Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-12-18

sisters everybody was acquainted within
credible that he could be the Christ.
The Kingdom Is In the Heart
So fond are we of the spectacular! So
desirous of the dramaticl 1t is next to GER
tain that the kingdom when it fully comes
will be found to have had its first subjects.
and even at its meridian glory still to have
its chief citizens, in carpenter shops, and
| tailor shops and mills. Cobblers and cooks
Will be among its honorable men and
women. Certain it is that the kingdom of
God comes not by observation, is not to be
found where most people wouli be likely to
look for it. Certain it is that the kingdom
of God is within US, is not to be seen in
dress, nor uni orm, nor badge, but ls in the
hearts, and shows itself in the lives OF
those who belong to it.
The kingdom of God has come already.
What we prav for is not its beginning, but
its contamination. We pray thai it may
fully come, that everybody may some dav,
and speedily, promise allegiance to the
King.
And this, I say, is one of those prayers
which we ought to answer in large measure
our own selves For it is plain that the al.
legiance of all is the allegiance OF each.
Whoever desires the conversion of the
world, let him be first converted. Who
ever wishes for the betterment of society,
let him improve himself We who pray
tor the kingdom OF heaven, are we all of us
subjects OF that kingdom-loyaI, earnest,
enthusiastic and aggressive in its service?
Always Works ith Tools.
1t is true that God can work without ma
terials or tools 1t is also true, however,
that God always works with materials and
tools. When He has message for the race
He never delivers it Himself out OF the
clouds, He sends man to carry it.; He tells
His great truth to saint or scholar, to
poet or a prophet, and so it reaches all the
rest OF US The revivals of God, the revo-
lutions which have dethroned the powers
Of darkness. end have crowned the light,
began every one of them in the heart of
some good man who had learned some great
truth from God and went straightway and
told his brother. 1t is idle to dream of
regeneration Of the race without a regenera-
tion of the individual The kingdom OF
heaven. which cometh not by observation,
cometh not by legislation, either. Not from
without but from within work the energies
which will some day convert the race.
Gods chief instrument for the bringing in
of the kingdom OF heaven is the inspiration
OF example.
The greatest of all reformatIons began
when one man car.e out of carpenter shop
and went about doing good There is no
book like it, no argument like it, no sermon
comparable to it. 1t is the life that tells,
that influences, that kindles the fires of en-
thusiasn. The kingdom of Heaven In our
immediate neighborhood waits upon US.
When we become It's loyal subjects there
will be no lack of others. Whether or not
the Lords prayer will be answered depends
upon ourselves "Thy Kingdom coms"-
first in nv own soul! "Thy Kingdom
cone"-O King, behold me here to-day,
thy subject!
The Democrat and the Arlstocrat.
The question, then, is what constitutes
loyal subject of the kingdom of heaven.
And want to say this morning that no.
body can be loyal subject to the kingdom
of heaven unless he is democrat, not an
aristocrat An aristocrat is one who cares
a great deal for a few people; democrat is
one who cares a, great deal for great many
people, for all people. The aristocrat
chooses the society for the congenial, de-
sires to associate with the elect OF the elect,
sympathiEes to the depths OF his soul with