St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-10
At the House OF Hope He
Treats the Great Fire IN ms )
Calamity ,'n1:
FROM A CHRISTIAN VIEW,
Those Contributing Aid Con-
stitute the Christian Mi Is
nority Of the People. q.
SYMPATHY MOVES THE MIND
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He Speaks Of the Fires OF
Evil and Their Dsstruc-
ton of Souls.

At House of Hope church yesterday
morning DR.. Egbert preached all elO-
quent sermon to large congregation,
taking for his subject, "Tested in Fire"
He took for his text:
every mans work shall be made
manifest; for the day shall declare it.
because it shall be revealed by fire;
and the fire shall try every mans work
of what sort 1t ISL. Cor, ill.,. ID. ,
Among other things he said: The
Bible is not only the greatest book of
truths, but the greatest book OF meta
ph0rs, of images that reveal truths.
Man is mortal. but he is also
immortal; aud so large part of
his life ia spent in the physical things.
the temporary things of this world,
that nothing but divine word divinely
guided, with divine power in it, could
get down through this outer casing of
our souls and touch the secret parts Of
our immortal natures. And as one reads
this book he feels as If God had searched
the heavens and the earth, through the
agency of his prophets and apostles,
to get images which could bear the load
of his divine thought and purpose, and
carry that burden into human souls; as
if he had searched the heavens and the
earth for imagery vivid enough to chal-
lenge the attention of our sluggish
minds and to quicken and stir to their
depths our more sluggish spirits. How
fNIy Etl hicoC fnp
to awaken in us that which ought
to be the experience and expression of
life! How many souls there are heed
less of the worlds needs. needless Of
their own great power of sympathy that
is divine in its very character. needless
year after year almost through life,
takes hold of their lives and shakes
them out of their Iethargy and makes
them see it, and makes them feel IT.!
Oh, how close to us disaster has to come
to stir us! A world in woe. world in
Indebtedness, tens of thousands dying
by famine and flood, hundreds of thou
sands dying by sin in all parts of the
world distant from us hardly tOuch!u JUS.
But when disaster comes close to us.
when something comes and strikes
right in oui faces, we begin to feel that
the world is near akin, that no man can
bear his burden alone, and that we
have something to do with the worlds
sorrows. the worlds sufferings, the
worlds needs, and, possibly, 20
With the Worlds Sins. ~.
God did not leave to poor, mortal.
finite man the laying of the foundati ON
OF an eternal life in him. He did not
leave TO your poor, wandering, foolish
mind the responsibility of finding out
for yourself what is divine, and there
fore above your thought, finding out for
yourself what is absolutely essential as
the very root and beginning of your
life; but he came down and laid the
foundation stone an which every man is
to build. He planted the root of divine
life in the very heart of you, and
then commenced to build. This
universe sprung out of the thought and
purpose of God. Can anything come
out of the thought Of God and ever get
away from the thought of God? Every
thing carries the nature of which it is
begotten. Can your child ever get away
from you? Can the picture which your
hand has wrought, but which was be-
gotten in your spirit and mind, ever get
away from you in it? Can the work you
do in the wOrld-yOur business, the
house you build, the words you speak
can they ever get away from the i'm
preston they carry, the very life blood
of them, which they have gotten from
flesh is flesh: that which is born of the
spirit is spirit; that which is born of
man is of the likeness of mail; that
which is born of God is of the likeness
of God. =.
With all our sorrow for the awful
strife that has come in our land, classes
fighting with classes. men doing that
which is evil to hinder that which is
good, and believe that the worst thing
that evil can do is not what it does pos
itively, but what it binders good.
what it prevents of good, and with all
our sorrow for
The Awful Disaster
that has come into our state, there is
lying back of it all something that
ought to stir our souls to the utmost.
Our first thought was how fearful, how
appalling! And our hearts wept over
the pains and the sufferings, the fright.
the agony of mind, the awful tests of
spirit that came to those who were in the
midst of this fire. For il was not only
that bodies were burned, property
burned, but those minds and spirits
were tested in way that VIZ can hardly
conceive. The result OF that test OH
their immortal souls no man can DOS.
sibly measure. The attitude of those
spirits then not one of us can see. We
know that there must have been mar.
velous thing wrought there. 1t was
the experience OF years of suffering in
other forms condensed into few hours I;
and if years of suffering in other forms
turit Il nh frxw Nd Inc Ia,
wills of men, surely in such awful tests
as that great change will be wrought.
But the test was not only upon those.
They were tested In fire. We
saw them there. There is not
man or woman in this hoise
today but has been helped to bear their
burden. But it tested us. 1t tested
every man and woman in this whole
land. and tested us in way that ought
to set every one of US thinking. 1t Was
a revelation. Was there any man in all
this state whose heart. whose coin
science, whose thought, whose gift did
not respond to this need of his fello@
men? He needs. then, to examine him
self. 1t shows that there is lacking lii
his nature something that is absolutely
essential to even decent human life,
and how much more to a Chri stan life,
But there was lying back Of that
another revelation. Here was reveIal
ton of power that sprang forward to
help all these people-the power of
sympathy that moved the mind OF and
the hands of men to active and prompt
ministry. And the most beautiful
thing in it all is that spirit of helpful
ness which will shine through it,
After the pains have been eased by
time and the sorrow is gone, and other
great disasters have come up to push 1t
into memory this response will give
our whole people faith in themselves.
belief in good in the land, trust
that there Is more OF righteousness
more of ChriSt-likeuess in this land than
they thought. But it will set every
thoughtful man thinking. Ii such a
response could come In this call, could
take hold OF it and minister to 1t with
such sublime power, accuracy, wisdom.
Qffirianav what uOuid it do Tho :, =