, 1884-06-17

tempted to explain the mystery of the In
carnation, or admitted. as did Mr..
Brooks, that it cannot be explained by
man.
COUPLE OF SERMONS.
The services at the Congregational
church, both morning and evening, were
conducted by Rev. L. A. s. Slower, of
Denver, who had exchanged pulpits for
the occasion with MI. Sanders. In the
morning Mr.. Slower took as the topic for
his discourse THE Rewards of Faith and
upon this subject preached, what in some
respects, was quite a remarkable
Not that it contained any very great doc
trinal truths or theological ideas, for it did
not, but on account of its plain statements
of well known facts, in a purely unvar-
nished manner, which was forcibly put,
and so easy of comprehension. In this
respect it was certainly a little remarkable
and it would seem that it was originally
intended for the gentleman's own church,
and his own people at Denver. AT all
events, it could hardly have been intended
originally for a strange church or a strange
people, He said there were three things
which are rewards of faith and they were
three crowns. 1.-THE Christian is faithfulin
this life and labors for the cause of the
Master-labors to. turn souls away from
the dark and sinful walks of life, and by
so doing succeeds in gathering into the
fold nan who would otherwise be lost
and ruined; then when
H BATTLE Is OVER,
when the journey is done and the true
soldier goes over yonder, he would receive
a crown of faithfulness. This he demon
mated one of the rewards. Then the
Christian received a crown of righteous
ness, and the speaker proceeded to show
in what way the dweller here on earth can
earn, in addition, this last named crow
and in so doing made some very strong
and very pointed illusions to the deeds,
conduct and practices of men which we're
very strong and suggestive. What he
wanted was more Christianity in shoes;
more of it in the shop, the office and else
where in fact. Men would come into
church right from the commission of some
'devilish meanness,' and look sanctimo-
NOUS and you cannot judge Of what they
are or what they will do by the way they
appear. He knew one man in his
congregation whom he dcspaired
of, and for the reason that he had zone
into business three times with church
members, and each time had been cheated
out of everything he had, and one of
these three men was a minister. The
sermon throughout was a most severe ar
raignmcnt of church members more than
any other class, and was full of statements
and illustrations which tended to show
that they were very far from being in
many cases what they represent them
selves to be or profess to be. In other
words, they were in many cases given to
hypocrisy. 1t might be principally mag
%ination on the part of some, but the i'm
preston seemed to be Judging from what
we heard that the gentleman had, unin-
tentionally perhaps, made his sermon too
POINTED IN ITS ALLUsIoNs
to the ways of men and women who, al
though not perfect in all things, yet on
the whole are trying to be as faithful and
true to principle as some of those who
play a more important part in the Chris
tian church. The third and last
crown which man Is to receive as the
reward of faith is the crown of glory.
Nothing was said as to the necessity of
combining works with faith in order to OBJ
tain these crowns, but the logical conclu.
sion to be drawn from the topic and the
discourse, was that faith is sufficient for
all purposes.