The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-06-20

hfa nefn of
- is' you nave gone down the de.cs,d,ns =.
corao,s degradation till it Is not no..ih,s -
Won -. Vi lower degree than that 10 wh,eh
can.,- gone. Here you are at the end NJ vo,,.
ohIsa..,s OF opportunities with such mo-.,
CALI. .nat when this missionary of The
pictr-a ienelon draws anything like ,rue
schol.yo your inner life he must tax all his
offensive 70 select words that will not be too
(Rom- i:22-s1. " Respectable people
Ano THIS same lesson fs even mo,e assn,x ,r,
tn ~, upon our minds by careful study Of
skv .nenic tribes They had earth's clearest
u.I.s Pureat atmosphere in which In live
mis- and valleys, her mountains ana No.
s,ias al .nst could crown the fairest spot of Gro
,ran Al the soul could be induced 10
.ra up through nature to natures God.
natr,.,. n up through nature to
.. ru uoo, these people should have nroven
sono question. But instead OF a moral ele.
an' rise towards God, they went swiftly
uown"ards. And when the frat herald Of The
s $1,000 In her chief cities to proclaim the
osoci OF Jesua Christ, he told those we'll fav
49, oniiuren OF nature that they were guilty of
NJ. a ~ ,heir common daily lives which should
no' even be mentioned
~. ,. ie' tnose people-that class who think
aus race Gid not need the Gospel-,eil ne
why these favored nations ala not rae vitbou,
sne uospeL Why did they not heal themselves
.hs. eheir moral condition loudly proclaim
'ney did not need physician? Why did
no. Egypt rise and form moral character more
sooiime ana lasting than her pyramids. instead
.,hxing TILL her monuments of iniouity
- al the works of her hands wrought in
's OF marble? Why did not the Chinese
ss win their opportunities and occupy moral
ne,sns as sublime among the nations as her age
- noaryY Why did not the Japanese rise with
OUT the Gospel? Why was it that the Africans
eus oo"n TILL when discovered and described
!. was IN book called Darkest Africa" and
sna. DOCK cannot DO read aloud in a parlor in
i]eo lands without succession of bushes
S ias brought to all faces2 Why did not the
eou.h sea Islanders rise in moral manhood, in.
stead OF becoming naked sayages and cannibals2
as NOT that q significant fact that not one
.ripe mas been found on this round globe rising
~ moral Character, developing into pure man
nooo ana womanhood where the Gospel has not
goneI 1t is most significant truth that all the
moral uplifting that this world has had has
come OF tho reception of the Holy Scriptures
an the goodness and all the hight hopes
vi 'his iaiien world are to be attributed to the
reveiation OF God in the person OF Jesus Christ,
ana the cordial reception of Him al there re-
yesied. II trees are to be judged by their
uui's' IL deeds are to be tested by the results
tney produce in the march OF humanity. then
let the honest student who cares anything
ABOUT his own immortality thoughtfully take
wax Oh centuries through the orchards OF this
planet let MIN note the trees upon which no
uospei ignt has fallen, and mark the results az
sne nations have eaten thereof and have had
theif manhood crushed out, their souls blasted
anu "ltnered, and race after race sitting down
unoer these gloomy boughs and sinking into
hopeless graves over which no star OF hope
casts ray Of light. Let him mark with an un-
biased pen the bitter, bitter results which have
llot lad to Ill .
forgotten, and then let him tell us whether
or not there is need that there should arise over
this sunken world the Day Star from on high.
Ana tnls leads me to request that you take note
OF the fact that the Gospel is the source OF all
moral and social reforms, and must ever remain
ths source OF hope to this world because 1t con-
tains the counsel OF Omnipotence. If the facts
that We have just briefly passed over are worth
anything, IL indeed the unerring test that has
been given by our Saviour il to be regarded,
then there IL nothing any more plain to the
senses than the fact that this world needs a
mighty power, one that IL nothing less than di-
vine to lift 1t from this moral and intellectual
degradation to which it has fallen. The race
has not the strength In itself to make its way
back to God, and in this Gospel we find revela-
ton of that divine power and method by which
this moral transformation can be wrought And
therefore, the Gospel Is the source of all moral
and social reforms These principles contained
here are the great moral luminary of this planet
BY rays of light and warmth beaming from this
direction we may expect to see the icy letters
melted away, and the deep darkness of our
long moral winter disappearing, and the
spiritual springeime coming again. The scepter
OF winter cannot be broken till there 10 a change
in the atmosphere. There must be q change in
the relations OF the world to the sun. This is
just what this moral world must have to see its
moral winter broken. There must be such a
change as to cause the very atmosphere of the
races to change. And we are facing the fact
that this Gospel of Christ Jesus contains the
principles by which the whole earth can be
Transformed; yea, is being transformed. We
meet here the truth that 10 higher than all
philosophy, that there must be a radical change
in fallen human nature before il can retrace its
steps and stand again justified before its Gre
ator. And this volume contains the counsels of
Omnipotence by which man can be regenerated,
and by which he can be given new start, and
new standing as a moral being Aud this is
what the race must have If it would travel God
ward. Too great emphasis cannot be given to
the fact that this is just the provision arranged
in the divine system.
1t is Gods plan to carry on His work through
the Gospel of His Son. He has embodied there
His counsels to our lost world. Ho assures us
that this is the power of God unto salvation to
every one that believeth. The Holy Spirit
these eternal counsels, dark hearts and corrupt
minds shall be regenersted. And through these
rerenerated natures He will set in motion moral
forces which shall shake creation to its center.
These great moral forces in their onward
march are often as noiseless as the rising sun,
and they are as sure and as resistless
The Gospel is the source OF all moral and So
ciai reforms because il lays its hand upon the
heart. 1t was at the root of the tree that the
1~,1 not hAtyf- fSnv
and trimming the outward branches, taking a
limb here, q twig there, aud leaf yonder. But it
went to the root OF the tree. 1t Will make no
compromise, but will have the right kind of
fruit or tho space the tree has been occupying.
The Gospel did not begin its mission
by tinkerng with corrupt human in
situations; but by going direct to
the corrupt human heart. Could you lay your
hands upon every human law of the globe you
conld not thereby reform the race. Had Christ
Jesus placed his followers in the chairs OF state
and made them the lawmakers OF tie world
their mission would have been failure. All
their laws would have been broken faster than
they could have been promulgated They VINO
would break divine laws would not scrupie TO
break human laws. II every oihcer on eaFln
were solemnly sworn into his position upon
,rountsin OF Bibles, aud the heart were left un-
cb.npsd this world would roll on in hopeless
piyht To eternal death. But the Gospel makes lis
appeal to the heart; ii calls upon men 10 repent
IN turn to their God, and seek forgiveness
through His forgiviug mercy. and by the power
q. His sririt they shall be formed into the image
Of the son OF God. And the heart being set
right all laws and customs emanating
from the heart viii be right. so It was
that the Gospel did not lay Its hands upon any
outward affairs and work iuwardly, but 1t began
at the heart to work outwardly. Ana TINS IS
the true way to do it. For this very reason The
3rst preachers OF the Gospel did not attack the