St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-01
IN MINNEAPOLIS PULPITS.
Several Of the Flour City Sermons
Preached Yesterday.
LHAMAN ON QUESTIONS. +"
Excerpts from the Discourses of Revs.
Shutter, Burrell and
Thwing.

At the Church of Christ yesterday
morning, Rev. w. ]. Lhaman preached
powerful sermon from Mark XII, 81 to
80.
"By what authority doest thou these
thingsw AS though you should ask
the wind by what authority it blows. or
the clouds by what authority they
sweep the sky, or the sun and stars by
what authority they shine; as though
you should ask the tree by what author
ity it brings forth its fruit, or the bird
who gave it license to sing, or ask OF
Luther who granted him the privilege
to become a refOrmer.
Nature and God are the makers of all
things true and beautiful and good.
Benefcence does not have to procure a
license. Truth is its own authority.
Success does not wait for diplomas, and
titles, and credentials, and official sane
tons, and the prestige of great names.
1t is only in our own little world, where
it is easy to mistake the quack for the
physician, or the imposter for prophet,
that we demand credentials. We deS-
ignate a man Rev., or Dr., because we
fear that nobody would ever take him
for such without the title. Jesus came
before His world without titles,
with no diploma, without the sanction
of any school. He was the creature OF
no party, clique, clan, or tribe. They
demanded his credentials, forgetting
that the truth has as good right to
shine as the sun, and beneficence comes
like dew drops and rain showers. with
out a license. They forget that this is
Gods world, and all that is good has a
right in it.
1t is the wicked and the worthless
that we would challenge. 1t is the
wrong that has no right on earth.
Every evil thing is a tresspasser.
We drive snakes from our gar
den, but we cultivate roses, and
pinks, and pansies there. 1dolatry had
no right and could not be licensed UNI
der whatever title of dignity in ancient
Israel. Slavery never had any rights,
was always out of place in the world,
and the Muse of modern history has pro-
hibited it from modern civilization.
The falsely claimed rights of drunken
ness and the saloons are being enal-
lenged as we challenge the rights of the
viper that nestles among our flowers,
duty to perform in this regard that she
has performed for idolatry and
slavery. In all of his works the
devil is an intruder. and human
ity is bound now and again to bring
against him actions for trespass. But
Christ came as Son to His Fathers
world. To demand of Him His author
ity for walking abroad in His Fathers
domain was an impertinence. His were
the rights of all righteousness. Who
but God could authorize Truth to speak,
and Love to heal, and Justice to con-
denim, and Mercy to forgive? What
human court or school could authorize
Jesus to speak His matchless parallels,
and work His miracles, and die on the
cross, and rise from the dead?
1t was miserable presumption on
the part of these Pharisees, the pre-
tended lords of the land, to challenge
the rights of this Lord of Lords. But so
it is ever. The wolf bowls at the shep-
herd who goes out to save his sheep.
But back of their impertinence was
another question. 1t is the question of
all others from that time to this: Who
is Christ? Until that is properly an
swered all is enigma, perpleXity, error,
impertinence.
Know who Christ is, and all other
facts about him-hiS authority, his
power, his place-are then explained.