The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1894-09-17

DR.. J. Il. Howard. pastor OF Asbury
II. E. Church, preached an instructive
sermo on to large and appreciatlve au-
dience yesterday morning choosing for
bis text the Goth chapter OF Isaiah and
the 10Th verse. 1.-The sun shall be no
more thy light by day; neither for
shall the moon give light;
but the Lord shall be unto thee an
everlasting light, And thy God thy
glory The Doctor said that there
had been great many attempts to
nuke the people to believe that the
bible taught the doctrine of evolution.
end that evolution was the doctrine
OF God. The Doctor defined the stand
taken on the subject by the two
prominent teachers Of the doctrine of
evolution. Darwin and Haguel.
The Doctor said lie did not believe thai
life, and gradually developed step by
step, until he. attained to the monkey
and then to man. While some trace
their ancestry to the Geological gar
den he preferred going to the garder
Of Eden for his. Ho believed that
man went backward instead of for.
ward, until Christ came and made II
possible to live in the image of bis
maker. The Doctor said where there
va evolution there was involution
BECAUSE there could be no evolution
without involution. The gum of the
oak must be in the acorn, before II
can develop into an oak. Christ must
be In tho heart, before you can develop
into full Christian character. GOO
does not make something out Of
nothing. Christ did not feed the 150(
out OF nothing. He had tive loavea
and two fishes.
He would not raise seed unto Abra
ham out OF nothing but out of the
rocks about him. God made the WORD
and the word was made tleHh ant
dwelt am ong men. God took the word
question then arises, where did the
word come fromW In the beginning
the word WAS development and mol
IevolutioiI, 10 the theory taught In the
bible. Tine boy laying aside the gown
land putting on pants and boots are
signs Of development; the things that
fused to serve him he has outgrown
AS nation we have outgrown the use
of the sword and the bayonst. which
were SO essential In the past for oui
protection and safety. Slavery is O
relic which the south depended on for
200 years.
They have outlived it and see they
are better off without that institution.
The text says we shall come to an ex.
perlence when we shall not need the
sun and the moon. The sun is as es,
genital TO the physical man as Christ
is to the spiritual.
The moon Ia necessary to the uni
verse. Man shall not live by bread
alone, but by the mama that comes
from God. We are to grow upin Christ
our living head III oil things; and have
the confidence which David possessed
when he said. when my father and
mother forsake me the Lord will take
me up. Some things which are neces.
sary to cur happiness, proves that we
have not yet outgrown them; they are
props upon which we are depending.
Some people consider tobacco a me-
cessity; 1t only proves that men are
still resting on tho use OF it rs u prop.
We will learn to drop one thing after
another until we shall need no more
the sun to DO our light by day, when
we get to our home beyond the skies
where there is no sun or moon. for the
Lamb is the light thereof
There will como a time when we
will drop this body, which has been of
so much service to US in this world.
We shall outgrow the need of 1t.
There is a life beyond the grave and
our immortal spirits are outgrowing
the body, and We shall iuhauit the
mansion not made with hands, Of
which these mansions were merely
symbol. We are advancing to some.
thing greater and grander, to which wo
shall & o some OF these days and grasp
the reality for which these things
stood as the symbols, which for centu'
ries pointed TO the realities which
came in the PERSON OF Christ when the
fullness of time had come.
We should always be ready to drop
the symbol for the reality. like the
disciples when they left all to follow
the master. The young man who
came running to the master lnquirlng
what to do TO inherit eternal lie, was
told to sell all he had and follow him.
Others were commanded not to take
two coats; depend on him and he will
be with you until the end OF tho world.
can take the peace Of Christ.
Show US tho Father and 1t suiliceth uc.