The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-08-09

back gallery. They did all they were atle with
their feeble intelects, to disturb the meeting,
and it is disgrace TO the city authorities that
they will rent the hall for religious purposes,
charging more for it than they do for secular en-
tertainments. and then abandoning 1t,
without any protection, to young bummers.
IT. it had been political convention or gathering
of the Liquor League there would have been
police detailed to preserve order. but these be
ing religious meetings, the authorities care
nothing If the committee in charge OF the
meetings cannot secure proper policing OF the
hall, they should decline 20 pay the rent agreed
upon. When the city accepts rental there is
an implied contract that the tenant shall be able
to properly conduct whatever business or service
he engages the hall for
The services were opened with an anthem by
the choir and the singing of the grand old hymn.
Coronation" by the audience. Rev. John
Batziy offered prayer and read the ninetieth
psalm as the scripture lesson. The hymn,
Marching to Zion" was then sung, and after
the quartet, Rev. A. w. Lamport, pastor of
the Central-avenue III. E. Church. preached the
sermon
Mr.. Lamport took as bis text the fifth chapter
of Timothy, twenty-fourth aad twenty-ffth
verses:
Some mems sins are open beforehand. going before
to Judgment; and some men they follow after. .;.
Likewise. also the good works OF some are mani.
fest beforehand and they that are otherwise cannon
be hid.
All sin is of human consequences. IL is not
God who is in the tangle, but men; and all SIN,
whether in this life in the lives to come. as
developed here involves u.s. Men are sinners.
The Bible so teaches, and observation every
where must SO conclude We ALL like sheep,
have gone astray. In the aggregate sin is
joint property. No man can stand aloof and
declare himself innocent. We are all involved
in this great sum of wrong. This joint property
is not held neither will it be distributed in the
mere proportion of numbers. Our Lord Jesus
Christ has pronounced that in the Judgment we
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done These facts make it necessary that the
judgment should be delayed until all causes
have run to their results and every moral intiu-
ence is finished. Judgment wal s the finished
result and complete influence of our deeds.
/ believe the Judgment of God delays in defer
ence to the laws of heredity and to mans respon-
sibility under that law. This is a delicate posi-
ton, and do not pretend to speak further than
the Scripture warrants. But God has told us
plainly that he is a jealous God, visiting the
iniquities Of the fathers upon the children unto
the third and fourth generation of them that
hate Me, and showing mercy unto thousands OF
them that love Me and keep My command
ments." l understand this not to be III any vim
dictive sense, but under this law of heredity
which prevails In our moral nature, as well as
that of heredity in our physical nature. All
living organisms produce like themselves, with
slight variations And there are forms OF body.
thought and impulse So many relate to
mind or spirit are not discernible by us. and yet
those parent forms responsible 1t ID posi-
BILE for men to so violate the laws God has fixed
for their natures as to work harm for
themselves and transmit that harm TO posterity
You have only to look abroad in society to see
how true that is Insanity is transmitted from
parent to children. Predispositon to intemper-
ance is communicated in the same way, and
inordination, coarseness and brutishness and
bestiality. A man with wholly sound phys
ical nature may 40 transgress as to transmit to
posterity after him conditions of disease and
weakness. A man with sound mind may so per-
vert the laws that God has fixed as thereby to
transmit conditions of weakness to posterity
after him. We have not far to go in society to
see how coarse and british parents have furnished
the conditions of inordination to generations
after them.
So we can Sc how parent forms are made re-
sponsible-how it comes to pass that the results
of an act may continue long after the act is fin
isRd. Certain it is that the judgment of God
delays in Difference to mans work as an agent.
We told no man liveth unto himself.
mans influence follows his deeds, and if he has
done wrong act it is not possible to overtake
it and the misdeeds that follow it, and his
sponsibility is for things far beyond his intent.
When the devil wants to sap the foundations
of righteousness in the land he stirs up an clio
quent blasphemer and sends him forth. He
puts him from Chicago to Cincinnati. from Gin
cinnati to Cleveland. from Cleveland to Buffalo
on fast trains and at every blast of the whistle,
every 5ound of the BELL he repeats his COM
mand, "Make haste, Robert" but in spite of
fast trains and rapid agencies it will not be pos
sible for him to see all the churches and the
cities, but where he himself cannot 60, his
printed speeches are going and doing daily
work, and the Judgment of God waits in defer
ence to his finished work.
There is brighter side to this law. 1t is said
that likewise the good deeds are manifest before
hand. There are deeds in a mans life that
stand out like pyramids the desert, and that
can be measured There are others not i'm
portant in themselves, but important in view of
what is around them and above them.
The speaker, illustrating the heredity of good.
quoted the fifth verse of Paurs second epistle to
Timothy: when / call to remembrance the
unfegned faith that is in thee, which dwelt first
la thy grandmother Lois and thy mother Eunice;
and am persuaded in thee ALSO"
The nearest fixed star is Capsl:a, over FIVE
hundred and eleven triions of miles away, so
far that 1t takes seventy-two years for its light
to reach as. Science assumes that if that star
were blotted out this moment it would still con-
tinue to shine on this world for seventy-two
years to come. So man being dead yet speaketn
and their works live after them.
In Jesus Christ, God provides method for
Precipitation and justification from sin. So that
being justified by faith we have peace with
Lord Jesus Christ. Lay hold Him ard the
provision He brings that you may meet God in
the judgment without fear.
The services closed with prayer by DIR.
Jencks, and after the doxology, the benediction
by Mr.. Lamport.