Morning journal and courier., 1892-08-01
SPIRITUAL REST.

Sermon In Calvary Baptist Church,
A Man OF Much Worth Must Have |
strong PASSIONS, But Have Them
Under Strong Control-A Repose |
That IL Not stagnation.
Rev. DR.. Hubert, dean of the divinity
school of the Chicago university preached
last night at Calvary Baptist church. He
spoke on Spiritual Rest" and said In sub
The whole creation, man included, seems
to be waiting for deliveranoe, for a re-
turn to its former high state. Let the dis
cord between man and the world be stepped
and there will be peace. Let the discord
between the soul and God be ended and
the tumult of the passions will be gone.
There may be a rest SO deep in Christ that
physical pain, that adverse fortune, that
even death itself may not be felt.
F. w. Robertson has said there are
kinds of rest that resemble the genuine
There Is the rest of stagnation. There is
rest in the qualification of the lusts of the
sensualist but it is the rest of satisfaction
of passions. At the bedside of q dying
sinner we have often seen rest, but 1t is
an awful rest, a rest that is unmindful of
the awful eternity.
Let us now consider another, blessed
rest. When the hurricane has spent its
harmful energy there is q rest, not of fee
bleness, but of harmony with nature. The
soul that has found God as the center Of
its being is the rest not of torpor or list
lessness, but of happiness and spiritua
peace.
The highest rest consists of strong pas
sions and strong control over them. Their
, are some men who have not the power il
them to be great sinners, but there is il
ties of an angelic disposition. The bes
. professor knew in college was a man o
the most violent temper. There were fire
! enough In his soul to belch forth vol
;, canoes, but he never uttered hasty word
for these volcanic powers were held II
q place by mastery powers of control. Tn
+ locomotive is strong because steam i
a strong, and steam is only strong when 1t
y compressed into iron boilers. To b
much of a man you must have plenty c
steam, but 1t must be we'll under law
y yourself.
Let no one believe that this repose {
4 strength, this highest repose of power
not attained by struggles. After the ten
N pest the water Is in conflict for hour
- There must be a conflict between pri6
and humility, between sin and righteou
4 ness. In labor is to be found our sweete
n repose. DR.. South said that If the mo
! voluptuous man living were compelled il
> termittently to follow his hawk and h
If hound, his dice and his cards, he would I
b. the most wretched man alive.
So the soul must work If 1t would fir
in It's highest repose. There must be schoc
40 ing before there is pleasure in the wor
~ The painter or the sculptor must folio
years of drudgery before his work becom
=, pleasure. So it must be in the highe
to of all arts, the art of right living v
III should bring our duties so near togeth
49, that they will touch. If the finest carria
IN in New Haven were driven over plal
a. road where the planks were FIVE feet spa
he how much pleasure would there be in ri
inga But push the planks up together, al
Mt how delightful would tho journeying /
tv So you must not do your duty to-day q
~ then skip over till Wednesday. You mt
iss keep continually at it.
re- Upon every man who will fulfill the
~, quirements and conditions this SPIRIT
bs rest will come down from heaven.