St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-01
House Was Filled to Over
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. Music
and Sermon.
EGBERT'S STRONG LESSON.
AS Man Treats the Soil, So
God Treats Man in Wis
dom.

INCUBUS lluitS vi all ktlllS, UeSlueS Cul.
tiyated and wild flowers of Minnesota
growth. The programme of music was
elaborate and appropriate. The house
was packed with people. Rev. DIR. Eg-
bert preached sermon suitable to the
| occasion. The following is an abstract
| of his sermon:
"Gve ye ear, and hear My voice
hearken, and hear My speech.
doth the pl0wman ploW all day to
| SOW? doth he open and break the ciOds
| Of his ground?
"When he hath made plain the face
| thereof, doth he not cast abroad the
! titcheS, and scatter the cumnin, and
| cast in Il principal wheat and the ap.
| pointed barley and the rice in their
| place?
"For hisGod doth instruct him to dis
| creuon. and doth teach him.
"For the iitches are not threshed with
| threshlng instrument, neither is a
| cart wheel turned about upon the
cummin; but the fitches are beaten out
will. staff. and the cummin with a rod.
BREAD corn is bruised, because he
will not ever be threshing 1t. nor break
1t with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise
it with his hOrsemen.
This also coineth.forth from the lord
! and eXcelledt in working" lisa. xviii,
| 26-29.
1.-The parable has preface. which is a
large part of the Interpretation of the
| parable itself. And because human
nature is very much the same in all
ages-fundamenially exactly the same
and this age is so much like that
eighth century before the time of
| Christ, the same Instruction is fitting
now as then.
| 1t is wonderful how few fundamental
| truths there are. They are the perma-
nent things that came to US out of the
past in eternity, and live on through
| our time aud into tine eternity of the
future. And they are of God, and as He
| is one and interchangeable, they are one
and Interchangeable forever. The meth
DDS Dy which we express these things
and the methods by which we learn
them are constantly changing. But
when man has settled his belief in
God, his opinion of himself, his practi-
cal view of his relations with that God
and with his fellow men. who, like him.
self, are in the Same relations with God,
he has determined the fundamental
questions of life.
There is only one ultimate form of
government. and that is self.gOyern-
greatest development of self. power for
the highest poSSible aims. That is
God's government of Himself, and it is
the government God would have eXer-
clSed by every man after the pattern of
himself. And So we call il the law OF
God for personal life.
Now,systems will change. No system
is necessary to the truth. and. there
fore, it is not permanent. Truth.right-
eousness, justice are. the permanent
things in this life as well as in any
other life. They may be pushed aside
for whlle,a century or few centuries,
but sooner or later that great moral grav-
ltatiOn of Gods presence will draw them
back into poWer-and it is His power;
draw them back into eUntrol-it Is His
control; draw them back into reverence
In the human life-and it is reverence
for Hin Ill the human life, and He is
omnipresent whether we see Him OF
not.
Now, all these systems of the govern
ment. all social arrangements will
change one after the other. Just as they
have in all times past. And the man
who offers any system of government,
OF social life, Of trade, or anything else,
as panacea for ali the ills of this
world, simply exhibits his ignorance
the character of the human life. There
are many kinds of governments, many
forms OF republics. many forms of
democracy. many forms of mOnarchies,
many forms of socialism, and in them
all men have been noble and men have
been wicked, independent of the sys-
tenn. The system neither made them
wicked nor made them noble. At best
in Its highest fOrm-the system is the
expression of the inner life of those
who have greatest control, not neces-
sarly the majority. And he exhibits
Ignorance of human life, because man
is wicked or good. is personally right
eous or unrighteous. without any ref
erence to the government he is living
under.
Now, that was the conflict Isaiah had
with the people of Israel. They were
talking about systems, about alliances,
about new social arrangement, about
some method of holding control of their
own property. 1t was material. 1t was
for prosperity in material things. 1t
was for their excess in luxury.
There is God who rules even in dis
aster, even in catastrophe, by law. He
is not God of winds; He is not arbi-
loving you today and hating you tOmor-
row. He is the same God yesterday,
today and forever. He Is infinitely wise,
infinitely holy, Infinitely loving. His
whole purpose concerning you is your
salvation. Your failure is the defeat
of His purpose. Your sin is in the
violation of His law. The law must be
kept. Your way to safety, then. is back
into harmony with His law. Happiness
is the harmony of man with his outer
conditions. Peace, the peace that pas
seth all understanding, is the harmony
of man himself in his inner life with
is permanent, it is everlasting, because
both the soul and God are everlasting,
and right relations between them are
everlasting. He that hath those right
relations within himself toward God
has the root which grows and produces
the fruits of Righteousness and peace
and joy in the holy Ghost. and there is
no power on earth can rob hi m Of the
fruits or of the plant which pr oduces
them.
The parable which is our text for this
morning means this: That God is as
wise as man is. If man knows how to
treat the soil to get the fruits, and how
to treat the fruits to get the most out of
them, surely God knows how to treat
man. Mans nature is as much a rev.
elatl0n OF God as any word or revela-
ton could be. No word Of revelation
could make it clear to us unless we had
something in ourselves which that word
fitted. And so mans work is of very
poor sort if it is not to him a revelation
of God. Why, man goes through all
his work by a perfect system of law
if he succeeds. The piowman does not
Dlow the field, and pillow. and pillow,
and pillow indefinitely. He plows for a
purpose. And the moment that field is
ready for the grain he puts in the grain.
And he does not put in the grain reck.
lessly. More and more men are trying
to find out what kind of grain will GER
tain soil produce, just as many of the
tIuiters in California take the soil up
and put it through careful chemical
analysis to see what acids it has, what