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Pastor William Fetler 45
Him." And that is a very remarkable passage for us: "Ye know Him,
because He is with you and shall be in you." Did you ever notice the
difference in the prepositions there? "He is with you." There the
presence of the Holy Spirit was resting in mighty power; there they
came in touch with the Paraclete. But now He said: "That is not
enough." He said: "I have a good many things to tell you, but ye
cannot bear them. You are not grown up yet." Or, as the Apostle
Paul said, "I have to feed you with milk. You are not yet strong
enough. You must grow up first." Then He said: "But He will be in
you." That is what interests me. I should like to discuss what Christ
said, "Whom the world does not know." And then, "He shall be in
you." Let me begin with the last.
There are various ways of judging about a church, of judging about
a Bible school, about a Christian man, about a preacher, about a singer,
about a musician, about anybody. There is one way. You can take
the measure of culture and say: "Well, that person’s brain is so long
and so wide." You can say: "His education amounts to this and that.
He went to this college and he graduated from that seminary." You
can say: "He has so many points of mathematics and so many points
of geography, or of Latin or Greek, or of all the rest." Or, again, you
can measure a man by his morality. There are some mighty fine people
in this world. Take Count Leo Tolstoy. I visited him in his garden {/
and talked with him. He_ didn’t drink, he had given up tobacco. He
was from the outside just as good as any Russian Christian,—because
not a single Russian Christian smokes. (And I would say, just at this
point, that the missionaries who want to come out to Russia had better
leave their pipes in America, because we don’t have any use for them
there.) Now then, that is one of the ways to judge, by the outside.
Count Tolstoy wrote many fine books. He had some noble purposes.
He loved the Bible,—I mean to say parts of the Bible. There were a
good many things in the Bible he didn’t like. For instance, he didn’t
believe in the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ. He didn’t believe in
the miracles. Count Tolstoy couldn’t accept all the New Testament, so
he took a pair of scissors and cut out of the New Testament every
miracle and the resurrection of Christ and so on. And when I walked
and talked with him in his garden,—I was talking to him about the
Apostle Paul and about other things,—and I said: "Why have you
cut out the resurrection of Christ from your New Testament?" "Oh,"
he said: "If a man would come to me and say, ’Christ is risen,’ and
would walk in my garden, I would cry out, ’Look at him.’ " That was
Count Tolstoy. Now from the outside he was like a lamb; but he
spoke like a dragon. Don’t you judge a man by what is outside. You
judge a man by what comes out of him. If you know anything about
the devil, you know he has a good many fine words in his vocabulary.
If you are going to be deceived by fine words, if that is all you want.
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