Article September 9, 1911 Issue

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from Charles W. Stevenson, R. J. Campbell, Frank N. Riale, R. I. Horton, A. E. Owen Jones

[Christian Intelligencer.]

Our blessed Lord illustrated in all that he was and did the value of personal consecration. Jesus measured up to the perfect standard of his sermon on the mount and forever established the power of a holy life. With a purpose no less comprehensive than the redemption of a world, we might well have expected the Master to set about his tasks with the energy of desperation. What we find, however, is the patience of faith, the sweet consciousness that truth embodied in life would be infinitely more potent than truth conveyed through profound reasoning or established by military conquest. Christ employed character to set forth the eternal, redeeming, and sacrificial love. Jesus' teachings were marvelous, his deeds glorious, but both precept and deed were the expression of his spirit and the fruitage of his personality. It is Jesus himself, as distinguished from any single activity of his life, or rather, as operating through every detail of life, that constitutes the supreme appeal to men.

[Charles W. Stevenson in New York Observer.]

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