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Show DR. VANCE'S DAILY ARTICLE " Which would ou rather havp for your preacher, a man who is so good lhat he scares you, or one like Simon Peter who i3 so human that ou can go fishing with him" Tho old name for a minister of the Kospel wr.i "divine " People were rot always comfortable in his presence They respected him, but he seemed to dwell apart from common life. He was the frontispiece of a religion whose chief mission was to prepare people to die. But our ideas have changed. Tho religion which appeals to us today is not that which prepares for death, but for life The world is not after her mils who dwell In holy coves, and hv a llfo of penance try to merit heaven. It seeks servants who lend a hand and minister to human need. A preached does not need to be any e tlcc divine, but he does need to be in- j tensely human. He must be able to enter into all life with sincere sm pat by and an honest love for people I He must be able to say in every act ;and message: 'Write me as one who loves h.s fellow -men." This docs not 1 mean that he is to quit loving his God; for God has Identified Himself with 1 peopl The onl way you can hurt j Him Is to hurt His people. The greatest argument for Christ's! 'deity was His humanity. It was so big. so capacious, so cosmopolitan, so racial, ra-cial, so all-embracing, that Peter said: 'The son of man is the Son of God. And so that preacher is most divine who Is most human. This j what Paul j meant by being "all things to all men." He did not mean that he was a t rim- ; taer and time-server. He merely meant that he vas human. |