| Show CHRISTS CHRIST'S TEST TESTA A SUPREME ONE Rev G. G A. A Foote Says It Is Easy to Di Die With Plaudits S of of Public in Ears FRIENDLESS MARTYR HERO Aloneness of the Savior Deserted by Disciples Was His Heaviest Cross of the tile Dwelling upon th tile the world to follow the example set et b by the mob the time Re Rev Ret reer Alvin I Foote of the Westminster t 1 Pr Pl teran l. l church church last night declared that the rest real te test t of oC character char har- actor acter lies Ii s In the ability to t make muk decision lon while standing alone or In the face of oC I strong opposition It Is ens easy hOc he declared for a man manto manto manto to die with the tile ringing cheers of victory Ictor in his ears but it is hard io lO die alone alon forsaken Nl and despised b bv by tho those e who ivilo once loved lo us Mr Ir Foote took tool for or his his his' subject ct The Time Aloneness of ot Christ with And hAnd thc they all forsook him and tied fled Mark xIv W as its his hum text He lIe said ald in part H It Is easy for a man to die dIp with the time ringing ch cheers t rs of ot victory victor In hl his ear ears There Thera Is h glory In the death which we knew will iIii our name with th tIle the circle of or tame Lame and love lo o of m men nien n But 0 O. O It is hard ilard to die alone foral forsaken cn and despised despised despised de de- de- de by those who once loved lowd us Had the little boat Loat In the lake from mill which Jesus spoke to the tue multitude been blen overturned overturned over ocr turned that day da- and he had been drowned the people would have ha burled buried him with the highest honors of ot a prophet It would have been ca easy for lor him on that da day to have hac himself proclaimed king kins' come com to deliver dell r th the n Conquered red Through Death But that would have ha been no test Future Futuro Fu Fu- turo ture genera generations lions v. v not not have be bt believed believed be- be on him We toda today would have been without a Christ It Is only we see him standing alone after all ail have forsaken n him standing Immovable and unshaken In his conviction that he is tIme the Messiah standing with the courage of a God In the tIle face Cace of or painful di disgrace disgraceful grRce ful til death nth It Is only then tilen that we Wll believe e in him and love him It Is only death for a 11 cause all e that makes the champion of oC ofa a 3 cause immortal It was only death undeserved death for others that made madeJesus madeJesus madeJesus Jesus th the conqueror of ot mens men's hearts But I 1 want you to turn from Crom the time contemplation con comi contemplation of Christ to that of your your- selves T I want every ery one of you Oll to see In the tile test of Jesus of Nazareth the test fast of ot If yourself I want you von all nil to realize that the tile tile- s supreme moments moin or- or of our lives are when we stand face to face tace ace with ome sonic question we wc must decide and stand alone There Theme Isn't an any an virtue in ill doing simply as the crowd does because the crowd does dues It It We e make a great reat deal o of being In Inthe Inthe Inthe the fashion and I am sorry to sa say that the guidance of fashion Is accepted many times In matters of character r. r of l b business busi busl- Iness I- I ness floss of social relations of oC life work worl and even een of the way to die as well as asIn asIn asin In the matter of ot clothes As 15 to the time clothes you ou wear wea T I think itIs It ItIs itis Is wiser to obey the dictates o of or fashion so long as the they are arc not extravagant ant or injurious to the health or Immodest and md so lon long as you Oll can afford aCford to obey ey than It Jt Is to de defy them But when It comes to questions not of what the 1110 cut CUl of ou co shall be but of what what Miu the tile v mold of r our o characters I shall bf be b t not of oC whether we shall wear n a blue biLie or a brown irown but luit of or what time tile color of ot our heart shall hall bo bp not of or whether our hats shall win the th admiration of critical eyes but bitt of or whether our dealings s with our fellow tel fel low men shall win Will their love f and respect not of oC what we shall wear at a w wedding or a dinner but of how we shall meet God od flint anil death why 1 tell you ou there Ino Is I no wa way to decide these t except to face them alone without consideration of or what other do 00 and without listening for Cor or condemnation and fight I out Olt I th the h tw n God and our own conscience con con- sciences science I l h have v no use for fo that common gaIno sayIng sit say Ing Ino in irm these those times often rt n heard a as an ex- ex I cue ti lI for or doing something that Is questionable ques ques- it I name namely I Everybody E does have ha no use either for that other phrase so o common among business men amen a it aM i istock a a. stock palliation a sort ort of staple soda seda sedative edathe the live to conscience namely Business lne 8 I Is 11 hUl ness I tell you that no man who thinks think anything of or himself as 31 a man nami no flO noman noman man tn who WIlO ha nan stood before his mirror an and looked honestly Into the eyes reflected t there will say a r Everybody does ds It or Business s I Is business as ns a palliation of or some Iome m mean an or dishonest t act Fashion m may clothe th bod with ho beautiful garments gar gar- ments but alas Too often oCten It clothes th the soul with the rags and filth of mean mean- ness s. |
