New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1875-05-10
THE PRESBYTERIAN DOCTRINE.

The Rer s. Wilson at he rim ArnUe iresbyterdn church
The Rev. S. j. Wilson, d. d., of Allegheny
Seminary Moderator of the General Assembly, preached
Mt the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church In the after
noon to large audience His text was Psalms XVIII,
1918: "wak about Zion and go round about her; tell
the towers thereof Mark We well her bulwarks, con
slider her palaces that ye may tell it to the generation
following" The sermon substantially rs follows:
Love for the Church of ones choice Is laudabe even
an ordinate Partially is cOmmendabe There are times
too when this love OF our Church may be INDUCED
somewhat. 1 think the present is such an oc-
casion. 1 invite you, therefore, to take walk
around our PRESBYTERIAN Zion. And that may have
system in observations, that we may tell her towers
mark her bulwarks and consider her palaces. call
your attention her doctrines. her discipline and her
history Her Characteristic doctrines, those that mpart
insructveness and individuality such a. these Th
man; the efficacy and frcencss Of Divine grace saliva
ton made by eternal covenant through fMth that
works by God. az The Lord rcigncth" Is thc sum ana
substance of all theology. Unqualified unlimited soyer-
eighty is essential to the very idea OF coo me bDe
pwcr. This is the spirit of the Scriptures Any
other key used to unlock the mysteries OF the Bible u
a false key. The deepest and at the same time most
philosophy of history centers in the same
Thought. God is all and in all. Man in comparison IL
css than the dust Of the balance For sixty centuries
God has been teaching the race this lesion short but
difficult TO learn. Upon tins single reSeeu acl
system which il known the Cllyinsiic or Pauline
theology for Calvin only expOundcd Paul From II Ihe
system indeed is only an analysis Of that single simple
proposition and from the remoes point of analysis.
svp@ticalIy we can follow back each truth falling into
lis appropriate place until condensed. diamOndlhr, they
all CLEAN and sparkle in the sentence " Inc Lor'i
Tegncth."
Nor did Calvin only follow the consequences OF this
premise far a. by his unadcd reason he could cop-
bend and recognize them, but whhersoeyer revelation
led him, thher he fcarlcsSy These consequences,
when followed out. lead us into depths that human
pumet sound and across chaSms that the reach OF
no human intellect can span. God is the author and
nisher of faith. lie has chosen not to probation.
but unto salvation through sanetlraton OF the spirit
and belief Of the truth. The track Of the doctrines can DE
traced back in line of fire TO the Apostle Paul Alone
and ngohandcd Francis Mackenzie fought the battle or
religious liberty Oh this continent He fought and con
quered. His hands planted the tree under whose
gOdy bOnghs we set. To Francis Mackenzie
this country greater debt OF gratitude
than to any whose is in that list of immortal
signed to the Declaration of Independence Long
may this remain temple devoted To the support
OF the Churcs truths and principles. While these walls
stand may they echo to the good old doctrines. Here
may hundreds sit who will forth valiant for the truth
and with strong hands and brave hearts shall bear our
standards ard and upward until they shall he planted
on the tOpmOst nights and utmost limits of the earA