| Show Bi iA rOLEON OF CHRIST continued from last week and moreover with years of study one must possess sa s1 B ecial aptitude but good sense alono alone the heart an honest spirit are suf to comprehend christianity the christian religion is neither ideology nor metaphysics but a practical rule which directs the actions of man inan corrects him I 1 and assists him in all his conduct the bible contains a complete series feries of facts and of historical men to te explain time and eternity such as no ther other religion has to offer if this is not the true religion fon one is is very excusable in being deceived fr everything in it is grand and worthy of god I 1 search in in vain in history to find the similar imi larto to jesus christ or anything which can approach app the gospel neither bistor history y nor huni humanity anity nor the t he ages nor nature offer me anything with chich I 1 am able to col compare lipare it or to explain here everything 19 is tx CX tra ordinary the more I 1 consider the gospel the more I 1 am assured that there is nothing there which is rot beyond the march of events and aboe the human mind evert even the impious themselves have bave newa dared to deny the sublimity of the gospel which ini inspires pires them with a tort sort of compulsory veneration what happiness that book procure es for th a who believe it what marvels those admire there who re elect upon all the words there are arc im bedded and joined one upon another like the stones of an eji edi fice fee the spirit which binds these words together to ether is of a divine cement WN all 11 now 0 W javali lev all traces and again 0 vils it from the mind rah fa 11 phi ase e liaa has a sense complete winch traces the perfection of unity and the rotundity of the whole book unique where the mind finds finda if a moral beauty beamut y before unknown and an idea of the supreme superior even to that which creation suggests who but god could produce that tv type I 1 e that idea of perfect toi qually equally exclusive and original christ having in but a few weak dis eigles was condemned to death he ha died the object of the wrath of the jewish pric priests tits and am of the contempt of odthe the nation and abandoned ind and denied by his bis own disciples they are about to take me I 1 and to cruelty crucify ne aie said lie he I 1 shall he abandoned of all the world my aly chief disciples sciples ili will deny nis file at the therom coni luen iuen cement of my iffy punishment I 1 ahall all be left to the wicked but then divine justice being satisfied original sin being expiated by my link stifle rings the bond of roan man to god will vill be renewed and my death will le be the life of my disciples then they will be more inore strong without me ine than with nic for they will see life ins rise aga again in I 1 shall ascend to the skies and I 1 shall send to them from heaven a spirit who will instruct them the spirit of the cross will enable them to understand my gospel in fine they will believe it they will preach it aid they will convert the world at d 1 I this fc 0 promises promise so aptly calel by paul the foolishness of the cross criss 17 this prediction ocoe miserably crucified is litte rally accomplished and tin nude of accomplishment is perhaps more prodigious than the lie promise it is not a day nor a hattle battle which has decided it Is it the lifetime of a man xo nol it is a war a long combat of three hundred years commenced by the apostles and continued by their successors a and rid by succeeding generations erat ions of christians in this conflict all the kings and all the forces of the earth were arrayed on one side upon the other I 1 see no army bu a mysterious energy individuals scattered here and there in all parts of the globe having po other rallying sign than a common faith in the mysteries of the lh cross harpers monthly |
