The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1891-11-30
IN The CHURCHES.
The Things Said by Providence
Preachers Yesterday.
ALL POINTS OF VIEW.
Sermon mt the Bell Street Chapel-The
Rov. DIR. King on "The Light of Asia"
and death and the Future" at Friend
ship Street Baptist Church.
Troubling and Healing Angels.

The Rev. H. S. DeLong of Medford oc-
cupied the pulpit, at Bell Street
Chapel, yeserday afternoon in the
the absence OF Mrs. Spencer and preached
from the passage in st. John V, A: For
an angel went down at a certain season
into the pool and troubled the waters;
whosoever then first after the troubling
Of the water stepped in was made whole
of whatsoever disease he had" lnvesti-
cation of science show the pool to have
been filed with intermittent springs OF
medicinal qualities and at certain seasons
the waters were healing but the
simple believing minds of that day
thought that miricle took place
at each troubling Of the waters. Troub-
ling angels is the subject of which we
wish to talk. Without them this life of
ours would be all too smooth and we
would be too well satisfied with our mode
of living from day TO day. The speaker
remembered sense Of disappointment
when crossing the ocean for the first time,
the weather was of perfect summer days,
and the surface of the sea was as smooth
as glass and did not indicate the mighty
power which was hidden there; but on
the next day the circumstances were
changed, the storm troubled the waters
and the waves ran mountain high showing
the power that was in the ocean and
which seemed no longer the servant but
the master. Troubling angels have the
same effect on human action, we often do
not see or know what power Is in one for
good IL it is not brought ont by trouble
and though sometimes the effect is the
opposite to what we would have it, still
we are thankful to the troubling angels
for what we do that is good in the sight of
God. The troubling comes sometimes in
the form Of temptation and though we
pray Lead us not into temptation" we
are sometimes grateful for temptation
which we have withstood and by with
standing which we have come out better
men and women and we pray for strength
to do even better in future and for forgive
ness when we have failed.
The Light OF Asia.
The subject of the Rev. DIR. Kings ad-
dress last evening was Sir Edwin Arnold's
Light of Asia" contrasted with 1.-THE
Light of the World" The text was taken
from John X-10: 81 am come that they
might have life, and they might have it
more abundently."
The speaker said: "The religious poem
called the Light of Asia is an account
of the life and philosophy of Gautama of
India, who was the founder of Buddhism.
This poem is composed Of fact and legend.
1t is thoroughly Eastern in its stvle and
contains passages of great beauty.
"The author has consciously or uncon-
sciously colored il with a Christian hue,
interpreted into 1t something of the Chris
tian spirit. The poem is not product of
India alone, but of India and England
combined. And yet 10 stands In still more
striking contrast with Christianity, il we
place Gautama side by side with Jesus
Christ, and his meagre and unsatisfying
teachings side by side with the full and
ronsoling doctrines of Christian revela-
tion."
"Gautama taught his table of command
ments as given by Mr.. Arnold, which are
five in number. These commandments
are, with single exception, copied from
the second table of the decalogue of
Noses"
"The great central truth of the gospel
of Christ, which is the only source Of hu
man progress, or human hope, is utterly
unknown to Buddhism from its Genesis to
its Revelation"
49," Many, / say, the possession Of that
life purchased by Christ, leads to like
spirit OF self-surrender on the part of its
surrender The life of Christ is not
changed in its transmission from Him to
us. am come that they might have
life And 80 we become not the guar
dians, but the distributors, not the de-
positories, but the channels of that saw
ing life. IL America prosperous because
the knowledge of Christ has come to it 2
DO we and our children know the peace of
forgiveness and live in the sure expecta-
tion of the joys of heavenp Then Asia,
too, must have the knowledge Iof Christ,
and upon Its teeming millions who now
sit in the land of the shadow Of death,
upon them must this light shine. How
ing TO do, how much ought we to do for
the salvation of the millions of our race
who are perishing in hopeless darkness ?"