St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-13
AS OLD AS THE RACE.
Rev. C. E. Haupt's Eloquent
Sermon on the Duty Of
Man to God.
We Are Required to Render
Proper Allegian ce-:to
the Church.
Better to Build Churches Than
Build Jails and Maintain
the Police.
Men Are Disposed to Disre-
gard the Ordinance of
Jesus Christ.

The services at st. Johns yesterday
were conducted by Rev. c. E. Haupt,
rector of st. James church and the
Chapel of the Messiah, in this city.
Mr.. Haupt preached an eloquent and
Impressive sermon, taking his text from
Elk. Xxx, "A: ''In all places where l
record My name l will come unto thee
and bless thee" He said:
God in His wisdom has appointed
| places where, in special way, He
would meet His people, and has Or
dained means through which they
| might approach Him. 1t is true that
His presence is everywhere, though we
ascend into the heavens or descend 10
| the depths. Whether we take the wings
of the morning and flee into the utter
most part of tie sea. His loving protec-
ton is still present; and yet He has
| declared that where He records His
name there He VIII come and bless us.
He had erected Moses to erect an
altar, and to instruct the people that,
when they came there to offer sacrifice,
He would bless them. As in the old dis
pensation, so in the new. When our
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| ed into Heaven He gave to His disciples
the promise of the holy spirit, who
should be with us throughout all time.
The church of God has existed from the
days of Eden, and is
As Old as the Race.
1t is the place where, by his own ap-
pointment. God deignS to meet with
| men and to bless them. To most of us
it is place sanctihed by the most holy
| associations of our lives. Here, in our
infancy, We were brought by those
whom of all others we love best, and
who, perhaps now. rest from their iabors,
to be initiated into covenant relation
with God through baptism. Here, as
time went on, we have assembled with
sadness to perform the last hallowed
rites for those whom the death angel
| has caught away to nearer fellowship
with their Lord. Here we have knelt
to receive the gift of the Spirit through
the laying on of the bishops hands in
the apostolic rite of confirmation. Here
we kneel to acknowledge our sinfulness
and to bear the declaration of absOlu-
ton, and to commemorate our Lords
death until His coming again. Here we
stand, in a moment of supreme joy, to
be made one with the idol of our beart.
about the church, the place that God
| has appointed where he would meet
with and bless men. Even those who
Scorn and neglect it in their prosperity
| turn to the church for consolation and
assistance in the hour of trial. Should
not such considerations as these, evenif
/ we had no higher,
Prompt Us to Render
to the church the allegiance that is its
due, and the hearty, vigorous support
which alone can extend its usefulness
| and make it a greater blessing 20 the
race? Is it not infinitely better to sup
port well this divine institution that we
may train men into a higher citizen
ship, than to build jails and maintain an
expensive police force to frighten men
| into obedience to law or to punish them
| for its infraction?
But desire to speak to you to-day,
| not of the support of the church so
| much as your citizenship within it. The
| church is, by divine appointment, no
| less than the gateway of heaven. Jesus
| is the door; by him, if any man enter in,
| he shall be saved, and ''shall go in and
| out and find pasture" HE that en-
| tereth not by the door into the sheep
| fold, but climbeth up some other way,
| the same is thief and a robber."
We gain our membership in Christ
| through the church by means that He
himself has appointed. and are thereby
admitted to citizenship with the saints
| days of so-called liberal preaching,
| when there is much looseness of doc
| trine, men are disposed to disregard the
| ordinance of Christ himself. and decline
| to Join the church because they do not
| understand how baptism doth save them
| or how the Lord is present in the sacIa-
| ment. Instead of obeying him and OBJ
tanning the blessing. they stop to spin
theories as to the necessity for these
| things. 1t is as if they prowled about
| the sheepfold looking for some other
| living man, without exception, hopes
that if there be heaven, glad and
| happy life beyond this, he will be one of
! those fortunate ones whose citizenship
| shall be there. How sad it is To see men
| Scorning the means of entrance, and
| putting their reliance upon man-made
| theories.
The nation has appointed a way in
| which to give citizenship to every for
| eigner who asks it. Money cannot buy
| it: no lobbying or favOritism can secure
it; one may have lived here for a score
| of years and yet be an alien. He re-
|
willing to take out his natuI alization
papers, and then, for all practical pur-
| poses, he is just as much a citizen as
| the man whose grandfather bled in the
| war of American independence, and
who has never been beyond the border
| of his own native state. It is a simple
rite: and an inexpensive one. and yet it
carries a priceless privilege-the privi-
| lege of American citizenship. 1t is not
| ,.s% Il
arm of the government which has
adopted him: henceforth the stars and
stripes protect him in whatever land he
may be stranger. As there is one
method only by which foreigner may
gain citizenship in this nation. so there
is but one method of entrance into the
kingdom of Heaven. That method has
been declared just as clearly as
Words Can Declare
it. sVeriiy, / say unto you, We must be
born again. Except man be born of
water and of the spirit he cannot enter
into the kingdom of God" sExeept We
eat the flesh of the Son of Man and
drink His blood ye have no life in you"
1t is not the external rite that we put
our trust in. One is not asked to be-
lieve in his naturalization papers, but
in the power of the government that is
back of them. So in the church it is
not in water that you are asked to be-
lieve, nor in bread and wine, but in the
power of God who has sanctified these
simple means of touching his people
and blessing them.
Who would think of claiming citizen
ship who declined to be naturalized?
Who would presume to call himself a
Mason. or Odd Fellow or Sir Knight who
refused to pass through the rite of init
alton? Yet men often seek to claim the