The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1893-07-10
HREsHNESS OF BEIN0.
Rev. ". ID. Ssselais. Of Cal vary Chsrsh.
On Varieties Esdssvos Movemsat.

On NWSses1oD ko0eovOs AOvomoae.
At tie Calvary Presbyterian church yes
terday morning Rev. Brevard d. Sinclair
preached from the text. Romans via,
Even so We also should walk in new
ness ~ Iife." and made the Christian
EndeaSor movement his theme.
.In everything truly OF God" said the
speaker there IL n singular freshness. II
il like :hat tree Of life that bore twelve
mannes Of fruits and yielded her fruit
every saonth. The religion Of the Bible 10
old. iiEc the sun, and ever the same in the
essential that Gods determined purpose il
to reveal the knowledge Of Himself to
man. but IL il always new in its adapta-
ton tothe exigencies and necessities of
the times. II is perennially fresh. The
revelation Of God to the world has differed
in the manifestation in the various epochs
OF human history. There was the Adamic.
the psfrisrcnai, the Mosaic and the Chris
tian dispensasion, all filled with the one
purpose to reveal God to man; yet each
successive dispensation filed with new
ness iu that on Gods side we note prog
ress in abe revelation and on mans side .
varietyof the manifestation Of Christian
experisnce.
The keynote Of the religion of the
Bible .rom Adam to Christ and from
Christ to the sunset Of the nineteenth CEN
tury IL newness.
Our religion is q novel one. and :ncreas-
ingly so as il affects the world, the church
and the individual.
''Tha Messianic promise of salvation,
which puddcd in Genesis and biossomed
in CHRIST, was . novelty in the world Of
Law. In all the wide universe of Law We
find ne exception to the memorable decree
that disobed,ence To law inevitably meets
with eondign punishment. Hence the
theory of the natural Law in the spiritual
world IL q misfit. For in the revelation
Of Christ as Savior in the spiritual world
we lind that it is possible to avoid the
sanction OF violated Law by the substitu-
ton of another. who was wounded for our
transgGessions.
This. special mission Of the religion Of
the Baale to the individual is to make u
new man Of him and thus en-
abe aim to walk in ncwness Of
life. II takes John b. Cough from the
saloon 10 make him n sanct,fied apostle OF
tempes&noe. 1, seixes a Jerry Macauley
as he emerges from the prison doors of
Sing sing and makes of him a ministering
angel among the criminal and the outcsst
of miAiern Babylon. Ii reaches down
into the lowest purIeus OF vice in the
modsrsi Soiom and Gomorrah and in the
festeyiag mass OF human corruption it
transforms into nesness of life aud celes-
tai beauty and hlessedness the crawling
worms of humanity. making them waltz
able r::embsrs of society and kings aud
priests nto God. 1t takes a man out of
darkness aud despair and lifts him into a
life OK light and Joy. Old things are
passed. away. behold all things are become
knew. And il Is this rotens dynamic in
the very core OF our Christianity.
which; is of such patent value
In a .:u;iii,srian world, especially onr
age. which cannot be discounted
either by skep;icssm or indifference.
HamanI;arlanism and reformation may
whites ash the extornals OF nan: false
Religions may quiet him with anodynes
which aua the aching heart, but do not
cure tie disease. while Christianity and i;
alone makes a new man Of BAN. In its re-
lation % the world our religion has tut
one purpose its regeneration. This world
is not shat it ought TO be-: 1t is not what
IL shas he, Under the imperial curse of a
Nero. sho MAS a, once priest. an atheist
and 4 god. whose haeiul and poisonous
shaaog fell Ike the Upas Tree apon the
whele wor.a, the Apoca.yriic writer sa~
the u3Sima,um of Gods purpose and the
s!e.iyeeanee Of peoples from an old bond
age w.;en he ssx the 'new heaven and the
new siarth' iha. is TO re. wherein the
meek stall inherit. and righteousness shall
be established.
The church has continually been rut-
ting on q .newness of lite
s-Frs:tn the simple apostolic walk ard
conversation y hen the church Was but
mace There two or three net together ia
the nnsnse oil Christ. there came the new
manifestation of Christian ia.r IN tAe inn
peris. land auioerat.e hierarchy which
arose shen under Constantine the church
took O. y the paTaphrrna.ia OF temporal
kinsasa wita the spectacular and sensas4
attractions OF image worship and liturgy.
And ~.eu personal Devotion ana loyal en
,Au.ia;,n for tue head of the church be-
came s;sar dying out, tken arose the new
ass o. .he church in the misguided bai he
rssc crusade, OF the Middle Ages And
when lead formslisEa and symbol began
bv .aAi familiarity - take the place OF the
spirssu:s! parross and tie ihing sigasIe1.
thsrr ban came forth the new sl.e Of the
eharcE. n the gres, reformation al Luther.
~hieh;shDas The world from center 20 CIR
cum;e';cace IN the travail OF new birth o.
the o..s re-, gior.
so .ne atheism and deism OF the seven
teeate century Was sGccssS.ed hy the great