ i :SEBB ~ R ‘ »If h ' Dr.MiLes’ AnTi-Pain Piees || ) oyt A FOR s N @,iia g e :FOR" ‘ ey . 770 T T 7 NEURALGIA. ea a g ' . n\'i.a*zf L. B ' rSCI ATICA e R \ B\ They Relieve Pain : ‘ L3\ eili 2] Quickly, leaving no | | JRHEUMATISM. = A . = “ L 8N bad After-effects BACKACHE. el £ <t N _ , : ee . : ZEm W PAIN IN CHEST, = ”W | & DISTRESSIN } |/, s Take ONE -<./<, 25 Doses STOMACH. || " DI : ~N ' s :.£ of the Little Tablets “§ 25 Cents | ‘ . LEEPLESSNESS ///////,, -- w/ AND THE Pain 1s GONE. 8y Never Sold in Bulks| || | | | ! - | -»Lv;-o - --& & 3 !0, : o 2 Buggy and Wagon Doctor . D T N __ IRWINTON GA. Will prescribe for, and operate on, Carri : Yosi e . g Tages, and Wagons. This is the. time of the year for you to send your sick and crippled vehicles to our hospital for a new lease on life. ‘ 5 WA T OFFICE DAYS ¥ Six Days of Each Week, Sabbath Closed. CHARGES FIRST CLASS All work guaranteed to wear our, or money refunded. : CONSULTATION FREE " Coffins and Casket Which I fit up in the best and most modern style and at rea sonable prices, __ Wealso carry a full line of hich arade Buggiss and Harness. AR PR AR RO AR RBTB Ry 'K;-;a-x'ﬂ;‘..wm';'.%.,».,',r'\'.n\;!‘ \ -‘,’l\‘ Vs s 80, 4 VR Ky TR ':‘,3 3 Rt " Dap T . . Il @ MAKES HEALTHY, HAPPY, PRETTY BABIES. ¢ l'-! It 1S HARMLESS. PLEASANT, EFFECTIVE. 25& SOJ;E\th\.«\’:LßE.’L-} { : o T. P MARSHALL,, MFG.CHEMIST. =~ MAGON, GA., i 2 . - !i ﬂi{é’g;%%,: MACON, GA., APRIL 10, 1903 B X Ali Mothers should use BABY EaSE. Jtacts like a charm on |2 : % o S r?yll}i:l;:";gj-u:\.‘%'lrss?ri ‘ai‘t : ‘\:’t::’:-l‘s;lntén-ﬂ\ﬁv 1‘(5“:;“; :ier]w.\;,v , 2 i T @ @ l?ezoﬂ;l;lel:u‘i itkohﬁl‘\f‘i)ﬁle‘rs. SR R ilehy /;:&) ?, Respect, MRS, /4. J. 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Calvin Me- Clelland, pastor of the Memorial Pres byterian Church, Seventh avenue and St. John’s place, preached Sunday morning on “The Divinity of Christ: Cne Way in Which a Man May Come to Believe in It.” The text was John 1:14: “The word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of an only begotten from a Father, full of grace and truth.” Dr. McClelland said: My theme is *“The Divinity of Christ: One Way in Which a Man May Come to Believe in It.” What do we mean by the divinity of Christ? I would not be theological or meta physical; this is a sermon for prac tical men, for men who want to be lieve in this fundamental truth of our religion. Do we mean by calling Jesus divine that He 1s God; that is, all of God? We could not mean that, for Jesus Himself said, “My Father is greater than 1.” Jesus stands for God, speaks for God, acts for God, ¥lis ideas are God’s, His feelings are God’s so much so that Jesus and God are one; we see nothing in Jesus but God. TFor all practical purposes for religion Jesus is God; for us He has the spiritual value of God, He is God. And yet in reality Jesus is not God; though He can say in a very true sense, “He that hath seen Me hath | seen the Father.” He also says, “The ‘ Father is greater than I.” Does not the apostle exactly express it when he writes, “The word was made flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory,” not the Father's glory, mark‘ you, “but glory as of an only begotten ( of the Father, full of,” not the Fath er's omniprescence, omnipotence and omniscience, but full of the Fath er’s “grace and truth.” And so, though theologically Jesus is not all of God, vet practically I know that ! when T fall on my knees before Jesus and say, “My Lord and my God,” I am giving Him His true name. Do we mean by calling Jesus divine than He was something other thant man, a foreigner from some alien ]ifel to the country of human nature? i Were we tempted to think that, the sight of lim praying with plain men, “Our Father,” would bring us to our senses. We cannot think of Jesus as unhuman when we hear Him say to plain men, “Follow Me,” which means, “You can do what I do, you can be what T am.” Would yvou trans late the term “a human being” into Jesus’ language, you could find no better term than His favorite name for Himself, “Son of Man.” In so calling Himself Jesus meant that we should know that He was blood of our blocd, spirit of our snirit. He was like us not in middle life only, but in infancy, in death and after death. Jesus’ divinity makes Him not differ ent in kind, only different in degree; He is man, but more man than we. The likeness of Jesus to us is patent, but it is the difference we need to realize; the likness without the differ ence were meaningless and useless. If He were just man, what gain? The world is full of men. It is His differ ence from us that counts. It is the difference from us which makes it im possible for us to call Him Jesus the Great, which makes Him Jesus the Only. Charles Lamb once said, “If Shakespeare was to come into this room, we should all rise up to meet him; but if that Person was to come into it, we should fali down and try to kiss the hem of His garment.” It iz the difference between Jesus and! us which makes us feel unworthy to put our lips to the fringe of His cloak. It is the difference which makes us call Jesus divine in away in which we can use the word in ref erence to no one else. ' And now what is that difference, | what is this divinity of Jesus? Just this, that whatever Jesus said or did, He left on men the impression of God; like a telescope at or through which we cannot look without think ing of the heavens, Jesus always brought God near. Always in Jesus’ presence there is this unavoidable feeling of God. When He spoke, con science heard in His voice the tones of its infinite author; when He looked at one, the soul felt its eternal judge searching its innermost secrets; when He acted, one kniew that it was as the great God would act; when He died, men felt that they had seen all of God that human hearts could appre hend; henceforth they knew that there was nothing in God a human mind could grasp but Christ. For all 1 purposes of living Jesus is all we know of God; in Him the soul meets‘ God, God meets the soul. Now how can a man come to believe ! that? Believe not that Jesus is the | Absolute God, breaking for the ﬁx'st_| time into a world from which up to | this time He had existed apart in the inscrutable solitudes of infinity; be-i lieve not that Jesus is some unhuman | wedge driven into natural humau! life; but believe that in Jesus the un- i seen God looks out upon us, thol moral character of the Deity becomes flesh, and in that flesh is seen to be| grace and truth. How can a man believe that? You ! will not think as I point out this way | that it is the only way in which one | can come to believe that Jesus is the image of the invisible God; I give it to you as only one practical way in| which men built as I am may come to kneel at the manger and say: “Here was born my Lord and my God.” First, then, the man who would be lieve in the divinity of our Lord will bring his reason to the study of the Gospel. He will want to know if the record is the story of a real life. Here, as I have intimated, reason is satisfied. Tested by the laws of evi dence the Gospels are known to be a genuine record, and the facts they account for are the best attested facts in history. He can begin immedi ately with the Christ Himself. Put ting the sayings and doings together, we get some idea of Jesus’ character. And the first thing that strikes you is His absolute stainlessness; He did no sin; the narrative does not say tmsv—i it goes without the saying; His life was lived in the open, but the spoiling 1 world left no spot on Him; He spent His timé among the moral lepers, hut‘ no contagion fastened on Him; broth- | erhood with the sinfevllest He claimed | except in this, their sense of guilt; He, in the presence of whom others cried, “Depart from me, for I am guilty,” had no confession for Him self. Saints among men tell how they toil through repentance into sanctity; but here is One who looked into the face of the Almighty with no remorse under the shadow of that end where men most feel a shrinking from an in evitable sifting. He spake. “I have finished the work Thou gavest Me to do.” His case is without parallel. This sinlessness separates Him not only from the sinner, but also from the saint; He stands alone. But you have seen the least when you have found out He did no wrong; He always did the right. Every word and act outruns conscience; He made a new character. The first element was humility; the word was not new in His time, the Greeks had an equiv talent for it meaning “coward;” Jesus made the base-born word the key word of Christian character. If ever there was a world-lord it was He, and vet He was among men as one that i serveth. And since then service has been reckoned the crowning grace of character, and men have stretched out their lame hands to seize and wear it. Another element of Jesus’ character was love; this, too, He cre ated; not that none had loved till iJesus came, but none had loved zall the time, under all circumstances, all men. With Jesus love was laying down one’s life in the way God gives the sun and rain, without stint, with out partiality, for good and bad. This was a new idea, and since Jesus lived 'His idea has been the standard meas }ure of love; anything less than that which measures up to a cross is not love. Another element in Jesus’ charac ter was forgiveness. This virtue was not unknown; but they who practiced it aforetime did it under no sense of necessity. It was a work of superero gation. A man was not bound to for give; did he, he had a lien on the gods. Jesus said a man was bound to forgive, only so could he know God; and there rises befere us the vision of One whose countenance was marred more than any man’s, who was led as a lamb to the slaughter, and while they butchered Him, He praved, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” lln this sort of character you have something that stands by itself. No other char acter is the match for it. The man who wears it is in a class by Himself. What shall we do with this Jesus? With Alexander the Great and Na poleon the Great, with Shakespeare and Michael Angelo; somehow our sense of fitness rebels; we cannot bring ourselves to call Him Jesus the Great; He is simply Jesus. Where did He come from? Somehow we find ourselves looking past Joseph, over Mary's head, into the heavens. Ordinary fatherhood and motherhood never before or since brought ferth this kind of life; here is a glory, not like Alexander's, or Napoleon's, or Shakespeare's, or Michael Angelo’s, it is not like the glory of all these rolled into one, it is another kind of glory, a still greater glory; it is a glory as of an only begotten of the divine; that fits the case; He is the Son of God. But we must go on, we are carried farther. It is like this: Here is an organ. Someone tells me that there i 5 in this chest wonderful harmonies. Tgoup to it. I examine its mechan ism. I see that it is an organ; I read the name-plate on the console and get this guarantee of its possibilities. I g 0 inside the case and look into the great tubes and horns of wood and metal and I agree that it is good for all that is claimed for it. There may be unguessed harmonies in this mass of mechanism; there may be voices of thunder, moanirgs like those of the areat deep, melodies like those birds sing at twilight. I allow that there may be all these things in this organ. But, suddenly some one touches the keys, and the great thing springs into life; it sings itself and me away. I hear in it the voices of the wind, the murmurings of the little rivers the distant calls of the gathering clouds. The great chords run together, they rise and fall in waves of melody, they tremble away into whisperings of peace. The music has found me; the organ has touched my feelings; 1 know beyond the remotest shadow of doubt that this chest of pipes is what it claims to be. You, too, have been using your eves, your reason is the eye of your soul, but your soul has an ear, and while you were watching Jesus, study ing Him to find out if indeed He is divine, did your ear hear nothing, were there no voices from that Life which caught your spirit and led it to lean out of the window enraptured with sounds-that were heavenly,song# immortal? What do I mean? That the divinity of Jesus is more than a fact for the intellect, it is a force for the conscience. Study Jesus and you find Him studying you; read the Gos pels, and you discover that your soui is being read. Other men speak and vou are interested. Jesus speaks and conscience takes notice. The great among men make you think of things. Cromwell makes you think of power; Raphael of beautiful lights, Mendels sohn of beautiful sounds and pauses, but Jesus—the very name is a chal lenge. Are you your better self of vour worse self? You cannot get away from the challenge; a Life has clinched with you. The eye sees the organ and allows it is fit to make music; the ear hears the music and allows that it is an organ, The reason appraises the Man of the Gospel and says, “If this Mar were not of God He could do notha ing;” the spirit kneels and whispers, “My Lord and my God.” The total manhood agrees, “The word was made flesh, and dwaelt among us and we beheld His glory; glory as of an only begetten of a Father, full of grace and truth.” After all, brothers, we do all believe in the divinity o? Christ, do we not? It is not that we all have the same words with whick to describe it; there are still creeds and creeds; but as under the fugue on the organ’s flutes there throbs ths undertone of the sixteen foot pedal diapascn, so beneath the detail ct Unitarian and Trinitarian, underton ing the intricacies of new theology and old theology, throbs for the ear that will listen for it, the deep con senting faith in the divine Christ, “God was in Christ.” The Well Springs of Life, The stream is clearest at the spring, and the life that is begun daily at Calvary is seldom muddied. | lledgeville, Ga., ARE PREPARED TO FURNISH YOU ANYTHING TO BUILD OR PAINT . YOUR HOUSE, AND SOLICIT YOUR BUSINESS. OUR MOTTO IS QUAL ITY FIRST, PRICES SECOND, BOTH ARE RIGHT. GIVE US A TRIAL AND BE CONVINCED. nilders & Painters Supplies. WE HAVE ON HAND ABOUT ? BB NEWLY PAINTED AND IN FIRST CLASS C€ONDITION WHICH WE MUST MOVE AT ONCE TO MAKE ROOM FOR NEW GOODS NOW IN TRANSIT. 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