Show r JESUS ESUS J INCARNATE SN ESS R Rev ev Frank Fay Eddy Discusses the Significance of ol olSon Son of God T TYPE YPE OF THE CHRIST LIFE T 1 uris U It Jt I Refer S lo to a fI E Experience nf or Jesus The Tire services es of or th First church were well n nt attended tended yesterday decorated decorated deco deco- Th Iw auditorium was tastefully rated with long long- C festoons of evergreen nd Christmas bells In the musical program Mrs Airs I Bf's Browning sang ThE Tho Guiding Star Star rOO with lIne lino effect offset Unity quartet q sang tho tue anthem Glory Clory to God In tilt e eat st st. t i I IThe The Tho sermon by hy tire tho pastor Rev Frank Franl Fay discussed l th the significance of f the tIre lift of or Jesus JS 9 of or as typifying tyl- tyl tying the tire Christ lifo life Mr TO dy Introduced his subject by ly 11 that he turned from the mythology with which fond font fancy has tho tue nativity to seek LImo Iho deeper reasons why Jesus lesuR called calEd the Christ looms BO so large ar e on our spiritual horizon To hel believe the th tale of or th the shepherds oror or of the tho three wise vho men moon or of tho the Virgin t ll or birth I Is to retain reain the tho protests protest protesto o of reason the tho credulity of oC childhood There Thre Is no more mort reason cason for tor believing tire tho folklore clustering around the birth of or JeHU Jesus In tho Ire calm cairn judgment of adult n lul years year than thero there is In believing bolle In th the stories about good St. St t. t Nicholas To the tho Unitarian the tho significance of or this life docs does not lie llo p In Jn the wonders with wih Which It I Is ushered In or In th the mystical anti and ant magical portents surrounding Its It end upon tho th cross Wherein then imen then does doos its is issi si significance lie llo 10 Mr rr found his Iris answer to this question In a rational Interpretation of the tho Incarnation anti and the transfiguration In this thio connection he lie said s ll Hele In iii II I iouI iou I believe In time tho tIe Incarnation So do I 10 you anti and I think that most mORt o you who are here hero this morning In It as 09 I do 10 to V We believe In an active principle of righteousness expressed In noble ideals of or duty cuty In surging tides of tire the spirit carrying us mis S onward toward service eri rv I ice e. e in th tim tho puro pure unselfishness of or love the time m mystical ties tes o oC faith uniting U UE mis to time the o nv whose face race and form Corm formaro are arc shrouded in iii 11 tho time mists of ci Infinity i To ro have a 1 living consciousness of such things as fR these to live lve these things s and be bo transformed by hy them thatis the meaning of incarnation These diviner appeals play pIny upon our humanity Wo We respond to them In greater or less degree It I Is 18 quite time the most wonderful thing thinA In tho the universe that we humans have o mis 18 capacity of oC spiritual understanding fashioned as we ore are still stU In the tho ca clay or of the tho brute There is IR a n mystery In the incarnation but hut It Is a universal mystery appl applying no more mor to Jesus than to one ono of u us UE Th Tire The difference between Jesus nd one of 1 f his mis hi IJ disciples was not I Immeasurable m ule agur with th the hum human buman n yardstick All Al I H lived ll llon on the human plane Jesus as much as th rest Iest Rut nut Jesus to the tire spiritual h heights of life In him we wo find hod Ind 11 righteousness Incarnate tc tp a su supreme so- so Sl- Sl promo preme dC degree co humanly speaking or at I least 1st so 80 It I seems to us now irow Hence his Ils life liCe ha has has' hasa imaLa a moaning meaning t tp us itis is tile the lifo of ono one OH of our own kind Hen Hence c his o nol lias hiatt hat jt Al moaning n hi to tuf tous us It ItIs Is 1 Ui the go gospel of or a man like HUo lIc F unto us ourselves The Tue In tire tho transfiguration wo we WP have a mythical account of a gr great at spiritual experience of e Jesus u just as we we have in tho tire stories of the th temptation Jesus Jesu went vent up s some mt ni night ht to the lie hel heights of the calm caIr hillside Ho lie went u up away from flom tie the noise and amid sordidnesS of the thronging multitude whose importunities lc ties for SI signs antI and miracles of healing wearied him He lie le wont up to wrestle with wih the fact fart that h he Ire wa was not reaching the souls of those thos who flocked to hear him lie He went up tip to face uce the fact tact that his mission slon so far was a failure bitterly bit lerl terly to that young man who so lately had lurid left lef his lowly YOUnA hoi iron iron- and amid nd the simple lately neighbors Inspired with wih visions of a world recalled from flom Its Is sins and amid selfish striving came camo homo home the thought that for his hi baird no imo 10 more was po possible than th time tho sepe scattering upon sell for the most macat part unfit to bring forth Corth a a. luau hal St. Rt Upon the mount moun t of or ura lion he lie t touched spirit with wh the noble I lives on of the lie past as as t typified I In j Moses sP a ml Ela Ellas who wiro too trail had been heen seed seed- p ll sowers in their day In Iii th the morning Ight ho lie Caine to his lila s. s Peter James Tamos and ant John ohn who aroused from Crom their slumbers saw upon ripen his face fuco CaCI a n new mien exaltation he re tried to 1 I 1 tell thorn then then timen and antl Hd titter Inter time the of the Ihl SO soul struggle le he be experienced aunt and 1 and amid tho tire others made mado out ont of of It tim th tho 1 myth we have ha e In Jn the time gospel narratives gospel s This myth hns has greater meaning Jo fp W us I because It I does a spiritual experience of Jesus A t deeper meaning Is tin possible to tn tire tho II merely fanciful folklore of time thu nativity l e fl of tt if Ch hues Time The work of a a. l great groat spiritual lea leader rl like hike Jesus JeSts Is perhaps best est Illustrated In him parable his its own favorite method Lot Let t mo me bring you a parable from a at book bool of wierd stories cal called d Some Somo Chi Chi- l' l nese n ose Ghosts b by It Its J I is s the tale talo tall called Thin The SOl Soul of or the Great GreatHell Hell Bell Bell HellIn In brief it i is this this- Some SOt r commanded com corn ye years rs ago a Chinese emperor i ono one of oC his Iris hl high h officials to l have o havea a bell cast that bo be heard I Its I li 11 u furthermore commanded that the time Itch hell should be strengthened with wih brass and hel deepened with gold and sweetened wih b bo be with silver sl or Upon Its 1 lips were to engraved tho the bl blessed etl sayings ot or the sacred booko and 1111 it was to be su suspended sus Sus- In IQ the center of oC the tire imperial city of Th The Mandarin Kouan Vu Yu u assembled nil all al the master molders and in Iii th empire and set them at work Hut BUl the time belt bell Jel carrie camo cracked and l ugly ly likewise the tire second The emperor affronted at this failure decreed fl that if it i the third attempt at attempt nt- nt tempt resulted no better beter that lint Kouan Yu should be UP beheaded Now ow this mandarin man man- darin dana had a beautiful and pious daughter daugh daugh- ter manned Ko Ko Alarmed for tire the safety of tier her father she sime sold her jewels and with the gold goh obtained sought a a. famous astrologist for 01 advice After Aftem e consulting the heavenly auguries ho told her hOl that the time re metals would never nevor blend in the thc bell bel unless a virgin was fused with wih them In the fires fres of oC th time the crucible Ko Ngai told no one of her et but on the tire day set f fOr r the castIng casting cast cast- Ing accompanied her father to the loon foun dry try There from rom a raised platform she cast herself Into the ner fiery lake of oC metal CI s a-s 8 she sho sprang to death For thy sake salo 0 O father sprang This bel belt bell so runs rums the time tale Is tho the great greit nell rell which still marks the hour in th the great reat tower towel of tho the ancient cU city and every child knows that It sobs for Cor the name of Ko round round anti and ant full ful followed by a minor noto nto like a sigh hint So Jesus incarnate righteousness affected af at af- af time the fusion of ot many discordant elements lement in iii the time religious life of or men and today from countless s 's pen peals forth his iris messa message Peace Pence on good gool will wil to men men |