Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-06-02
rENrEoosr,s rrRsr SERMON

OF His Three Months Stay at IN .
Church OF she Redocmer Yesterday
ing OF the Gospel.
Rev. George +. .Pentecost, D. D., preached
the FIRST sermon of his three months stay at
the Church of the Redeemer yesterday morn
ing. He has recently returned from a two
years. sojourn abroad and appears to be In ex-
cellent condition. His remarks were inter-
esting, attractive and impressive, and his
manner of address is dignifed, scholarly, en-
PERTAINING and In good taste. The congrega-
ton was large.
DR.. Pentecoet remarked before beginning
his sermon that he hoped his short season in
this city might not seem one Of summer de-
mand and supply, but one of thorough and
unmistakable good work. He chose his text
from Romans, w., 20: II am sure when
come unto you shall come In the fullness of
the blessing of the gospel Of Christ"
There are few things about Paul which
are refreshing to us, said he. He was the
humblestD and most devoted of Christ's
apostles. He was favored with visions such
Is no other man ever had, with the exoep-
ton, perhaps, of John. He saw things
which had never been put into human eyes.
With all his consciousness of bis own weak
ness, he was man who never had question
as to the power of the gospel of Jesus Christ.
As for the future, he knew when this earthly
tabernacle was dissolved; we have the grand
temple Of God. This confidence OF the apos,
tie should be contagious ... WE should
always an intelligent conviction. Paul
he will come in the fullness of the
gospel of Christ. Paul had conviction
about these things. His experience under
the gospel gave him this conviction-this
assurance. And 80 the power of Christianity
has not been alone in it's magnificent philos.
ophy Of life, but in the marvellous expert
mental power which goes with It,: 1t is q
mystery to me that every intelligent man
does not Immediately recognize f.. The re-
suits Of the gospel are wholly dependent on
circumstances. come back to my
home from the old world after
twenty-five years. experience in re-
lisious work, with an unbounded
through these eighteen centuries since
Paul, the history Of Christianity is strik--
ing series of miraculous effects of the gospel
of Jesus Christ upon the minds and the lives
of men.
Are these two gospels, the gospel of God
and the gospel of Christs Certainly these are
one. II says the gospel of God concerning
l his hOn Jesus OuIAets Leu thoA0 1eOinS q
popular idea among men that God the father
IL stern, hard, unyielding and hard to for
| give, that he Ia far otherwise than God
the son. This is all true, perhaps. God
Is not against man, despite the popular
idea that God IL against man and Christ Ia
for man. God is the fountain of the gospel
God so loved the world that he gave his only
bsgotten son. Christ's coming into the
world is only an embodiment of Gods eter.
nal purpose to save man. Jesus is the mes
senger, the expression, the substance of the
gospel. He Is declaration Of fact, upon
| which We are to act. Conversion is acting
upon the gospel Of God, and good news
brought by Jesus Christ. The Incarceration
is the taking hold of man to save him. God
can't save q man against his will. He
grasps you, holds you. he has kept you al
your life from falling into hell. IL is when
you say will not have this
Jesus Christ that he relaxes this grasp.
| What more can q man ask God loves him
infinitely, holds him from sin, lifts him up,
prizes him infinitely and exalts him from the
grave. You don't have to 60 to Jerusalem
| to get the gospel of Christ, nor do you have
to 60 to church. 1t is In the atmosphere; II
Is everywhere. II you confess in your hear
this glorious gospel that is evangelic. You
have the fullness of the blessing Of the gospel
| Of Christ.
| And 80 as you would put an index to 9
book before Publishing 1t, now put this in.
dex before three months Of my ministry here
"Ths fullness of the blessing Of the gospel Of
/ Christ"