The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-12-30

this city can supply. YcA have nothing 80
fear from heing here. and ycur Christian
MEA need not b@ ore witt less spiritual. III
Is were indeed true that this city we're the
most wicked CITY on the coast, would moi
pray thai God should remove yor from il,
bat simply that lie should keep you
from is evil This He IS abnniantly able
20 do. II you bit keep unbroken the con-
nection between the soul srd God. And
now charge voa kefore Jesus Christ Who
shall judge tie quies and the dead a His
appearing and His kingdom: Preach the
word, be instant in season. out 81 season
sacred burden il the Life - hea-s
Look on IL, lis IL. beor II soleKlnlys
stand up ard walk beneath il sFeadsastiy.
Fail nos for sovraw fa.ser rot far sin.
BUT onward, upward. Ill tbs goal &c win
UsiTAREas CHURCH.
At the Unitarian church Rev Ernest G.
Smith preached upon the subject o. the re-
lation Of Jesus 70 the present age. He said
that Christ was always the same: Ills work
is always substantially the same, bat be-
cause the ages change His relation TO them
changes. The Christ of the fifteenth CEN
fury acts upon that century IN Z different
way from which the Christ Of the nine
teenth century acts upon il. Each age re-
ceives from Christ what He can give that
answers 10 its needs, and gives what il can
to complete His work. chr age receives
from Christ and gives 10 Him as well. 1t
is often said that the strongest thought OF
the nineteenth century is opposed 10 the
spirit OF Christ. II so, each has no less
need of the other The antithesis is one OF
closest relationship.
This saying that Christ's spirit and work
need the spirit and work Of the nineteenth
century. does not imply any imperfecti0n
in Christs original work: il only recog-
nfzes the fact that there is 9 kind Of work
which can not be done ali at once. Jesus
RECOGNIZED this ard characterized Ills work
as the leaveE hid in the meal. till the whole
was leayened.
Consider the relation OF our age to its
truth and the relation of Jesus 70 His
truth. The sincere, earnest search after
truth for its own sake eharacterizss our
age. Theology might well sit al the feet OF
science 10 eaten the truth-loving spirit.
Jesus was not trnth-seezer. lie came,
not TO seek the truth, but 20 announce
truth. He came 10 bear witness OF the
truth. Truth was to Him fundamental
and essential; bur still 90 know was not the
great object of His being. There was TO
Him something better than truth, namely.
life He said IL came that they might
have life and have it more abundantly."
Oar age seeks truth by the discriminating
and investigating power of the under
standing, by patient induction. Truth
came 10 Jesus through the intuitions OF
the soul He lived as naturally in the
world OF spiritual realities as other men
live in the world of physical realities. This
was the ground of the authority with
which He spoke Whoever speaks from
the moral and spiritual consciousness must
speak with authority.
Now these two kinds of truth need each
other, are complemental. Jesus teaches
us that God is love. and this teaching is
sufficient for the spiritual necessities of our
nature. But this fact of Gods love has
been initiated by the admission of caprice.
Ii needs 20 be supplemented by the further
truth that God is Law. This could not be
taught all at once; il had 10 be demon
strated This completes Christ's truth and
shows the impossibiiity OF caprice in Gods
love. Christ's truth saves the age from
materialism and mechanism; it brings the
soul TO the body. The laws, the forces on
which the thought of the age dwells, are
cold and hard until quickened by the truth
that God Is love. The thought of Christ Is
spiritual, the thought of the age tends TO
become material In this world we are
both spiritual and material. and We need
both truths.
Christ's moral teaching also finds a COM
plement In the life of the age. His moral
teaching is absolutely true, bat il needs in
strumentalities These the age gives.
Jesus teaches love and seIf-sacrifce; he
bids US do for others as we would have
them do FOR us. But mere almsgiying is
the mother OF paupeTisIn. Aid must be
given wisely, or il will do harm. We need.
then, the knowledge of social laws. This
the age is increasingly giving. teaching Us
how To best help men. But of what avail
the knowledge without the spirit of Christ t?
II would give us mechanism, bat no Iife
What is needed 20 give life IS the inspira-
ton OF Christ.
The age. then. needs deeply both the
truth and the morals OF Jesus Eat Is this
ALL IL Is no mere accident that the higher
truth and life We have been considering
front the age as Christian truth aud lie.
Behind the power Of Christ's teaching lies
the power OF his personality. his teaching
came forth glowing with its fire. IL is be-
cause the truth that Jusus uttered came
forth from his glowing heart OF love; il is
because II sprang fresh and spontaneous
from the intensity OF His spiritual lle
that il has such power today TO touch the
hearts OF men. lie brings 10 this truth
seeking, Misunderstanding age the pure,
strong personality is needs.
CHRISTIAN CHURCH
AZ the Christian church on Seneca, be-
tween Third and Fourth streets, she pas.
tor, j. :. McCallum. preached from the
text:
Brethren, count pot mgseif 20 have sppre-
henscti. het shis one thing I de- forgetting
these thiaes which ere lehtua. and reaching
forth INTO ghose things whfeh are before. press
toward the marx faF tie pgixe e the hlga call
ing Of God in CarIsf Jesus
The speaker alluded 10 the Importance
4 OF remembering tae mistakes ol tee mast,
I with view a living more correct lives
ard az forgetting the eoo8 done: og living
an humble ble, pressing forward in haaaii-
/ isy, in a faodel Ike. ln good deeds. I'M self.
denial and sacrifice Tor the lettering of
+ others in the narne Of Christ Initiating Ills
example 20 the end that eternal liGe mav
( he sttainesl-the great prise at toe ensl 81
the race. MF. MeCa1lusa preached AZ
Edgswatsr IS p. m. ana IA the church
+ ca Seneca street nk 80
TEEE xrrHongsE enuRca.
/ Rev. c. T. Mcgeynolds. Of the Free
Methodist Church. eoFusr Teata aud P.ae
streets, preached yesterday upon '.sancss-
fcA.ion" lie taok Scr his texts
Aefs, xv.a-"Ana pas &c differences between
Z IS saa tssaa, parsayiaS sisftg ksaEss hy tsish"