Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-05-16
CONFIRMATION.

Bishop Whipp1e's Administration Of the
Rite at Christ Church.
The announcement that the Rt Rev. Bishop
Whipple would preach and administer the
rite of confirmation at Christ chruch yester-
day morning filled the edifice, which is usual
y crowded, to overlooking. After the usual
beautiful song aud prayer service Bishop
Whipple preached powerful and eloquent
sermon, taking as text Paul's First epistle
to the Corinthians, xv:xx: "But now is
Christ risen from the deaG, and become
the first fruits of them that slept" Follow
ing is an abstract of the sermon:
could speak of Jesus and the resurrection
not to scoffers and doubters, but to men to
whom life is an intensely real thing, and to
whom it would be good news for their feet to
reach the rock of eternal truth; two things
are true, sin and sorrow and death.
1t is one thing to write out beautiful homily
in the students room and another to 60 into
the world and call things by their names.
1t is considered a wonderful chance that in
every particle of air there is enough oxygen
to save human life; it is marvellous thing,
this chance; chance deserves better name;
we call it God; the question which concerns
us is have we an Almighty God; have we
friend or not; is humanity nothing more than
blind chance of the tabled wretch,
rolling the stone up the noun
tain to come back and crush him?
not man who has had half hours battle,
whose heart did. not cry out for God. The
gospel of the universe was the fact of Christ;
it revealed to man the love of the Everlasting
Father. Whenever you cannot realize that
Christ's love was touched with that wonder
full compassion for suffering then it is time to
cry out for God; Christ came to change the
will of man; every word that fell from the di-
vine lips; every deed of his compassion and
pity were new revelation of God in Jesus
Christ.
His miracles were the divine proofs that
that God for whom the world had waited, had
come to those in waiting; if this gospel had
been the coming invention of men, these
stories would never have been found in its rec
ord; that out of this wonderful sinful multi.
tude could be founded a kingdom of the
inexplicable riddle that ever visited this earth:
conceive the man. Before Abraham, 1 was:
before the world, am. He had the power
to take up and lay down life; conceive, if You
can, the shepherd boy. He, never,
learned to read, yet he taught the
divinest philosophy ever heard by man; he
gave the highest seal of his divinity. He
died upon the cross; it was the way that he
could lead suffering men to the father; he
went to the grave where I and you and YOUR
loved ones are going. He remained three DAYS:
the resurrection of Jesus Christ is the proof
of religion; Christianity lies in this fact, that
Jesus arose from the dead; the men who died
with him, had never knew him yet they died in
attestation of his divinity; the men who had
clamored for his blood witnessed his com
ing back and marveled.
They declare that this was the Goldman
risen from the dead. They did not ask if his
teachings were like Plato's-it was enough
that they had seen the risen Christ. The rea-
son why heather men never grasp the truth is.
because man exists with an organic BODY
The body and soul had been redeemed Christ