St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-05
DON'T BE SELFISH.
This Was the Burden of an Elo-
Guent Sermon by President
NOrthrOp.

! This Was the Burden of an Elo-
Guent Sermon by President
NOrthrop.
1.-The woman who spends all her time
| in taking care of her children and takes
care of Them" said President Northrop,
| of the State university, i'll his sermon
| delivered i'll the Peoples church yester-
! day morning, 'iS more benevolent than
| the woman who spends all her time at
| missionary meetings and leaves her
! children to take care of themselves.
| God has established the family and in
| tends that the ties which bind it to-
gether shall be closer than any other
relations"
Notwithstanding the fact that many
| of the members of the Peoples church
| took advantage of DR.. Smiths absence
and had one Sunday all to themselves,
the opera house was we'll filed. PreSi-
dent Cyrus Northrop was the speaker,
and he delivered an eloquent and pow
erful sermon on christian Benevo-
lence:" His text was Philippians, w., 2:
Look not every man on his own
things of others" .'These words of
| the Apostle Paul." said the
speaker, contain the substance of Chris
| tianity. so far as it affects the relations
| between man and man. There are two
| sides to ChriStianity-the gOdly and the
| part relating to man. In this part of
our existence the latter is Of the greater
| importance. All the text means is,
| don't be selfish. Have some regard for
| the welfare of others. Not as church,
but every man for himself; not merely
for Christians, but for every man,
whether Christian or not. There is as
| imperative law as that of revelation
| that compels Il man not to be selfish. 1t
| is the disregard of this commandment
that has produced the very general feel
| ing of unrest at the present time. This
| is made the claim for the government
to take charge of everything and make
every man lose his individuality. Rev
dictionary as this seems to me, it can
only be put down by general, prac-
| teal return to the doctrines of the
apostles. BY return to
| pRATICAI. CHRISTIANITY,
men will turned away from the selfish
ness of daily business life. By prac-
teal Christianity | do not mean belief
in dOgmaS and creedS, but life based
upon and imbued with the spirit of
Christianity as Christ ministered it.
Glove thy neighbor as thyself," con-
tains the whole subject. No man need
complain because he is compelled to
work. The divine law is that the man
who refuses to work shall not eat, and
the human law remains about the same.
But it is harder to carry out because of
mans disobedience. 1t is man, and not
his maker, who by his greed and selfish
ness has disturbed the world.
Mans inhumallity to man
Makes countless thousands mourn.
The world, however, is not entirely
selfish. If it were, labor unions and
all other like societies would he i'm
possible. Fortunately, we are so
made that, bad and selfish as
we are, there is somewhere
soft spot that can be touched
by something outside of ourselves. The
selfish rich man may seorn the world,
and often does; the selfish poor man
may hate the world, and he often does;
but little child can touch them both.
Great changes have taken place in the
last fifty years. We have so advanced
that it is now possible for the sharp,
shrewd man to pile up and hold a hun
dred millions of dollars--more than
CrGsus ever possessed. But the world
despises the man who thinks only of
himself.
Selfishness is the same, whether in
millionaire OF pauper. 1t belongs to