St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-22
Ye Cannot Enter the King
dom OF God Into Life
Everlasting. 80
NATURE OF REPENTANCE
AS Foreibly Described by Rev.
: Addison Moore, of Wood,
b. land Park. 80
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Rev: Addison Moore, pastor of the
woodland Park BAPTIST church.
preached yesterday morning to a
large congregation the following
icogent sermon. upon the nature of
Repentance"
His text was from ST. Luke xiii.
A, 5:
"Those eighteen upon whom the
tower in Sloan fell. think We they
were sinners above all men? 1 tell
you, nay; but except ye repent, We
shall all likewise PERISH
A synopsis is as follows:
"Great caIamities, in which many
lives are lost, are frequently declared.
by fanatics, to be judgments from God
because Of sin; and those who suffer
sudden death by reason of accident,
are sometimes named as having been
so guilty in Gods sight as to merit
nothing but instant death at His COM
mand., Such judgment is condemned
by Christ. If God so dealt with men,
the whole race would be cut off from
the face of the earth, for all are alike
guilty before Him; and in mercy He
spares our lives that we may repent,
and SO gain from Him the gift of life
eternal.
Repentance strikes at the very root
efsthe evil tendency that runs through
all nature. and seeks to rescue us from
the dominion OF sin. If you look at
the atoms of the material world, you
will lind them possessed by the two
forces of good and evil. Their good
hess consists in the active principle
they have received from God; but the
entire absence of sense, thought,
feeling, and intelligence, is the
-s EVIL INSEPARABLE
from their, constitution If left to
themselves, they produce only chaos
and eternal anarchy. To overcome
this evil tendency, the great architect
works in them with His power; and
there energies mysterious landscape of
light and beauty, spread in. rich pro-
fusion through the depths of infinite
space, where planets like our own ap-
pear; and the seasons hold their
mystic dance, and hills and valleys
are lit up with splendid sun and moon
and stars, and drink in the rain and
deWs of heaven. ...,...S B..
Then dawns the life of vegetation.
striking root down into unconscious
matter, but striving also upward to-
ward the light and air where it
Develops the nobler part of its being.
This plant life is good and beautiful;
but being limited in its power to realize
It's own law; being void of intelligence
il is also evil. So evil that it can not
escape abortive growths, or save it.
self from degeneration into a painless
and untrodden wilderness, where the
luxuriant vegetation runs to waste
through Lack of wise control
Then man appears to crown creation.
Hesrttles ais son of God and partakes
Of the divine nature, but also he is
partaker of earth's life, and earthly
forces drag him down to earth's level
OF chaos and eternal night. Tremen-
dous powers of darkness, issuing from
the awful abyss of human sin, are
ever threatening life's happiness and
peace. Mighty are all these evils, and
they will conquer US as the wilderness
cenquers the garden, unless repent
ance rescues US from sim
But what is repentance 1t is
THREE-FOLD ACTION.
having first an intellectual element.
whereby we are enabled to see our
selves as we really are, in danger of
being overcome by the evil forces of
our nature, unless escape can be Sc
cured. 1t has again an emotional eIe-
ment, whereby we learn to hate the
evil that so cruelty drives us away
from goodness and eternal peace; and
there Is also the voluntary element
we are led to turn away from
evil and seek Gods pardon for our
sin.
1t is as If one lived lifelong upon
some South Sea island. where every
hour was spent in idle pleasure, all
unconscious CT volcanic fires slumber-
Ing. In the mountain. Suddenly the
eruption comes and dread disaster
darkens all the scene. The mind
grasps the horrors pending, and the
heart is filled with hatred for the evil
thlng that threatens all that life held
dear. Despair would reign supreme
We're there no ways of rescue from
the certain doom of death. But a ship
lies waiting in the harbor, with sails
all spread. There is chance of escapeI
Then away! as fast as favoring winds
will bear us, till we come to kindlier
shores.
That is repentance. An awakening
to our perilous position, a hatred of
the sin that seeks to slay US; saliva
ton from despair and death by a
voluntary turning from the scenes of
sin, and entrusting ourselves to the
ship Of truth, to which Christ as CAP.
tain welcomes us, and in which He
will bear us away from death, and
bring US at last in safety to anchor In
the harbor of the eternal city of Gods
love.