The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-11-12

DIR. Kiigo's Sermon at the Presbyte-
rian Church SUNDAY.

people. The altar was decorated with
beautiful ohrysanthemums, and the
music was excellent. The voluntary,
''Saye Us, o Father" was rendered most
successfully by the choir, and the offer
tory, Just as / AM" by Mrs. Heartt,
was heard with the greatest attention.
The entire arrangements were in keeping
with the charming taste OF the Presoy-
terrain congregation.
DIR. Kilgo took for his text. "For other
foundation can no man lay than that Is
laid, which is Jesus Christ" Il. Cor 3,
ID. His theme was the supreme posi-
ton of Christ in our national develop
ment and security. By a nation is meant
more than government or politics 1t
means all of our duties, civil and social.
The mistake made by modern society is
not in cutting off the church from the
State. but in cutting eff the State from
the church. The State should be viewed
as a part of Gods plan for regulating the
world.
Any institution is measured by its
| fundamental thought. You cannot get
out of society a greater product than the
thought that has been put into 1t. The
life OF flower is measured by the con
dition Of it roots The scientist must al
ways go down to the bottom till he finds
something ultimate and from that he
must begin his science
In recent times we seem TO have come
to a place at which the fundamental
forces are nearly ont OF joint. am not
an alarmist, yet you cannot be deaf to
she restless mutterings of society. There
| h. "a
QuiyeriDg in our basal ideas and the al
innate cause is cali for greater ideas
and greater men. We have outlived
our past ideas. Our political leaders
have no fresh lessons to teach US, aud
the people are repndiating them.
If we hear of church from which tho
people are all turning we may be sure
| it means that they have exhausted the
ideas of the pulpit We must put a new
idea into this old world. Reformations
| often Jail because We try to reform on q
smaller idea than the people. look
into the twentieth century. 1t calls TO
NE for life. | look at my own equip
ment, the doctrines of the past in relig
ious and political things. Do they need
revising? / turn to the young men. Let
him consider the problem of capital and
labor Selfish politicians have tried to
solve it, bat they have failed. Some
where in the twentieth century there
will come a great man with great
heart and he will solve it. SO it will be
with the problems of what to do with
wealth. We shall learn how to use it
for the greatest good to humanity. We
shall learn, too, how to settle the ques
| tons of anarchy. socialism, the greater
life and hundred others. We have
another aud greater problem still to
solve. We must make d man who can
cope with the problem of liberty, man
who knows how TO use freedom. Ii TAKE s
big man to be free.
What idea can control this world?
Science answers paternalism, socialism
If We attempt this we shall curse our
| society. There is but one foundation
and that is Christ. He only has life.
lie is the only person who has ever
measured the possibilities Of humanity
in all It's hope and al It's thought He
/ only has measured all The problems of
human existence. The politician, whose
ideas are not correlated to the IDEAS of
Christ, is worthless.
Let US apply this to education. Out
side of the idea it puts into life educa-
ton il nothing We are to measure il
by what we get out OF it. Germany is
controlled by her universities, America
by her colleges and universities. What
are We teaching young mens You say
patriotism. Ii il is secular, you have
disaster ahead, Teaching the Ten Com
/ mandments saved Israel. The teachings
Of Knox made Scotland. That Scotland
| is to-day one of the safest countries in
the world is due to Knox. You had
better have no education than Christ
less education. | would rather trust
this State to untaught believers in
Christ than leave it in the hands of
educated infdels. This may not be in
keeping with what you have been ac-
customed to hear in relation to modern
education but | am not ready to com
premise my ideas of Christ to be in
company with any modern theorists.
/ It is not sufficient for education to be
moral. This is the compromise the
church is asked to make with the world.
1t is not Christian education. Ingersoll
would endorse it. ] am not ready to
substitute morality for a positive idea
of Christ. Christian education does
not mean reading Of the Bible and the
offering of prayer every day. On this
ground penitentiary might claim to b.
Christian institution To be Christian
an institution must set itself to teach
the doctrines of Christ; it must satnrate
every course OF instruction with his
aims and His spirit. 1t must enlarge
Christianity into vast system of life.
How shall We train our boysf They
must ere long leave their sports and st p
down to take their places in the worla.
Woe unto the world if they come with
nothing but selfish purposes in their
hearts But if they come with the
Christ idea of law, of industry, or con-
duct, and of the general social relation,
the world will follow them and they
shall lead it safely through many a
isis. The world wants no more Christ
less boys. They are out there now
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