The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-17
THE KINGDOM OF GOD
REV. DIR. KILGO EXPOONDs
THESE WORDS as APPLIED
TO Personal MANHOOD.
HIS TRUMPET CALL TO TRINITY.

The Throne of God is Set Up In a Mans
Own COnsciousness-.The KINGDOM Of
God is Within You-.Let Others Count
Men, Want TO Weigh Them--Shut
Upthe Colleges that DO Not Send Us
Back Better Men--A Powerful Pre-
sentation.
Main Street NJ. E Church was crowd
ed and many had to be turned away for
want of room yesterday morning. The
occasion was the preaching of the ser
mon at the opening of the term at Trinity
College by President Kilgo. DR..
Theophilus Moore, of Florida, and Rev.
W. B. Doub occupied the pulpit with
DR.. Kilgo. The choir sang sob pray for
the peace Of Jerusalem" and DR.. Kilgo
opened the service with special prayer
for the students, the college and its
friends, for all colleges and schools
and especially for the christian colleges.
He then read the goth chapter of Mat
thew, asking the closest attention Of his
hearers to the reading. The text was
Luke nth chapter, part of goth and 2lst
verses, 1.-The Kingdom of God cometh
not with observation: neither shall they
say Lo here ,0r, 10 there for, behold
the Kingdom CT God is within you" He
began by expressing pleasure at having
an opportunity to address the young men
at the beginning Of their course and
thanked the congre alton for the kind
ness in giving them the use Of their
house Of worship He said that he had
recently been asked By young preacher
to give him text on which to preach
gospel sermon on education, to outline the
subject and give name Of books on the
subject. He lamented the fact
that the question of christian edu
cation had received so little
attention from the pulpit, but congratu
lated the church in that it was becoming
agitatcd on the subject. A broader in
depreciation Of the Bible was at hand,
bnt the church had no cause to fear
on that score that there W no danger
of exhausting it. The Son Of God will
always be found in advance of all human
thought and progress. The world is wait
ing for Us to bring it bigger thoughts,
and all agitation tends IN that direction.
''If, young man, -" addressing the candi-
dates for the ministry, you can't carry
something into the old world to make it
richer, your call is doubtful or you have
abused it." The whole question involved
in the genius Of christianity is to be found
in the declaration "Behold! the king
dom of God il within you" It COM
mends itself not by the promise Of future
reward, bat ia the manhood it will pro-
duce. IF it has 70 manhood in il, what
is it worth? 1t does not look to the
colonization of some unknown spiritual
realm, but to the building u9 Of king
dom in our own consciousness. All truth
is germinal resurrection germinal, and
its value lies in its productive forces, These
forces to be found ia you, and the throne
of God is to be set up in your own con
seriousness. There can be no sublimer
thought than this this kingdom, do
you understand Hang on to the word } OF
God Here he explained the significance
Of the words kingdom Of God, and this
is to be set up in you. The Master spoke
kingdom words; those were the words
that burned, that set the truth as it were
on fire. The son Of God wants personal
manhood only. If you have this king
dom in you it is q personal right, and
you can 20 into the holy Of holies,
whether you have the blood Of Aaron in
you or not, and you cen set up an altar
for acceptable sacrifice any where. He
then took up several Of the parallels
lst. That which is the kipgdom Of God
il Iikened to mustard seed and showed
that it was one Of development and
growth. Ii is Intended to take our
supositions and faculties for good bring
them out, enlarged and intensified. It
is not secular question The bottom
idea in education is to bring out what is
in you; develop it and make kingdom
manhood in you The proper aim Of
education is to produce men, not to teach
rules. The world has rotten and low
conception Of education Hundreds of
mon ask how many students have
your Let other count, want to
weigh men. Little David had the
kingdom manhood, and while he was a
poor shepherd-lad tending his ff0cks on
the mountain side aud communing with
God, he was worth whole army Of
GOliatbs
"My Kingdom in you and cometh not
by observation, Salvation and redemp-
ton are great words He here used in the
illustration of these words the retaining,
of malaria infested swamp, describing
It's condition before and after it had
been made healthy and productive.
Redeem yourselves, get this Kingdom
in you, it is not measured by a surveyors
chair nor sounded with line, history
and future world can only measure it.
1T comes without the sound Of ham
mer or saw and produces larger thoughts
of life, deeper conception of God and
new manhood. I'd rather send you
home to day and shut this institution up
than allow you to go out without this
Kingdom. -, d,
"Many institutions which should be OF
life are not. The question arrives is it
paying us to educate our boys? Do
| they bring back enough from college to
make it pay to send them therer The
Germans, he showed, had set
out in their education with
tho viaw az recovering their prestige