Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1889-01-24
DE. rom TN rHrnADEnrHrA.
What He Said TO ahe ConRregatiol
OF Green street M. E. Church.

tNh&t kHG SEMI 10 tmt CONFEDERATION
OF Green street M. E. Church.
The Rev. Jacob Todd, d. D., preached
In Green Street III. Il. Church, Philadel-
phia, Sunday. His text for the morn
ing sermon was "And have made OF one
blood all Nations" DO, Acts XVII, 20.
He said in part: 1t is agreed that the
humsn family all had one common exist
ence. The sacred writer's and Darwin
are far from agreeing where the origin Of
the human race was, and science and
revelation will not agree as to what con-
stitutes the f1ttest, but they will agree
that Whist constitutes the fittest will sur
vive. Now, the most powerful race may
exterminate all the inferior races, or the
various races may blend into one. Bsliev-
ing, as we all do, in an overriding Divine
Providence, we must agree that God had
some pian in view in first separating the
races, and then combining them into one.
When we behold God at Babel separat-
Ing the one family of man, and see Him
to-day combining together all the races
OF men, we cannot help believing that
God had some purpose. Mnny OF the
races have passed away and it is necessary
that we should go back to the dawn Of
civilization. The waters OF the Nile not
only rocked the cradle of Moses, but
rocked the cradle of oil ages. The tower
Of Babel has long sinos fallen into ruin,
but the pyramids have remained unHhakan
and promise to last as long az man. In
Egypt lay not only the foundation OF
architecture, but il gave 10 the world
letters as we'll. Egypt thus put language
into permanent form, and all literature is
indebted to Egypt for its very alphabet.
The Egyptians were to write and build
for all ages and all peoples.
In the same way the speaker reviewed
the missions of the Bsbylonians, who laid
the foundation of science; the Modes,
who gave the world organized govern
ment; she Phnnieians, who taught the
world navigation; the Greeks who oriei-
mated literature and perfected art, and
the Romans, who laid down the law on
which mankind have since modelled their
oyernment-obserSing in each case that
when each nation had completed the
special work given ii to do 1t disappeared.
No ono, he continued, had dreamed of a
universal religion. In Palestine 10 people
separated from all other people, people
schonied In Gil oiviliz ,tions TINT had pre-
ce6ed them Nov Divine Providence had
n special mission for that little people,
they were kept simple and pure that God
might reveal 10 them world wide re-
iieion. Even the Jews were very slow to
learn the lesson, but little by little tbs
great truth dawned upon them that there
wos but one God, Father of them all.
Ii iFas when the fnlnees of time had
come that the mighty truth was revealed
to man, "Behoid. bring you glad
tidings." The Jews have not passed
away, md God must have some great
purpose for them. The Jews have stood
as arhiters t, guard and keep pure the
Scriptures, and some of the prophecies OF
the New Testament are yet unfuliilled.
As his last words to the Galilee fisher
men, Christ aaid: go 20 unto all the
world and preanh the Gospel to every
creature The command was not per-
sonal, but IL was to be handed. In due
time We heard the sound of the Gospel
ON our own continent. and the same COM
mission was whispered into our own ears.
II we could not go in person, we should
send some representatives..
In conclusion, DR.. Todd made m
urgent appeal, and said the missionary
society needed all the money that could
be given to it.