St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-04
SERVANT OF MEN.
Rev. Agnew's Strong Presentation
=; of Religious Characters.

Rev. Agnew's Strong Presentation
IL Of Religious Character.
10 Rev. Dr. Agnew. of Philadelphia, de-
siivered the sermon at the House of
Hope church last evening. In introduce
ing the eloquent divine, DR.. Christie,
the pastor of the church, remarked, in
view of the near approach of the ma
tional holiday, that one can seldom
think of independence day without
thinking of Philadelphia.
While the sermon was semi patriotic,
it was of unyielding orthodox style of
thought. 1t was urged that the greatest
men OF any time are the servants of the
nation, and the smile was carried to
the soldier type. although the soldier of
the cause Of Christ was the main point
made. DIR. Agnew explained that it
had been his pleasure and privilege, in
the dark days of this nations history, to
20 out with the BOYS in blue and to OBJ.
serve their patriotism. Their service
was of that nature that can never be re-
paid, and 1T was the observation of Mr..
Agnew that the service performed is
the measure OF the magnanimity of the
soul and the strength and fOrIitude of
real patriotism. He advised, incident
ally, that if one would know how to
be great, take walk, AN intellect
ual walk, = into the kingdom of
nature, and then proceeded to give
graphic description OF just what the
experience will develop. One will no
tice the law of administration in the
realm of nature, but absolute independ-
ence cannot be found save in God him
self. There is no such element. he
urged, in the kingdom of nature in
which he would have the student or
pupil walk. Then followed an eIabO-
rate description of natural history, and
again the point was reiterated that the
greatest beings are their servants. In
heaven the Divine Majesty is constantly
engaged in ministering as servant to
the world. He supplies the light and
heat and the other essential eie-
ments necessary to the recuperative
powers. Then followed long array of
historical characters placed in comparl-
son with cotempOraneOus great men,
the object being to show the superiority
of the servant of the Lord to the SER
want of men-the philosopher of true
religion to the philosopher OF abstract
sciences.
For illustration, Soloman was con-
trasted with Saul. Homer with Elijah,
Lycurgus with Elisha, and so on. The
servant of the law of the universal
church, the law of Christ, is the servant
of true patriotism. 1t was then shown
that the Bible had been great power
in developing this nation. and every
body should revere the book. 1t is the
tonly history of the world. All other
nhistories have been perilled, but it
astands, and the age of the Bible was re-
fcited to show its antiquity as compared
D with other works. Men are great as
9they initiate Jesus Of Nazareth-greata as
othey initiate the King of Kings.
DR.. Agnew has been an extensive
traveller, and he described his convic-
ton after he had visited Chinatown, in
San Francisco, of the utter failure Of
: Confuciasism, and he also. painted the
great difference observable in the In
dian village and the indian reservation.
where the sons of the forest have had
the advantage of a Christian education,
] and right here the speaker showed that
Sheis imbued with the Eastern idea that
the degraded condition of the savageS
Us owing to the deception visited upon
Them by the white men. The InGianS
in the church were found very supe-
rior class of beings in comparison with
those who have had no Christian in
StructlOn.