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TIE TL ~ A SCHOL.AriLY AUNDY ERNON BY THE REV. M. L. tuitTOI, PH. D. Them: Jesus es Prophe" Brooklyn, N. Y. - For the union services of the'. ohuropes on the Heights the preacher Sunday was the Rev. Marion LeroY Brton, Ph.D.. pastor-elect of the Church of the Pii grime. His stibject was "Jesus the Prophet." He solected his text from Matthew '21:10-11: "And when -He was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this? And the multitude said, This is Jesus the - Prophet of Nazareth of Galflee." . Dr. Burton.said in substance: The 4entral question of all this in Christian life is, how does Jesus save us; how are We to profit by Christ's life? It is impossible in this short time to answer but one phase of the three which our 1aviour lived, as Prophet, Priest and King. Yet -each ,conveys its part of truth u4lon a pro per concept of His holy life. How ever, it is well to concentrate upon the prophet side of Hiq life, not to im ply at all any sense, of separateness between them. We cannot give at tention now to the kingly aspect, but to that of prophet, which Jesus lived for our salvation. What was it that caused the multitude to follow. Him, and, as St. Matthew tells us, take Him for a prophet? It was H who proclaimed the truth and in this light we can see how Jesus is related to our life. Without going into the questions and different divisions which natur ally arise on all sides, let us consider how He lived as a prophet. In what sense does He stand as our prophet? In the first place, we know that He is a prophet in regard to God. He has revealed how God is taking us be neath His forgiveness and patience and ever watchful care - pow we cease to exist without Him. -Let us note, in the first place, Jesus' revela tion .of God's attitude toward sinful ness. There are those who declare sin is underestimated, but if we are wise, we can understand Jestis' true attitude in regaro to sin. It is shown in His denunciations, in His opinions of the leaders of the day, in the Ser mon on the Mount, all of which show His conception of sin. Not only the man *vho is the adulterer, but he who lives in conditions of lust; not only the murderer, but he who inspires the * c - n-mains silent; not alone the ; r , , but he who fails to be truth W, h Ieeping silent. These are sinners. (11i's attitude.toward sin con nc alone our outward acts, for the inner being is brought into ac countability and cannot escape. Jesus has called upon us not only to do something that makes for our salva t,ion, but also to have in mind that we should be soAiething.- It is of' th in ner self that the victory over sin has to be won. We should have a life not of actioi alone, but also of being. Jesus h taught the world the terri ble consequences which are to follow our wrongdoing, that the man who sins will condone it by suffering. He has told of the penalties of sin.' He who, deceives _,he little one had better tie .4 millstone about his neck arid perish in the sea. What awful penal ties that follow the sinner! ' But not aloue has Jesus revealed to us God's attitide toward sin, but.in the second Instance I-e has reveale'dGod,through Himself, and isas shown His manifold purposes of our destiny. Let us study the character and life of Jesus and we shall see that He has revealed God to us and shown His clemency and patience. Why was it the multitude followed Him? Be cause they took- Him for a prophet? ft is not that alone, but because of His magnetic personality, which at tracted all te Him and made Him be loved of all\ men. No wonder the twelve disciples came at His call and served Him with true love and faith. ft waa not confined to this inner cii' cle, hlowever, thAt Jesus attracted men about Him by His wonderf ul' per sonage. Nicodemus came to 'Jesus. The centurion was wont to seek Him out for counsel. The multitude list ened to His words of wisdom. He was a friend of the publican and iin tier. At the,.day of the feast the Greeks came and said, "We would see Jesus." HeI spokQ in infinite love and drew all to Him. He sought to lead them*through the paths of His truth and to teach them quietly, sincerely, of life and their salvation. How mar velous and how perfeetthat He should lead men toward the truth. and a bet ter and less sinful life. Witness Him teaching the multitude to the path ways of truth and see Him carry them to His Word. He knew that much of His teachings fell on barren soil and took no root, but He was patient with His people. Oh, the beauty and -pa thos of -the parting with His disci ples! It passes all understanding. It was a crisis in the life of Jesus. Hie taught themi the truth, and He led them out in vital existence. Teaching the people, Jesus was pa tient at all times. Even the same twelve men who gathered at His call to preach the Gospe~l to the world of ten forgot His teachirig of the Word. *n the way to the Last Supper they iquarreled among themselves as to who' was the greatest among them. But He was patientarid forgave them. ,Did not the. priests take before Him an adtulteress, and when the accusers had fled, did He not say, "Where are those who condemn thee? Neither do I condemn thee. Go and sin no muore" Oh, fhl turn'' love and'for givi.E 'e ~ ' 1' ('i! Th'ena Jesus 1.rus' et' I mC Pro .,~ I sonj #Ad Shows 1Vla fognns ou te Wather is and Jesuas foryve 10. tAW:.p alone has. He for lveu a was willing tsuffer u , so that His attitudo W God and men might be recogn y the true way. These characteristics of the life bt our Master re#eal God's attitude to' ward us aind His purpose in infiql;* love. Jesus has said that God Is o1i):F, satisfied to save men. He would hav# us know the eternal verities of life. Did Jesus forgive? Then, It. is In God's will thaj He forgive the repent ant. Did Jesus- love? Then, God loves His servants and has patience with them. Did Jesus suffer? 'Then; in God is the heart of suffering. Jesus is all that God 1s In Aiflnite love. Who hath seen Je sus hath seen God. Oh, -the glorious wisdom of Him who bath seen God! Jesus was a prophet not only In telling us of God's attitude toward sin, with clear positiveness, but He also was a prophet in regard to our selves. I_e tells us what God is In all His glory; and He tells us what man is' what we are ourselves. Jesus Is the ideal type. 'The critics pass Him by. In His almighty wisdom, we see how ignorant we are. In His iholi ness, with its overpowering glory, we observe how sinful, how mean, how low we are. Study Jesus' life and draw out from you as you'know your selves to be. How small, infinitesi mally small, do you seem! He has been a prophet, for He has shown how small we are. Two sides, the dark and the light, Jesus has shown us, but He has not alone'given us view to the dark side by showing us our sm'allness. He has also brought up the light' side and with full hopeful ness not otily tells us how .small we are, but shows us our largeness. He tells us of the power and potentiali ties within us. "Ye, therefore, shall be perfect in love." You are a sin ner, but you may be a son of God. Jesus is glorious as a prophet of God, for He tells us how It may be if we live as He lived. Not only a prophet of God and men, Jesus sought to expand the rev elation of God, -and beneath it all, with prophetic note, gave the ideal re lationship of life, that of father and son. Did time permit we could con sider the many lights between God and man. Jesus came and in His ear lier years lived in simple communion with His Father, before He gathered about Him His twelve disciples. He prayed in the mountains and prayed for the forgiveness of the sins,.of the world. He set the right relation be tween Son and the Father-a per sonal relationship. He never lost hope in all His suffering, but trusted in His Father. In His life He would tell us that the infinite relation is that of Father and Son. Not only would Jesus teach us the ideal relationship between God and men, but He lived the life between man and man. Should we follow the precepts of Jesus, this relation of man to man would be one of sacred example. Follow the teachings of Jesus and get all the power and po tentiality that is in you. Develop self by developing others. Find life by losing it. It will be a victory for self, the inner self. By the Word of God we are one, or non-existent. Jesus tells us of God's relationship. How can any one ask, knowing theso things and God's relationship to man, how. He effects our salvation? Can any one be convinced and say, "Can Jesus save Me?" He demands of us our love. He demands that we follow Jesus and do what He did. He demands that we follow Him as Jesus' did and secure shlvation by His for giv'eness. We know that the penal ties of sin are awful, for Jesus has so taught us. The truth that I am small He. has impressed upon me, but that I am to become larger through hope and forgiveness I know through His word. Jesus calls upon us to be prophets in His name. We can take His teachings throughout life, but we do not follow them. That is not rec ognition of- the word. He has done His part and we should do ours. He cannot make us or we would not be personalities. Jesus said to the multitude, Chris tians, sfollow Me, and as the apostles, they left and followed Him. Jesus calls us up from our worship of gold and the money gods which we serve. He called to the people, love Me more, and they worshiped Him. He calls to us, love Me more. By Thy mercy we will hear Thy call and will serve Thee by love and service best of all. Not Common People. "The common people -heard Him gladly." . That phrase may be mis leading. What Mark says is not that the "common people," but that the "much people heard Him gladly." He does not mean to refer to a low er class of people. The Bible never. calls this sort of people "'common,"~ and it was not the lower class of people that came to Christ in the crowds. 'There was the Pharisee, the dducee, the ruler, the publican, file p oor man-all classes were drawn to Him. Where He came caste straightway melted 'away. When He came into Simon's house, the poor harlot, who had never crossed the threshold before, wont right in, and came to His side. For this reason Jesus can no more be the head of a labor church than of a capitalist club. He has nothing to do with men in sections. He deals witly man an man, and when He looked out upon the crowds He did not see a Pharisee or a publican; He saw a man, a son of God by crea tion. He saw as God saw.--Rev, G. Qampbell Morgan. 9 Get a Future. There are those who want to get away from all their past; who If they could, would fain begin .411 over again. Their life seems o long failure. But you inust ei you sAust let-God teach .';ou, that 11 ny N4y t get rid of your past is tzq WIN 40 -Carto GOLCONDA FOUND It Commissioner Collins, of M is Pleasqnt and Living Ecoo 1e In Gold Najgets-. All American Ga Outdoor .) York City.-After spending fourteen months on an investigation along the canal zone regarding the allegations that have been brought against certain officials in the employ of the Canal Commission, J. H. Col lins returned from Colon, en route f6r Washington. D. C., to make his report. He declined to discuss it be fore submitting it to the authorities. Mr. Collins said last month was a record one for the amount of money sent to the United States by men em ployed along the canal. He found them all in good spirits and fo'nd of baseball, bowling, tennis, rowing, and all kinds of healthy outdoor sports. Gambling is not popular nor drinking to any extent, Mr. Collins found, and this had been so marked during the last year that many of the saloon and gambling house pro prietors in Colon and Panama have closed up and gone to pastures new. The health of, the employes as a whole was good, he said, and the labor conditions at the present time satisfactory. Excellent food at cost price is sent down by the Candl Com mission- twice a week for the em ployes and their families. "Just 'before leaving Panama," said Mr. Collins, "I met Baron von Tuber. He was sent out by the Smithsonian Institution to study the conditions of the San BIas Indians, who live in the interior of the Re public of Panama, about seventy miles up the coast on the Pacific side. Ho told some -of the most JAPAN'S CORDI r-he Reception of the Amner and Perfkctly Tokio, Japan.-The reception ac corded the Ameisican Atlan.tic fleet biy the Governmet~t and people of Japan is conceded by the American nh.val. officers to be the heartiest and most perfectly crarried2 out~ of th,e mnany re ceptions received by the feet sinice it . sailed from Hamp~ton Roads. Rear Admiral Sperry mid that he was ut terly unable to say how it had been accomplished, but that the welcome given the fleet and its officers and men here had 'been so car'efully planned and carried out to the most1 minute details that lasting impression has bee.n stamped upon the mind of every American who has wi,tnessed1 it. It is impossible to doubt the sin-. cerity of the Japanese. The Ameri-I can officers and sailors are already beginning to understand the fact that the eviden.t desiro on the part of the Japanese for the friendship of Amer lea is not founded upon opportunism, but finds its source in a sincere wisht to show that such friendship, at least on the part of the Japanese, has ex- <C isted always, and that .this visit of the e , FORTY FOOT F4 Comj'A... Tyrannosaurus Natural ilisto New Yoric City--Dr. Ienry Fair- r foeld Osborn, president of he Amern- * Dan Museum of Natural History, re- 1I eeived word from Great Falls, Mon., t that a research p)arty from the mu- 3 seutm, headed by Barnum Brown, had '1 discovered part of the skeleton of th'e 1 l'yrannosaurus rex, a prehistoric ani- I rnal, in the Bad Lands several iles a outh of Glasgow, Mon. a The fossil, which is forty feet long 4 md twenty-two feet high, has' a per- i rest skull, an entire set of ribs, back . Alne and hip girdle and practically f lupploments the specimen discovered t~ tite sanig 4,elion in 1902. ( MYver side09 the first fossil of th~e .1 'fh of the 'tunti,"' na tha Tvwee/ ,v IAZ nj py Triggi, in the New York Press. I TflE.CANAL ZONE. 'ashington, D. C., Says Life sonical at Colon-Indians Gambling Not Popiznrt" rnes Pursuedl as Sports. thrilling adventures I have ever heard. His companions, two Ameri. can boys, were killed by the Indian last January. "The Baron described the San Blas country as being very rich and the natives warlike. He was certain there is plenty of gold back in the mountains, as the. Indians traded for merchandise in gold nuggets, which had evidently been washed down some mountain stream. He said thai the difficulties to be encountered ir the San Bilas countiy were very great as there were no roads at all, the only means of travel being by. canoes and navigating tortuous waterways where an exploring party could b( easily ambushed. In addition to th4 Indians there was the malignan black-water f6ver to- be contendec with. "The Baron is making monthly ex. peditjdns into the San Blas country on behalf of the Panama Govern ment to teach the natives how to get rid of the swarms of locusts that de. stroy their crops. He stays irl as lorng as his provisions last. He is ac companied by his brother, a Heidel berg student. ,The baron said it would be perilous for any white man to,attempt to rea.ch the mountains in search of the gold, as the natives have never allowved any strangers to penetrate into the interior. He was only there on suffrance, apd had to be always on the alert. Their coun try is rich -in coal and all kinds of rningrals." icatu Pieet Was Elabor~ate Carried Out. tleet has.merely afforded the Japan ase\an opportunity for thiat expres -Admiral Sperry was received at the~~ pernal palace. On the next day th1 ~miral s and captains of the fleet wverei.the guests of the Emperor at~ f.he:palace. Admiral Sperry conveyed to the Emperor a message from Pres dent Roosevelt. This message 3reathes a spirit of friendship and symnpathy and expresses keen expres sions of the traditional friendship be. :ween the two nations and an earnest vish for the strengthening and con. inuance of the frienidly relations of he past.' Throo' thousand sailors from the american fleet were granted shore iberty daily, and it is iremarkable hat notw.'thstahding .their long con. Inement aboard ship not a single dit Iculty has been reported, bearing out ho statement of Admiral Sperry, iade in one of his speeches here, that he American sailor of .to-day is the esult of that development and eg ation which Japti is se2king ia very depattment of herr' , )SSIL FOUND. Rex, Now ror A. ry Mumeum,. osaurus rex is called, was found, 're. earch parties trourb the American f usAi have be .n searching through he 4dLands for a specimen that rour complete the missing :parts., 'he first fossil had good hindelimbsI ut, incomplete -back bones.. Dr. O's orn said that he believed the two pecimens rer about the lame size nd that the nuwae'um will now be n&bled to mount the animal corn 'let. During the five years 'of search i'agmesnts of Tyrannosaurus rex have sGen found from tinte to time. Dr. isborn sald* zoolo tsta tvould be oth1lv elated nvee . ths ..cn ..,.. aPasal to walk of life andifir1 .uooess and redi , inglye '. 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Doctors prescribe it. 10c., 25c.. and 50.. at drug stores. THE OOUNTRY PRESS. One of the finest tributes to the country newspaper that has ever been. rendered was contained in a recent address by Senator Chauncey M. De pew before the New York Press Asso ciation. Mr. Depew said: "I pay\ my respects to and express my admi ration for the country editor. His lines are not cast in the .places of the great and profitable organs of the metropolis, whose profits are reckoned oftep by the hundreds of thousands. of dollars every year. But the country editor lives in and is,part oil the e>m munity. His virtue is not so much what he prints as in what he refuses to print. He could easily destroy the peace of the community by admitting to has paper the scandals and gossip of his neighbors. But lie stands as a - censor and guardian of public mo'rals. and I know of no conditions under which the public is appealed to in a certain measure where the utterance is so free from criticism as the gen. eral tone. of the country press.'' Love's Brightest Dream. Jones-When the rich wvidow mar ried1 thle young fellow she told him he would have notha" to do but..spenid her money. Bonies-And: Jones-And just $6 a week. Sonic men are so very elow- thiat it is impossible for them to even run a. chtee.So. 44-'08. ASTONISHED THE DOCTOI Old Lady Got Well WVith Change of . Food. .-~ A great scientist lhas said we can. '-,. put off "old age" if we can only nlour ISIh the body properly. * . TIo do this the right kind of food, of coursse, is necessary. .The body manufactures poaisons in the stomach and intestines from certain kinds of food stuffs and unless suficeient of the right kind is used, thee injuriounee ments overcome the good. - "My grandmother, 71 years- 014," writes a N. Y. lady, "had-been an fi valid for 18 years froip what was called consumption of the stomach and bowels. The doctor had given her up to die. "I saw so much about Grape-Nuts. that, I per'suaded grandmother to try It. -. She could -not keep anything on her stomach for' niore than a few mi ntes. l'she began Gra'pe-Nuts with only a. teaspoonful. As that did not distress. her and. as she could retain .it, she took a little more until she could talte all of four teaspoonfuls at a meal. -. "Then she began to gain' and gr#' strong and her trouble in the sto~t~~ was gone entirely. She got ,6to' ' good health for one so oldj and w know Grape-Nuts saved her ft, "The doctor was astoniQhe.d th~ instead of dying .she got Wetll without a drop of -tredicine atte' .h began the Grape-Nuts." Tee Reason." Namne-given by Postum C*.o tt Creek, Michb. Read "TJi Well*Ils' in pkgs. 1hdubead,tbeabove lt4~<~ onb:apeArs from time do