The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-09-24

Text Of n Strong Sermon by IL
Christian Hebrew Albert Il Malta,

Text of n Strong Sermon by the
Christian Hebrew, Albert j.
Friends meeting house was packed yes
terday with member Of the society, who
were anxious 70 hear Albert j. Nathan,
the converted Jew. The evangelist is a
young man with smooth face and earnest
address, who speaks with great fuency
and dramatic power. His manner howev-
er. is simple and sincere. He holds the at
tention of his audiences in a very .ective
and mastery manner and creates a favor
able impression His theme yesterday morn
ing was Walking with God" and his
text was 1 John, ii. 6. He traced the his
tory of man down from creation, saying
that the trial in the Garden of Eden
showed that innocence could not save man,
and hat 1t was there proved a failure,
resulting in shame, Punishment and ig-
nominy. The human kind then, however,
learned right from wrong, and became
conscious of conscience. But conscience
has no SAVIOR. and the world grew so bad
that God had to sweep the people from
the earth, leaving only one family from
which again to start the human race. That.
he said. was what trust in conscience
brought the race to. 1t became perverted
and deceitful. God then pleaded with Moan
n made a covenant with him, but the
people again went astray from the worship
of the true God. The covenant had proved
a failure. Then came the period OF the
law, God being still unwilling that His
people should perish. But Moses descended
from the mountain and found the people
worsniping the golden calf. The blood OF
bulls and goats could not preserve the
people. And after the failure OF the law
God gave that greatest Of all gifts, HIS
only Son, whose leaving of heaven made
the archangels croop their wings and the
choirs of Heaven sing with hushed voices
as the Son was torn from the bosom OF the
Father. But the race was SO wicked that 1t
put the Savior to death, but His spirit is
still with the sons of men. The human
race is now living under the guidance Of
this Holy Spirit. Shall we heed the lesson
OF experience, he asked, and walk with
God? Has not all that was only human
proved a failure? And yet in almost every
pulpit in the land one hears the greatness
and grandeur OF humanity exalted, while
he hears too little about the saving grace
and the infinite goodness and power OF
Jesus.
Having led the congregation to a point
showing that Christians who would abide
with God in the anguag OF the text ought
also to walk with Him, the speaker said
that Christians must live by faith in God.
They must be agreed with Him. He illus
trated the necessity or agreement bStween
persons VINO would walk together by a
story of personal experience with a woman
who wanted him to talk to her husband
and ask him to join the cnurcn- He spoke
to the husband, who replied that religion
was a good thing, perhaps, but he did not
feel the reed OF It. But eonsidsr.n sad .
a Christian would bring to your wife," "Oh,
as to that" said the husband, while /
love my wife and want to make her happy,
L believe my chances are just as good as
hers. She coaxeS me TO go TO CHURCH and
L go. And then 1 coax her to go to the
theater and she goes. She coaxes me to
prayer meeting and / go. And l coax her
to a progressive eucnre party and she goes.
AS between us / guess the honors are
about even" The story was carried to the
wife and she was smitten with a feeling
of having compromised with her sense or
duty. The preacher then exhorted the con-
gregation to walk in the spirit and worth
iy of the vocation wherewith they were
called. He related that because an Amer
loan consul to Vienna was picked up
from the gutter in a state OF delirium
tremens and later died, the Austrians nave
an impression that Americans are a nation
OF ~drunkards The consul had not walked
worthily. The sermon closed with an ap-
peal to walk in the light OF God.
Mr.. Nathan will deliver his lecture,
From Judaism TO Christianity" at the
Friends Church Tuesday night