St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-10-21
DR.. TIFFkNVS DEBUT.
The New Pastor of the Hem
nepin Avenue M. E.
Church.
A Symposium of Sunday Ser
mons and Gossip Upon
Church Matters.
Byron Towne, Late Landlord
Of the Clark House,
Dead.
The Odd Fellows Memorial
DR.. Kate Bushneli'S
Lecture.


was crowded full to overlooking at an
early hour Yesterday morning, and 10y
1880. the hour when the services begin,
every seat in the auditorium was filled
and the aisles were crowded with visit
ors. The occasion of the unusual at
tendance was the fact that DIR. Q. II.
Tiffany, the great preacher from New
York, was to preach his first sermon in
the church and before the people who
are TO make his future passionate.
After the usual preliminary services
of singing and prayer, in which DR..
Tiffany lead in wOrshipful voice, the
minister announced his text as i'll the
eighteenth chapter of Romans. and the
fifteenth and sixteenth verses. The
text was a significant one, and read;
$50, as much as In me is, L am ready to
preach the gospel to you that are at
Rome also, for | am not ashamed of the
Gospel of Christ, for it is the power of
God unto salvation to every one that
believeth, to the Jew and also to the
Greek" The words, he said, had an
important theological as we'll as historic
meaning. The conditions of the world
had so changed that now all nations
recognized the power of the Gospel, but
it was not so in apostolic times. ltwaS
then regarded most insignificant. To
the Romans it was even abhOTrent. But
despite this the apostle felt such
power to bless that he was ready to de-
clare it in the Imperial City. lie was
proud of his Roman citizenship and of
the power of Rome, but he knew that
the Gospel was power by the side of
which all other powers were vain.
The speaker then spoke OF the ancient
city of Rome and of its power and great
ness among the nations of the earth at
the time of the apostles. Two things.
he said, had wrought great influence
over Rome. The conquest OF Greece
and the conquest Of Palestine. Greece
had been wonderfully influential in in
Producing her language. her philosophy
and her aesthetic qualities into Rome.
and as the conquest Of Greece had
wTO t changes in these things the
col lest of Palestine was destined to
revolutionize religion. 1t was to replace
fable by fact, pOlytheism by monothe-
ism. truth for superstition.
The speaker then spoke, showing how
power and power in organization was
the Roman ideal, and on this account
the apostle had showed wisdom In pre-
Senting to them the power OF God for
salvation. He knew that would catch
the Roman ear, attract the Roman at
tcntiOn.
He closed the presentation of the
thought with the words: 10 the idea
of law as an organizing power in ma
ton, he opposes God as the organizing
power i'm nature and in the world. He
says il is the power of God unto saliva
ton. 1t pertains to the life which now
is, as well as the life which is TO come"
In taking up the next portion of the
text he referred TO the sentence, ITO
every one that belitveth, to the Jew
first because" said the speaker, ''he
was the hardest man TO convert because
of his stubbornneSS and bigotry. but
when once converted the best man be-
cause of his firmneSs." In taking in the
jew and the Greek the speaker held he
included all classes between.
The speaker next referred TO the re-
mainder of the text regarding the ne
cessity of belief. 1t was the one thing
which all could give. He said: I'VE
are not naturally aguistic, we are prone
to believe" and after dwelling on that
point he said: THE gospel doesn't re-
form people: 1t recreates them again."
The one thought of the religious life
will be how to please Christ.
He closed his sermon with the words:
THAT same gospel | am ready to
preach. don't know any other. |
don't see any need for any other. Per-
haps | have peculiar notions, but l
think the pulpit is the place TO preach
the gospel and for no other purpose. If
| wish TO demonstrate science | will go
into the schools: If politics | will go
into the arena You will never hear
any politics from this pulpit. nor
will you hear any bursts of OratOry.
God pity any man who tries to bring
oratOry into his pulpit. | am one. who
doesn't do anything else but preach the
gospel Here Propose to preach tOyOu
the gospel. that same gospel as Paul
preached. DeStimeS are still the same;
heaven and hell are before US all. The
gospel is the only escape. L am never
much concerned in the study of new
truths. Forms of expression of the old
way differ as time passes on, but he
makes a great mistake who Introduces
new truths. l shalt preach to you the
old truth that found me as lad and
saved me. But remember l must have
the same condition as the apostle. so
much as in me is. Other men might do
the work better. Judge me kindly,
charitably, honestly, helDfully as you
listen to this old, old story. i shall
preach you nothing but Christ. The
fact is know nothing else. As you are
united just in that proportion will you
do good. So come to this large con-
gTegation recognizing that | do not
know you, and yet | feel that | am
among friends. So as much as in me is
| will nrpach to Won that are AT Rome