The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1885-11-10
ROCK ISLAND, TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 10, 1SS
"AUTOMATlC MORALITY"



| Join the saints in Heaven.
New loRR, Nov. 0.-Rev. Henry War
Bescher's text Sunday morning WAS thu
last clause Of tho % YER OF the 5ti, chapter
Of Galatians: Against such there is N
law, the theme oil his seruion being auto
matte morality He sait:
lncre are great many persons who arr
| someLilnoS alarmed at sucn phrase as this
| 1t - merely statement tnaL tho law had
suna within tue persons deacrihst ami acted
| no longer from without, rs Il ruls uf npiili
cation, but acted from within, as ii ruie OF
inspiration. Men train thoroughly
their bottom nature bat Gnoy re-
gard the qualities of their higher nature
| us accom- II ,hments. Now II man must ba Il
| thorough accountant il he lis to be IN biisi
| ness; Lut while ha considers 1t necessary T.
| train all his faculties for business until II
! comes to be automatic, hs does not feel that
| hi moral qnalitio, must go through like
| education AMI become Automatic These
are lihe mu lc. to the non-pra,essonsi person,
| anu -ement pleasure, not business.
The lower FERNS of morality have al
ready been educated to this extent; 1t Is not
| the fear of the law that makes an ordinary
man evil but some thing battor and higher
than that, and for mo and for every mar,
brought up with oven tbs slightest enamel
of civilization on them, the reason why we
don't do wrong things Is not BECAUSE We ure
atraia of the law. The law may ba abol-
ished, BECAUSE the law has already done It's
| work. 1t has implanted in us such II tenSo
Of proprioty and Of rectit,ide and of honor
that we now do Of our own moud ami mn |
the things that we should otherwise hav, Ia
40 from the compulson of this law.
Morality il automatic. such rs II is ini'
is the meaning whom men tecnilt IA law
unto thcmsel ves, "ias tue Scriptures ex-
pr, ~ it. Ii is that, all that is in the La
md good deal more besides, IL, IL, it. were,
sunk into him so that it is part of himself
and is no longer depends upon the inwari
impulse and necessity of his own nn.ure.
Spiritual civilization demands tnat ~
should bring eVory great mind force luto
this automatic condition, or this condition
IN which it heromes an impulse acting "f
itself. ! say spiritual civilization brethren,
we arc not seltlud for good here We nre
only here to learn littlo. We ara i'll tha
awk ward squad in this world, and wo shall
not be drafted into the regular re., inruts
until after we die.
For one, hope--I have no authority i'll
there is some intermediate land. or if there
he not that there Is graded heaven in
which men shall have sorns salvation au
some nope of unfolding. for as man liva AMI
as they are when they die, unless thers he
miracle wrought upon them--and we iiav.
no evidence thnt thero iS--they will neesl
good deal NOR" illumination ani a good d.ai
more practice before they ara fit To he assn-
ciateS with tho general assembly of tha
church of tho first born. For man live iii a
very imperfect Christian state. 1t is Sai
that if n man merely has faith IN chr,>t
that VIII ,ava him Well. yes-.sava him
in one sense. 1t may carry him nway
from annhilation. II may carry him
over the abyss of death and giva
him another schooling beyond, hut that
salvation which consists in heing ever
prascnt with the Lord; that salvation which
consists in ,ining the saints, the grsa t nrmy
OF the pure and the noble. ! don't thing
that every man that is saved sc,
rs by fire, necessarily joins at once
in that graat assembly fIe has not
learned tho language; he has no;
learned tho carriage, and he can not keep
step; he is in tho awkward squad yet,
though he may hs saved. And this is tho
place where men are to ba drilled, and
where they are to carry up their various
hi&hnr powers until thev coma into that
luminous and automatic condition in which
they net harmnniously without thuugnt aai
without piIrp0se-- simultaneously,