St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-01
ON AN IDEAL LIFE
REV. ADDISON MOORE DELIVERS
AN ABLE SERMON
ON AN INTERESTING TOPIC.
If God Abides With Us There Is No
Room for Embellishments
The Plea Men Make.

Another sermon in his popular series
upon Ideals" was addressed to an APP
preciativa congregation at the Wood
land Park Baptist church yesterday
afternoon by Rev. Addison Moore. The
music at this service was of unusual
excellence. Mr.. Moore spoke of THE
Ideal Life taking his text from
IL. Cor, ", IA: For the love of Christ
stance:
1t is impossible to study the lives of
some men without feeling that they
were moved to noble deeds by power
within them which urged them on to
undertake conquests that would never
have been won through human effort
alone. Such men were Luther and
Knox and Wesley; such man was the
Apostle Paul. He had unlimited versa
tflity, education, sympathy. power and
culture; and he gave his heart to his
life work. constrained so to do as he
tells us, by love of Christ So that in
him Jesus Christ went forth, making
use of Paurs hands and feet, and
tongue and brain and heart to evange-
lie the world.
He may well stand as an example Of
an ideal life, and it's secret of power is
revealed to us by it's entire surrender to
the dictates of love. No other power
has so conquered difficulties as this s.;
no other influence is SO potent to work
wonders. Milton, in love with his ideal.
wrote Paradise Lost in spite of
blindness and poverty. Luther, in love
with the truth, encountered the pres
tige of a thousand years of error, and
established the reformation. Column
bus, in love with his theory, impor-
tuned Genoa, Portugal, Venice, Eng
land, France and Spain, until he Sc
cured control of means to achieve his
victory. And when a heart is filled
with love for Jesus Christ, there will
be an incarnation of heavenly inspira-
ton in the life, and His love Will con-
strain us to dare to do right in spite
! of evil temptations that may come.
Tho plea men sometimes make that
it is hard to do right, is proof of their
unwillingness to allow the Righteous
One to fill their hearts. If He abides
with US there is no room for unright-
| eousness, and His presence depends en-
tirely upon our willingness to surren-
der, or our willful defiance. But how
help US to the ideal life: a life of
purity first, because without Him there
is only darkness and the fouluess of
life that loves to skulk away in the
night. A life of royal purpose next,
because without high aims life is fab
by and fOrlorn. So the Christ points
us to the goal of immortality, and
gives us strength to walk the narrow
road that leads to life and JOY eternal.
And so we come to the heavenly life
at last because 1.-The love of Christ
constraineth u.s.
Snail we hesitate to admit Him into
our hearts that He may influence our
lives and make US conquerors over self
and sin? Shall we be ashamed to con-
TESS Him as the one who can alone
save us from ourselves and all that
self would work of evil and of death?
Let us rather hasten to confess that
He alone can save us from becoming
so absorbed in business as to forget
fellow men who need to be helped; that
He alone can save us from mean dis
positions and Incidence; from self-com-
placence and hardness and revenge
from the whirlpool of foolish fashion
and the deeper depths of dread des-
pair.
Ashamed of Jesus,-Yes, [ may
When I've no guilt TO wash away;
No tears to wipe no good to crave,
NO fears to quell, no soul to save.
It'll then-nor is my boastine vain
Till tnen L boast a Savior slain;
And. Oh, may this my glory be.
Ihat Christ is not ashamed of mer'