Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-01-21
THE WORD OF GOD
rs PREACHED IN ST. PAUL SUNDAY
Charity Eloquently Portrayed--The Fearful
Inference and the Conclusive Argument
Deliverance from Death---Bible Society
Meeting--Reports,A Addresses. and Election
of Officers
Christ Chat1.ch.


Christ Church.
There was large congregation at Christ
Church yesterday morning, which has not
yet laid aside its festive garb, the walls and
roof from portal to sanctuary still being COW
cred with chaste devices, scriptural texts and
emblems forming vista of harmonious col
or seldom achieved by church decoration.
1t is needless to say that the services and
hymns were excellently rendered by the
schooled and well-balanced choir. The Rev.
Mr.. Ten Brock took for his text, Colossians,
3, xiv, introducing his subject with an elab-
crate and scholarly explanation Of how the
oft repeated word charity first was used in
in scripture. He explained that the
apostles used in their teachings and
writings the Greek language-then
the language of culture, and that that
language contained three words which might
be translated love-storga, eros, and p7lill5a.
None of these, however, would do to express
the pure, heaven-born principle of Christian
love the first conveying merely the idea
of mutual affection, the love of a father for
his children, Oh a ruler for his people the
second had become so debased that it was
applied only to british sensuality, the lowest
animal passions, and the last implied only
esteem, regard, friendship. The apostles
therefore coined a new word from q Greek
verb, by which to designate this pure, holy
principle. Homer, the peerless prince among
intellectual giants, had labored to elevate the
second word, eros, but to no purpose, and
the apostles gave new name to the ruling
power of the new doctrine of Christianity.
Soon the Roman empire gained the ascen-
dancy, and the Latin became the tongue of
the people, the courts and of law, and hence
the necessity of writing the Gospels in that
language. Jerome translated it and found
the same difficulty as did the apostles, anon.
was low and debased, like eros dellgentia
was mere Systematically choice of thing,
and of course too narrow in it's Specification
and SO he took a word which might mean
nothing, OF as much as need would demand,
and hence we have ca15tas or charity. But
the preacher hoped the time would soon
come when instead of the non-committal
word charity, the grand old expressive term
love-the sweetest word in music and mean
ing in our language will be restored to its
place-Christian love be preferred to Chris
tian charity. The preacher then went on to
show the influence this Christian love has
upon the world and demons
trated its effects by vivid,
skillfully drawn word pictures of the present
compared to the enlightened past, boosted of
by the scoffer, who says Christianity has
proved to be failure.
A picture of home with woman slave, q
drudge, the tool of man, was contrasted with
what it is to-day. Children, too, in the olden
time, were only regarded with the thought of
how to make them men as soon as possible
to be food for battles. The legislatures of
antiquity thought only to teach a child to
steal, and provided the lash to chastise him
if found out. The Spartan training was the
highest of antiquity. The influence of
Christian love on society was next given,
of the masses, like poor brutes with their
very lives in the hands of their masters
sold in the shambles to the highest bidder.
Society before Christianity was sickening
and revolving in it's utter rottenness, but
Christian love has stricken the shackles off the
slave and all men are. proclaimed by it equal;
absolute monarchs minister to the peoples
wants and men are ashamed in the open
day of Christian light of the dark foul deeds
of antiquity, and under the influence of
Christian love shall 60 forward in the career
of endless progress. Christian love had
robbed war of many of its terrors. The
Florence Nightingales who 60 out with
their lives in their hands to assuage
the pain, the Red Cross commissions who
minister to the sick and wounded and allie
viate their sufferings, are outgrowths of
Christian love; and lastly he alluded to the
great Geneva arbitration by which terrible
and calamitous war which threatened the
greatest nations of the earth was avoided and
the differences settled by peaceful negotia-
ton governed by Christian forbear-
ance. The sermon which was purely
extempore was delivered with great energy
and the thoughts couched in the purest Ian
guage. In connection with Christ church
there is just a little matter which calls for re-
proof-not in the church itself OF it's regu-
larry attending members, but in visitors.
Persons attracted by the unusually fine mu-
: sic enter the sacred edifce, sit down, keep
their seats without rising at the proper times
with the congregation according to the
rubric,and as soon as the singing is over they
get up and with all the noise and business of
self satisfied snobbery walk out, showing an
amount of Ignorant insolence which would
be resented if practiced upon a private fami-
ly instead of pastor and his flock.