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v V? " . : :?% : \>. " " Vv*-1' ' " V/y;>';':\!;' " " : ' "" i . _ 1 The Pui/oJt | ' 6A$$^'x&& [R&.1// jiENDElgo^ m0*'~ Subject: Representing Christ. Brooklyn, X. Y.?Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church on the theme, "Representing Christ," the pastor, the Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, took as his text John 13: 34-35, "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one1; another. By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love one to another." He said: o>Vi? 4^ :? J ~ Af 4V%A j.ma, tu my xiiiiiu, is. uuc ui iuc broadest, most far reaching, most widely inclusive of the moral duties that our Lord has made obligatory upoh those who wish to enter into the Christian life. The time and the scene are familiar to us all. The Supper is over; Christ has washed the feet of His disciples; the betrayer is named and departed upon his errand of shame. The end is very near. A few hours and. Calvary. With the knowledge of His approaching suffering weighing heavily on His heart, the Saviour with a more than kingly courage speaks His words-of comfort and command. Only eleven men, and they soon sorely to be tried, hear the melody of His voice; but to our hearts He speaks to-day, with thos?> same kindly yet authoritatively tones with which He swept the faithful, fickle, strangely human souls of that little band to whose ministry we owe so mucu. t'vilo it /inmrrmn/lmanf" tTiat * our Master enjoins upon the disciples demands equal obedience from us. In it is embodied the essence of the whole, moral law. To be true sons of the Father we must exemplify in our own lives those very qualities of love and of loveliness that are the secret of the Saviour to,draw men, everywhere and at all times, unto Himself. "With our every thought and word ; and act must we represent the Christ. With all our moral and spiritual forces, given to us of God and dedi' cated to His service, must we re-presentvthe message of salvation. Let us look for a moment at the s character of the love which Christ demands of us who would serve Him truest. With Him there is no letting down either in degree or in kind. Christ asks of us th.- same ideal love that He spread wide about Him ^ -whithersoever He went. "Even as I < have loved you," so shall yc love one another. "Xot a simple comparison, but a conformity; the love is to be :.fof the same nature," the commentators tell us. Thus we see, that, in short, we are, In our love, to be ^nrfeHil-b Vn marc contimonfalit'T" VUi Ji^vuav? v <uv* w vw^? v,'<) jf no passing fancy or passion, is this love of which the Christ is typal. It transcends and includes all our personal passions. All the heart's emotions are -at their best when, the love of Christ reigning withiu ns, they are expressions of that alturistic, world-including affection wnich theutfazarene calls forth. The influence of the Christ makes for greater beauty in all the gardens of the soul. ??$ Everywhere in life we find it to be so. The gentle light that glances from the mother's eye becomes a holy, steadfast glow when once the power . of the loving, living Christ is felt within the soul. All love that is ^worthy of the name is beautified, ennobled, sanctified by the incomiu0 of ' the Spirit of Almighty God, the Com|v' lorter from Christ. The Christ life without the Christ love cannot be. The life implies the love. The ;n. ;* ' coming Christ compels an outgoing ;|ove; and only in the measure that \ we pour out our love upon our fellow y men do we live truest for Christ and closest to His side. Thus, we see that, in essence and in. sum, our love jt as Christian men and women must j??' 'measure true to the character of the . -" '.love which was in Jesus Christ HimZ... celt. v:'. " A cursory examination of these f: words of the Master would lead the reader, perhaps, to conclude that this ,i love that the Saviour showered upon His disciples and to which He bade ^he eleven to conform was to be con. fined in its application to themselves only, or at best to those who would accept the Gospel and its messenger, .tfo be sure, there is a mighty element of truth contained even in this limited,, short-sighted, rather self-centred ,view.. Christ did mean and does mean that Christians should practice all the arts of love within the 5 circle of those who have heard the call and have answered it. Perhaps it would be better, no not perhaps, bat certainly it would be best, for the Christian household of faith, inr dividuallv and collectively, to make effective in their lives the highest principles of ideal love laid down by Christ. But as we read closer and enter more fully into the mind of the Master we see a deeper and a grander message in these, parting commands. Listen once again to His .words:'" :"Even as I have loved you." Do you not see the great, world-wide principle lying just within the shad> ow of the sentence? '"Even as I have jjxved you." And how had He loved them?? Moses, you know, brought tife children of Israel up from the torrid land3 of bondage, up to the confines of the land of Jehovah's "promise. And the name of Moses is held in reverent memory by the host of that scattered people of God everywhere to-day. But this Christ, this despised Nazarene, had found these men struggling not only with unwholesome economic and ecclesiastical conditions, but with inner and spiritual distress. True to the purpose and motive of His life Christ had given them the way unto spiritual salvation and, with it, the means to;the cleansing of the entire civil life ?' of .the world. He had come down from the Father's house beyond the immeasurable blue and, taking upon Himself the burdens and the sins of human kind, had started these men out upon the sure highway that leads t6;:spiritual perfectness and all temporal joy. He had found them in deep darkness and had shown them th? light. There was no question in Christ's mind as to the depth of'their philosophy, or as to the bulk of their pt^seS? to" :'the.: lit of their v - " ,v-vV.v. .y. - f . . . 4" ' ' - - : - ; " *' ' ' clothes. He did not inquire, so far as -vre have record, into their ancestry, so to be sure that they were worthy to be in the social set of one whc was of the line of David. Ah, no! Christ took them, one and all, at their face value?as men and sinners. He saw in them only men waiting and longing for the touch of a loving hand and the comfort of a sure salvation. He called them and they left their work, their families and their friends, and they followed where He led. And, as they followed. He taught them, and He showed them how, by the power that He alone could give, they might work social and spiritual miracles and transformations in their own lives and alsc in the lives of other men and of nations. And. withal, He loved them ??Al- J-1?1 i.T 1 r\i'r\ Ti'Vinro. WUI1 mat iiu^uiv. guui* iu?5 ??m. i^ I with none other had ever loved them before. Such was the love of Christ to His disciples. Such was the character of the affection, in the broadest interpretation, that He lavished upon them. Such was the love which, in its fullest application. He wished them to, manifest to all men. He had loved them as sinners. They must love other men in sin. He had deall kindly and patiently and with al forebearance with thenv' They musl do the same w-ith their fellows. Tc be sure, they wert tc strive for bar mony among themselves at times that they might be known and reac of all men as His disciples. Onlj thus could their teachings gain oi retain a merited respect. But th< wider expression of the love of Chrisi that was spread abroad in thei: hearts demanded, as it demands to day, that they look upon all men ii sin, as well as upon all Christians, a: brothers?and love them. But, I hear some one ask, suppos< Christian men to-day do love, spe cifically and generically. as Chris commanded that the disciples shouk love, what then? That is just the point that I wisl to consider. This command o Christ, in-its apnlication' both to tin relation of the Christian to the othe: faithful and to the world of men ii j sin about him, is just as imperative upon us as it was upon any of tin eleven. And the outworking of tha Christ principle in all the depart ments of human activity will ensun the final solution of all difficultie that now perplex and distress us an< the consummation of the Kingdom o our Lord. It is so perfectly easy an< so very simple that the ease and sim plicity of it all astonishes us. W< have become so accustomed to tliinl of our problems as exceptionally hari + ? saIwa WTa ccor.1 in milf.h lO1 11/ OVI vc, IT V> WVftU vvr ... v. fc to assure ourselces of the almost in surmountable difficulty to set th< world right with the eternal plan o God. We would much rather, so i would seem, that the whole matte remain complex. We think, perhaps that God will be easy on us if we fai in a difficult task. - ' Beloved, it is difficult,* it is well night, yea actually, insurmountable this sin in the world, when square* to the possibilities of our own un aided powers. But did we open ou hearts wide toward Heaven once, am let the power of the Spirit of the liv ing Father fill us to the full; did w but empty out our Spirit-filled heart in love upon our fellow men; did w but put into action once this 'simpl plan of God toward the rehabilitatio] of the world, we would learn, an< that quickly, what are the possibilitie of the power that cometh from oi high. And the only way to rectif, .the results of the spiritual, moral economic and political sins of thi world, individual and social, is t* let tlie love of God fill you an* through you the world of men abou you. This done, the task is light, fo our basis of action is changed. W no longer rely upon the wisdom o the philosophies of men and thei theories, but we clutch tightly to th power arm of that Ruler of us all b whom all things are possible?an* we seize the first thing first. Now this command of Christ b love one another even as He has love* us, is imperative. It is mandator: and not permissive. If we would b good Christians of full and regula standing in the household of fait! we must obey. It is not for us b decide whether or no in our case th law shall be valid. Christ commands and only by obedience to His deman* do we so that, all men shal know that we are His disci pies. The test of fidelity is in obedi ence. Lip testimony is judged b: fealty in service. Some one has said "What you do speaks so loud that cannot hear what you say." It is thi central fact that Christ recognize when He commands a loving order ing of our outward life. We ar Christians, but do we live the life o love? These words of Christ should com' home to each of us with more thai usual force at this season of th' year. Christmas is over; shortly w< shall be face to face with those sad der days which are so full of mem ories of Him who, for our sakes, suf fered even ignoblest death. It i fitting that we should re-dedicate our selves to the work that He so dearl; loved. In His own good Providenc* God has seen proper to make use o ' nrrtv'ul Tf romaini IJS IV tii W IIV1 iUl JLb A V^AIAMIU! for us to decide to co-operate witl Him and to do good work for thi kingdom. Shall we put our shoul ders to the wheel or shall we ad< weight to the load? Shall we no drink deep at the fountain of God' love; shall we not be messengers o His healing love unto this weary, sin crushed world? Only as we breathe the Spirit o His lo-v^e do wo represent Him. Let us open then our hearts botl God-ward and man-ward; and fill th world with Christ's uplifting, sancti tying love. '"A new commandment I give unt you, that ye love one another; eve: as I have loved you, that ye also lov one another. By this shall all rue: know that ye are My disciples, if y have love one to another." The True Church. There are some few churches lei to show the type to which al churches must return. Next to th home and the family the true churc represents to its members helpful ness. sympathy and every graciou and homelike virtue. Heavenly activity is fruitless wit! 2 put iieitvenly attributes.- * " ' ' . / r " \ John D. Rockefeller, it is said, gets ] }1.90 with each tick of the clock. | And the ticking never gets on his nerves, adds Puck. ! 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