Show 1 J jj j j I f it Ii REVe LEYO CARVER TELLS OF i SOCRATES TES Tho third of oC the tho of c ou The o of the Ow Christian King was given Sunday night In the First Tb The music waR wan furnished b by Mr Ills HIs singing of I to LIfe pucks Eternal was most excellent Miss deserves special mention f far r her artistic reut of If Schubert s ering Impromptu as a prelude his as an of offertory 0 Res Re Carver salts said In part fiS as folio follows from 27 Tho Dc sire Ire of All Nations Shall Come It was fit at the tho rebuilding of the Jew Jow Jewish JowIsh Ish temple and the prophet was speak speaking Ing of that trend of life Bro whIch should ultimately follow Collow when the long desir desired ed end of the Jewish nation should be realized Ono One has but to note noto the carted articles displayed In u the hell day windows to realize how different are the desires s of the tho people of ono one city Travelers tell us that each na lien and especially each mch race has der de I sires to 0 Itself Can nn It he POS PI then to speak of One Oue desire lIe lre or of i nl nit nations Yes Yos for no desire for fori i 1 tru true lore loe and eternal life are found I In a nil all peonies and nd are the very io that the ChrIst satisfies l I Let t us see se how in darkness and desire Pagan leaders have hwe 1 i spoken of such an one It about 1 four hundred years before ChrIst that was the ruling mind of Ore Gre Ci n lie He was th the first and In InT T any ways th the gre retest test or of the think thinkers ers of that thal far pagan past whose men tat riches have lue been so gathered and andl l pt that we may learn i rom them to today day clor He was Quite frank in hIs avowal that tin tho world of needed more help alon along religions lines lineR than au auy J earthly mind could give and he If spoke e clearly of h his s e or of orI the tho advent of some somo supernatural Ica leader who should become the cleat t I orld teacher of men Ho 1 Ie said Ve must wait till some somo ono one comes from God to Instruct us how to behave tor to wards Ute the divinity and men menAh menAh Ah he had learned that man could not of himself formulate a lasting code of morals for dealing wIth his brother man Plato was Socrates great roat pupil and In some ways the tho su of hIs teacher He too voices his teachers longing for a divine lead leador or cr saying It Il Is necessary that a lawgiver be sent from heaven to In Instruct us Oh how greatly do I desire to see seo that man antl who he Is In his 1 P ir lio he gives es us one onrI I of Cf the tho clear 1 an 0 delineations or of 1 Christ as he be r a ys for us his great portraIt of the just man who with without j out nul doing any wrong will assume the j or of being unjust yea Ho He I Ishall shall be scourged tortured fettered I I will he be fastened toa to a post and will re rc I 1 store again the beginning and proto prota I type of righteousness This son sen I tence concerning the suffering and 1 being fastened to a post recalls i very strongly the last days of our Sa Saviour I I Now about this same Bame period of time lime Confucius In ChIna done Rone an all that his great mind could do unaided an anI and andI alone to formulate a code of f moral laws la vs and religious living His teach Ings ba have e been grossly perverted and to 10 see gee hIs worth It Is needed that one go far back and read the old oldest est translations oi of his teachings Ho looked for a greater era of religious truth saying A now new religion will como come from Crom the west It will I the tho uttermost parts o of China v here ships have hae never neer gone In the tho w west t the true man Illan of oC God must be looked for and found Cound And Palestine tg Iq west of ChIna The most vivid and and lucid prophecy or this Christ that Is recorded Jn n heathen lands Is that ot of b roaster Ho He lived In eastern Persia about GOO BC B Br r C The old books show that he hehU hU hl the Persians o of the coming Christ lie He declared that In the tho lat later er days a pure virgin should ring forth orth a child and that as soon Oon as the tho child was born a star stal would appear blazing oven oen at al noonday with luster You my sons ons said h ht to his followers will perceive Its ri ing before any other nation As soon oon as you see the star follow ollow it Wherever It leads you and adore the them m mysterious child offering your gifts to with humility H Ho the almighty word which created the h orens We Va nan hut but note nolI here the reference to 10 the tho virgin mother the heralding star and the fact that Christ Is sok soken spoken en of oC as the Word Vord as John speaks f hum him In his gospel We see now the three Magi should have come Irons the home of the tho teachIng or of India has evor been the great land landof of a grand and mysterious past but there too we se find who ages be before for fore ChrIst came were Bp speaking that one 1110 lJ him m should come In the theol ol oldest pst of Indias sacred writings we find thIs prophecy Some day dar a 3 re rc religIon ligIon will come from the west that shall be under the tho protection of the sword but which h shall shaH spread by br moral t The learned Hin Hindus Hindus dus Int interpret this today as or of Christianity comIng under the tho pro of Great Britain hut but Ing b by of missionarIes I The Tho name Buddha moans means the cn lightened or the illuminated one It Il has been given glyen to man many men but the I greatest of them was artha Dr 01 Paul Carus in translating the teachings of this man who is sup supposed supposed posed to have hao lived about years B 11 C gives this account of the scone of his death We o are told that when Gautama knew kne v that death was ap approaching preaching h ho went with a great com company pany panr to the shala grove groc near Kush and requested his dIsciples to place hIs cot between two shala trees with its head to the north The yen en enable Ananda and all the men and wo we I Imen men or of the tho company were moved moed t to i tears Then Ananda saId Oh blest ono one who wilt will teach us when thou are arc gone I Gautama said sald Remember that I am amnot amnot not the first Buddha who has U thIs earth nor am I the last Gaut I Ima ma will leave you OU but I Buddha will live on for the Buddha Is the truth and I have hac established on onearth earth the kingdom of truth He who believes the truth Is my disciple and I 1 Ishall shall shaH teach him Tile The truth will be and the tho kingdom of truth will Increase for about GOO years then the tho clouds of Ignorance will dark darl darlen darken en the tho earth and another Buddha shan shall arIse and will reveal the eternal truth fruth The Tho venerable Ananda said How shall we know hIm Gautama replied the tho Buddha who will como come after me will bo be known as or whose name is 18 love II The same sarno desire for truth from God Is found among the Indians of America They rhey have received the Christian teacher leacher wIth joy because ho he gave them the tho message front from lie tho Great SpirIt lint the they so greatly longed for fOI In fact the success or of orthe the missionarIes has been duo due to this universal desire c of an all na nations nations for a deeper revelation or of God One who has hns tra traveled led around the world and visited the principal cities said that what had Impressed hIm most was the fact that wherever lie ho I wool wont he found the Christian ian church I and nud school In eor every town of the races and climes hoW OW that Is lie cause causo the ChrIst to a need in every race and clime and that need with its ita satisfaction Is the great meso sage of ChrIstmas joy The rhe ChrIstian mIssionary could never neer have made I the converts which he has hus had hadnot hadnot not the people to whom he went rent really desired the tho message lie he gave gaveDo gaveDo Do you know that tropical Africa and Korea atc are the two countries wherein to today ay church attendance and prayer attendance and Sunday Sundar school schoolwork schoolwork work is putting Jutting American churches to shame Why Because the lie lives ICS there desire Just what Jesus Christ and ho alone can give gle I Now the first plain message of the universality of the desire desiro for or Christ Is the greatness or of the world and need for him his message and his work 1101 the tho second mes message ge of oC thIs evening Is this If the tho need Is so great reat f r one like e Christ then thon In that freed deed do we see the precIousness of the Christ We rc give gIe many gifts this season eason of the year but all the gifts girts of the world pate pale In worth wOIth before beCore the worth of him whose name namo truth loc to e I find ani redemption wo we honor this sea season on I In St Pauls great caree drat dral the name of Wren the archItect is 16 commemorated out a Simple stone thus ChrIstopher Wron if you would sec seo his monument look around you We would say tutus thus or of Christ ns as all nations races and climes joIn In HIs worshIp and praIse and as al all human humanIty Ity it Is heln being elevated and purified by bJ His In influence If you would see the monument of the ChrIst look about you OU |