Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-25
Of the Chautauqua Season is Warm
and Bright, and is Ushered
Out by a Night Vigil
CROWDS In TIE AMPHITHEATRR.
Dr.. Henry W. Lee, Of Atlanta. breaches
q Powerful Sermon on Mans
Religious Needs.
DEATH BUT An INCIDENT In OUR LIVES.
Nine Thousand Persons Attend the Very Interesting
Exercises
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LAKE CHAUTAUoUA, August A-De-
spite the fact that the Assembly was near its
close and the cold weather had driven a
great many home, fully 5000 people must
have spent Sunday on the grounds. The
sun came out warm for the first time for sew
eral days and did its best to dispel the chill
that seems to have settled over the lake.
Though it struggled bravely it did not give
us by any means tropical atmosphere, and
heavy wraps were comfortable.
Chautauqua is evidently going out like Q
lion, for this, the last Sunday of the season,
had as heavy programme as formerly. No
better proof is needed that the present am
phithester is incapable of holding tine
crowds that congregate there, than the fact
that it was we'll filled at the morning SER
mon, and half of the people who were here g
Sunday ago have gone home.
DR.. Alder read the responsive service,
while DR.. Palmer, the leader of the choir.
welded his baton with force that showed
he was bound to get all the music there was
out of the last Sabbath Of 80.
AN INSPIRING DISCOURSE.
DR.. Henry w. Lee, of Atlanta, Ga, de-
hvered the sermon, which was an inspiring
discourse, taken from the text: 'tFor in
HIM dwelleth all the fulness of the God
head bodily, and ye are complete in Him in
whom dvelleth all principality and power"
Colossisns ii, 9 and 10.
MAN is by nature religious" said the
speaker. HE does not come by it by civil
ization or culture. One thing that men
cannot get along without is God. Every
man has God in some form. Man is more
religious than intellectual. We know that
man as thinker is complete as his ethical
sense is complete. That which is hinted at
In the text is full oS completeness. What
Is there in religion 10 satisfy mans relig-
ious nature? What shall it contain? We
might, by study of the eye. deduce light
and from the air study sounds. Can we not
60 into religion and study it in the same
way? 1t would have to be universal and
ADAPTED TO MAN
in his entire nature. It would have to
come from beyond the regions of range and
sight. The religious element in man leads
him to get beyond the range of matter.
Go to the ssvages of the islands of the sea
and you will find they think the divine as
something beyond the sea, the sky or world
The religion of India could not i've outside
of the land that produced it The religion
of Confucius would not flourish outside of
China, nor Mahomedanism outside of the
Orient The religion of the Lord Jesus
Christ will flourish in any land of the
earth. 1t leaves out things that are pro-
Vlncisl and incidental and illustrates those
general things that man could not get along
without in the religious world. It is not
the religion Of man, but a supernatural
religion. The incarnation lifts the Chris
tian religion out of comparison with all
other religions. 1t is historical in the fact
that 1t was of human beings, human beings
who were the incarnation of divine princi-
pies. The incarnation shows that the Chris
tian religion is not only historical, but it is
absolute. 1t teaches man the manner In
which he is to go from his marrow provincial
and carnal self to
THE SAME PLANE WITH GOD
'Men have never assembled by any other
line than that of the crucifxion. By nature
we are inclined to ease, by nature we want
pleasure, and If we all had our way we
would gather about us things which would
free us from care, but by so doing we exempt
ourselves from the appreciation of the
ouO u1NluS hOSeS udQ every OBJ
portunity for ease, aud if he had followed
the natural carnaI motives we would not
have known him to-day. For 40 years was
he in pain, trial and conflict, but by this he
gained that moral and intellectual strength
by which be became the legislator of the
world. 1t was by the preaching of the doc
trine of the resurrection that st. Paul
opened up new light and a new way for
the world.
"When you take away the doctrine of
resurrection you have placed humanity on a
mere philosophical and ethical system It
would offer an opportunity for the doctrines
Of Plato, for his system is more elaborate
and purely philosophical. 1t is this resur-
rection that has made martyrs of men, that
replaced every philosophical religion on
earth. But the truth which the Lord Jesus
Christ brings to this world gives us the
philosophy of life. he showed us by His
living that the dark things of life are the
things by means of which man comes to
aplace by God, His father.
SOLVING LIFE's QUESTIONS.
"Jesus Christ put into the world the POSI-
tive and affirmative method. know of no
other method that gives us perfect way of
solving the questions of life. He does not
give you a map and lay out the way, but He
says, i am the way He is the complete,
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which has lived through ], 900 years of crit
Icism. We talk Of the higher criticism ON
the Old Testament, but they can only praise
Christ. Ii you wish to find beautiful.
poetic and praiseful words take some of the
things written by skeptics about the life of
Jesus Christ.
"If you love Him when you are a bow Won
will love him through life When was a.
boy read everything about Napoleon 1
could find; but now that / have grown older
1 lock upon his life with horror. If. you
love Christ you cannot help but be like
Him. What blessed thing it is that Jesus
Christ came into our life; not the Christ in
the book, but the blessed Christ himself.
HIS lie can give us power of potentates and
popes. We are put into such relation with
God by Jesus Christ so that He will give us
power that we can ride safely through that
temptation.
DEATH AN INCIDENT.
Whatever way the circumstances death
is tne END OF 1t all, no matter how violently
you light. Jesus Christ died after three
years OF fighting evil; died, but, unlike the
Greclan priests. he arose from the dead and
puta premium on good. Nav we take Him
as q panacea for all our troubles and trials?
was recently asked to preach a sermon on
death BY pious brother 1 told him that
did not know how to preach on death. for I
believed in Him of eternal life. Death is
Only an incident"
In the afternoon the Assembly was led by
President Lewis Miller in the ampbitbeater.
DIR. w. a. Duncan taught the stalwarts the |
unday-school session. Mrs NJ. 6. Ken
A ly held the primary class and Mr.. A. M.
r.in conducted the young peoples Bible
NFS. All of these meetings, as usual. were |