St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-31
THE CHRISTIAN EXPOSITION.
Manager Brackets Show Gives
w. s. Lhaman a Sermon.

Manager Brackets Show Gives
w. 6. Lhaman a Sermon.
At the Church of Christ yesterday
Rev. w. j. Lhaman, the pastor. preached
on THE Christian Exposition" He
said:
Your pride in Minneapolis and your
confidence in its growth and security
are precisely like the pride and conf
dence the psalmist had in Zion. An
nually Minneapolis puts on her pest
lookf, and gathers together in her EX-
position hall the samples of the taliest
corn, and the heaviest wheat, and the
richest ore, and the latest machinery,
and the choicest music. and the worth
lest paintings. all in all the best prod
ucts that can be shown of the head and
hand of man. Worldly enterprise puts
its best foot foremost. 1t has right
to. So has the church. We do rot
Judge worldly enterprise by what 1t has
not done. The spinning jenny does not
turn thiStles and hedge rows into cot
ton cloth: is it therefore a failure?
Christianity has not vet cured all the
ills of society. 1t has not vet abolished
the blight of opium. or the alcohol nor
rOT. 1t has not made all women pure,
or all men honest. The greed of capital
remains still to be cured. Many women
and little children are OverwOrked and
underpaid. Occasionally there Is q
bloody battlefield sprinkled with
wounded, grooming, dying men. There
Is much yet for Christianity to do; but,
as III other matters, let US Judge by
what 1t has done.
cone of the tailesU towers Of our Zion
is the spirit OF brotherhood it has built
"a.
the ballot box not only possible but per-
manent; it has put check to the power
of tyrants: it has curbed the cruel am
bltiOn Of military monsters; it has en-
aOled the WOrkingmen at least to strike,
and compel the kings Of capital to rec
ogniZe their rights; it has given to pro-
fessi0nal politicians, If they have no con-
science, at least a wholesome fear OF
public opinion: 1t has abolished slavery
and exalted women. and built orphan
ages, asylums, hospitals, reform schools,
Bethels and homes Tor the aged poor.
''In walking about our Zion we must
see among the fairest OF her palaces
and the strongest of her bulWarks her
missions. Our own civilization is the
work of foreign missionaries. Our
fathers, few generations back, were
all pagans.
Again, Christ is the worlds great
neutrality-suspicious.. Christianity fosters
the mind as we'll as the morals of men.
Wherever in this world you find
Christian church you find scnOOl house
by it, and a college and a university not
very far away. Mount Calvary and the
sermon on the mount made these inSti-
buttons and others like them not posi-
bic only but necessary.
Again. Christian character is the
highest achievement ana the best de-
Tense OF Christianity. The world plus
Christ is the world plus a new style OF
life. His life reproduced according to
their measure in such men as Luther
and Livingstone. Cromwell and Carey,
Wesley and Washington, and in great
company of sanity women filling our
homes with the purest WifehOOd. the
wisest motherhood, the sweetest sister
hood.
Again. Christianity grows. Protest
antism increased fourfold within the
last century. Roman Catholicism two
fold. the Greek church twO-fOld. There
are $1,000, O00 Protestants in the world
to-day. Their religion is of a higher
grade than ever before. Their work is
more systematic ana efficient"