The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-07-27
LETTING THE LIGHT THROUGH.

Rev. Wallace Nutting,s Discourse ut the
Plymouth Congregational Church.
Rev. Wallace Nutting, pastor OF the Plymouth
Congregational church, preached yesterday to q
large congregation in the Armory upon the
theme "Lstting the Light Through" His text
was:
John xvii:1o-T am gioriisd In them"
There 10 nothing in man that 10 original. Ey-
cry good word IL the echo OF God. The Hebrew
poet heard the voice OF God moving upon the
waters. Even the voice of God needs medium
through which 70 sound. God must make the
water and the air. He must rake the men
upon whom His life is to now out. What is
Y to God what the rays of the sun are TO the sun
Msen. suppose You are In totally dark
nom roo and No. are handed diamond
70 you precisely IS much as the other.
Admit the sunlight and one OF these stones 10
nrown away. But the other stone has become
cause 1t let's sunlight through il. its value is
mbulous 1t would buy coal mine. God is
the Son; Jesus lie the sunlight; mankind Ia the
Thus Jesus conveys God TO the world Jesus
Christ Is God radiant; the warming hfe-giving
light of the world. Man, the rough stone. is cut
made 70 transmit the light OF God The light
Oh COO love gets into man before Ii can come
out OF him. IL is not reflected from him, but
transmitted through him IL seems much more
reasonable that spirit should penetrate matter
than that sunlight should penetrate matter
But how about our diamondf Does II not seem
that 1t contains all that can be gotten into
given amount of space? Yet there is plenty of
room for sunlight. The diamond takes its glory
rom II Many cannot understand how Christ
can dwell in the human heart Is not
the heart there? Yes Is not Christ thersY
Yes. Jesus was like the sensitive plant which 10
keenly conscious OF every ray OF light; like
instantaneous Photographic film which caught
every fash of celestial FIRE and made an image
OF His Father in His SOUL Thus man must
give himself up to Gods influence, as drop of
rain, which, humble as it is, holds in its heart
the image of the great sun. God is not gloritied
IN man, because men lack humility and fear to
lose individuality. We shall only develop
% fh swns y s' NO. si.s # fan O :Esy IT.
sef BY absorbing. the sunlight and the
rain. 1t takes all It can get; the more
.eli-made man is botch, and, by the irony of
late, ne IL generally proud OF himself. Men
need 70 awake to the often undreamed of fact
that the more like Christ they are, the more or
ienal and peculiar they will be. Degradation
makes men alike, and causes them to lose them
selves In the dead level of ignobe souls The
humility OF Jesus Christ shows him ut once the
was full of the glory OF God, and there was no
room for anything else. Translucent charac-
.ers that appear glorious; men who mend shoes
ray OF truth Of God shines right through their
white souls. These are they who will convert
wotid when catechsms and theologies have
49,. roo,sa N vain. When Jesus hung on the cross
svsIy debt was paidl Not only the debs OF the
, woiia ala and shame, but the Roman empe-
snx,hi n, ,shheksll Nobody ever furnished Jesus
Ii. .a., anat was not more than balanced Gy
80, w. whas physician to the body or tho
go "nS'etsr he gave away was His own. The
80 " storiiy Christ Is to make our
WORD As good as our bond; TO show that Chris
Ian - more snan morality; to own q debt of
vel a. 81 money. We must be little
more braetlcal IL We are ever TO be more celes.
ual There 10 nothing / enioT better than
Pireuettlng on the mountain Ton. and careen.
ing among sns stars but getting to believe
that need revival OF preaching on the ten
commandments. For the hfs that does not re-
MinS US OF ths honesty OF Jesu. dims the lustre
written by Gods fnger on our souls