Show HIS Deeds Not Hot Dogmas the Essential of Christian living Some In Instances Instances Instances stances of True Heroism was the subject of ofa ofa ofa a sermon delivered yesterday forenoon in inthe Inthe inthe the Central Christian chuch by the pas pastor pastor pastor tor Dr Albert Buxton The text And when he hath found it he it on his shoulders should rs rejoicing was from the fit fifteenth fifteenth chapter of Luke Dr Buxton said in part This story Is a parable of ot Jesus whole life of all human life when man Is lost or 0 redeemed The central purpose of Jesus Je us was not in terms of an obsolete theology to placate an angry God but to reveal to man Gods constant love and sacrifice for man The keynote of Jesus is that he gave his life for for the whole world Living he gave his weariness for their rest his pain for their joy and then th n having loved his lila own he loved them unto the end and gave his death for their life The sound Christian is he who follows follow his Master Mast r in his not he whose dogma or profession is 15 the most orthodox Graco Graci Darling who dared death in the billows Florence Nightingale who left refined circles for or the pestilence of the Crimean camp Father Damien who left the academic circles of Belgium to be become become become come a leper In the Sandwich islands to save the lepers we care little for the dog dogmatic dogmatic dogmatic matic theology of or these they are the reid real followers of Jesus 1 esus s rge is the divine in man and reaches its culmination in mother motherhood motherhood hood In some species the adult never survives motherhood but gives its life as its racial law for the life of ot the offspring In all the decline of ot individual life begins when the new generation has been nour nourished nourIshed nourished and trained to But not merely In a general way is motherhood sacrificed in ness for tor the race Dr Buxton referred with pathos to his I Iown own mother who for weeks when whim his life ife was despaired of took her only sleep still sitting in the watch chair by his bed bedside bedside bedside side He closed with an appeal to accept the unselfish mastery of Jesus and reached his climax in the contrast between the selfish greatness of or Napoleon and the unselfish submission of Jesus who in this very has hasI I conquered the world orl |