Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-28
COMMENCEMENT SER MON.
Synopsis of Rev. III. N. Browns
Able Sermon Last Sunday.

a crowde dcongregatlon at the VI. r
Church
1. Tim, vi. y; Eight the good
fight Of faith" Subject: The Well
Fought Fight.
My, friends, this world is a battle
field, and one continuous war flom
the cradle to the grave. And we are
soldiers; We are soldiers of faith.
and | am glad that the Lord has
blessed us with this ins rument OF
warfore. There are two kinds of
faith ; one deals with present things
or things of time while the othre
enters into ana deals with eternal
things. Some of US are heirs to both.
and find ourselves in possession o
very great power, and therefore urge
that you who have only the first,
that you add the second and fight
good fight Of faith !; faith that deals
with things of time.
1t is our object to call your atten
ton to this kind Of faith especially
but would have you to form q CON
junction Of the two Faith Of time
is largely an intellectual faith, of the
head, but more or less enters into
every thing in life with which we
have to deal. Examples:
The teacher enters the school room
with this faith. He believes that he
is master Of the situation and
therefore leads on his pupils from
page to page, from book to book, and
from room until he has has fought
the good fight Of faith and success
has crowned all Of his efforts.
The pupil grapples with problems
and the day comes when he goes with
all the honors Of the school feeling
that she or he has foughta good fight
of faith. And that pupil has a right
to feel so; if he or she has held on in
the strife and fought the battle
thorough, let him or her cry victory.
3. Alexander the Great believed
that he could conquer the world, and
went to work with lasting zeal so
great was his faith in his soldiers, his
generals and himself that he cut
down the bridges behind him as he
went to battle, viii. meant no re-
treat; 50 On he marched until the
whole world lay at his feet.
4 The war between Greece and
Persia. Two thousand three hun
dred and fifty years ago, ten Of the
Atheuian generals with their War
Ruler, met out on the mountains.
twenty miles from Athens, overlook
ing the sea and the great Persian
army in the valley below. The ques-
ton with the ten generals was,
"Shall we fight or surrender" five
said fight and five said surren der, tub
the War Ruler cast the deciding
vote and he few Grecian soldiers
fought the great host of Persians and
won the greatest battle Of tie world
Had the Persians been victors the
door of progress to human civilization
would have been closed for ages.
But those six generals had faith and
fought good fight Of faith that the
whole civilized world is proud Of to-
day.
5 The Civil War of America.
Gen. Grant believed that he could
conquer Gen. Lee when he said"l will
fight it out on this line if it takes me
all the summer" He fought and
conq1red and his name viii live as
long as America has a history.
Elaboration: "Fight the good
fight of faith" My friends, that is
Just what we want you to do. And
AS YOU enter the field, remember that
you have seven kings to conquer,
and if they conqner woe unto you.
These seven kings are as follows:
Preiudice-There is prejudice
between the races and especially
between the Negro and White
Americans that must die or both OF
these races that compose the back
bone Of America must suffer loss
The white nan has no good reason
for his prejudice toward the Negro
and ought to love him.