St. Paul daily globe., 1894-04-30


More Important Thar Stan.
ley's Discoveries-"iIv Man
for Himself and the Devil Take
the Hindmost" Game Not From
Christ.
DR.. lngersoll yesterday morning
preached at Park Congregational church
sermon on the topic, ''lf Christ Came
to Chicago" A synopsis of the sermon
is as follows:
Luke xix, 10; .'For the Son of Nan
is come to seek and to save that which
was lost"
The Bible makes the New Jerusalem
the contamination of righteousness.
City life is not. therefore. to be regarded
as all essential curse, but as the highest
blessing. when found in the path of
righteousness When Christ comes He
will doubtless first appear in a great
city. More than this; He will come
with the same spirit and aim which h
cherished when He preached aud healed
in the cities of Gaiilee and J1dea. A
spirit. an aim which has once lived in
His soul lives in it forever. He is "the
same yesterday, today and forever !"
As in oldeD days, He gathered together
disciples. and with them sought out
''the lost Sheep" So 1 believe it would
be were He TO come to our city. Rein
fore ed by those that love Him, and are
loyal, He would then seek the lost that
he might save them.
0rr tavf toi-on froo, %to ,tzr,,
Zaccheus. Christ went to his house.
He became his guest. No pious Jew
would do that Christ's conduct out
ragged their sense of religious deceucy.
But the Lord Christ looked at sinners
as the wandering sons of God He
came to reclaim them. As then, so
now. there are two false ways of look
ing at fallen human nature. The one
harshly: "iie has sinned. 1t is right
he should suffer-
The other: 10 err is human. Let
US have a broad charity" Neither of
these extremes did he accept. He sought
righteousness. He aimed at purity. He
saiu: Except your righteousness ex-
ceed the Righteousness OF the scribes
and pGarisees. ye can in DO wise enter
into the Kingdom of heaven" Lenient
charity had not The height or depth OF
His charity. His soul was like the
snow OH The cap Of Mount Blanc. white
under the blue CT heaveii," yet the
br0ksn-down, the impure, the dis
cuuraged, the resoluseiy bad were won
by Him. Often goodness repeis bad
man. They crowded His steps. HIS
goodness won them. His sympathy and
hand of help won them. lie was not
the son or the Jew, nor the carpenters
son, nor the son of that century or any
century. but the Son of Man. He be-
longed to all time and all humanity.
Once there has been man with
heart aud brain blended. Before and
above the philanthroplst was the friend.
II Christ came to st. Paul He would
doubtless take disciples with Him and
send out others to reach with divine
hope the hungry and the ragged and
tbs sick and the imprisoned and the
Stranger Men steal the livery of
heaven that, they may win votes anu
pass measures and press business. He
< would come in the spirit of heaven
with no stolen livery, but with true
love to free mortals from the dominion
Of the devil, and would surpasS ali the
cleaked schemes by genuineness of-help
! that lifts up. to manhood and woman
be3d. He would love and So bring out
from under the hard crust of sin the
,siit1ed desires and resolutions tor pure
aniis noble living
He would not cease his ministry till
he bad appealed to those who. in higher
Sociai walks, had forgotten the moral
law and the spirit law, and are needing
nothing but civil aHn social law. He
woukl find, too. those who have COP
science against robbng one man, but
did not hesitate to rOb whole COM
munily.
] am confident he would deal with our
saloons with such appeals as would win
from their dark ways many. both Of the
temptsrs and the victims. AT the doors
would knock, and, breathing Ii spirit Of
hope and giving hand of help. would
say: Go and sin no more" lI an
atnemas fell from his lips. they would
largely be upon the finely dressed and
sleek betrayerS of virtue. He would
reveal to US what we ought to know
and act upon. viz, that woman's degra.
dation is. for the most part, moi OF her
own seeking. but the Result OF mans
deception.
Stanley went down into darkest
Africa" and found Livingstone. His
fame is worldwide. Livingstone did
tiOt 81 HiuCti NCCu ~ Uc lUutlu rs tiiS
boys and girls OF our city. Thank God
many of them are being found. ard
can well believe that more than a smile
ofIapproval would be given to 1.-THE fair
w6me ri and brave men" who are dill.
| gently winning them to noble life.
am confident Christ would go to cur
| comfortable homes and pxhort fathers
and mothers to train their children in
conversion and not for it. To give over
ease and SelhshneSs. and to some the
word might come. Beware lest YOU
make your church mere social recrea-
ton. Make it Il force for helping those
who are outside, that they may wake to
righteousness.
The masses have little care for the
church. They misunderstood it. 1t is
filed with men and women who are
eager for union in the service for those
who suffer.
Every man for himself and the devil
| take the hindmost," did not come from
Christ. His followers do not believe in
if. say. give US the ''hindmost," and
what we can we will do to help him on /;
but he, too, must choose the Christ or he
cannot be reclaimed. Let US make the
word flesh! Nearly nineteen hundred
years ago there was an incarnation of
God. Let His church be second in :
| carnation. The hope of the pOor and
degraded and weak is in Christ. He is
ready TO be the champion of all that is
right and true and fair among men.
There is. there can be, no other cham.
pion.
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