The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-13
AT OTHER CHURCHES.
Rev. ID. y. PIeree's Discourse at the
North Seattle baptist Church.

North Seattle baptist Church.
Rev. u. J. Pierce preached at the North
Seattle Baptist church last evening upon
the text found in
Psalms exiv:I6-" Happy is the people whose
God Is jehovah"
His subject was "The Bible and Civiliza-
ton" ut Is always WELL" he said. ito
exercise care lest we mistake condolences
for causes, but there are laws which assure
US OF the cansal recitation. Israel owed
her very national existence TO the religious
hope which enabled q Moses 30 lead them
out of Egypt. Her history for fifteen
centuries was an ever varying testimony
10 the great truth that while she followed
God she prospered, but failed whenever she
left His counsels. Israel. under Joshua,
Gideon, David and Hezekiah and Josiah.
was a grand success under difficulties
Bat under saul, Jeroboam, Jedekiah and
Manasseh she sunk amid surrounding
splendor to weakness and woe.
Daniel, by Christian craftsmanship,
secured their return from captivity. TIE
grand old Maccabees lighted up the setting
glory of the nation as they stuTdily led on
10 It's religious hopes. Born of religion,
Israel prospcred in proportion 10 her
faithfulness. Christianity appeared to
decrepit. dying world, sick with luxury.
! philosophy and lust. and while at first ii
seemed a disintegrating influe nee, it
started a new current which lifted human
ity 20 a higher plane. Have you seen
sea-girt rock licked to dust BY the devour-
/ Jug waves and strswed upon the bottom OF
the sea TO raise it to higher level till from
the seeming destruction there arose new
land TO bless the people with its fruits? So
/ did Christianity level the peaks of royalty
| TO elevate universal liberty and moral SEN
/ timent. ancient civilization. like the ris-
/ ing sun, gilded the prominent peaks. while
/ the valleys remained in darkness. Chriti-
/ anity like the noon day sun, makes the
/ peaks less brilliant by contrast bat fills the
/ valleys with beauty and glory.
] From the Christian era to the present
| time, with single exception, all civi,iza-
1 ton has come as a radiaiing influence
4 from Christianity. That exception, the
Saracenic era, Is easily explained when we
/ remember that Il drew its inspiration from
/ the FIRST part OF the Word of Sod. Civil
/ cation ever gathers about a moral center.
/ such is Christianity. such was Judaism
/ among the nations.
/ Look at the governments Of today. In
/ proportion to the popularity aud the use of
/ the Bible Is their success and power in pub
I Tic education:
First America, pre-eminent in public
schools and religion.
j Second England. emphasizing the Bible
I son years. full OF popular intelligence.
Third Prussia. the battle-ground Of the
Reformation, where for 500 years the Bib:e
I has been universally honoFed and where
I today - per cent OF her people can read.
/ sFourth Cross nov "a FraQoe. where
4 early superstition. aud consequent, inRdel-
itv. has closed the Bitle Tor centuries.
While France has great learned men, 80
( per cent. OF her people cannot read
''Fliih-Cross the Pvrpenes. the home
+ o. the inqnisition, where the Bihle wss
chained for so years. less than one.sixth
Of her people can read.
Try each OF these and other govern
ments rs the standard Of freedom. Where
1 Bible rrinciil-11se2 have most prevailed, there
+ constitutional governments have llour.
/ ;sied as in America. England, Germany
+ and Ssifacrlaad
we icarlcsslF challenge anv Bifle hatsr
+ To choose between the civilization coinci.
K dent Nith The Bible aud caused by its prin-
I eiples, aud the civilization oi Buddhism.
I athcisRsor olytheism.
James Rgsseii Lowell AZ rut,lic dinner
+ IN Eaeiand Challenged any one 10 fiud
place 6i iar a home fifteen mlIes square
ca The earth that has nos been male 80 by
! the RfbIe"
FlHsr NErHoo9sT EPISCOPAL cHg sch.
Rev Dwieht Williams. Cd Caxenovia. \
/ y. preached in the FIRST Methodist Epis-
copSi church morning and evensng yesiaY-
+ day. Ills morning sssEnoR VAS urssi she
+ s'zhiect. Lessons 81 sac Buiaaipg Art.
lis text
g. raer stYe ala A. lively sianes arr
/ 20 ia ~ q stlrlsusl heuse
{ The baiiaimr arr gross 0at Il the nsces.
+ ciassen and protection. Architecture
largely expresses sfse national shoaehi Il
any people, Gaas structures are the rule
E 81 she low eiyis1af58na- The kasaar e8via-
+ Isafi0tss are represented IN beautiful hosues
F Ga ornate sesapsss and cs1stly Enaasessargs.
( ~ Peter aAy have seen the best specimens
ol art In his time tie wonderful TEMPLES 81
Esyps aF The UNSURPASSED sleslgns of The
0rtcsan builders.
Ia building ioF beauty. safety and res-
ssnsneaec stone must ever kaxe the prefer
eaes. In the quarry We have sAe type 81
tsasis msgkosfs Of dealing with faen 70
( staAengare tasns from lgn0Earce. pvp gefee
and tie oppression u sln- TIE woFgsaan
3 cones asth hammer ard dF}si ard aynA-
( assse. Tie servant * ssoi essz 10 snen
w1th wsEwizsx Euhaka azs.4 iHassraesscz
la e0nveFsisn msa Age E3ts& ~ into faa
AgASs bGE work o. CkFlsslan discipline