The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-25
4 CURE FOR ALL ILLS
Discourse of Rev. Mr.. Wick
at the Wayne Street
Reformed Church.

As the hot season declines, the congre
CATION OF Wayne Street Reformed Church
grows Ia strength from week 60 week.
Mr.. Wick, the Associate Pastor, has. in
the absence of DR.. Van Cleef, conducted
each service since the reopening and his
~discourses. like himself. have been
bright and lively. He. like SONS others
of the clergy of the State, has recently
been TO Chicago. aud. judging from his
Sc rmops. he has been In q good atmos-
phere phere, his love of evangelical truth
III its simplicity. has been deepened. and
his charity towards those who differ from
our views and principles ln some re-
spects. has been rekindled and broadened.
Yesterday Mr.. Wick delivered a re-
markably free aud edifying address on
Paul's determination to know moth
ing among men save Christ
aud Him crucified. As he stepped
aside from tho desk in an
unshackled attitude, he looked iiks a
champion ready for some heroic action,
forty minutes he polluted out various
remedies which meu had found aud were
eager to furnish for the ills OF mankind.
but he remarked hat what was really
wanted was a panacea. he enumerated
several of the proposed remedies. suc1
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education. improved homes. more aud
better work for Che poor, better under
standing between employers anu sne
employed. but while all OF these Were
good they were but partial, aud all of
them successfully applied could not
bring the millennium.
A CURE o ALL ILLS.
He believed he could COME to tn en-
with a panacea, q cure for all ills-ar em-
edy OF Gods own providing, which, rs
soon as The world snall receive. i5 will
prove its power to save the world. This
is the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
The preacher showed that it WAS a par
sonal remedy, individual, and yet of uni>
| versal application. 1t was not only benf-
clal, out transfer ming. 1t was SO much d
Divine and efficient remedy, that begiu-
ming in this life, 1t was contaminated in
the eternal life of every believer. This
topic was well pursued yesterday, III
trenchant remarks on Paul's II am
not ashamed Of the t3ospsl of Christ"
We nave not space for that which could
we'll be termed q report of this ernou
| but the preacher, after noticing that the
origin of Christianity In Rome is some
what involved In o~Dscurlty. said it was
most likely introduced shortly after
| Pentecost. aud Paul's solfcitude TO CON-
muuicate with the Christian church
| there was most natural, for Rome was at
that time, in a sense, the metropolis OF
the world. AS with us all roads lead to
| New York, so then all roads led to Rome.
as the centre OF power and influence. III
one OF his anecdotal addresses Mr.. Wick
held our attention to he's satisfaction OF
the Inquiry why Paul might have been,
though he was not, ashamed at the Gus
pei.
NOT ASHAMED OF H GOSPEL.
1, Because it involved u comp lete
breakdown of his life. 1t was like step.
ping upon the worlds platform and
saying, ladies and gentlemen. I. Paul,
have been making a fool OF myself-have
been acting throughout a most wicked
aud absurd part. Men don't like to go
back on themselves thus. Perhaps you
know men, who, rather than renouuce
themselves so utterly, live on as they are,
dissatisfied, but rather Drefering to live
a lie than to break down and confess
their siu. Old men especially are thus
luclined and plead that they are too old
to reform.
2. Paul might have been ashamed o
the associations with poverty and the
cross of Calvary. but he was not. There
is no disgrace III poverty, yet The senti-
ment, old as Roman philosophy. vet lives
III social circle5-shat it Is even necessary,
not righS of course. but expedieut
to steal rather than not to keep up APP
~pearances, and there are even some who
profess and call themselves Christians
who think less of some worthy people be
cause they are poor.
3. Paul was against and ahead of the
sentiment of his time In accepting the
Gospel. This might have caused him
encouragement. 1t was SHOWN that q
Jealous profession of the Gospel does in
all times expose to the opposition and
ridicule Of the world
The evening discourse illustrated the
great reason why Paul was not ashamed
of the Gospel. The acceptance OF its
truth was urgently pressed upon all, us
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