The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1895-10-21

must have more better men In II yet tnan
have been born. Humanity goes upwaru,
compel II TO rise. God IL pehino tho
origin OF Elijah--never doubt IL. man,
pastor OF a ministers mother IN thls city,
= man tried for wickedness by. the pres.
bytery OF his church, became the father Oh
the man who goes about the country
taking pay to ridicule publicly on SUNDAY
night the matchless teaching oil the
Prophet of Galilee.
Let me ask, IL you could choose your
father. who would IL be2 IL should be
one whose character could transmit TO
YOU no lust no cynicism, no hate, no
envy and no blasphemy. What vantage
ground to come into the world beyond
the necessity OF com batting these vile traits
but really 20 reach out aud enthrone the
beauty OF righteousness 10 preside over toli
and trade and art! Ready TO hurl down,
with a divine impetus, the last strong
holds of tyranny and greed and appetite,
and 10 make way for the incoming OF the
kingl We would choose for father
A MAN WHO HAD POWER WITH GOD
like Elijah, a friend of God like Abra-
ham, a waiter for God like Cornelius,
philanthropist like Joseph OF Arimsthea.
ue would choose one with the heart OF
the Everlasting Father and he lineaments
of the rising Christ. Nothing snort OF
fatherhood of God will answer for the
imitation of father among men. The
vast, that towering ambition to be as gem
tie and as strong as the scoprged Christ,
as patient as the dying Christ. as gao In
righteousness as the ascending Christ Is
the proper, the splendidly stimulating
ambition of the human father.
IL is, i think, strange that when we
hear so much of privileges and opportu-
mites of various things TO which men are
pointed as great aims, this should be lett
out: fitness TO be father. For the trst
sinless man will be gifted with the best
gift Of heaven, a sinless one. lie snaii
be the gate back to the world again OF
Godlike race. For as in Adam all die,
even as in Jesus Christ shall all be made
alive RIGHTEOUSNESS Ia even more conta-
| gious than sin, and as we have inherited
| a tendency to sin God means sometimes
| that We shall inherit Righteousness. when
| the man appears who completely subjects
| himself to the virile wholeness OF Jesus.
| But now for that soul who, spite OF ten
| dencies, will arise out of his past into
| present spot lessness and complete love 9
| still greater victory Is waiting. fot
| look back to succession OF erring gener
| atoms.
BREAK THE CHAIN OF MANY THOUSAND
YEARS. .
Law hold with every particle OF you
| strength on the Redeemer, and let you
generation mark the rise TO family III
com bining all the best THAT you KNOW
To sin against God In your own personal
ity is one thing; the marks of 1t pertail
! to yourself and are not the worst wound
But to sin against posterity 80 see sol
arise to duplicate our past, when
might be avoided by present birth II
US OF a new spirit from above-may TN
Lord save us from this. The families
the best can be traced back in many In
stances to the worst, because in that las
some man arose who grappled might
with the Titanic powers of evil and ovel
came In himself the demon, emerging
length true son of God. From the bloc
of the Moabite and the Canaanitc Raha
there rose at length by grand spiritus
struggle In his ancestors and in H;n
Jesus the Christ, the two Johns his relf
| tives, the one his forerunner the othe
his follower, and by the power OF charsc
ter In Him and them have given tn
world it's saving salt for nineteen hur
dred years. Jesus came into that famil,
because IL was the most worthy famil
that God could honor, and there cam
the best gift OF Heaven to the best life
| earth.