Word: jesus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Yesterday afternoon the Rev. P. S. Moxom of Springfield conducted the Vesper Service, taking as his texts part of the fourth chapter of St. Luke and of the sixth chapter of St. Mark, both telling of the return of Jesus to his home, Nazareth. He spoke in part as follows...
...Moxom, D.D., of Springfield, Mass., preached last night in Appleton Chapel on "Christian Unity." He said in part: The unity which Jesus contemplated and for which he prayed is the unity of the whole Christian world. The primitive Christians were closely united and St. Paul spoke repeatedly of the universality of divine love and righteousness. The church, it is true, has not always been true to this, and in a grim despair has made its doctrines narrow, but some of the early belief can always be traced in them...
...strong efforts towards unity now being made show that spirit of Jesus Christ is striving to a fuller expression in the hearts of men. These are welcome for they point to a new day in the world, when, having gotten free from dogmas, the church will live in the spirit of the Lord as personified in Jesus Christ...
...every point in our every day existence, where men come in contact with one another, there is an opportunity for service to God just as much as in going to church and in doing missionary work Jesus did not mean that those who follow him must necessarily renounce their every day pursuits and cease to come in contact with others. It often puzzles one who tries to understand what He mant by saying, that one who became a disciple of his had to forsake all possessions and follow Him. It is true that the slow, stupid populace with which...
...selfish point of view neither changes the outside world nor takes it away; it merely changes a man's relations with that outside world. A new sense of the value of opportunities comes to the man who sees his duty to the world in its true light. Jesus does not really ask men to abandon their possessions; he rather wishes them to abandon themselves to God so that God may give himselt to them...