The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-02-04
SERVICES AZ ALL SAINTS

After evening prayer at All Saints
Church last night tie rector, Rev. j. .
bowman. preached one OF his practical
commOn-sense sermons His text was the
9Th verse Of the 18th chapter of ~. Pauls
First Epistle 10 the Coriothians. Char
ity never faileth; but whether there be
prophesies, they shall fail whether there
be tongues, they shall cease; whether
there be knowledge, il shall vanish
away"
Few men said the preacher can CON
tinue the two opposite attributes-ha-
tired Of sin and love Of good. Men viii
hate evil when il is presented in the
gross forms, and 81 tho same time CON
done il when they see il in pleasant
forms, when ii results 10 their pleasure
or their profit. Notice the men 10 whom
the apostle IS writing Ia this
epistle. People have an idea that
the men In the first century were
barbarians. This is mistake Men in
those DAYS, particularly those 10 whom
the apostle vas writing, were enlight'
ened. Where can we find in the present
day, men superior in their chosen ield5to
Seneca. Cicero. Aristotle or Plato; All
modern systems OF philosophy are
founded on the thoughts and writings
Of the ancients, and those men
knew true philosophy. Corinth was
then the seat of learning an intellectual
centre Ii was power To cultivate
intellect, TO get knowledge, was the end
of everything with its people. Paul had
tried the same thing His was "a mighty
intellect He knew nearly all the knowl-
edge of the day but one day, on his way
10 Damascus, he found out that there
was knowledge temporal and knowledge
spiritual; that there was a mind and thai
there was a soul.
The Church, notwithstanding her mill
tant character, has no quarrel with pro
gress OF the attainment OF knowledge,
| but the moment we give to knowledge
what ii does not possess, exalt the mind
and intellect as our guide in place Of
| Christ and the soul, then does the
Church step In and say that the gospel
OF Jesus Christ must be our light and
guide
A wonderful advance has been made
since the days of GOliah and Homer
PHYSICAL strength then was the standard.
To-day physical strength stands little.
The intellect is the criterion now. Then
the ancients exalted the physical
strength: now we exalt the intellect.
Pauls saws whether there De knowledge il
shall vanish away. The day will come
when II will not be the physical or intel
lectual which will reign, but The moral
and spiritual The day viii come when
men will look back on this intellectual
age with the same pity and contempt that
we now look back on the brute physical
force OF the anclents.
II speculations of mans intellect as 10
whether God be God or not be anything
the man who thus speculates IL ont of
harmony with his Creator Ii Is not the
body or mind which continues 10 exist
Ii IS that incOmprehensible, intangible
thing, the soul How are we to know
the souly Only 10y getting into harmony
with God and have His spirit enter into
our immortal spirit Christ IS the great
harmonizer The intellect, which should
be the handmade OF The soul usurps The
place OF the soul, and boasts that knowl-
edge which yanishes away.
The natural man Is only an educated
dhiui0- J'S"s APPVHi9 ~ '"' "Noit OH"
soul, tho mans real self, something far
above the mind of the natural man II
the natural man has not been overcome
By the spiritual ms only course is 10 APP
peal to his God and Saviour and say
Lord, believe, help Thou my unbeliei"
You may rest assured that when all
things shall have passed away there will
still remain two things. God and the soul
Then We will know that the " hole duty
Of man Is to fear God aud keep His CON
mandmenls