The herald., 1895-01-14
THE TEACHERS OF THE WORD
DR.. Thomson on Race Con-
cepti0ns Of Man.
Causes Which Make Us Lose Gods
Grace.
Rev. Mr. Larkin serm onizss On Sans OF
In Sooiety-Ths 8 ubj cot OF Hclincss
Discussed by Elder Duncan.

J. s. Thomson. from the words: "The
kingdom OF God 10 within YOU"
Luke, II ri.
Nerth is the Celtic for man, and it
signifies soldier snd hero. The leading
characteristics of the Celtic race are
bravery, dash, politeness, chivslry. L.
ia noble race with the sword for its
symbol; but in its history ChrisHs
words have bsen proved trne, "they
that take the sword shall perish with
the sword"
The ancient Hsbrewa called the
human race Adam, meaning an cart bly,
creature. "Dust thou art and unto
dust shalt thou return" Nothing lie
aaid of the souls immortality in the
Ave books of Moses, in Judges. or in
Joshua. A piece of land in Palestine
wac the chief object of every Hebrew.
The Messiah was expected to be an
earthly ruler. The plough was the Hs.
brew symbol of the race. But the He.
brew lost his nation, and now he is a
merchant with the purse for his gym
Dol. The Greeks callsd tbs human be-
ing Anthropos, the eye.man. The Greek
saw and loved beauty in heaven and
upon earth. His name for the universe
was cosmos, beauty. He was an artist,
and the eye was his symbol. He lie to-
day degenerate race. because the life
of man is more than q craving for the
beautiful. Homo was the Romans
name for man; and this word contains
the idea of root. foundation, eolidity.
The Roman race impressed itself in
81. ~ hvsA oao
public edifices. sewers, laws. language
are the works OF race that built for
future ages; and rightly the trowel ie
the symbol OF that mighty people, whu
also aimed to make every member of the
republic O Gives, q citizen of Rome.
Rome was the first great civilizing power
of the world on secure and legal basis
Rome is now juet O name in history.
She cherished an erroneous conception
of the human race. Man is the name
by which the Teutons described the
human family. The word signifies
thinker, and it is derived from the San
ecris. Thousands of years ago our an-
cestors regarded man as the thinking
animal. The descendants of the ancient
Teutons inhabit the United States.
Canada, Australia, the British Isles,
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Hol-
land, Belgium, the northern parts OF
France and Italy, the southern part of
Russia, Germany, and parts OF Austria.
Thought has made them most powerful
and leaders in the civilization of the
earth. II they were united they could
take possession of the whole earth. and
yet they are showing many signs OF
degeneYacy in politics, in commerce., in
social life, in the church, and in the
courts OF justice. Thought cannot save
them from the fearful corruptions in
Chicago, New York, London, Paris,
Berlin and Vienna. We need more than
intellectual power to wash ue from the
moral filth which we have created. The
Teuton'a symbol is the hand. No race
has ever called man by 9 name signify.
ing conscience, love or spirit. All these
race conceptions are fractional. In the
New Testam ant We find the comprehen.
sive definition OF man. 1.-THE kingdom
of God is within you,' said Christ.
"Man's body is the temple OF God"
said Paul. The spirit of God dwellsth
In man. The attributes Of Gud in finite
degrees are mans faculties. Christ
adds conscience, love and spirit
with their respective symbols. the
finger post. the cross and tho star,
or dove. God is spirit" and man as o
spirit must worship Him. This king
dom within man must be educated to
possess the kingdom without man in
religion, morals. love, astronomy. bot
any, geology, music, mathematics. We
have three text booka--God in nature,
God in history and God in man. We
have three teachers-God in experie CO,
Christ recognized truth wherever it pre-
scented itself. and honored faith in the
so-called heather. His church should
initiate Him and be hospitable to all
truth. The old Roman Pantheon will be-
realized some day in Christ's church.
The signs of the Christian Pantheon are
increasing in spite OF ignorance, bigotry
and superstirion.
SAMSON IN SOCIETY.
Rev. Francis NJ. Larkin yesterday
afternoon delivered an address before
the Young Mems Christian Ass cia ton
whose topic was Samson in Society.
The speaker dwelt at some length upon
the Importance of the formative period
in the life of all young men. Reverend
Larkin drew from the life of Samson, in
his repeated failures and his trif1ing with
unlawful and sinful things, moral for
the proper conduct and life Of the young
men Of today. Dwelling upon the fatal
mistake young men make in sowing wild
oats, he told q story OF @ man who rented
field for the short space of twelve
months from another. after much psrley
with him, aud proceeded to plant 1t out.
The owner, noticing that he was sowing
peculiar kind OF seed, asked what they
were, and the reply was 'acorns."
"Acorne." he said, why they will not
bear a crop in 20 years! And 80 it ia
. with young men; they think they can
SOW their wild oats for time and no
harm wild result from it. But there
must come time for reaping. They
will reap their reward in hell. A few
have been snatched, az it were. from
this life OF debauch. but they come out
scorched and are never the men they
would have been, and bear the m arks
OF sin until they die.
Samson in Business will be the sub.
ject for next Sunday.
WHERE JESUS CAN BE FOUND.
The Very Reverend Father Adam
preached the sermon at the cathedral
yesterday morning. He took for his
text the return voyage of Jesus, his
mother and foster father from Jerusa-
lem. At the end OF the frat days jourr
hey they missed him, and not finding
him among relatives and friends after
three days they discovered him in the
temple amidst the doctors. This theme