Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-15
cAnvARY BAPTIST CHURCH.

CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH. | bIe ana Eloquent Sermon by Dr. Lor- |
 Inner of Undergraduates More ImpOr- |
 tant Than CharIty-HOVv the Demo- |
 cratic Convention at Chicago Re-
 sembIed a Prayer Meeting.
 One of the ablest and most eloquent ser mons that have been delivered in this city for a long time was preached yesterday morning at the Calvary Baptist church by the Rev. Dr. Lorimer, of Chicago, who filled that pulpit most acceptably yesterday in the absence of the Rev. T. s. Samson, who is somewhat indisposed. The text of the dis course was the words: FtThe just shall live by faith, !" found in Romans 1, IT. The power of the text was shown forcibly and with graphic power in the opening of the sermon
 by description of the visit of Martin Luth-
 CT to Rome when as monk he received a
 strange revelation of the real meaning of
 that text and went away to begin that grand
 movement, Ffthe Reformation" The text
 was the watch cry of many an army during
 the Thirty-years War, it generated the new
 civilization of modern England and America
 and the spirit of the text forms the founda-
 tion of hope for the perpetuity of our insti- tutions and regeneration of the people.
 Two propositions were discussed as the
 main groundwork of the sermon. The first was that there is no true life without justice and the second there is no true justice with out faith In these days two propositions are to be found-the strength and power of Christianity, and the joy God hath sent to every human heart. They should be well considered, for we are apt to lose sight of the
 moral life and the supreme importance ot righteousness in this age when men are achieving such wonders. Many young men think that life consists in theater- going, drinking, gambling, etc., and when they are out seeing life they see debauchery. Such lead an.attenuated, shallow existence. They become melancholy, cynical, turn to the reli- zion of pessimism and having made all
 things evil about them they imagine there is nothing good in the world. That is not true 1 life. Were it so, would answer Malloch in a sentence and say that life is not worth liv- ing.
 It is a strange thing, but very true, that no man ever looks wrong he has done in ! the face and calls it by it's right name. A forger finds some pretty name for his crime. When the beer makers meet in convention they advocate the use of beer because it will serve as 8 tonic and be 8 help morally. l attended both the Republican and Demo- cratic conventions in Chicago. Now am not going to enter into politics and say whether shall vote for MT. Blaine or MT. Cleveland, as that is none of your business. But I noticed at those conventions that men whose hands were blistered with work ing the machine and whose hearts were all ] leprosy stood on the platform and claimed ! that the party must go before the people recognizing morality and righteousness. Why, in the Democratic convention thought I had got into Moody and Sankey meeting and expected to hear them sing, "What a ! friend we have in Jesus" But they played ''The Star Spangled Banner instead.
 We hear great deal about charity, but righteousness is more important than chari- ty We have charitable institutions without end, but misery seems as little justice. It is not valued at it's real worth If labor were paid more justly, if law were administered more justly, if you dealt with men and women more justly, men would need less charity and would be more happy. You say that charity binds up broken hearts and wounded spirits;-yes, but justice would save hearts from being broken and spirits from being wounded. Charity was not known before the fall of man. In the garden of Eden there was per ! feet justice. The highest condition of life will be realized when justice tears the ban dages from her eyes, looks the world in the l face and cuts down all wrong and wrong doing.
 | The preacher said that the human element \ is what attracts us in our travels. That lit l tie spot at West Haven where Jennie Cramel ! was found is of more interest than any o1 | the surrounding space water because il marked the continuation of tragedy.
 l The Bible begins with revealing a right
 eous God and then shows a righteous saliva | tion. Righteousness is the whole spirit O Christianity. Matthew Arnold tells us O l the importance of culture, but how was i
 in the time of Pericles, of Queen Anne? Util | itarianism, many say, is the great doctrine | It is simply philosophical theory of doing | the best you can and looking after your ow1 l interests, and Kant has shown that love O self is the basis of all wrong. The right l eousness that springs from utilitarianism i' like the edelweiss, pale, perfumeless, dead ! the righteousness that springs from justice ii l like the lily, warm, sweet and beautiful | Goethe said that the best and purest times il the worlds history have been when faith pre- | vailed The church is not 8 charitable insti tuition. Its object is not to sing psalms ant keep box for the poor, but to be an exam I pie of righteousness.