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I [ The Puijo/j- I' 'A SERMON' ^|p^R |[RA.V/lENDE^^^;# 1 Subject: The Faultless Christ. Brooklyn, N. Y.?Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church on the theme "The Faultless Christ," the Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, pastor took as his text Luke 23:4, "I find no fault in this Man." He said: This honest answer of Pontius Pi late to the statements of the lying multitude is the testimony of all men who study, with insight and understanding, the ^career of Jesus Christ. Put to any test and judged by whatsoever standard you may will, the Master of us all will be found without flaw, fault or spot. Measured by any rule you may suggest. Jesus meets requirements to the full. Does your ideal of manhood demand more than mortal men reveal of virtue and of worth, there the Savior stands to supply your soul's desire. Do you ask for weight of mind or depth of thought, who can outmatch Jesus? Do you seek for clarity of vision and for spiritual force?there is none like Him. For downright manliness and for that hallowedness of heart which marked Him as divine, none can compare with the Son of God. Each of us must declare Him faultless, all of us must admire and should imitate His perfectness of life. Pontius Pilate pronounced Jesus free of guilt after a limited discussion of Jesus' regal claim. In this day and hour millions of men, after careful analysis and close scrutiny of His life and claims, glory in His perfectness and hail Him Son of God and saving Lord. Shal1 we not do honor for a moment to this selfJ --1-"J ABoioli r'h/im wp hflVfi UCUiaiCU lucooxau) M MVM* ?. , crowned as King? To the faultlessness which Pilate ascribed to Him let us add the testimony of St. John, who has preached Him as the fulness of truth and grace. Faultless, the possessor and the revealer of divine truth, powerful in His wealth of grace, so was our Lord. For His excellency in these three winning virtues let us pay Him homage now. "Then said Pilate to the chief priests and to the people, I find no I fault in this Man." Faultlessness is perfection. To be without fault is to free from defect. As the Italians would phrase it, to be faultless is to be lacking in nothing. Jesus was a faultless man?only such could have been the mouthpiece of the convincing oracles which the Savior brought from God. Faultiness, ewhich is but another name for falseness, was apart from His nak ture. Jesus made no pretensions. He was just what He claimed to be. Sincerity rang from His every word and made eloquent His every deed. Deceit and deception were not in His line. Often the Lord sent His truth home veiled with well chosen words. But at no time did He use deceit to gain His ends. True enough it is, that plain statement of the truth made Him so many enemies at times, that it is a wonder that, now and then, He did not pare the truth to ooTTo wirrKioif frtends. But no, the Christ was not on earth to trim or' to cut the truth to suit those whom it hardest hit. His mission was to preach the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, as coming from the mouth of God. The Savior was no trimmer. Oftentimes His words laid bare the soul secrets of the men to ^hom He spoke. Now and then, He cut them to the very quick. But because their hearts were j hard was not His fault. His was the blameless, faultless life and theirs ; were the hearts that were dead in sin and to shame.' Without guile and without guilt is the judgment of j our minds and hearts upon this man in whom Pilate found no fault. John tells us in the verse which we just read that Jesus was full of grace. Grace is graciousness, loveliness. Coming to" us as the dispenser of the love of God freely bestowed upon men in sin Jesus exemplifies in His own life that gracious loveliness which He1 preaches. Pure, gentle, noble, upright, kind and true, Christ is a joy to eye and soul alike. To gaze into His face must have been . to walk with God to those who understood. And those to-day within the unhindered influence of the Master may bear upon their own faces the marks of inward loveliness of life. The power of transforming grace will change not only the spiritual nature of a man, but also will remold and transfigure the very features of his face. A countenance that is hard with sin will mellow into gentleness and peace through the yielding of the soul to the Savior. That quiet charm of manner which must have been our Lord's, and which is the badge of Godly living which many Christians bear, may be the possession of each of us, do we want it. You know the gracious cast of countenance I mean. That quiet, holy, saintly look which fills the faces of many men and women in whose hearts the spirit moves. .Who does not want it? Grace is kindness. Maltbie Babcock put it well when he said "kindness is recognizing another's kin ship.'' Jesus saw the same ancestry in other men which made Him a Son of God. Seeing the need of dying men, His kinsmen, our Lord yearned to give them life forevermore. Not His own convenience, but their need, moved Christ to action. Personal ambition crept into i. His soul but once, only to be sacrificed forthwith to human need. Satan offered power, but Jesus hungered after souls. Satan preferred money, the Savior chose men. Kindness proved the inner grace of Christ. And a Christly kindness exercised by each of us will not only makes, us j friends, but will also cause us to j grow in grace. Grace is good-will. This is not to j imply that we are merely to have a hope that the man next to us may gain success through the expenditure of his own effort. Good-will that counts for anything gets behind the working brother and helps him ahead. It is the spirit of assistance. wpipmt ' ' > not so much the roar of applause, that we want. Good-will becomes concrete and an aid most when it resolves itself into loving helpfulness. A good round of applause may put heart into the Christian who is working hard for Christ, but ready assistance from the brethren who watch so sympathetically the progress of his toil will be most a benefit to the harvester of souls. Love for men in sin, and words of approval for those who are breaking Satan's shackles from off their lives, are all well enough so far as they go, but unless the love and approval are expressed in willing aid, they are not most of use. God always felt and always does feel for men. the Father ever has a good word for those who are leaving sin behind, but the gift of Christ to point to us the way, and j the sending of the spirit who shall send us on ahead toward God, are more necessary and grateful to our hearts than all Jehovah's words of praise. Approbation, applause and approval are good; well wlshings and godspeeds are full of incentive to any man; but that good-will which assists and aids and helps to clear the way to material success or to God is the good-will which most brings us cheer. Good-will is willing helpfulness. Faultless, truthful, graceful was the Lord of our lives. And it is because He was without spot or blemish or reproach; because He was the incarnation of divine- virtues; because He showed grace that is sufficient unto our salvation, that we crown Him King. Had the Christ not been without blame; had He not been the living expression of the truth that He was; had He failed to evidence a helping grace, our hearts could never hail Him as divine. The first appeal of Jesus to our minds is His faultlessness in the dissemination of the truth of God; the next appeal is the absolute consistency of His actions with His words. The spiritual facts which Jesus brought to men deserve and fasten their attention.- For depth in philosophy, for insight into the furthest reaches of ^luman life; for clearness of application of divine truth to the needs *of men; for explication and unfolding of those words of wisdom which point us to a fuller life in God, tiio Master is incomnarable. Many of the teachings of Jesus were not new in substance, many of His utterances may be paralleled in the writings of the Old Testament and in the teachings of not a few philosophic leaders of the world's great faiths. But Jesus magnified and sanctified all the old material that He touched, by the way He spiritualized it and turned it up toward God. Many of the more prominent of Jesus' thoughts were not new in substance to the men and women of His time; most of them felt and admitI ted the force of His message no doubt, so far as they wrent with Him; but the central facts are these: that Jesus breathed new life and imparted new meaning to their old beliefs; and then lived entirely the life He preached. Jesus was faultless, full of grace and truth. His faultlessness implied no blame at all. His was the fulness of grace; that is to say, He not only brought men assurance of His power to save, by word of mouth, but also proved by deed His potency and efficiency. Full of truth, He lived that life we should expect. He demonstrated the worth of His own teachings by His own allegiance to them. Believing that sin was shameful, He lived a blameless life. Preaching free forgiveness and the possibility of a richer life through the grace of God, He proved His own possession ot tne grace we ciazmea 10 ue me i need of men. Tp Him truth is eternal and is to be obeyed. Claiming to know and to reveal entire truth Jesus never balks His own best words. How different are we. We hate sin, we want grace, we love truth is fact. And we who have tried truth. But yet we hug the wrong; we shut the heavenly glory from our hearts; we block and balk by action the truth we try to preach. Jesus is faultless. His grace is real. His truth is fact. And we who have tried the power of His grace to reform our lives and to renovate our souls are I sure that only as we live His truth are we able to be found'without a fault. Full worthy was our Lord to be our Savior and to receive our trust ! and faith. The beauty of His mesf sage and His life are past compare. ! Xowhere do we find another such a man. On His divine side He is supreme. As a man He is the manifestation of the humanity of God. Christ not only spake things but lived them. The spirit of adoration that bound the twelve to Jesus should make us learn to love Him more. Entering into union within Him we may progress into faultlessness and grow in wealth of grace and the knowledge of the truth. Dr. Parkhurst has said a true word when he calls attention to the fact that "Christians grow by addition, not by subtraction." When first we think upon it the statement eeems to be but half the truth. But do we consider for a moment we will find it fair. The accretion by the Christian of spiritual power will drive sin out. There will be no room for evil. The life that is drawing close to God has no meed to subtract sin. Let the heart pay strict attention to the work of soul culture and Satan -will subtract himself. Most of us spend so much time in subtraction that we never learn to add. Keep increasing the measure of soul force that is yours and sin will make itself a I minus quantity. Try to do what you know you ought to do and you will find the problem of how to escape sin is lightened of itself. All things in the last analysis must be brought to the test of Jesus Christ. He is our Savior and our one example. Ke is the test of our fitness and the pattern for our faith. His grace may be ours; the appropriation of His truth is the business of the Christian. The vigor of our grace * ' - ~ ana mien is xne measure ui aaouicu success. Our faultlessness will be judged of men and God by the samples we are of the influence of the life and word, the truth and grace of Christ. You Are Sufficient. God never sets one of.His servants to undertake any task without first sufficiently qualifying him for that task.?Scottish Reformer. Verdict for Dr. Pierce I AGAINST THE Ladies' Home Journal. Sending truth after a lie. It is an c.lil j maxim that "a lie will travel seven leagues while truth is getting its boots | on." and no doubt hundreds of thousands j of good people read the unwarranted and 1 malicious attack upon Dr. R. V. Pierco j arid his "Favorite, Prescription "published j in the May (1004) number of the Ladies' j Home Journal, with its great black (lis- j nlav headings, who never saw the hum- j b'e, groveling retraction, with its inconspicuous heading, published two months later. It was boldly charged in the slanderous and libelous article that l)r. Pierce's Favorite Prescription, for the cure of woman's weaknesses and ailments, contained alcohol and other harmful ingredients. Dr. Pierce promptly brought suit j against the publishers of the Ladies' j Home Journal, for $200,000.00 damages. 1 Dr. Pierce alleged that Mr. Bok, the i editor, maliciously published the article ! containing such false and defamatory j matter wDJf the Intent of injuring his j busines^'furthermore, that no alcohol, or j other fujurious, or habit-forming, drugs are. oryer were, contained in his "Favorite yes^fiption"; that said medicine ! is madaffp6m native medicinal roots and ! conta^v^io harmful ingredients what- I evcrAiW that Mr. liok's malicious statemwere wholly and absolutely false'. I lithe retraction pyi nt?d. hv sa irj louipal they wecq forced fo acknowledge ftjat they ha^j^niodjJiaTvse^. ^"EavQriig Prescription," fpm eminent chemists. frll of whom certified that it did .net contain al11 eged xhese facts were also proven in the tilal of the action in the Supreme Court. But the business of Dr. Pierce was greatly injured by the publication of the libelous article with its great display headings, while hundreds of thousands who read the wickedly defamatory article never saw the humbie groveling retraction. set in small type and made as inconspicuous as possible. The matter was. however brought before a jury in the Supreme Court of New York State which promptly J J ? ViA TVmtnw'a fivnr. I rrnuereu a vcruici, m mo ? . rTbus his traducers came to grief anrl their base slanders were refuted. CONSOLATION. His Wife?At last my eyes are open to the fact that you married me for my money. Her Husband?Well, that ought to : be some consolation, my dear. His wife?Some consolation! Her Husband?Yes. You now re- j alize that I am not as big a fool as j you thought I was.?Tit-Bits. THAT'S SO. "Senator Dubois says a senator can , not live properly in Washington on a salary of $5,000." "Some of them could n-.t live properly on any salary."?Houston Post. tired backs. 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