Article January 6, 1912 ISSUE

FROM OUR EXCHANGES

with contributions from Franklin D. Elmer, Charles Stelzle

[Rev. Franklin D. Elmer in Christian Register.]

Pharisees are poor scholars. Jesus failed to win the learned men of his time because they stubbornly set their minds against a progressive revelation. Their ideal of a Messiah was one who should satisfy ancient interpretations of prophetic Scripture. In his sermon on the mount, where Jesus announces the principles of the kingdom, he repeatedly uses the expression, "Ye have heard ... but I say." The Pharisees were satisfied to stop at "Ye have heard." The kingdom, declared Jesus, in all its phases of growth is like nature, "first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear;" therefore, while conserving the old, be ready to receive that which out of the old becomes new. He also taught his disciples that new truth, because of its dynamic energy, might be expected to break old bottles.

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