Identifier: edwardjudsonint00sear (find matches)
Title: Edward Judson, interpreter of God
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Sears, Charles Hatch, 1870-1943
Subjects: Judson, Edward, 1844-1914
Publisher: Philadelphia, Boston (etc.) The Griffith and Rowland press
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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Indeed, he was permanently disabled while fightingunder the Union flag in the Civil War. The fitting tribute to Edward Judson at the JudsonCentennial in Burma, the recognition dinner in NewYork City, the ovation at the Centennial in Boston, andthe enthusiastic welcome of scores of churches weremore than marks of esteem for the son of the honoredpioneer of foreign missions. They were loving tributespaid to one who had achieved a noble character anddone a notable work—a work as distinctive as that ofhis father—a recognition that he had to a high degreereincarnated those attributes which in Christ the worldfirst learned to call Christian; that he had indeed suc-ceeded in his main life effort to be a Christian, and tothat degree had glorified those qualities through which,in Christ, God had made his supreme interpretation toman; and that thereby he had become an interpreter ofGod. Edward Judson saw that the incarnation is the divineconcession to the inability of man to comprehend the
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EDWARD JUDSON INTERPRETER OF GOD 133 teaching of God as revealed by seers and prophets, andto enter his presence when led only by priests. He sawthat those qualities which we have come to know asChristian virtues—the teachable spirit, the spirit ofhumility, the forgiving spirit, the spirit of simplicity,transparency of life and motive, compassion for suffer-ing, and the essential oneness of human life—could bedemonstrated only in life itself; that the divine methodof demonstration was by the incarnation of God inChrist—the transformation of humanity by divinity; thatthe Word became flesh, that God was in Christ,that we have a Christlike God. He saw that in communities in which the knowledgeof the supreme incarnation of God in Jesus Christ hasbeen obscured by an elaborate ritualism if not totally lostin blind traditionalism, where sacramentarianism has dis-placed religion, there the incarnation must be made in-telligible by a reincarnation of the teachable spirit, thespirit of hu

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