St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-15
WOODLAND PARK BAPTIST.
Admirable Sermon by Rev. Addi-
son Moore.


The Hope and Happiness of Eas
ter was the subject of an admira bile
sermon preached yesterday morning
10 large congregatio at the Wood
land Park Baptist church by Rev. Adj
olson Moore. Said Mr.. Moore, in sub
stance:
The heart of man depends for its
health upon hope. The handspring of
life is in the heart, and hope is the
handspring of the heart Frequently
an excited Imagination supplies man
with hopes that are false: many a man
has followed a seeming hope that has
Vproed itself to be but will-o'-the
W1sp, one of those bright exhalations
that hover over churchyards and
marshes, and lead only to the cold.
damp pit Of disappointment, or to the
chambers of the dead. Reason and
thought grow tired and sleep; and
this sleep is the relapse into the tradi-
tons of childhood, into the common
hope of Gods goodness to man. To
be of value, this organ of hope must
be balanced by patience, which the
Apostle Paul says worlleth expert
ence, and experience worketh hope.
''The true hope is one which is will
ing to think, to wait, and then to act:
it is in no hurry, and does not expect
instant success; this is what the
Scripture means by the Patience of
Hope" True hope relies on the work
ing of changeless laws, which are
sure to bring success at last. The man
who has this principle in him does not
believe in fairy tales, but reads the
biographies of men. who have ac
complished great things; he sees how
difficulties have been met and baf-
fled, and how at last success crowns
honest, careful, thoughtful, persever-
ing work. The joy of Easter lies in the
fact that it feeds the hopes. of men
with assurance, it revives the hopes
Of men in the destiny of the race, it
speaks to us of the time when the
activities of man will be crystaliZed
into
A WORKING RELIGION.
The religion of tomorrow will be a
practical one. The contemplative
forms of piety have all failed our
earth is Industrial, it cannot be any,
thing else without dying; there is no
exception to the rule. The poet must
toll, the painter toll, the musician, the
child of science, the thinker and the
writer must all toll. No art, or sci
ence, or philosophy, Or good of any
kind is unattended by labor; so re-
ligion is all to be worked out in the
field of humanity; and work does not
end in doing, it makes mans being,
| and what he does he is. AS certain
| elements crystalline and form the
| diamond, so human actions crystalline
and make the soul. The heart that
| loves the colored sunset will long after
nightfall contain all the poured out
gold; the clouds hold the sunset only
for a moment, but the gazing soul
holds it forever. Because of this
| truth we can easily believe that the
momentary flush of inspiration which
man derives from this Easter vision
| will make him better and nobler. So
we can readily believe that the future
| holds a better manhood than has yet
| been seen.
That future will not be ideal, it will
| be simply far nebler than all present
or past times. AS men study fruits
to make them sweeter each summer,
! and study roses to make them more
| magnificent, SO will they study ideas
that will make church and people more
| divine; this is the happiness to which
| the hope of Easter leads all men, and
this happiness is contagious. AS the
electric current makes metals lumin-
Gus, so does happiness shine out in the
lives of men whose hearts are filled
with the glorious Easter hope. Happi-
ness is the conquest of God through
love, and, winning Him, we become
filled with the hope Of Immortality.