The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-12-26
AN ELOQUENT SERMON.
The Rev. Granville Jones' Sermon Yes
terday Morning.

\ The Rev. Granville Jones preached YES
,terday monring from the 4th chapter of
h malachi an able sermon full of ringing
Y good cheer to large congregation. He
said the exact time of the birth of Christ
is shrouded IN mystery. We do not know
Il the day, nor even the year of his birth.
but day has been fixed upon and ac
h cepted. by all Christendom as his birth
4 day. But however uncertain the time.
4 we know he came and that angels blessed
this coming, and shepherds sang songs
of praise from the mountain tops. How
Interesting to contemplate Christ from
the standpoint of the prophets. They
saw through the telescope of the ages
the coming of Christ, and each one saw
jim him something different from the 9th
ers; they viewed his whole life and saw
The reformation that His coming would
work. How appropriately the prophet
speaks when he compares Christ with
The sun, for as the sun is the light of the
material world, so is Christ of the spirit
hal Byron, in wonderful description,
Hives an idea of world without light and
4 In darkness. Only heat produces light.
'and here all things find their origin; there
More the Importance and necessity of
light can not be Overestimated. Seed,
beyond the influence of heat and light.
never geminate. They must be wrapped
lin the warm embrace of heat and feel
the enlivening effects OF light in order
E tb terminate, grow and fructify. How
like the influence of Christ on human ma
|ttlre. What a cold and cheerless world
This would be without the life and exam
< Bile of the meek and lowly Nazarene.
Mans nature, until touched by this high
Influence is simply a potentiality, a bun
ble of possibilities falling far short of
Ilifes true mission. Intellectual culture,
4 dnaccompanied by moral and Christian
)training, is simply refined deviltry; One
|AOf the greatest objections to the Ameri-
X Ian public schools is the exclusion of the
Bible. The existence of that school or
university whose only object is to give
Xintellectual education must prove curse.
As the intellectual powers grow and eX-
panG the mind and heart should feel the
\ ouickening influences of the life and les
Cons of the Master, otherwise it is best
!, hot to be educated at all. The Greeks
Reached the high water mark OF intel
lectual culture get how incompetent was
Greek life. The motives which prompt
TO pure living and noble deeds in these
DAVIS never touched treir natures. Theirs
Mas an intellectually untouched by the
softening influences of the highest attrl-
z butes of human nature. At this time,
when the nineteenth century is just
Erecting the twentieth let it be sounded
from every eminence throughout TINS
3 and other lands that Christ'is the light
of the world.
i& Travellers to the Arctic regions say
fbot the most desolate thing III all the
world is an ice field. How uninvi.lng are
4 fbe conditions in the material world Wheh
..faot ;s absent. Very analogous to this
!. ii Christ in the spiritual world. one OF
fbe ruling passions of man is selhshhess;
Tovn bonishes this and teaches care ana
consideration for others. This kindness
;ncreases in the world in proportion as
Christ is felt Jesus was unselnsh anu
tho warmth of His transcendent love mas
5nna ont in ever widening circles slnce
fIa walked on Galilean shores ,,,
n 1.-The pictures of hawk WIN al any"
4hrrst through him and of wounded
Gove were once painted upon cah eo,,
I 8Ebe picture also showed how easer , s tho
hal other hawks were TO ues'ioS 'H'
tiiready death-stricken bird.
Min striking contrast to TINS was 5 Ind
'Iother side of the picture. Inc mou nwoV
dove was being cared i0r anu por me in =
Hoo snre, illustrates the history OF 1he
s.gorld and especially the attitude louaS
az several nations toward an Easl s ;s
onon;re Sympathy for the Arnenlahs 80, 10
IN The sole motive that actuates lne
;n+orest taken by the different, nations
= Turkey today. The controlling mo
I've is extension of territory. Ing S,oun
fsh disposition is unchrlstlah. tho
Rarton, representing the 'oIutl " sun-
q ad Cross, has the heart and hand sup
~ tbough. of thousands of Christians
IA her noble efforts to minister 10 sne
wants of the suffering Armenlans. eee
Now much this condition OF Things re-
sembles the picture of the hawk ana 'he
dove.
M Political parties can not settle the per
fn,aving economic questions OF TO-DAY:
Snch for example, as the relations OIL
canitol and labor. Great questions are
settled only temporarily by legislatIiottl ~
The hearts of men must be cnaH e +h .o
effect a permanent settiement dot rm
rood Only in the exercise OF fraternal
md hrotherly love is there hope for TINS
country. The majority of men must try
III do right toward their fellow men.
!. Hero is the secret of the upward ana on
ward growth of any nation. When tne
Christ-lke spirit triumphs in the hearis
of men political questions VIII setiie
themselves. The third analogy OF the
chapter to existing conditions Is Inns u
RATED in the attraction OF the sun. ine
world has its orbit in when TO reNolht;
dfOunQ the sun. II 10 hSp' -
IN the attraction of the sun. Astrono-
f,sers tell MS that a world sometimes loses
Its moorings and is lost in space. me
SIM. by it's attraction, unitizes the pan
letary system. SO must the love of Christ
bring about the period of the realization
,by all of the brotherhood of manklna;;
DO not be afraid of progress. the Worlu
MAS made by motion. Inactivity leads
to degeneracy and death.
W Keep your face upward and look be,
qlond to the star that never fades, ana
ihrist will rise your heart and the cloce
i Il nropress will strike on the horizon OF |
"a world and man will celebrate the |
Universal brotherhood of mankind and all
u well in the end.
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