The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-05-27
THE CONFERENCE SERMON.
ELOQUENT DISCO ORSE BY REV. DIR.
 T. T. MUNGER YESTERDAY.

Hath Honor Save in His Own Country
 The Principle of AItruism.
 Rev Dr. T. T. Munger preached the
 conference sermon before the Nationa
 Conference of Charities and Correction:
 in the United church yesterday morn. ing before very large congregation
 His discourse was one of deep interest
 and was most impressive to all wht listened to it. Rev. Professor BlaC k.
 man of the Yale Divinity school and
 Rev MT. Miles, the assistant pastcy
 Were in the pulpit with Dr. Munger
 The altar was very prettily decorated
 with dog wood blossoms.
 The preacher took the theme of his
 discourse from the account of Jesus re-
 turn to Nazareth, told i'm the 18th chap
 ter of Matthew, verses 54-5S: "And
 when He was come into His own coun-
 try, He taught them in their synagogue,
 insomuch that they were astoaishel,
 and said, Whence hath this Man this
 wisdom and these mighty works? Is
 not this the carpenters son? Is not
 Ills mother called Mary, and Ills
 brethren James, and Joseph ana simon
 and Judas? And His sisters, are they not all with US? Whence then hath
 this man all these things? And they
 were offended in Him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without ,4,,Wy His own house. And He did not many mighty works there because of their unbelief"
 Dr. Munger spoke in part as follows: When Christ came back to Nazareth after His long sojourn away, the people were astonished at His wisdom and Ills mighty works. The wonder was too much for them and they stumbled into incredulity. A prophet at home was an unheard of thing Jesus was not surprised at this, however. But it was undoubtedly a great hindrance to His work that He was too well known. It was a limitation He had to suffer. But He would not make himself extraordi- nary. It was contrary to His concep- ton of Himself He made His life among men conspicuous by purity in spirit, fidelity to duty and excellence in conduct. What a loss it was to the people of Nazareth that they could not believe in Jesus when He came back to them. He had discovered new world into which He was ready to welcome them as citizens, but they were not able to accept the good things He of fered to them.
 Jesus was always governed by a profound logic. He saw in nature an expression of God working in eternity; in human society ai divine order He realized in His sonship the divine fatherhood. This is what the people of Nazareth missed, because brought by one of their own citizens--the king dom of God brought near and missed.
 "There is nothing we need to keep in mind more in this convention than that every social truth brought to light must instantly be tested in some practical deed.
 Christ treated man as an whole, because He is am individual whole You cannot treat the physical apart from the ethical. There Is not the slightest value in any charitable action unless done for the moral welfare of those helped. Many people try to re- deem the slums by introducing order and cleanliness. This is impossible.
 "There is a great deal of power wait ing for development at the hands of those working for the good of man. kind. The development of new forces is one of the most striking features of the day It may not have occurred to many of us thAt just as in the earth be- meath us is stored undeveloped forces, so the moral world holds forces yet hidden. There is also a vast amount of encoura gement lodged in the truth of the divine sovereignty. I use the word rather in a dynamical than i'm a theological sense. It is now a fact of science as we'll established as gravi- | tation or chemical affinity. The whole | order of the world Is founded on God | The same power that lifted the con tinents out of the water is lifting man. | kind up from chaos to order, from sim pMclty to complexity, from life to more | life. The significance of this progress | lies in the fact that it has been going 1 on from the beginnlng-one plan, one ! purpose.
 "Man will not become a different kind | of being. The type will not change, but will develop. The day is fast com | your society is sign of it. when lowe, the scientific altrulsm, will | play as large a part in society as sell dshness has i'm the past. It is as true as that God is Himself,
 "Professor Harris, the venerable theo- ogian, whom we all know and revere and at whose feet we sit, said to me yesterday: This convention is a part | lf the Kingdom of God"
 "Then We must never lose sight of he ideal, but must realize that it lies lfar off and at the end of things Goethe says that greatness depends on snowing one's limitations. An idealist who will have everything or nothing loes great harm. What is more melan- ,holy than the history of the temper lnce cause for the last fifty years. Opinion has been divided, and the sa- oon still holds the field and will until here Is union. I know of no better 'ule than to keep one's eye on the ideal md do the best we can in practical way. But we can rest confident in the ,eality of the ideal. If the world were lot to be regenerated there would be title heart left to deliberate over the wills of the world. The second sugges-