Article December 9, 1916 Issue

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with contributions from Samuel Zane Batten, John A. Hutton, Simon Blocker, Daniel S. Tuttle

[The Christian Work]

During the night Jesus communes with God on lonely mountain tops, and how radiantly beautiful he is as the light of heaven shines from his eyes and face ! The morning finds him going about among the people as the good man, helping, advising, healing, providing meals for the poor. His words are blessed, mystical at times, stirring strange emotions in the heart; at the same time his deeds are the most practical conceivable. He goes up the mount of transfiguration to meet God, and goes straight down to cast devils out of people. When one examines the Scriptures he finds the Old Testament and the New emphasizing this same ideal of Christian manhood. It recognizes diversities of gifts, — and Paul urges the church to thank God for all kinds of men and welcome them, — but continually it holds up the man who both prays and serves. Jesus would have his disciples pray unceasingly, but at the same time he is greatest who serves. The Old Testament sums up the spiritual man perfectly when Malachi says he is one who loves mercy and does justly, and at the same time walks humbly with God.

[Samuel Zane Batten, D.D., in The Biblical World]

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