The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-10-21

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! sisn and civilized community h the almost
universal disregard Of Gods holy day.
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I 10 work. and building goes on IS usaal.
In se~ms AZ though many people forget
there Il such day as Sunday or have
l dropped IL from their calendars. jusi a.
/ bad are Others who turn the day into one
/ of pleasure Boating and riding parties
are common. The drinking hcises are
orsr fuIt blast. In fact. IL seems as though
tue devil blew his trumpet ioCdess on tais
day. Thus men ignore the church, disobey
God r,ieese themselves ard serve the devil
The text requires The observance o. the
Sabbath. that Is. the seventh day OF
The week as IL observed by the Jegs TOW.
This day MAS Instituted by God first as 4
day Of rest, when ali Unnecessarg labor
shall stop. When men shall turn their
thoughts away from the earth 10 the God
who provides for them. God wishes 10 es-
tahiish divine order Of things Oh earth.
and this lie effects by requiring men to
live IS He Iives-vork six days and rest
the seventh. We are 20 use the Sunday 10
Ask God s blessing on the preceding week $
! labor.
The change of the day OF rest was made
by general consent Ok Christians from the
apostles down. Christian consciousness
and Christian feeling fixed Is lis DAP Of
rest the dag when God poare. out His
spirit in Pentecost. the day when Jesus
Christ rose from the dead and proclaimed
Ills religion one OF lie.
So. then. let Us as Christians see that
Gods laws are enforced as well as the laws
at the state and community. We cannot
expect the heather Chinese to keep Gods
day when so-eaiied Christians who know
better have no regard for it, According ss
the SUNDAY is observed the nation and the
state rises or falls.
JACKSON STREET BsrrrsT CHURCH.
last evening Eey. J. T. Ludlow preached
in the jackson Street Baptist Church. upon
the text found in John liz:
We must he born agsin
This was direct remark of the Lord 10
Nieodenlus. Nieodenus has many repre-
sentat;ves in this congregation He was
free moral agent. and so are YOU. he had
voluntarily come for an interview with
Christ, and so have you; Jesus spoke 10
him personally. and so he does to ron. He
was answered before he asked. Notice the
grammar OF the text. "lou"-a voice TO
you alone, personal, present ami positive;
mast'-6od's imperative, unequivocal.
absolute; no might. could, would or should
about it. This is the battle ground OF
every human soul In the garden God
said: Thou shalt die. Satan said
Thou shalt not die" so satan still says.
NO need OF regeneration, reformation is
good enough change of conduct, in
stead of change OF nature. Be this
shot pierces the yitals OF all human pride,
death stab 10 the natural man; no doing
/ here; il is creative work and must be divine.
Born again properly rendered from
above. This is the secret of necessity: a
lew race to be created 10 people 8 new
earth; not what you do. but what you are.
Mans original birth was by divine nat
tIrai process. the new birth is by divine
spiritual process. Why must his be? Be
cause of the nature of God and of man: the
one is divine, the other devilish; God is
holy. man unhoiy; light and darkness can
not co-exist. And because il is Gods laws.
These are immuiahle: they control all
forces, celestial and terrestrial; ali move
ments of life and growth and death. We
cannot escape Gods must"
Men universally heed God s natural law
as shown in night and day, revolving sea-
sons. sowing and reaping. Astronomers
predict eclipses and celestial movements.
We watch and expect them without ques-
ton
Two aforementioned vessels meet at
sea, bound for the same port Fine
weather, fair wind, racing side by side.
Suddenly one shortens sail and falls be-
hind; the other bounds ahead. Swiftly the
white squall on the starboard horizon
sweeps down upon the vessels. The one is
lost, the other rides the gale and is saved.
Why the difference? Gods Bible, called
the barometer, hung in the cabin of each
vessel; that Bible told OF the coming storm.
The captain of one vessel read It, believed
II and obeyed it, and was saved; the other
disregarded it, rejec ed it and was lost.
NORTH SEATTLE BAPTIST CHURCH.
Rev. ID. j. Pierce preached at North Sc
attic yesterday morning and evening.
Last evening was the second OF a series OF
religious lectures on Sunlight" drawn
from John :S5.
HE who bapsiseth with the Holy Spirit"
The air is set in motion by the power Of
the sunlight, which rareiies it hy heating
causing it To rise, giving place to the cold
air. This air envelopes, fills, thrills US
Without II We cannot live moment. Iii
1T emblem OF the Holy Spirit without
+ whose influence no proper moral life is
/ possible. This Spirit "brooded over the
I waters" in the pregnant days OF creation.
electrified the deep when God said. LET
the sea bring forth" energized man when
! he walked with God III the gardens: sur-
I rounded him in those halcyon DAYS with
I pure thoughts and holy purposes. gut
/ man. separated frem God. loved darkness
+ which hid him from his Master. Because
/ be did not love 10 retain God in his know.
ledge. God left him. and he came into a
/ different atmosphere, where. unconscious
I of Gods dealings or shrinking from His
communion. man filled up horrid list
of crimes.
In this condition men wonder how
+ others can believe in Gods presence and
+ pray 10 him. They are in a different at
mospheTe unchanged with Gods presence
We wondered how tslegraphie wire
+ could run car loaded with forty people
+ and some OF Us refused to believe our owu
eyes. bot shey speed through the CITY. a
present reality. wondered how men
could ilTe cannon oct OF doors lust ar, tho
/ down beat - musical leaders baton The
mystery was solved when the secret was
T learned that he stood upon an electric key
+ IN connection with the cannon "a sense