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ary conference has sent out as the message that we can carry to the world. Among other things it says: “ Our Message is Jesus Christ. He is the revela tion o f what God is and of what man through Him may become. In Him we come face to face with the ' ultimate reality o f the universe; He makes known to us God as our Father, perfect and infinite in love and in righteousness; for in Him we find God incarnate, , the final, yet ever unfolding, revelation of the God in whom we live and move and have our being.” “ The vision o f God in Christ brings and deepens : the sense o f sin and guilt. We are not worthy of His love; we have by our own fault1bpposed His holy will. Yet that same vision which brings, the Sense of guilt brings also the assurance o f pardon, if only we yield ourselves in faith to the Spirit of Christ so that His redeeming love may avail to ^ ¿' reconcile us to God. ' “We reaffirm that God, as Jesus Christ has re* .' vealed Him, requires all His children, under all cir cumstances, at all times, and in all human relation ships, to live in love and righteousness for His glory. 'By the resurrection of Christ and the gift o f the Holy Spirit He offers His own power to men that they may be fellow-workers' with Him and urges them on to a life o f adventure and self-sacri- ’■'.ficé in preparation for the coming of His kingdom in its fulness.” . “We believe that men are made for Christ and cannot really live apart from Him. Our fathers weré impressed with the horror that men should die with- >.■ out Christ—wé¿Share that horror, we aré impressed also with the other horror that men should live with out Christ.” “ Herein lies the Christian motive. It is simple: We cannot live without Christ and we can not bear to think of men living without Him. We cannot be content to live in a world that is un-Christlike. We cannot be idle while the yearning o f His heart for His ■brethren is unsatisfied. ' '¿' “ Christ is our motive and Christ is our end. We must give nothing less,; and we can give nothing more.” W ill T he W orld S ee C h r is t ? My clear young people, this is the challenge that con fronts you as you go out from this school where we have endeavored to do our best to constantly interpret to you Jesus Christ and His Gospel. It makes no difference as to the incidents of your life. Its deepest meanings and truest achievements will be determined by the measure in which it is an interpretation of Jesus Christ, and that interpreta tion is not limited by position or circumstance. Some of the greatest interpretations o f Jesus Christ in all the world are in the quiet unobserved places o f the earth where men and women are constantly living their Christian life in the doing of the common tasks of everyday life. A leading man in India not long ago said, “ I once saw Christ and I have never forgotten the .vision. The plague was raging in the city and everybody had fled in terror except the sick and dying. Whole sections were deserted. I drove down through the plague-stricken section, and to my surprise, I saw a missionary lady coming out o f one of the houses where there was plágue. She came with her hands extended before her and she said, ‘I am sorry that I cannot shake hands with you, for my hands are plagué stained.’ As I looked at her with her plagued-stained hands I sáw‘ Christ.” May God grant unto you such a life as will lead men to say o f you that when they look upon you, stained with the common toil of the tasks that will enable you to minister to your féllows wherever your lot may be cast, they will see Christ. No greater tribute can be paid to mortal man in the day o f high privilege.
and take hold of each other’s hands. While they thus stood holding one another’s hands the bishop led in the Lord’s Prayer and they all joined him. After repeating it he asked that they still hold hands and again pray to gether, and again they repeated the immortal words taught us by our Lord Jesus. A fter a solemn pause they let go o f hands and the bishop said, “ When we hold hands we pray, when we let go of hands we go to war.” We fear that this was a tragic illustration of what takes place in the Church of Jesus Christ. When the fel lowship *of the brethren is broken and we let go o f hands, we go to war, and in the day when we are confronted with one of the greatest opportunities the world has ever pre sented for true witness of the power of Jesus Christ to save men and make them like Plim, the Church o f Jesus Christ is divided and tragically broken and defeated by a war o f words and unseemly conflicts. I am glad to note the great message that that mission
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CHRIST USED A JUG LIKE THIS AT CANA OF GALILEE.
THIS STONE JAR WAS BROUGHT FROM. JERUSALEM BY S. M ISHALANY OF GROTTOES, VIRGINIA. MR. M ISHALANY IS A NATIVE SYRIAN.,. THE JAR HAS THE NAME OF THE MANUFACTURERS AND THE DATE BURNED INTO IT. THUS IT IS DISCOVERED THAT ACCORDING TO THE PRESENT RECKONING IT WAS MADE IN THE YEAR 74 B. C. AND IS 2000 YEARS OLD. IT IS OF THE EXACT TYPE USED BY CHRIST, WHEN PERFORMING H lS FIRST MIRACLE OF TURNING WATER -INTO WINE.
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