Mexico weekly ledger., 1893-03-16
BISHOP FOWLER pREA,ups
A hagnihcent Sermon In mexieo SIM.
day Morning.

'oitis urand sunday morn
ing by Bishop Charles II. Fowler
OF Minneapolis.
The house was packed with both
white and black.
lie made three striking points
Showed the impossibility of exalt.
ing Christi is more possible 70,
the little red ant that crawls at on,
ieet to exalt man than for man to
exait Christ. Showed His COMING
to be the event of the world and gave
the audience an idea of immortality,
1t was a magnificent discourse
One worthy of PRONUNCIATION and
we are sorry we Ere not able to give
even a ereditable synopsis. The
speaker talked without notes on the
"Exaltation OF Jesus" What q
wonderful preparation was made for
the coming of Jesus-what grand
men were sent before Him to an
nounce His coming. Coming
events cast their shadow before,
What a shadow was cast before the
coming of our Redeemer.
The Bishop begun by picturing
great Noah. All, what a brilliant
headlight he must have been during
the 12O years of his work upon the
ark, carrying out Gods commands,
but how Insignificant was Noah to
our Saviour. Truly God highly
exalted Jesus. What a grand man
was Abraham, the father of the
Church, yet how insignificant he
was by the side of Jesus. Moses,
great Moses. Why there are men who
are running over the country getting
5000 a night lecturing on the
"Blunders of Moses" Will any
body lecture on their blunders after
they are dead % years? 1t is hui
man nature for us to think first of
a mans infirmities and weakness.
When | mentioned Moses name two
thirds of the audience doubtless
simultaneously thought of Moses
sin-but great was Moses. Yet
how Insignificant compared with
Christ. Truly God highly exalted
Jesus. The works of Jesus were
magnificently told of by the Bishop.
How He condescended to come
down among the weak, lowly and
ignorant and put His arms around
the world and lift it up to God.
What a condescension! There was
no society on earth for Jesus. There
was no one on earth that could think
His thoughts. The speaker, in the
most impressive manner, gave his
hearers a conception of immortality.
Immortality Oh, did you ever
think of it? He imagined he could
see an infnitesimal fly in the dust
at his feet. 1t took the fly acentury
to crawla hairs BREADTH 1t must
make a tour of the world and it
would take a train a hundred CEN
turtles travelling night and day at
forty miles an hour to make the trip
yet the time it would take this little
fly to go around the globe would not
be a space in Immortality. We are
only here for a moment and gone.
Gone somewhere to spend eternity !
In a little while this house will
crumble down with age. In a little
while there will be no Mexico. In
a little while this government will be
blotted out. In a little while the
sun will fold it's beams and go unto
its maker. In a little while the stars
will burn down to their sockets
.sthen shall the dust return to the
earth as it was; and the spirit shall
return to the God that gave it. In
the days when the keeper OF the
house shall tremble, and the strong
men shall bow themselves, and the
grinder cease because they are few,
and those that look out of the win
dows be darkened, and the doors
shall be shut in the streets" I'M
mortality! Everyone of Us will be
somewhere thenl Oh, where shall
it be? If there is anything in re-
liglon there is everything.
Rev. Leonard, Secretary OF Foreign
missions, preached a splendid ser
mon at the Opera House that night.
The there burglars who robbed
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