Morning journal and courier., 1883-03-26
Sermon by Dr. smyth.

SoTmOA Dy Ofs SunYtns
 At the Church of the Redeemsr there were many flowers and the Easter music was very
 fine, particularly the solo by Miss Ella Bel
 den and the masterly way in which Mir. W.
 l. Baldwin, the newly elected young organ ist, handled the instrument, was good also.
 Rev. Dr. Todd preached in the forenoon from Rev. l, IS, very impressive sermon, and in
 the afternoon Dr. Newman Smyth, of Center church, preached from John 3, 21 ': sHe that does truth He said These words have a remarkable force and put in few words the character of John. Jesus said, he that doeth good. Truth in Jesus is doing something.
 We owe more to ideas than to anything un- der the sun. Truth, then, is something to be done. All reformatory measures are good only so far as they take in the Christian principle. Truth will not allow us to drop out anything. Everyone who does the most truth is the best reformer.5 Reform is truth in action. The Bible is the best book be- cause it contains the most truth. Christ says 1T am the truth
 The first truth of reason says, ''There is 8 God ;' so taught Plato from the beginning God moves all through the Bible in 8 spirit of truth. How can we be more Ohrist-like than by doing the truths that he taught? The disciples taught it as they saw it in the Mas ter.
 Not by thinking, but by doing is good &C., complished. Truth should be carried into all the departments of every day life. Jesus did this when among men, and lived while on earth in the light of heaven. We are to build our lives upon this truth, which is the gift of the Holy Ghost to men.
 If every manuscript of the New Testament had been lost it could almost be restored by quotations from it. We should make our lives so that one can act out this same Testa- ment by living out it's teachings. The gos- pei method is truth teaching, as Christ's dis ciples did.
 Christian truths are to be kept in Christian hearts. All our creeds should be our lives. How can we honor Christ if we do not live it day by day?
 We say we believe in the Holy Ghost but how will people believe us if we do not live 1t in business What we want is lives that l the world can read. Here are ideas that can be woven into the vesture, butscannot be put into lives. Every truth is fulfllment of \ the commandments.
 All the great men of former times can meet upon the one grand latform of truth, and study together in heaven unitedly and join in one common praise to the one God because there is but one God of truth. The truth that has visited prisons, that has relieved bn9 needy ana IeQ the nun6ry are the ones that will shine in the future world. Sin by the grace of God must be overcome and dark | ness of death must be overcome by the sin I of Christian righteousness.
 No assessment can be had of mans val | ue better than by learning how much truth | he has in his possession. How much has | this young man or that young woman? Now | what Arind of truth are each one of us doing I to-day? Are we doing for man the great | truths of regeneration? Have we the truth I of honesty, of uprightness and are we doing | our whole truth in action not only for the | sake of saving our own soul, but for the general cause of Christ? Be ye then doers 1f the word of salvation.