Mexico weekly ledger., 1890-10-30
The Fleet Students at the Pres
byterian Church.

The Fleet Students at the Pres
byterian Church.
The students of the Fleet Mill
tary Academy worshiped at the
Presbyterian church last Sunday.
The Rev. A. A. Wallace delivered
a discourse based upon Rom. lis:
"For I am not ashamed of the
gospel of Christ" of which the
following is a very brief synopsis:
The reverend speaker began by say
ing the follower of Christ had no
more reason to be ashamed Of his
belief than had other men of theirs.
The physician, whether allopathic
or homeopathic, gloried in his
theory. The lawyer delighted il
the principles of the common law,
and was bold to plead them in ad-
vccacy of his client, and the states
man shrank not from maintaining
the measures of his party wherever
opportunity offered, and there was
no cause for the Christian to hang
his head. Let us examine this
matter:
First. There is nothing in the
truth ON which the gospel Is based to
cause shame. They teach that there
is a Creator and God. This is a
commonly accepted truth and no
one need fear to avow his belief in
it. All nature proclains it. Man
finds proof of it in his fingers so
admirably fitted for the use to
which they are put. The botanist
sees confirmation of it in the flowers
be examines. The footprints of
the Deity are to be found in the
rocks, and sun and stars sing of
His glorious Majesty, and man. the
noblest of his creation, confirms
tneiF melouy.
In the second place they teach
that man is immortal fact that
can be known even apart from
revelation. Mans intellect en-
bracing and un~raveling the pro.
foundest mysteries--nis imagina.
ton rising to the most distant
region, and his memory the inde-
structible tablet of the past, all sug-
| gests that he is not to die like a
dog. but is made for the day whose
sun shall never set.
In the third place they show
| that man owes allegiance to the
moral government of his Creator.
The inventor claims to control his
| discovery and that clam is uni
versally allowed. As well may
man then disobey the laws OF his
Creator as the child resist the will
of Its father.
In the fourth place they assert
that if nan is to be happy there
must be harmony between mans
character and that of Gods. When
two bodies are moving in opposite
direction the heaviest must dis.
place the other. What, then, Can
man gain by rushing against God I
In the fourth place the actual
result OF the operation OF the gos-
pei is beneficial. Out of the heath.
IN home it has constructed the
Christian. 1t has elevated the
race and with it woman. 1t is
from it that our ideas of social pur-
lty spring.
In the fifth place it aims now as
1t has ever done, to save both life
and soul.
What is there in all this to bring
shame to any that accepts its teach
ings and obeys its precepts. Blu
if it is not in reason to blush fol
such belief and practices, still less
can exception be taken to the
machinery by which its results are
brought about. The prominent ane
inseparable power of the gospel ii
the immaculate Son of God and CO
operating with him is the Holy
Spirit, convincing man of sin ant
guiding him to salvation and ever
lasting life.
No shame, therefore, can by any
possibility attack to the confession
, that proclaims'' II am a Christian
Be bold, then, if you r a Chris
, tian, to let it be known.