St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-10
Presbyterian Church.
SERMON BY REV. DIR. CARROLL.

SEhAiN bA INV In. NAhhOLls.
This church was very largely attended yes
terday morning, the pastor, Rev. DR.. Carroll,
having announced that he would preach
special sermon on The Duty Of the Hour"
He took for his text Matt 22:21, 'sRender
therefore unto Caesar the things that are
Cesar's." ! am not to urge, the speaker
said, the political claims Of any party, for
this would violate the principle and practice
of my entire ministerial life, and would In
addition, here and now, be violation Of the
sacred desk and day, make of your minister
a partisan instead of a pastor; SOW the wind
thst eveltuates In the whirlwind; light the
fame that burns out all spirituality and
Christian charity; start the wedge that drives
through and disrupts whole denominations
OF Christians, and seize the sword that rends
in twain the seamless robe, and hews and
and hacks the perfect body Of Christ. Some
thing higher then than the political claims Of
party, or even the political claims OF country,
something holier and far more urgent would
we press to-day, not only on NJ pnztward
ear, but on the Utmost soul, namefs-the
religious claims Of our land upon her Christ
ian patriots. Our land, her perils and her
preservation.
The first peril is a national excItements;
the first claim therefore is, for Christian pa
trlOts to retain the Christian equanimity.
Another peril is her violated Sabbaths, her
claim upon Us 10 restore their sanctitv
Another peril-the substitution of mere edu-
cation for religion; her claim, therefore, is
the pouring out Of the spirit Of God over the
land. Another peril arises from practical
GOdlessness the abolition of all supplicafory
commerce with God; her claim therefore Is
an importantly OF prayer proportionate TO the
magnitude of the interest at stake in her
welfare.
The speaker closed with an elaborate and
eloquent peroration-gathering round these
claims all the national sufferings and ma
tional glory Of our past history: all the pros
poets OF civil and religious freedom of moral
improvement aud spiritual renovation which
the existence and welfare of this nation
holds out TO a world enslaver, yet struggling
10 be free-that 10y all that is past and ali
that is future these claims might be urged
successfully on all the Christian patriots of
this land-a land which Is the almoner OF
Gods gospel to the race, the light of the be-
nighted, the refuge of the oppressed the
home Of the exile, the hope of the lost
Though atrophy ia wasting a world and par
alysis Is sitting on the church, o Christians,
by your renewed efforts meet her sublime
claims, and then in her resurrection and
renovated glory You win see the Goddess Of
Liberty clasping the hand Of her sister Relig-
ion, and, as they 60 adOwn the slope Of ages
hand in hand, in the vision Of faith you viii
see inscribed on her pure brow, as by the
finger Of God, "HappY is that people whose
God is the Lordl'' Thus linked and united
will they ever journey until the world COM
pleies that grand moral cycle which is to
bring her nearer and nearer TO the central
light OF heaven; then, and not TIL then viii
she die. Diel Yes; as doth the morning
star, whose death is Day.