The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1894-06-25
THE HOUSE OF WORSHIP.
REV. 7. ID. CuIvIS breaches AT
CESTRAL UNION.
'rhe Christian "a New Cteation"-soul
should he Cultivated a
rhychic Study,

Rev. I. ID. Garvin, of Pasadena, Cali
fornia, occupied the pulpit at Central
Union church Sunday, preaching morn
ing and evening. At II o'clock service
his subject was. "The Christian new
creation After the opening exercises,
the preacher entered upon his discourse
of which the following is brief out.
line:
1t affords me great pleasure to meet
with you this morning. For twenty
years have lived on the Pacific coast,
and have long desired to visit you. |
have relatives living in your lovely
land, but have not been able to visit
them before.
We have assembled here this morning
to learn something of His teachings as
made known to us by His word. In
pursuance of this idea | will direct your
attention to 2d Corinthians, ", IL:
Therefore. if any man he in Christ, he
is "a new creation; all things are passed
away; behold all things are become
new
This is one of the grand conclusions
of the dolly Spirit. dealt unto us by the
Apostle Paul. No matter what man
belongs to, jew or Gentle, bond or free,
rich or poor. it avails him nothing if he
be not in Christ. \ Christian'man or
woman is new creation in Christ
Jesus. and it does not come by accident.
There are three great kingdoms
yepetablp, mineral and animal. We
find the components of one vastly diff
ferent to those of the Others. These
beautiful flowers ara but transforms
ton of the sands and loans of the earth
and the gasscs of the air. This king
dom is indeed beautiful, but the animal
oyer-reaches it. There is a vast differ
ence between the life of Il man and the
life of tree The superiority of the
former is very great; and the superiority
of the animal body to the other is due
to the more elaborate work upon it.
take a piece of iron, put it through
process and thereby make steel; this Is
beaten and worked into delicate
machinery, hair springs, etc. and be
comes more valuable than its weight in
gold. IL the animal kingdom God has
established the same order. There
training is everything. One man earns
$3.50 per day while another gets So
The difference is in the skill of each.
The identical operation continues
through spiritual matters. The earth
was, at a period, covered by water.
Everything goes to show that this land
was once submerged. Before the wales.
the hills, the mountains appeared on our
globe, covered with green things
and flowers, God brooded over it.
So does me bind over the new creations
in the animal kingdom. The marvellous
process by which men and women are
born in Christ, begins with the Holy
spirit There is necessity for continued
growth and improvement in the child
rem OF Christ. This growth comes OF
skill, and all skill comes of practice.
The bale OF twenty years ago is the
strong young man OF to-day; twenty-five
years hence he will I've accounted the
man OF that period; at the age OF Mr..
Gladstone he will have reached his
greatest development.
Life is stern reality; none the less
stern and real is Christian life. In
making things requiring accuracy, great
care is used. Time, patience and labor
are forfeited. Can there be anything
more valuable and requiring more ac-
curacy OF developmet than the soul. Is
it not worth cultivating.
How grand a thing for one to perfect a
telescope that the stars may be brought
near and seen; but how much more so
to perfect the lie that Jesus Christ may
be seen in the face! In conclusion
would impress two facts. First, out OF
this new creation in Jesus Christ, God
has built the temple in which his spirit
dwells. Second, God exchanges, in the
process, immortality for the mortal
body.