The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1882-10-27

severed church anu state saying,
{" Render TO Caesar the things that
are Caesars, and to God the things
that are God's.n Christ and Paul,
too, bid men abandon fhe old paths
aud take IA new departure. True,
centuries before, q jeSish prophet
had said, sit is not by mighrsnor
by power, but by my spirit saith
the Lord.5 But the rubbish of ages
had so covered that, that the jew,
equally with Roman antf Greek,
rested in human might aud power.
But, now, this dpetrise exhumed
from the past, WAS 10 become the
creed of a sin.contsssiug, weak and
dependent humanity. The old
faiths were to be discarded, the old
idols destroyed, the old self de-
throned. No Wonder that they who
had SAID as to Christ, "away with
him,s said, as 10 this new, strange
aud unwelcome teaching, "away
with it.n II WAS to them as one'of
the " Things that are not"
Aud, yet, had the Jews of Pauls'
day thought over their natlon's
eventful history they would have
seen this principle working with
power IN their past.
As bondsmen in Egypt they were
OF "Tke are notr-had no estlma.'
tion or influence; yet they "brought'
to noughtn tha power OF their op
pressors, whd were then chiet
among the " Mingstaat are.'
So with Gideon aud his three
hundred, against the host ot Mid.
ian. So with Samson ant-, tie
Philistiues. SO too with David aud
Goliath, The giant, ten teet high,
the impersonatiOu Of human
strength, and little David 'tlla
rudy youth with the'fair cdnutrn-
auce, the Eeper Qi sheep,Swith his
stones aud sling against Goliath's
spear and shield, type OF the
"rhings that are uot.p The Ime
Law is also seen in nature as IN Pro-
violence. Those spears and shields,
in which Goliath boasted, were
great, afterward, through the ecu
turies. But, when the time came
to change the art aud mode of war,
God gave some brain, the Gun.
uiug To omake the little black grains
that burst and scatter.ar the touch
of flame; and lola good eye becomes
better tilan y eiaut'sarai, aud a sure
lam thana stroug Z stroke, and spear
aud shield, disused and rusted, are
kept i,s object lessons Of a dead aud
buried past. So. too. IA the doe.
trine of the universe, ntw faith by
like law replaced the old. Mai
learning that his "great globe" es
teeiied 80 brvad and grand, is, it,
trutls among the smallest of til,
spheres, aud, instead of belug cen
tral to the 0ibs that brighten an,
, adOru its sky, is an opaque ball de
pendent for it's light aud heat ant
, life upon a distant sun, about whicl
, it revolves. Aud this law thu
seen i'm Providence aud nature
9 works also in grace. Christ an,
r Paul came, as was justly charged
to siurn the world up side down,
| and ere long, JApiter amt Mercury
I aud Apollo aud Baccbus, aud Jun
!. aud Diana. aud Minerva aud We
nus, the great deities worshiped b,
7 the great peoples in three cont
!, nents, lords then OF ''the things tha
r are" we're "brought TO naaght" b,
= Him whom their worshipers il
f Paul's day ,despised as of the"thing
| that are. not" SO that the CON
Z plaint of Demesrius, the silve
sbrine-makeIsof Ephesus, proved
{ pro- hecy. In .4aaspproar the mnl
sf1idude, for two hours, shouted
D '.(breat is Diana of the Eptrsisns
[ The ages answering tUat shout, ,hav
I ca1ed out-'we ought not t thin
4 that the GOdhead Is like unto gol
| for silver, or stone craven by al
{ hld mans device"
e } Aud this paradox has a narrow
= 1 er aud intenser application IN ever
I'll individual renewed by grace til
y fruits OF the spirit suppla,ItIDg til
!, works oil the flesh, 80 that he spl
!, itnal man who icas not, takes I'll
AL place of the carual nIan who acd
a The old man with his deeds il pl
IN oft and the new man put on, aud |
4 4 radical is this change that Chri
2 ,cs,lls It u "beiug born again." au
|, Paul declares it IA turning fro
i Ieixrkness to light, from death uut
|AR,lip, ami from Ii,e power of sin All
All S5atsil unto GuI ,raud calls the cha
Il gaai man 'sanew creature iu Chri
q III rslas.H
If md we know that we are ''bol
n laeaaiin bs tnene etfeols aud result
il lW htlu "the things thas are not ha,
II brou &ht 10 soughr<fhe things thl
p ate,p 1.-THE fruits OF the spirit in
a slipplAnting the works Of the les
Of W. ha Se proot-proof experiment
n. aI--as we "add to our taith virtu
Of aud To virtue knowledge, ana .
n knowledge patience, AID to pa|
y el,ce Temperance, and to te,nperau'
godliness, and 10 godliness brot
* pIls kindness, and to brother
nd kindness Iove,n lPster's glowing .
RI may, ,that this paradox haswroug
III zin our renewed souls its work
d. power and grace.
us After an application OF this Ia
he. to the occasion, speaking Of 4
de building with its quiet means Al
nd mathod--wortlB of praise aud pr3