The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1894-03-12
GODS SERVANTS
Proclaim the Word slf-Denial One 81
the Highest Virtues-Soul Fever the
Result Of : Troubled Conscience
A Baptist University.
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PRESBYTERIAN cHURCH
"Soul-Fever,n what it is, what harm it
does, and how il does, and how it may be
cured, was the topic OF the morning SER
mon. Text: Psalm 32:3, A when 4 kept
silence my bones waxed old through my
roaring oil the day long. For day and
night thy hand was heavy upon me; my
moisture is turned into the drought OF
summer"
/. "a fever says Webster, lis a dis
elsed state OF the system, marked by
increased heat, acceleration Of the pulse
and d general arrangement OF the funC
tons"
The soul has its fevers alas! its dis
eases, it's increased heat and excitement
and pulse beat. Dead bodies never have
feyer. Nor do dead souls. Fever in the
soul is q sign of spiritual life, OF spiritual
life struggling with spiritual death.
When q man knows q duty which he
does not will TO do there ID apt to be a.
f~everish excitement in his soul. II viii
mot rebelling against 81 ought" coz
science active. the will torpid-that il
the soul-fever which David describes in
the text.
q It's harmful effects. I'D IL impairs
your usefulness. You are not worth.
half 90 much as q christian worker when
there is sin In your heart that 10 uEre-
pented of. As fever in the system eats
up the systems vitality, SO when there Id
battle between your conscience. The
struggle ID between regiments or the
same army which, instead Of being ar
rayed against each other onght unitedly
to charge the enemy. So "~conscience
makes towards OF us ALL" CD Feverish
unrest causes irritableness and i'll tenn
per. When great questions Of duty are
unsettled, when the deep places OF the
soul are disturbed there is app 3D.
commotion and st&rm on the surface.
8. The cure. The healing touch of
the Christ. This cured Peters wife's
mother Who was laid, sick OF a fever''
(Math. s:14, 10y. No doubt il we obey
the Saviour's will from the heart, earn
estly seek his help, really imbibe. His
spirit the fevers Of the soul will snbside.
Someof the distresses of the soul result
from want OF faith and We need to heed
the voice: "Come unto me and I will
give You rest" Others again are caused
by want of obedience. We should then.
follow the divine proposition: aCeasa to
do evil, learn to do well.' (Isa. I-16).
Finally, it is better to have some fever
in the soul than to be spiritually dead.
Better far to be perplexed over your own
religious condition than TO have no in
terest whatever in the question. Safer is
it to be even in fear and trembling like
the Phillipian jailer and to be led to ask
"What must I do to be saved" than to
be SO u~neoncerned as Gallo who scared
for none of these things" Then in the
words OF Geo. Washington, Labor to
keep alive in your breast that little spark
OF celestial fire called conscience.
BAPTIST "
The subject of Rev. Blackman's pre-
Jude last evening was: "The University
OF Chicago; It's Relations to the Bap-
lists" He said: Inasmuch as the qaes-
ton has been raised through the press
as to the relations OF this institutlou 10
the Baptist denomination, I will say,
that Baptists we're it's originatUfs; a Bap-
fist gage the first million dollars or en-
dowment; Baptists gave the second
million; two baptists labored two years
TO raise it and make the first million
available; their salaries were paid by
Baptists; the proposals to first found it
were first made at the National Baptist
anniversary, at the next meeting thou
sands OF dollars more were subscribed;
the Baptists held the first and only great
jubilee over its establishment; the site
was first conveyed to the National Bap
fist Education society, and by it to the
University corporation, which, by its
charter, must forever have a Baptist for!
its president, and two-thirds or its board
OF managers must be Baptists. The
Baptist who gave the first million to en-
dow it has sincs given two and a half
million dollars more to It's funds. 1t is
down In the y. 8. census reports and in
our UNCONVENTIONAL reports, as a Baptist
institution, which II appears to be and
verify is. It is to be according to the in
tent OF It's founders, (a) forever q christ
ian institution. OBJ q Baptist institution.
What constitutes a denominational
university? Not q school where nothing
ID taught but denominational tenets. Ita
means simply q school Of. high grade,
where all branches OF human knowledge
are taught, and people are prepared for
any trade, profession or art that may be
practiced In life, and all this under the
distinct patronage OF . christian denom-
i~nation. Such an institution ID the
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