St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-08
BE BORN OF WOMAN
Only Qualification Necessary
to Enter the Human
Race.
THE LOWEST INHABITANT
Of the Papuan Islands as
Much a Man as the
Noblest Member.
SAYS THE REV. J. P. EGBERT
In a Powerful Sermon at
the House Of
Hope.
SAYS THE REV. ]. P. EGBERT

Rev. -John Paul Egbert preached
an eloquent and powerful sermon to
a large congregation at the House
of Hope yesterday morning, taking
his text from Eph. iv. Is, May grow
I'D into him" He said in sub
stance:
ITO enter the human race, one
needs only to be born of woman,
whether savage or civilized. The
lowest inhabitant of the Papuan
Islands is as much a man as the
noblest member of our race, man,
as really man, but not as much of
a man. What is the difference?
Growth In the essentials of ma
ture, they are the same. In the
acquisition of nature they are diff
ferent. There are certain reSem-
blances which make them one; there
are certain differences which make
them almost totally unlike. In the
noblest civilization there is saw
agery; in the lowest savagery there
are touches of highest civilization
How often do we see by our side,
in our streets, men of culture, of
intellectual power, of whose man
ner, of whose outward life we can
say not one word in objection, who,
inward searched are dark, barbar-
Gus, their savagery showing itself in
excessive conceit, in excessiveness
of self-consciousness sometimes in
covetousneSs, avarice, malice.
things that the Bible put down as
always under the curse of God. and
things which are always found in
every savage life. We are not so
lar away from the worst of our
brethren in this race that we can
call ourselves out of reach
OF THEIR DANGERS.
When we talk about all the forces
of civilization that are around us. LET
us not forget that they are the forces
of personal life, that civilization is
not an abstract thing independent of
man. 1t is all made up of the re-
lations which men have with men
If the men are good the civilization is
high. If the men are evil. however
polished the civilization may be in an
pearance, it is foul in heart. Our civil
lization is so dependent for it's success
upon material prosperity and upon in
tellectual acquisitions that we can
easily see how failure of these might
overthrow it and start US again away
down at the foot Of the ladder.
a man may have his brain full of in
formation and yet be without knowl-
edge, the correlation of facts, the use
Of this information in actual life: and
he may have great deal of both in
formation and knowledge, and still
be bad man. The devil is wise and
the devil is mighty, and he might have
infinite wisdom, and he might have
infinite power, and still be a monster
OF evil. 1t is not omnipotence, it is not
omniscience, it is not infinite wisdom
that makes God; it is perfectness, good.
ness, the completeness of all his pow
ers, touching every extreme, and fill
ing up all the intervals; not touching
here and there an extreme as of power
and of wisdom, and thereby beine
simply great being,
A MIGHTY PvWER.
a mighty knowledge, but He is a grea
person.
What would be our hope if God wer,
only mighty, if God were only wise
How would that help us? What W,
delight in is that while He is powerful
and able to control us, while He is wis
and able to create, and knowing al
that He has created, He is good. Hi
omniscience is the scrutiny of infinit
love; His goodness is the pity and tn
sympathy and the help that come
in and gets down deep through GU
powers into US and He lives His lif
over again in US and makes us live il
Him.
Suppose ] have a knowledge tina
God exists, and reason out from tina