998 Back of geology, chemistry, anthro pology, embryology, biogeny, biology, morphology, ontogeny and .ethnology, ac cording to the Bible, is the great, eternal, incarnate Son of God, Creator, Redeemer, Saviour, King of kings and Lord of lords! (Dr. French E. Oliver.) The visibliS- Church is in her present distraught cpndition because,' speaking generally, she has not preached a whole Christ: Every heresy afflicting Christen dom today grows out of half-truths about the personal and official glory of Jesus Christ our Lord, and these patronizing half-truths are laid and hatched and nourished in the Church until they are full grown vulture-heresies. The everlasting*Son of God, not merely Jesus of Nazareth, is the substance, as Christ crucified for our sins, is the theme and sweetnessi of the glorious Gospel of the grace of God. The sinner needs this divine Saviour, and the Christian’s per sonal welfare and growth are strictly con ditioned by the measure of his knowledge of the eternal Christy An eminent oculist in New York who was consulted by a young office-clerk who was losing his sight, said: “You do not require an operation nor any other treat ment except a ferry -trip, say to Staten Island, where your eyes, too long confined to the walls of your office, can have range. Nature will restore your sight by looking at far distances.” How many Christians are stunted in growth, dim-visioned and joyless because of imperfect, unworthy and unscriptural concepts of the person of Christ Jesus and His glorious work! The person of Christ, is the substance of every doctrine of Scripture. Every precept, is embodied in His life and every promise is sealed .with His hearty blood. Without Him there could have been no Bible. “Search the Scriptures” that you may know Christ the Lord in the eternal past; .Christ in creation; Christ in the
THE K I N G ’ S B U S I NE S S Old Testament; Christ in “ The days o ' His flesh” ; Christ in His death, resur rection, ascension and in His present in tercession at the right hand of the Maj esty on High; Christ in the Day of the Lord; Christ in His second coming; and Christ in the eternal future. “ This is life eternal, to know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent.” “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, yea and forever.” (A. B. Winchester.) “ Oh, good-by, Father Darwin! You seemed a wise old chap; you had your day, now William J. has wiped you off the map. You almost had convinced us that we were sprung from apes; but Wil liam cries, ‘Men do not rise from such unseemly shapes.’ You bunked us, Fath er Darwin, you led us all to think that if we’d seek, week after week, we’d find the Missing Link. You dug up skulls and shinbones of monkey and of man, and cried, full tilt, that they were built upon the same old plan. And we as marks were easy, we fell for this cheap plant, absorbed your bunk, and thought the/k monk might well be niece or aunt. I watched the fierce gorilla and thought my great-grand-dad, on some past, day roared just that way, and doubtless looked as bad. I often paused to picture my forbears in the trees; they warbled tunes with cheap baboons and tinhorn chimpanzees. And, thinking I was hum bled, for no man can be proud, if he can trace his tribe or race to such a measly crowd. But William J. has saved ijs, re stored our self-respect; our pedigree is fine to see, and everything’s correct. So farewell, Father Darwin! You put your graft across; you’ve had your day, now William J. shows you’re a total loss.” IT’S HAD ITS DAY Once in a while Walt Mason comes out with some good ones, and here is one that impresses us.
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