The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-18
DR. GAMBLER AT TRINITY.
Emory's President breaches q Telling
Sermon.

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Good Samaritan. Perfect Love" was his
theme. A good deal of preaching and writ
ing, he sal d, has been done on this subject,
both by the apostles ami men OF later times.
There is hardly doctrine now, he said, but
IL leads 70 christian education The thing
that impressed him most In the parable Is
that love is an active and not passive
grace. It is not an idea Of self-sppreciation.
He cited an illustration from John-the
night OF the supper, when Christ had to
wash the disciples feet, because none OF the
apostles would
Love" the preacher said, sis active-lt
does something. You might put all the
words in the vocabulary Of man together
aud they would not form true definition
OF love. 1t can not be defined. It is that
which tongue cannot tell. A love that
tongue can tell is not worth anything. God
did not tell his love- 1t is a feeling which
may be acted, but never defined The love
that exists when circumstances are favor
able and is extinct when conditions are IN
favorable, Is not love. Love is a burn
ing, seething fire, in the heart.
If we love God, we can serve
our fellowman. II we love those whom
God placed here-those whom He loves, we
delight him-we love him. Christ Is nigh
est to the man who does good 10 his fellow
man. The chances for doing good to our
fellowman are in our pathway-we need
not go out Of our way TO hunt them. There
is no use of getting out a search warrant for
opportunities-theY come to Us every day.
| The preacher branched of on the subject
OF christian education. Whatever needs
to be done, the church can do,n he said.
Responsibilities are accompanied by op-
portunities We are prosperous people,
with capital of $50, 5000, 0O0-if any of
you know how much that is. We are greater
than England. Can we not do what
we want to dol What is money? 1t is
here to save the world or damn it. When
one of Egypt's good old kings died, the
moneyed people built him a pyramid. No
body knows now whether it is
graveyard or an observatory A
church that lives under self-denlal
can save itself. Talk about the past being
the golden times-it is not so. 1 have heard
my father talk about the past, and Pm nav
ing bigger time than he ever had. The
good old days-they were not as good DAYS
| as the present days These are better times.
We've got the wealth, we've got the oppor-
| tunlty, now what shall we dol Let us edu-
cate. Christian education should be our
chief aim. Our people need the advantages
of it. A christian N an. equipped, isstronger
and more capable of doing good to his fel-
low man, than if he were illiterate or I'M
learned. Culture is needed-there is a
scarcity of it."
The preacher said that there is some COM
plant about Bibles being read in the public
schools. 81 don't care if you don't read
the Bible, just so you don't talk against it,"
he said, ''when you do this you teach my
child wrongly and / protest against it. If
the child has home culture that is all right
Mine shall read the Bible at home-they
| shall know what it is-whether it is read In
| the public schools or not. W hen they are way
| from homo culture and parental influence
and teaching, and the Bible Is not read to
them and taught them, their minds are
stimulated and their religion is neglected"
DR.. Gambler said that he Is afraid to put
his child under a teacher who does not say,
respecting this subject, Thus sayeth the
| Lord" Talk about piety floating about
| without choice, without a church he
said: why, it's as scarce as oranges are in
Greenland. If l did not believe in the
Methodist church l would get to some
church that did believe in, aud would be-
lieve in it as hard as couldn The idea of
combining all the denominations he did not
believe will pan out. 1t would reduce
expenses, but it wouldn't work. Even the
teachings in the UNCONVENTIONAL schools are
dlHerent-they conform to the churches
they represent. The evidence of christian
ity, although it is simply to prove
the authority of the work, is
constructed so as divide the Pro-
Il D.
The denominations must take hold of the
thing themselves. The state cannot do it.
1t Is not part of her functions She may
dig out a river and build a custom house,
but she can't teach religion. If the higher
education is interlocked and interlaced with
higher religious culture the church has got
to do it.
A student may enter Emory college and
decline to study Latin, or Greek, or French.
The president will not demur; but let him
refuse to study the Bible and there's going
to be a row. The providence of God calls
for this work. man has not got to be a
preacher to be thoroughly equipped and
christian worker. He may be merchant,
a mechanic or a farmer, but his usefulness
is not lost
DIR. Gambler complained of the lack of
support given educational institutions by the
churches. why" said he, "A yankee
came down here few years ago and gave
Oxford a hundred thousand times more
than the whole Of the south has given in
tfty-two years. 1t is a deep seated opinion
among good many that a preacher must
they appertain to his people. 81 despise
such ideas" he said. 81 have no respect
for these ministers who can do nothing but
marry the young and baptize the infants
Such people have enough curiosity, but not
enough heart to inquire into the needs of
tne people Other people have not the
liberality to help. l often find people who
say. II sympathize with you." Sympathizo!
Well it is a fine thing, but it is worthless In
my case. 1t makes nobody better 1t may
be good thing at funerals. but it doa't
} help live people. When man belongs
to one denomination, it does not
vest him with rights to disbelisve the doc
trine possessed by other psople of different
denominations. He has brothers who are
Presbyterians, who believe that they are
the chosen elect. They love God; he has
been reared with them, and he knows what
he is talking about. They are christians,
he knows that they are sincere, and he will
not speak derogatively of their belief be-
cause they do not believe as he believes.
Perfect love, the preacher said, casts out
fear. 1t casts out fear. because it casts out
selhshness. l have seen some people who
are all the time afraid of death. 81 never
was afraid of it," he said. "WhyG Because
| never believed that was going to die. u
The preacher said that he has studied death
mechanically, but he has never been able
to get up scare. THE biggest seldshness,
here" he said, "is money. Some historian
has said that the Englishman's idea of
hell is not to have dollar. y
He deprecated the idea of laying by for a
rainy day. These rainy days sometimes
never come. We had better do something
to-day. God holds the future.n
The speaker said that Rishon Pierca loft q