Now, I am sure, that Jesus took for granted the unity of human nature, And here we come to the sphere in which He came to work. Man had moved mountains in the region of matter, in discovery, in letters, by his intellect. Human life was full of good and beautiful things. But in the region of the spiritual there were many mountains to be moved. Man had done wonders, but his heart was still full of darkness. He had lost the brighter light that had been in him a thousand years ago. For nothing is more certain historically than that there had been a falling away. Early Rome and Greece were cleaner morally when we first hear of them than they were in our Lord's time. The gist of it is, that, while the mind of man, and his body were in good order, his soul was not, his conscience was not. Sin hadagriponhim. In moral, in spiritual things, man was weak and lost. So Jesus Christ said, He had come to "seek and save the lost." He said, "O ye men, I have come to bring you to your Father in Heaven; Believe in me, and follow me, I have died for you and there will come healing to your souls. This thing called sin, will be broken in its power. The breach in human nature will be healed, and you ws a race will be as great morally, as greatly able to move moral and spiritupj mountains as your minds have been able to move material mountains. Sin shall not have dominion over you.''
And here is the application of all this to us. Through Him, we can move the moral evils, the sins of the spirit, that are the real mountains to be moved, if the world is to be happy. Let us take a case or two. There is the war-spirit. Last week I read a sermon preached during the war. The preacher spoke of ''The mystery of the war; why it was permitted." The usual helpless kind of talk about it. But there is no mystery. If Europe had obeyed Christ, as it had hundreds of years of opportunity of - doing, there would have been no war. God does nothing for man that man can do for himself. He respects man's-free will absolutely. Looking at it broadly, the world did not care for the peaceableness of Christianity. And the reason of the present slow recovery from the war is plain enough The world does not believe in Christ's teaching of forgiveness and mercy. Faith in Christ would have remov-
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