Show LIFE OF CHRIST GHRIST m TOTAL FAILURE I- I If Measured by Worldly Standard Stand ard and He Did r Not ot Achieve Ambition SERMON BY DR SHORT Mission Was to Save Others Not to Make a Success of His Own Lifo Life Rev fey Francis Short of or th the tho First Methodist church took tool for hi his t text t Sunda Sunday morning John 1 l I 1 f r have havo finished tho the wok which h Thou gayest mo to do 10 fl and lit In Iii part ho said ns as follows Hour of supreme delight lifes life's titan plan executed lifes life's purposes cd cd life's lifes battles fought and its vIctories vie vIc tories lories won And yet he who bud thus nohl nobly achieved crl must die lie at tho the age I of ot three thirty-three and anel end a n. life if It viewed vIewed view vIew- I ed eti and measured b by worldly standards that had utterly failed lIe He who came cameto to reconcile man to God Cod was vas b by man rejected The Ancient of Days must mus see sec Ills own sun suit set while it is ye yet noon The t born of the King of l Kings bings ing heard the tho Shout We Ye have ha no I king but Caesar while Ills His I Insignia were the thc reed and the crown of or thorns He lie tho the sinners sinner's friend was rejected of or man and for Cor hi liD his seamless garment the tho soldiers gambled while His Ills royal and atoning blood dripped from His Ills wounds Be- Be cause causo of III Ills His poverty he was buried In Ina ina a n. borrowed tomb and yet t n Ire Ilo declared T f r have finished the work vork which thou gayest cst me mo to do Founds Small Church Most lost paradoxical indeed in the face taco of the above e facts seems the text when viewed from a a human standpoint stand stand- point The only thing He ne did was to found Cound a n small church composed of poor pOOL men and poor women He ITo wrote no books established no schools organized or or- no humane societies and failure fail fail- failure ure me seems the only word that will describe describe de de- IC- IC scribe His Hig life The fhe broken shaft muss musi be erected over o His e grave and charity would oblige Ills His ft lends friends to say lIe Ito meant well but hUL could coull not substantiate His profession profession could could not save e His Us own life Indeed HP lie could not save ave His own life Ife because He lie came to save e others and ho he that would save others other's must mut mute rive give e himself Only lifo can n pro produce life Ifo and only In proportion as one gives i es to the race of his own life can cnn he ho hope to see his ambitions realized and nd his hlf plans plane executed c All An history Is I Ithe the ement achie of youth Jesus Jestus of Nazareth became the worlds world's redeemer at three thirty so tho the seeming defeat t which came to our om Lord in Ills death was all drowned In Ills His decimation declaration I have havo finished tho the work ork which Thou Ja cavost travest est mo me tn to r n. n. n factors account for His Hip achievement achieve achieve- ment J patience In til preparations n second fidelity to plan third thin obedience obedience obedience obedi obedi- ence to authority The shortest among amonS- lives hives ma may ha e been the mo most t brilliant after afterglow lo is true of the theMan theMan thelan Man lan of Nazareth the end of His life liCe was as but the tho beginning There are arc many so-called so endings which are but hut the beginnings of greater grater usefulness s sI I havo o said that Ills His life lifo was according ac nc ac- ac cording to plan so o Is the life of or the race Men Ien are aie not so much Clot flotsam lm lma a and ld jetsam on life's lifes sea n. n Life is a ahole whole hole In lit which men are Integrals in inan inan inan an infinite te o l progression There is nothing noth noth- ing hig lost in ut nature Continuity everywhere everywhere every even where evident Heat light electricity change chango their form hut but go on In other forms Corms of usefulness So life tife Is 15 subject sub stub to this change chanse but Its it continuity h holds good and herein Is found one ono ot souls soul's chief claims to immortality We Vo shall all be changed and continue o on somewhere God Goel knows s only how but when we see Him we shall he be satisfied I |