The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-07

Rev. Burchetf's Discourse at the FRS
Rnptfsg Church..

NV nurchttts DiNcourse NJ the First
Baptist Church.
At the First Baptist church last evening
Rev. O. J. Burchett, the pastor, spoke
upon THE Importance of Right Begin
nings.n
The life ola great man." he said. .'in great
period of the worlds history is a subject 10 com
nand the attention of every thouyntful mind.
Alexander, in his eastern expedition, spreai-
Ing the civilization OF Greece over the Asiatic
ana African shore OF the Mediterranean sea:
julius Caesar. eontending against the Gauls and
overcoming the harbarians OF Western Eurone:
Chariemagnc, comprising the separating atoms
Of the feudal world; Columbus, sailing
westward over the Atlantic 10 discover A new
world: Napolcan on his rapid campaigns, shat
te<ing the ancient systems of the European
states and leaving chasm between our present
and the past These are the colossal figures of
history, which stamp with the impress OF their
personal greatness the centuries in which they
live.
ssBut grander than ell these great military
leaders who have occupied such large space IN
the pages of history, is Paul Before him we sea
stretching out q work that would outliye any
monument that could be erected 10 his memory
But what that life was personally every life
may become That far-reaehing life becomes
great only ~ II takes the right start
There isa way over which nll must pass to life.
20 eternity; there are only two roads leading from
this life There is great danger oil a wrong start.
that goes very far toward determining the destiny
Of Sou. Philip Doidsiige SAYS: Among all
the various trusts which men can repose In
eaeh other. hardly envy appears to be more
solemn than the direction OF their sacred time,
aud especially OF those hours which they spend
III the exercise of public devotion
There are fixed truths ia Gods plan OF re.
demp,ion II you stand upon some precipice
and lose your footing. every Atom OF this world
viii lay hold of you TO pun ron down. Such is
kTavitafion, II yen take wrong step here, you
Will put yourself in the hands Of every evil
force to draw you down. There are truths
which will lit . soul 70 heaven. and without
them we cannot rise. At the very beginning
HES the fact that truth must be seen. mustne
felt and must be accepted.
sscoINiction means fret 10 be convinced We
nre oil promo TO hide our true condition aud
Uakc ourselves believe that we do not need the
trnsh that God has revealed We fortify our.
eeives IN our positions. Conviction is 10 de-
u0sish those walls aud pull down the fortincs-
11nus
sIIere Is q man walled in with customs and
pre1ndicoS He was 50 secure that had anyone
Ua4e m efinrt 70 reach him with the gospel It
would have been dangerous thing. He comes
. tuning poink He meets his God in the
way aud the power is 50 great that ne falls
Minded and the light comes Into his soul 90
s.of believe that true conviction comes without
0od n r.
Tho walls arc al gone now. Go with him to
Damascus: listen 70 his talk: You hear no
morn about h1s peculiar belief, his ideas aud
aims-sAey oxe gone. This man now stands be-
lore God a. sinner Before he was Phsir-
oees now be hooks out isto eternity as one who
Il soxf. whoec sins have ruined him. This is the
oufika fact In conxiction- To sim ply cone 20
~ oonclusion that the word Of God is tgue is
eman matter. Many Of yon never deub ed that
- - A.. 80
(ofl1 70 - things - they are. to know that
SUa ere In the hands Of God. and that you are
&kWeen heaven ana hell, and that il tass de-
1aupon what God does with yon as 20 whs;
1f1Res Of yoa for an efernisyi / am satisfied
IN HERE II NOT enough Of that sense 81 the
mime ttuxh In this age that Immortality re-
6E1Roe
A11n rezpff Of con rictfon IN thar Il crrssiynex