St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-11-02

lace are covered with beard that has been
trimmed from his upper lip; he is rather
tall, and has decidedly ministerial look
When he was about to begin his first ser
mon he took occasion to tell his new people
something of his habits of life. He takes
Saturday as his ''day off. " he said, that he
may come into the pulpit in condition to
do vigorous work, or words to that effect
His forenoons are devoted to sermon-mak-
ing and his afternoons to pastoral
work. Consequently hej will be obliged
to his flock and be able to give
them better satisfaction on Sunday
if they will make their demands for his
time, except in cases of necessity, in the
afternoon. Saturday night is especial rest
time, and he did not hesitate to say from
the pulpit that invitations to the pastor and
family to take tea would be less welcome
and less likely to be accepted with thanks
on Saturday night than on any other night
in the week. AS preacher he is forcible
and his sermons are thoughtful.
LAST EVENINGS DISCOURSE.
The subject of DR.. Mabie's remarks last
evening was Is Life Worth Living, and a
good audience was present. DR.. Mabie
spoke without notes. In opening he said
that of late a series of publications had
been given to the world of materialistic
nature, that have been largely influential
in shaping the thought of many
people Materialsm is but polite name for
atheism; the belief that there is no God.
Many who have read these books and
adopted their sentiments have asked if life
is really worth living and answered it in the
negative. The speaker then traced the
steps briefly of one who first looks at the
great problems life, and all its hardships,
labors and dsappointmentS, and follows
the ideas of the peSSimist until half craZed
and in despair he concludes that life is not
worth enduring and suicide is the result
the natural victim, the speaker said, Of athe
ism. He would not be too harsh with those
who reach this conclusion, for there are
many burdens that all must endure and
these thoughts are natural in the midst of
them, and from this the speaker urged a
proper direction of ones thoughts and a
belief in the God that governs and rules all
circumstances, as being the influence that
decides this question rightly. He agreed
that as life was lived by many. it is not
worth living. Many lives, he said,
were mere caricatureS of the
real life, tossed and battered and driven
hither and thither, overhung with dark
clouds through which the lightnings play.
OUCH lives were not worth living, from
any results to those that possessed them,
not from any influence that they had on
others.
He would not attempt to argue on the
direct question, he said, but would point
out some of the conditions under which life
Is worth living. 1t is worth living when
the dark providences are arightly inter
preted. When death, or deformity, or dis
ease, come to the family it is natural to
take a wrong view of them and declare
that life is not worth the price paid for it.
But through these there should be seen the
hand of the Creator that is rounding and
ripening the life in way that, though ap-
parently hard. is necessary to its complete
fullness. 1t is worth living if it be made
the seeding time for a harvest in the future
1t is worth living if it be such that God
dwell in it, and is worth living if it issue
in life eternally glorified. These points
were expanded and illustrated at considera-
Die length.
At the close of the sermon the congrega-
ton was requested to join in singing My
Days Are Gliding Swiftly By and the re-
sponse was so generous that the pastor
thanked the audience for Joining so heartily.