Morning journal and courier., 1889-10-28
PRESIDENT CYRUS NoaTHRoP.


 Ills Admirable Sermon on selashness and Hts Limits, at Dwight Placo Church Yesterday Mornin9-It is Not . Bin 60 Provide LuxuriOusly Tor One,gSelf and Family.EviIs Of Society To-day - Pure Christianity, Practl. callv Applied, n Remedy.
 President Cyrus Northrop of the Univer- sity of Minnesota occupied the pulpit of Dwight Place church yesterday morning. President Northrop resided In this city until e few years ago and was, as is we'll remem- bered, Professor of English literature at Yale for many years. Nearly every seat in the church was taken. His sermon was an ad- mirable discussion of sel6shness and its as- peots in society. He chose his text from Philippians 2:iv: "Look every man not on his own things; but, also, upon the things of others" These words teach us not to be sell fish and to have some regard for the affairs of others, said President Northrop. This does not apply onlyAo Christians. The un- believer, the scoffer, the atheist, all are bound by the same principle. It has strongly affected all classes of society. A pure christi ianity practically applied is the only remedy for the evils of society to-day. No man need complain because he is obliged to work. A great, stout, lazy vagabond ought not to be the divine law of labor. If the harmony of creations has been disturbed it is man and not his Maker who has tangled tho bells and destroyed their unison. "Man's inhumanity to man makes countless thousands weep" Labor organizations for the common good of all would be prepos- terous; for man's work doesn't go to benefit one, but all. The selfish rich man may scorn the world and a selfish rich man may hate Although the world has made great progress in It's industrial developments during the last centuries, yet if the possessors of wealth think only of this life and death, he is accu- rately summed by these words of Sir Walter Scott:
 "Doubly dying. he shall go down to the vile earth from which he sprung, unwept, unhonored and un,
 He may be a more wicked man because he is selfish without having any particular req son for being SO. But still, his selfshness bears the same deadly character. The selfish pauper is practically the same as the selfish rich man. Undoubtedly we are all somewhat selfish in way. It is not all a selfish strug- gle, and there must be survival of the ft- test if there is any survival at all. But every man is bound to take care of himself. If he surrounds himself with what conveniences he requires, cultivates his mind and body, he is not selfish, but is in plain line of duty which he owes to himself and society. Every man must take care of himself. He is, of all men, the onelwho is to stand up before men unblushingly. The philosophy of life and labor is in the idea that you can't lift the whole human family at once. It must be lifted individually, man by man. We cannot affect a mass of people in any offao hat hv ind fvid h. solute equality of all is impossible. Man is not to live, but to be; not to make of him- self, but to make for himself. Most men have all they can do to support their families; but man who can do no more than this need never be ashamed. In his family are his treasures, his jewels. Only himself does he sacrifice; wears himself out for them. Who can appreciate this better than God who is lovea hope have been able to things commonly called selfish which are not selfish at all. We are not called upon to do violence to our natural feelings, even in bene6cence. The ties which bind together a family should be stronger than those which bind different families. h all these matters we are to act with our natural feelings and sympathies. In this we arc not unlike Christ himself. But there are some things in which 1t is impossible to do as Christ did, and it is pEebuIptuOus ID ub 1T W6 buOulu httoLupt lt
 The shortest and best lesson in political economy ever given was Jesus' words, "Give unto Cesar the things which are Cesar's. !" Yet he was no politician. His economies are not between labor and capital, but between the rich man and the poor man. And be- Hove that on the last day of judgment the atonement will not be between labor and capital, but between the rich man and the poor man. Alone Christ rose into heaven. Alone he worked his ministry on earth. Is the lesson not strong ones The salvation of man must be by individ- uals. In this way must man be elevated. While 1t is proved that we cannot be like Jesus in all things, we can be like him in one thing; and that is, spirit. know the great ness and power of the christian church. Far be 1t from me to belittie its benefcence. It is magnificent sight. But while we are thus carrying forward an aggressive cana psign, let us spread the spirit of Christ among us. There are men in our church who are neither touched by christianity or christians. Do not hold your religion as a sort of life-preserver. Let us remember that there Is no other eye than Christ's to pity and no other arm than his to save.