Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1882-04-17
IN THE CHURCHES YESTERDAY.

At the Y. M. c. A. Hall, yesterday, there
was no service because of the temperance
meeting at the Sixth.stroet NJ. E. Church.
At the First Baptist Church Rev. j. E.
Barnes. of Woodland. preached. In the
other churches the regular pastors oficiated.
At the Christian Chapel the sermon in the
morning was by Elder E. B. Ware. His text
was from Romans l., 10, and the subject,
The Power of God in Salvation" A
synopsis OF the discourse is presented. lie
said, the text reads: 81 am not ashamed of
the gospel of Christ. For it is the power OF
God unto salvation to every one that be-
lieves." God possesses infinite power. lie
has Alternative power. He has all-perpet-
uating power. He possesses all-saving
power. I" In the beginning He created the
heavens and the earth" by Him all
things continue as they were from
the beginning" And it is :" in Him
that we live, move and have our
being" The creative aud perpetuatiug
powers of God are revealed in nature.
The saving power of God is revealed In the
Bible. The text afirms that the gospel is
the power of God to save men," Not the
power by which He made the worlds, not the
power ny WLlCu LIZ lAcu ctdio III VIC
ornament above, but the power by which
he proposes to save men from sin and from
death. We notice that the language of tie
text limits the power of God in the saliva.
ton of men to the gospel. 1t is the power OF
God. To this view of the subject infdels
and rationalists seriously object. They OBJ
ject 10 that it places limit on the infinite
power of God. They tell us that God GER
tainly has the power to save man in any
way he sees fit, without limiting himself to
any particular plan Of operation. 1t is not
question as to what God can do, but what He
will do. He can do anything in harmony
with his divine attributes. But will he!
Man has no right to attempt to limit the
power of the Almighty; but if God has
chosen to limit His own power, man certainly
ought not to object If we look at all nature
around US we will behold evidences of the
limitation of Gods power. All things were
created in the beginning by the word of
His power. He spoke, and it was
done. God said. LET there be light
and there was light" All life, animal and
vegetable, was spoken into existence in the
beginning. 1t matters not how msny pro-
cesses OF development they have gone through
since, the beginning is founded in miracle.
God must hare brought into existence the
first forms of life by the exercise of His IN.
limited power. Re has the same unlimited
power to day that He ever had. He could
produce oaks with acorns to-day as well as
He ever did, or an acorn without an oak. II
He can do this, why don't He do it? The
answer is because He has limited His power
in reproduction to what we call the laws of
nature. Now if God has thus limited His
power in nature, is it anything strange or I'M
reasonable to suppose that He has limited it
IN the salvation or the redemption of man
This the Bible asserts, and upon full con-
ception of this great truth depends the
future hope of the world. God has mani
tested His power to save man from sin and
death by the gift of His son, thst,,whosoever
believeth in Him may not perish but have
everlasting life" D." The world by wisdom. I'M
aided By divine revelation, knows not God,
but it has pleased God by foolishness of
preaching to save them that believe" 1.-THE
preaching of the cross was to the Greeks
foolishness' and to the Jews stumbling
block, but to them that believe Christ the
power of God and the wisdom of God"