The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1893-05-22
HEART OF THE GOSPEL.

Pastor Keigwin Discsursss I'm the
Spirit OF nlsdern Progress and At
tracts ThinGi.s Men.
Rev; A.. N. EFgwin preached in
West Presbytefn Church from the
following textSn Sunday morning:
Jesus"
The fair-skinned and intellectual
Greeks who spoke these words turned
away dissatisfied from their numer-
Gus temples OF worship and unknown
Gods. They were proselytes to Juda-
ism and therefore sought the ono true
and living God. 1t must be that they
sought more than a physical vision OF
Jesus. 1t was close fellowship and
intimate personal knowledge they
This impression Is something more
than q poetical idea. Scientists are
investigating 1t as the so-called sixth
sense" as a kind OF a mind telegraphy
or physical force"
waited and brought under the laws Of
control OF the mind. But 1t is force.
Jesns In his reply recognized some
thing OF this when He said '.the time
will come for the Son Of God to be
glorlfied." There was necessity for
his triumph over the flesh. over death
and the grave. and for the descent of
His Spirit upon the world.
"A closer communion with Jesus
Christ. the Son OF God, "is the Thought
of the text. The great cry OF this age
Jesus
For better spiritual communion:
1. We want to see Jesus in the
great national. international. histori-
cal. political and social events of the
world.
II. In the central life, sum and sub.
stance Of our theology.
III: In our personal lives, and first
the Greeks in their age, referred to by
the text, were in a state OF unsettled
and great intellectual activity, the
speaker set forth the historic events
OF that period, and concluded the ad.
vent and influence OF the Son OF God
on earth must have come to them rs
a disturbing force from without. We
may interpret the great disturbances
OF our day as by divine force from
without that comes In like the stately
tread Of Almighty God.
"All things were made by Him."
Amid the monuments of glory erected
century. great lives and grand events,
the Son of God sweeps through. There
Us no other way to account for the
great changes than that Christ Is In
them. God is always owning only
those things that will be for his glory.
We are to have a golden age.
Secondly. it is fact that the com.
mand OF our age is: Back to Christ In
Like as the Greeks of the text dis
Icarded their every god and the Pam
theon and would see Jesus. So we are
lln an age of theological unrest.
Nothing else will satisfy but to turn
to the living Jesus. "a new feeling
for Christ" is the latest thing In the
Theological world. All the great books
on theology that do not centre upon
and place the present, living Christ In
tile forefront seem musty to the live
Christian scholars OF our day, and are
put on the top shelves.
Their mysticism and metaphysics
have grown cold. The shelves easily
reached are filled with books on the
living Christ. The evangelistlc Christ
lis foremost.
In the beginning was the Word. and
tho Word was with God and the Word
was God" The New Testament ia the
lOid Testament dramatized. Christ
lives through the whole of IL, from
THE beginning. Through all the Bible
history, poetry and prophecy runs the
golden thread God is love"
No man ever dreamed that "God is
Love" until Jesus Christ dawned upon
lhis spiritual sight. He Is a seebing
God and my unconverted friend can.
not make. in whole life time, a
greater mistake than to reject his
seeking until the call of death. Hence,
thirdly, We want Jesus in our lives.
In the texts period, like ours, there
was great wealth and great poverty,
great wisdom and great folly. great
luxury and great distress, stoical yir-
tue and the appalling RIGHTEOUSNESS
OF the Grove of Dahhne." From all
such dangers. misery, iniquity and
idamnation, nobody can save US but
Jesus.
In this age there is close living to-
ward the world and its luxury. Many
ia Christian wants to hang over the
very edge of the precipice OF destruc-
tion.
1t Is time when we need to come
back more and more to Christ.
But 1t will do us no good to see
Jesus a thousand times unless we de-
sire Him and accept His salvation.
May God be mercifui to all until
they see the Lord, Jesus Christ, as
their Saviour. May we all find In Jesus
the hope of personal salvation for our
Isouie. JOHN @. HARNESS. Reporter.