St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-23
DISCARD ALL FOR GOD.
A Grand Sermon by Rev. M. ID.
Shutter.

Shutter.
Rev. Marion D. Shutter preached yes
terday in the Grand opera house to the
congregation of the Church of the Re-
deemer from Hebrews XII, 81. He
said:
The writer of this epistle, in recount
ing the heroes of faith, gives Moses a
prominent place. The very fact of his
existence was significant, pointing back
to the little ark concealed among the
rushes of the Nile. Confidence in the
God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had
caused his parents to secrete him when
a mere infant, that the sword of Pha-
roah might not take his life. A like
faith in his own breast when he reached
manhood's years made him reject posi-
ton and power to suffer affection with
his avn afflicted race. He looked for
ward and upward, esteeming the re-
prOach that must come, and that did
come, greater riches than the treasures
of Egypt. What was true in the case
of Moses is to a. greater or less
extent true of every one of us
We are SHAPED by the invisible.
There are lucid Intervals when we see
with clear visions what we ought to be-
come. To help us attain the measure OF
this ideal are certain invisible forces.
Chief of these is the one under whose in
spiration Moses wrought and suffered,
1.-The Invisible God"
1t was once thought that in the prog
ress of scientific investigation God
would finally be ruled out of the uni
verse: that all things would be ac-
counted for upon materialistic grounds.
Far from dismissing God, the great
source of life, whatever else science
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surely in it's later developments it has
demonstrated the utter failure of ma
terialism to account for single thing.
The belief in Supreme Being and His
guidance of human life and affairs, has
always been a powerful factor in infiu-
encing human conduct. In our striving
to attain the character of whose glOrieS
we sometimes have visions it is an in
SpiratiOn and help. 1t is an element of
strength to every man to feel that his
work is included in Gods general plan.
No good thing that we have done shall
perish. The thought of God brings us also
patience, and restraint and comfort.
Patience, to work without worry, re-
membering God spans the entire course
of human history and under the arch of
His presence all is well! Restraint, that
leads man to respect the laws of his
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God. Comfort, in sickness and sorrow,
'and in the valley of every shadow, thou
art with me, thy rod and thy staff they
comfort me-"
Let us, then, endure and suffer and
labor and build up our characters into
all goodness and righteousness and
purity, strengthened, inspired and
comforted by that unseen God whose
nature is love and whose method is law.
The things that seem to us SO unsub-
stantial, the unseen elements of charac-
ter, the high and noble disposition of
the heart-justice, love and virtue and
right-these after all. are the solid
things of this world and will be the ell
during ones of that which is to come.
The ground beneath us heaves with
earthquake, thehills crumble, the ocean
is dashed by tempest, our fortunes melt
away and we pass from atfluence to a
beggar's crust, but that which is builded
within no shock of earthquake can
affect. no change of circumstance can
pull down; death itself is powerless to
touch.