New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-11-24
SERMONS OF THE DAY.
VIII.
FROM THE BAPTIST CHURCH OF THE RE
DEEAlER.

DEEMER.
HERBERT sPENcER's SEGREGATION THE
MOST POWERFUL MODERN ENDORSEMENT OF
cHRIsTs DOCTRINE OF TIE SAVED
AND THE LOST.
Tho Rev. W. Warren Giles, one Of the youngest
ccrgymen In this city, is the pastor of the Baptist
Church of the Redeemer, In nehundred and thirty
arst-st. between Lenox and Seventh aves He was
born in this city in 1860, and graduated from the
College of the City of New York in 1881 and from the
Union Theological Seminary four years later He then
began what is for most young graduates dangerous
undertaking settling in city church; but he has
been sngulary successful in the last five years, more
than 200 people having united with his church.
Ills topic yesterday Herbert spencer's segrega-
tion,- the most powerful modern Endorsement OF
Christs doctrine of the saved and the lost his text
being, THAT he might 20 TO his own place., Acts L.
o5. The In part follows:
In a world where nothing is mixed, but everything
from october leaves to the sand on the seashore Is
assorted In world where two things totally dls,
similar are COMPOUNDED, but each carefully labelled
and filed away among things OF It's own hnd III a
world where the capricous wind sorts stee pens
from broken matches, and broken matches from mag
mens Of writing paper. and does Il as carefully as the
can't be bribed into leaving rock where sand and
i IiH for an instant that Jesus Christ was
at fault when He declared that men, 700; were as
sorted sheep the right, goats ON the leit Lazarus
in Abraham's BOSOM Dives in hell, ST. John on the
breast of Christ, Judas 1scariot cropping around IN the
Are you offended at Him. He is not responsible
for this He didn't come to t as0 World 'a Men assO
themselves Empty oil. alcohol and mercury in, o..
bottle and .d the to a"1 Them O Ss do it,
talk of the ciGues in society as though they were ere
seRns Of Steel to magnet Is there AmerI
can Colony in Paris, in Berlin. in ConssntinGPie:
love one another better than the Americans of New
York do No. but while they have nothing In com
mon with one a%ae Tdes 1on operative
bn iders associations, medical associations are not
onysreS in The same business the world acquire
a certain common cast OF feature ana tioughI WHICH
Men engaged IN literary work assert themselves as
naturally birds of feather Byron shelley ana ana
eunc together Carlyle and Emerson the two greatest
boob worms of the century. embraced Ike David ana
Jonathan. while Herbert Spencer and George fllOt,
MATHEW Arnold and Mrs. Humphry Ward gravitated
into each others society naturally as flowers on the
II IN any community there thousand men and
STn T tbsy win Constitute the puocracy just
those who are proud OF an ancient Pedisree and an
unblemshed chaacter an Sayn all SearS of ,h
man who seeks to break down these distinctions, not
that we are sorry fDT 5hs Of pu one eve Without
munion Of money getting brains. never heard OF a
MiIion. or Vanderbilt dividing his brains with him.
and vet they are fools enough to call for division Of
what brains alone can secure, money and character.
MEN SEEK AND FIND THEIR OWN LEVEL
When Jesus Christ insisted that the lines dividing
socety here stretched away into the eternal there
only there, they divided it on basis of character
and nothing else He didn't say anything new
Jonathan and David Ruth and Naomi. Elijah and
Elisha had lived and loved one side Of the line,
while Ahab and Jezebel BALKAN and Balak' Antony
and Cleopatra, had lived and loved on the o'her'
Ina nrfa all
here inst as the sentimen st is anxious TO wipe o
all distinctions there. Believe me- one VIII suSoJ I
lion. princes and peasants. statesmen and fools
get pretty we'll shaken together Like the OIL Wase
and mercury in glass bottle when violently asitdd
they seem to get close TO one another, but when
the smoke Of the battle blows away the mud sinks
the scum the balance OF power Is nelo neither
by by fools but statesmen hc s,ra Te
Now deny that the God who meets the prodigal
se e w aSd DENY that there accent n
Teaching this dogma But do insist that Jesus CHRIST
knew what lie talking about when lie cassisd
Aid / cannot imagine why men should reprobate Him
for telling them something we never could nave us
According His idea men will group themselves he eG Ss at
who haven't it those born Of the flesh those bor, OF
the spirit Mark you, He doesn't say that men 90 70
Were bad and none We're so hopelessly those who
insisted that they were good because tney nau al,
preston is that Jesus assigns the bad to realms OF
eternal death. 1t is not So His early converts Were
nOtoriOusy bad in their morals and dispositions lie
assigns 10 the realms OF death that which hasn't
spiritual life, precisely as You CLASSIFY coD6son mes
from Gala lilies How else could lie have spoken ana
spoken honestlyY
CHRIsT'S WONDERFUL WORK.
Why then quarrel with Christ when He goes step
further and explains what you never could ma OUT
for yourself. L. e.. the consequence OF not having
this new lfe7 Would you cruelty man who would
f.iIv he Of cOmminging Two ar1
cIes OF diet of which you were about TO partaRel
Jesus Christ spent His whole life locating that sand
stretch upon which no house can stand Ills ser
MONS like flaming red lights stretch along the cage vi
that fearful abyss, whose destinations the sucoes VI
every age cannot resist, and warn men against II.
He assumed every attitude, played every role enacted
every part, spoke every language coaxed, pleaoed'
persuaded, denied thing 10 drag His brother man
back lfe's last fatal mistake ply scla IAN 10
day diner-out morrow preacher in tins village
reformer in the next city teacher on TINS m2a
tain an open handed phiianthropst in that vaey.
that did tit Him, to purple robe and thorny crown row
that didn't M in order that He might touch an h1Ss
OF men, and He succeeded; for He began me ,he
society of the pureminded Mary, and ended ~ Ill 'ic
sO S Of bSt Of al h1f a 'ns a every
goes TO his place. but that every man i MAJ it 'e
ca 10 every " man aSc life which viii LIT MIN out of
one species of men into another some people never never
acter as we DO the shape of heads and the color
Of our skins. That is undoubtedly true. Inc child
of Congo savage will never be mistaken Tor the peau
tifnl offsprng of an American mother, and we have
discovered mechanical process by which Ms nh MN
can lie bleached and his crania cavity chargcd out
we have discovered "a process by which man VINO al
sixteen is unfit for anything except dnyms mules On
tow path may sixty be qualhed 10 MI the once OF
President We have discovered process by winch the
bewers Of wood and of water the world over
NAV be taught to WELD pen as powerfully as they
once did an axe Garfield hasn't gone into history as
a canal boatman Robert Burns isn't remembered as
=, avrsbre farmer any more than Byron is chiefly re-
called as the possessor of club foot haitian.
/ don't believe Christ was wrong; i cant DeieHe
He has failed No sophistry beneath Gods stars can
crmneI within me the belief that John and Herod,
IesIis and Judas and Paul and Nero belonged TO the
same species No sophisty beneath the stars can con
vince me that the hero of Mars Ill., the preacher of
Hrrinpas judgment hall the bearer of 1875 stripes the
n1a,5m of o 600 miles, whose spirit took It's flight cry
co tnucht good fight, have kept the faith"