Morning journal and courier., 1894-06-04
TRUE ARIsTooRAoY.o

An Interesting Sermon by Rev. Q. F. Masden, ID. D., at she First M. E.
 Church-WeaIth Does Not Produce
 the True Aristocracy.
 Rev. 0. P. Madden, D. D., the new pas tor of the First M. E. church, preached most thoughtful and instructive sermon at this church before large congregation last evening. His subject was "The True Ar istocracy," and the discourse was listened to with deep interest. MT. Masden during his brief sojourn in this city has already won the hearts of his congregation both as preacher and pastor. A resume of the ser mon is as follows:
 Matthew, KY, 27: "Whoseever will be great l let h% ,i be IT, minister and Sho
 The law of service is the philosophy of | greatness. There Is @ fixed rule by which | divine honors are conferred and regular method of divine procedure. Men must be qualified for posts of honor. There are different ideals of greatness or grades of sristooracy, such as wealth, fam fly, intelligence, character. The tendency to aristocracy in human nature is not to be condemned. True man be the possibility of learning, with poverty If there be the possibility of honest wealth, | and with low social condition if there be | ths possibility of refinement.
 The money aristocracy Is not the highest | and best. It may make its possesso1s ex- l elusive and they may assume superiority, but that depends on other conditions. Fine clothes and costly diamonds only make ignorance the more disgusting.
 Money may buy books, but not brains,
 poems. but not poetry. pictures, but not ! vnr kntf Ia foof fa hnryr at ha
 door of culture and religion. These hon
 ors are not bought. These palaces are oc-
 oupied by other kings, who wear other
 crowns than silver and gold.
 The family arjstocracy is not the highest
 and best. The law of heredity is scien-
 tiic fact and we are debtors to wise and good ancestry, but sin can enter and de-
 grade family life. Adam and Eve had a
 son Cain, Abram an Ishmael, Isasc an
 prodigal. Out of the twenty-f five barons
 selected to enforce the observance of Magma
 Charta, there is not now in the house of
 peers 8 single msls descendant. Two of
 the lineal descendants of the Earl of Kent
 were discovered in e butcher and toll
 gatherer. In our country especially famil-
 ies rapidly rise and fall. The true aris-
 tocracy Is not the accident of birth and an cestry ia not the glory of man. |, ssTis only noble to be good.
 I Kind hearts are more than coronets,
 l And simple faith than Norman blood. The aristocracy of intellect is not the highest and best. It towers above wealth and family and lives longer and has great CT dominion than any human power. But intellectual fame Is short lived. Intemper- ance and infdelity eclipse the brightest , genius.
 The highest aristocraoy is that of char actsr. What nobility like sonship with ! Gods What honor like the everlasting , crown of the Christiana Whsn born into Gods family we become members of ths royal household, God our Father. Christ our Elder Brother, saints and angels oul
 l companions, Heaven our home and eternity , our heritage. If children then heirs. Herr Q Is the aristocracy of wsalth-a throne,
 mansion, a fadeless inheritance al ? 1 promised.
 < When earthly kings shall sleep in tn dust, and earthly families broken ,and fam'
 extinguished in the night of oblivion, tn :. Christian, crowned, eceptered, clad in roy al robss, waving palm of victory, shall b , member of God eternal family, and tn occupant, with Jesus Christ of the throne
 1 as joint heirs.