St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-08
Our PufDffs.
on 'sTHE SUPERNATURAL" AND ''DRTvISG
SATAN our OF PoLITIcs."

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on 'sTHE SUPERNATURAL" AND ''DRIvISs
SATAN our OF PoLITIcs."
Two Sermons BY the Rev. DR.. CARROLL
Those who were present at the two services
in the Presbyterian church yesterday could
not fail in being highly edited. as the ser
mons were practical and contained a mine
Of information and instruction, and each
text had startling significance, which were
elucidated in the usual able manner.
The services were conducted by DR.. Car
rol. The morning discourse was upon the
supernatural in the Bible. His text, John
iy: 4. San angel went down at a certain
season into the pool and troubled the
water" description was given Of the
pool, and around "Bethesda'' was grouped
most wildly the multitude gathered there for
healing, the blind, the halt, the withered.
waiting for the troubling Of the waters: the
angel who went down into the water 10
tri5ulate it; and the one who first stepped in
being made whole Of whatsoever disease he
had. The ministry and method
was then considered whereby the miracle
was wrought. John ascribes the troubling
OF the pool to the direct and immediate
agency Of an angel, aud Il most important
fact il is. That the water possessed this
curative quality irhdelity win not question.
for the Jewish unbelevers, living when the
gospels were written and published, would
have proclaimed il a falsehood, had Il not
been true. And who ever heard Of a spring
that would cure all manner of diseases. and
that instantly! And who ever heard of
mineral spring that would only cure one
person, and that the first person who
entered after the troubling Of the waters Alas :
for even some protesting christians, who In
their attempts 10 reconcile science and reye-
lation are giving up the fundamental truth
OF a supernatural, a miraculous Interrogation
in the affairs OF men. Because there are
systems surrounding creation, are we to re-
jet Gods statement that He made man in
His own image, only little lower than the
angels aud crowned him with glory, and
honor, and accept mems theory that he de-
veloped from q monkey aud is only little
higher than an apeI and because there is
marvel aud mystery in the healing of the
lame and blind by the pool OF
Bethesda, are We TO imagine
It's virtue was all due TO some salt held I'm
solution. II so, such faith has surrendered
our Bible TO the infdel. The method Of
Bethesda was only an illustration OF the
divine methods always. This the speaker
enforced at length with illustration after
illustration, and closed with lessons of con-
ISOLATION OF great beauty and pathos, showing
bow troubled springs are necessary here; not
the tranquil, not the Pierian springs, nor
Castalian fouDts OF classic memory, but how
Gods method Of a disquieting ministry Is
the best for earth, even as the "stiIl watersu
are for Heaven.
DIR. Carroll preached in the PRESBYTERIAN
church the third and last sermon in the
brief series on the problems OF the times.
The first subject was: 1.-THE religious claims
OF our country upon her Christian patriots. -
The second, 1.-The Christian statesman
versus the politician" The third, "Drivipg
Satan out Of politics" the theme last night.
The text was: Matt. Nv: 10, sect the hence
Satan" Satan boasts OF his governance of
the world. of his political supremacy, when
from his mountain observatory he showed the
Savior the kingdoms Of the world and the
glory Of them; he declares they had been
given 10 him, committed to him, and he offers
them t9 Christ as kind Of partnership.
God aeeords 1t to him also, as 'the God of
this world" Human records also accord II
TO him. But the mission Of Christ is to drive
him out, and Himself to become king of the
nations. The speaker here at length pre-
sented both the philosophical aud the bIstor-
AS0A 0A-NAhInti ehoNiuB .tual OuElSl an Ills
church had been doing il from the beginning.
How that wherever there has been q Chris
tan church il has interfered with despotism
and the devil, and sanetifed politics or the
science of governing. How Christ put forth
his power 10 drive satan out Of the sover-
eighty OF the world by the influence of the
church, which in the end is perfectly to re-
adjust not only social affairs, but 10 prscti-
eslly re-establish the primitive theocracy
when God shall govern all. Satan out, Christ
in politics; /. G. Christ in the church and
the church in the state. This implies aud
requires that every child OF God should first
see TO It that the nation is Christian.
That God deals with nations as
with individuals, according to their moral
character, and deals with them here in time
and not in eternity. Here the speaker char
acterized the various nations producing a
nat onal portrait gallery In some cases by no
means hattering, giving iull length pOr-
TRAIT OF America in her final development
either the greatest Of apostles or Of Iscariots
Again we should secure the moral and relig-
ious education Of the nation-showing the
necessity OF moral text books, and that the
moral text book was the Bible-not to teach
seetarianism out Of 1t, but to give It its place
In the educational life Of the nation. The
speaker here made an elaborate plea for the
Bible in our public schools, closing with q
vision OF the blessed time when the gospel
shall be rule alike to the governing and the
governed, when the promise Of God shall be
fulfilled, and when with Satan dethroned,
expelled Jesus shall reign king Of nations as
He is king Of saints.