St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-05-08

offer incense to placate, to pacify, to
WIN for him the affection and assistance
of the gods. He sees idols placed in the
groves and high places, and the wor-
ship OF them, worship which was by
burnt offering and praise = possibly
f1attery-that they (the gods) might be
won 10 sympathy and support. He sees
children offered in dreadful fires to Mo-
loch that this same end might be ac-
complished. And that man reasons
with himself in this way. Back there
i'll SuperStitiOuS ages men offered service
to gods because they believed that
the gods controlled those things they
did not understand: and being wis g
and cunning these men offered oblatiOnS
and gifts to their savage, lnhuman gods
out of fear. with the hope of turning
them from enemies to friends. Then
(our supposed friend goes ON there was
an evolution, but the same feeling. OF
ferings were burnt before the altar in
order to plscate the God OF heaven, and
then Christ is supposed to have APP
peased the wrath of this God by Offering
himself sacrifice for man. And then
our man reaches his conclusion that it
is all the evolution OF one principle,
and that it starts out of savagery and is
"a lingering relic of the pasta some
thing that has lived beyond its time
and is now almost to the
Point Of Extinction.
here then is the position of the two
parties. The liberal man among us who
has faith does not fully accept either,
though he sees there may be truth in
both; and while he cannot accept
the substitutional theory OF the one, he
cannot go the length of the other. al
though he knows there is truth in the
others position; consequently he must
DrOlOng his search for the underlying
truth, and if he finds it and makes 1t
clear it will show what the difference is
and why liberal people do not and can
not enter in full sympathy with the re-
vivaliSt III his work.
Yes; We believe that rightly under
stood the sacrifice of Christ is the his
tory of man written in large letters, and
still beyond that it is the life Of ideal
man placed in picture before US. All
men dream OF selfish happiness. There
is not young person here today who
does not expect by superior wisdom to
find the flower streWn pathway TO ease
and happiness by way of ease. And
there is not person who will
ever find it. Sacrifice is in all
religions in form more or less
crude 10 doubt, but it is there
UGCduSS
of all Others, and is the very foundation
of all life that is worth living. The
rock wears away to the mold, and mold
gives life to the plant-the plant dies to
nourish animal life"-the quail calling
to his mate in the wheat field falls under
the hunters shot. The peace we enjoy
in this land brings to our mind tramp
ing armies, and again we see the
trenches of Bunker hull and Saratoga,of
Vicksburg and Donelson, and again all
the pictures of the long row of head
stones on hundred battlefieldS tell the
story of how our liberties were attained.
And even crossing this continent one
thinks more OF the
Sacrifices OF Early Pioneering
and the deprivations of men who went
out with the covered wagon and the OK
team-those men who are painted for
US in the great picture with the I'M
mortal legend written under them,
"WestWard the course of empire takes
its way"-yes. one sees ali this, and he
feels that this sacrifice has i'll 1t some
thing of a deep moral and spiritual
truth. And ii is deeper because one
feels that His love and His hope who
died on Calvary are the great things in
life after all. His love transforms the
conlmonest life and makes it heroic
both i'll size and quality Gas Dickens
so clearly showed in the story of
Sydney Carton) and His hope stays us
when we stand amid the wreck OF tran
STORY clumbling conditions (as we are
sure to feel when we are beside friend
on the eve of some great trouble); and
we teel and know that this sacrifice
means something to US, but when we
especially realize that its message has
two sides, the side of bitterness, the
fire, the tears, but the other side also
the love and the hope. When reyiValists
make this phase of sacrifice the center
of the sermons aud appeals, we shall
have more sympathy and more tendency
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