St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-14

heaven WOulu not DG eNpeCteu u SDcdk
of or to do; to make long record of
crimes and mistakes which followers OF
Christ and of the Bible may have been
guilty of through centuries, either be-
cause they misunderstood Christ or
His spirit or positively disobeyed Him,
and then to eXcIaim 'Why thiS2' i
will tell you why. He was man. and
did not know.
Let me put questions to the world.
Was there in history eyer an ideal OF
moral PERFECTION offered to mem APP
preaching in purity. in elevation, in
fruitfulness, to that of Christ and the
New Testament? Was there ever in all
history a power for good working in any
comparable degree as the Christian
church. which embodied in her life,
Christ and the Bible, and br0ughtrihtoi
full activity the principles of truth
and purity given out in the preaching OF
Christ?
We know pagan Greece and pagan
Rome and the whole pagan world.
Human philosophy, human power ma
terial splendor. had contributed TO it
their best efforts. 1t was a world Of
impurity, OF slavery, Of inhumanity:
The strong ruled by native right, and
they ruled for their own qualification.
Worse than the. moral degradation of
life was the total absence from mems
minds Of vivifyng, saving principle.
Christ spoke into this dark and corrupt
world; BLESSED are the pure in heart"
He said; and purity Of thought and de-
sire and purity of life took existence.
The marriage contract was sanctlfied
by sacramental benedction; p0lyg-
amy and divorce were abol-
ished; virginity, the heroic form
nf nj
"Our Father, who art in heaven"
He said, and a new religion daWned
upon earth, that of sons adorlng and
serving a father, and new principle of
social life was begotten. making all men
brothers, children Of the same God. The
words which sum up the highest asplla-
. tons OF modern social llfe-liberty, ira
ternity and equallty-come from the
New Testament, and without Christ
they never would have been realities.
"Love one another" He said, and char
ity to the poor and suffering was born.
In paganism the lnirm were sent from
Rome to die on solitary Islands; Ill
Christian Rome they were gathered
like brothers into homes of love and
comfort. In paganiSm woman was the
slave. the toy of passion. In Christen-
dom she is the equal of the man. the
queen of the home; because man must
repreSS his passions, respect the weak
and honor motherhood and Wlfehood.
The Face of the World Renewed.
The world has seen nineteen hundred
years of Christian civilization. Its his
tory has its dark spots, for mems free
will and passions remain; but it has
had its floods of light, of truth and pur-
ity, and all that throughout its course is
bright and blessed, ali that is its pride
in the moral life, is from Christ. The
elevation of woman, the Sancticati0n
Of the home, the destruction of human
slavery, the suppression OF brutal deS-
potiSm III rulers OF peoples, the unlVer-
sal freedom given to men. the humanity
accorded to the weak ana the suffering,
the softening of feeling in international
relations, moral virtues, public and pri-
Vate, all come from Christ. And be-
cause without all those high moral gifts
to the world men would be incapable of
peace and progress, there has come to
the world from Christ social shappiness,
progress in material things, advance in.
art, in science, and all the retnementS
of culture and civilization.
This is what Christ has done for US.
Why, | ask, in all ages. among all phil
Osophers. and all statesmen, and all.
soldiers. and all priests Of pagan re-
ligions, there was no one towering in
personal grandeur and personal purity,
in sublime religion, in power OF work,
as Christ? Why is it that the greatest
of men lived brief time in history, eX-
cept as empty memories, and Christ
has lived in deepest influence and the.
most active work now 1900 years; lives
today, and promises to live until the
end of time? Why is it that the great
est men have never entered into the
soais of the multitude and held sway
over their hearts, communicating to
them their own life and hope, and
Christ for two thousand years has
b cen passionately loved by hundreds
of millions, who serve Him from love,
are pure through love of Him, find i'll
Him solace amid sorrow, hope amid ills.
and rejoice to die for love of Him? Why
is it in history there is but one name
summing up all that is purest in moral
possibilities, all that is sweetest i'll
human charities, all that is best and
most beautiful in the deeds of 1900
yearS-and that name the name of
Jesus? How is it that there is but one
who brought into history new hui
manity, who furnished an ideal of per-
feet man. Himself the eXemplar and
prototype of this ideal; but one in whom
men have found hope and consolation
for time and eternity, and that one
Jesus? Why? 1t is because Jesus is
not as other men, because Jesus is God.
Scotf then, you who dare, at Jesus
and His Bible; scott at all that is His, at
Chrstendom and Christian civilization;
scott at family regenerated, at woman
hood redeemed; scott at Sacramental
marriage and holy virglnity; scott at the
charity that has peOpled the nations
with asylums and hospitals; scott at the
fatherhood of God and the brotherhood
of man; scott at the enfranchised slave;
at the most sacred principles of your
own American constitution; scott at
Jesus and His Bible.
The Efnbeliever's world.
Unbelief would take from us our
Bible and our JesuS-What does it give
US? What is the message to us of the
apostle of unbellef, and what would
His be? We know the world as it was
before Christ; we know what it is after
Christ. wherever Christ's religion does
not reign. How is that Cbristendom
today, as during the past 1900 years.
means civilization? Where Christ is
not there is barbarism; there is servi-
tude of the weak, desp0tjsm of the
strong, inhumanity and immortality,
unbridled and unrebuked public opin.
ion. Where Christ is not, the family,
with pure woman as its queen, is not;
sacred matrimony is not. The little of
good in world without Christ comes
from imitation of Christian nations.
from the introduction into its own body
of Christian principles and practices.
We will not have such world.
What will unbelief give us? 1t re-
plies a scientific rational world, be-
ginning with itself and ending with
itself. Let us first be consistent and
from the world eliminate what Christian
principles and practices it fain would
retain. The words most glibly repeated
by unbelief, the family, dignity of
woman. liberty, fraternity ARE Christian
words. and without Christianity they
would be meaningless. Take them out
of your world of unbelief ere you give US
scientific world-that is, you give us a
material world, humanity without
souls, without wings on which to rise to
the skies, a humanity with no purpose
in life Inf tn caaly Satisfaction for hodiIv