A Meditation on tke Beauties o f the Character o f our Savior Last Sermon Preached to his People in England before sailing for U . S.
B Y D R . A . C . D IX O N Bible Institute of Los Angeles
fields shepherds with the dust of the highway on their clothes, and they bowed before Him. They found the in fant Christ in the public caravansary, lying in a manger, accessible to the rich and learned, accessible to the poor men also, and He has been accessible ever since. There is a meeting ground be tween God and men in Christ Jesus. Lovely in His birth, and lovely also in His character, in His holiness. There is a kind of holiness that is not lovely. It is like the white marble, very white but very cold. And sometimes the most righteous people seem to lack sympathy, kindliness and benevolence. And there is a kind of holiness that would put itself under cover, and hide away in a cell. But the Lord Jesus had a holiness that was warm .with love and sympathy and kindness, a holiness that came in touch with the multitude with out becoming impure, a holiness that - could mingle with the vile without re ceiving anything contaminating in re turn. Altogether lovely in the holiness of His character. Then altogether lovely in His humil ity. There is a humility that is not very lovely. Dickens gives us a pic ture of it in Uriah Heep, of a humble ness that is conscious of itself. There is a humility that is proud of itself, and when we begin to be conscious that we are humble we are usually not so humble. The Lord Jesus was manly while He was humble. “ Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am
A mi>i. » ¿L'H LL beauty is in Christ. Let the artist gather the beauty of the flowers, the hills, and the stars, of pottery, stat uary, and painting, and put \ *$ p j all beauty into one picture, and you have Him,— the Altogether Lovely One. Take all the beauties of character on-earth and in heaven, angelic and human, and put them into one character and you have Him who is altogether lovely. And X am yielding to the promptings of my heart just simply to talk to you this evening about Him in His loveliness. First, lovely in His birth. He was the only One ever born into this world who could choose His position, and He chose not to be born into a family of wealth and high position, but into a working man’s family. He would fain put Him self in touch with the great multitudes of this world, not far away from the wealthy and not far away from the outcast, for the man of wealth is usually the man who has worked his way to it, though there are some exceptions; and the outcast often knows something of means. So the Lord Jesus in His love for the millions through His birth brought Himself into intimate relation- , ship with all mankind. There came some wealthy learned men from the East, and only the wealthy could carry gold in those days, and they bowed be fore Him. There came also from the ■ Text: “ He is altogether lovely.”— Song of Solomon, v. 16.
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