The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-01-22

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- stress the Sew Testament iays rpon
palssy OF TIE bocy ~ xell AZ purity Of :hs
49, Sssus said. .Bsesseas are tie uur~
~ s1ey shall see God II q Young man
sns 20 be pure hs must Use the gynna-
s.an. make himself strong without. and
-. result be all % strong within. In
go go say the sensual and impure shonghss
ones substituted TAis viii be hsrmonv
~ soFces Young man. By doing shis yoa
VII purify what Paul called fhe tesnple Of
s s.ss uoty onosI A strong body through
Us means safe soci for eternity. You
Ihass feaalzs that sacrifice Of the b0dy.
-. o. the altar. bus By evil courses raeans
saesslscs OF the so1i also. 4. does nog sos-
log that you must pursue the roller az
PuFty 20 the sensesess excess OF ascefs-
eism, tut obtain balance Of farcesn
Rev. Dr. j. d. Pierce. president OF the
University of Seattle. made one Of his
eharaetersstfc little addresses from the
eus'set: "Brainy Christianity" de told
many anecdotes in his quiet, humorous
ssyis, but also spoke TO thu point on the
sueJect OF brains in Christian men. He
said that he was glad the subject had
been allotted 20 him. Young men. he
Knew. were apt. when they began TO get
broad between the shoulders, to also
get the idea that they we're also too broad
between the eyes to take any stock IN the
odd WORKOUT Christianity" a. they
might call It. They get an idea that
prayer meeting II good place for women
ana children. bat not for men, and star
away because 10 looks manly" It vas
unfortnna;s that many Christians Sec
oadsd the motion by also staying away.
and BY referring to Christianity a. an
y~L
needed. They we're mistaken; brains
were needed in any rational emotion. The
men in the New Testament who are
mentioned the most frequently are
the erainy men. Paul and Moses
were examples. II was the same
In the Middle Ages. the brainy
men we're 20 the fore. IL vas not the
sword Of Henry WILL, but the brain OF
Cranmer that established the Church OF
England. Thomas Chalmers, q brainy
man, made Scotland the country she 10.
The Methodist Episcopal church points
with pride 70 its ignorant preachers in the
good old days who could hold eongrega-
ton speilbound. but they are nearly all ed
ucs'sd now. and they have ceased to think
that to be Methodist one had to be ig-
norant. An Old inlidsi once said that
brains we're never found IN churches, and
he was confronted by Newton. who said
that the Bible was the substance OF all hu-
man philosophy. and John Tyndall and
Faraday, who we're both Christians aud
men Of brains. DIR Pierce concluded:
The sunbeam on the floor Is little
thing. like they are fond of saying Chris
tiauity 10; the little child plays with il:
but IL raises the seas TO the skies and
causes the rams and showers which alone
can bring life from ashes. What, CON-
pared with this power. Is the bonn bastic
show of power in the volcano. which is
pointed TO a. an exhibition of terrific force7
What wonder that Christianity 10 called
the sunshine OF the world
Rev. Wallace Nutsing. pastor of Ply
mouth Congregational church, then m ade
pointed address on the subject Union
OF Forces" He auaigned the denonina-
tionai system In vigorous terms and won
the warm approval Of his audience in 30
doing. In part he said:
There Is not . single person in all this
assembisge who can tell me any reason
Tor this senseless division of the Protest
ant church into denominations. There il
no reason for IL. God hears every de-
nomination, and without max ny any dit.
ference, and, IL lie makes none. why
should man7 There are sixty rival
churches i'm this city fighting for their
lives. / know some Of these preachers be-
aud IL 10 disgrace to Seattle. Time was
when personal conviction divided
churches. but now all are loyal TO Christ
and IL they are all loyal 10 Christ, want
no man 20 tell me what else they are not
loyal to. One who tries to make reason
Tor this division in the church IS himself
disloyal. or Is not ct TO live Ia this age
THE Y. M. c. A. lives, grows and Is a
success simply because il Is Christian
without denominafions-just Christian.
Mr. kIibourne here tells me the Baptist
young man in the Y. NJ. G. A. never thinks
Of troubling himself to convert his Pres
byterian neighbo to his own belief Men
vote together, we take amusement to-
gethcr, we travel together. When a Con-
gregational young man wants a Methodist
girl for wife, he goes and gets her. Why
can't we have unity In our worship of God
as well as in everything else7 Ii is a dis
grace that we should remain longer divided
In this one respect. The Presbyterians
once used To make sly illusions TO slight
lack of unity in the Congregational
church. but since their late little unpieas-
antness We don't hear anything more
from them. They may have their domes-
tic difficulties. just as my neighbor may.
bat they don't talk of them now. The
truth il Presbyterians and Congregation
do good deal of their studying in the
same seminarles now.
THE way to show infidels the truth of
Christianity Is not to stand in the pulpit
and saw away at them, but to live with
one another in CHRISTIAN unity. The MIN
listers get together too infrequently To in
terchange their ideas. and then some one
Is apt 10 mince words aud say: Oh, OF
course, you believe a little different about
this, but there - no difference, oh nor
aud then so home aud begin trying io
sead out missionaries TO work against one
another IN foreign lands. Sach unity IS
o. very little purpose; no good can ever be
done while this Is the way Christians act"
Rev. W. A. shankiin spoke on .'The
Ono Thing Lacking" He was sorry, he
said. that some Of the speakers had gone
out Of their way 10 slap at the church he
represented, but yet the church had
thrivsn In spite of such slurs, and he was
himself content with allowing the matter
to go no further. Divine grace. he said,
was the one thing lacking in the character
OF most men, old as we'll as young, and
without il no life could De a success. One
who tried TO build The house of character
without this stone IN the foundation
wou i find that no had hul.ded on the
sand. His life would re as the ships
which have often set saii for distant sunny
isles and have nevermore returned, bat
have been lost To the knowiedge OF men
lie added that the Y. NJ {. A. had been
success, and for that reason, if for no
other, he vas friend Of IL and had the
kindest possible wishes for It's prosperity.