The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-06-15

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character or Of power apart from the
divine sources. You can have no power
at all over devils, and certainly you can
have none in the higher work OF which
am TO speak, unless your names arc wrh'
ten In heaven.
Ill The purpose of power Is not limited
TO destruction. To cast out devils Is
good, but IL is far from being oil, or even
best. The divine oesire Is for greater
things than that. Many men make the
mistake of their lives just here. They
are content TO be destroyers. They iced
their souls on negatives. Their way Is
strewn with corpses. They have pot
risen TO the truth that TO create Is better
than TO destroy. To throw devu Is less
than to lift a soul. Let us construct.
build up, when We have succeeded In
throwing down Satsnic forces. 10 cleanse
g house il not TO keep house, though
some think 1t. MonGsticism destroyed,
established itself on q negative, withdrew
from the WORLDS temptations. and tried
hard not TO think about evil, and, there
fore, 20 devils haunted the solitary's cell
when only one, perhaps, would have as
sailed him, IL he had been about bis busi-
ness in the city aud among men. Life
mast be positive. This is the strength of
Christianity. 1t Is positive religion.
"Thou shalt not" was for Mosaism. "Be-
lieye, hope, love, act, is the message OF
Jesus. W q uhNt ettn lntNh VI eHi"A' ~
religion in our day. Those creeds that
deny everything are OF far less practical
power than those that accept, or en-
phasize, perhaps, only one side OIL truth,
but assert that with absolute faith and
even dogmatism.
They who stand in the Kingdom Of
God stand in the highest grade toward
which all evolution has been working
Evolution with God at the bottom OF IL,
Gngn1iQ avOlufinn which has shown
US
"Nature, red in tooth and claw
With ravine"
has brought forth at last our race, whose
ideal is TO foster, not crush, the weaker,
20 deem, not Damn, the wicked; and.
destroying evil, to save IT'S victim. lhe
loftiest ethical thought OF our day Is but
tho word of the old prophet concerning
Jesus. That he should bind up the bro
ken reed and not quench the smoking
flax, until he should bring forth the cri-
sis unto victory. 1t Is Huxiey's word,
that the "ethically best" is diametricaily
opposed to the ''princlple of success in
the cosmic struggle for existence" Let
nature teHch us the gospel lesson. All
destruction has been only that construc-
tion may rule supreme All casting out
of the unfit Is that ONLY now, at last, in
the end of tho ages. we may make tho
Christ principle victorious, and destroy
orly the evil in order TO save the weak,
the dist ressed. We are laced yet by many
devils that must be cast out. DO it. Let
him dogmatize, il he will. think every
one of US ought to have his own height on
which he may stand out and say: "Now,
you, my fellows down there, como up
here! See this! See IL as 1 see il BE
this, which I am" Woe to him who
dares not ray 1t. Such self-coniidence IL
heavenly, like pauls open hearted words:
. bof "a nd nj hat
this day were both almost and altogether
such as l am, except these ronds." He
felt that il would be a great thing IL
those dawdling, purple clad rulers could
have his faith and his divine consecra-
tion. so be 1t with every enlightened
and consecrated man. Pour the light
into other minds. BE sure you have your
you give IL to others. BE a positive force
20 llit men. Smite their evils down, hut
give them supreme purpose in life.
Equipped from heavenly sources, you
have the mission to construct new
world, wherein shall dwell Righteousness
Nv. Christianity presents Christ TO
men as the Mediator Of Power. "In
Him was life and the life was the light
OF men" IL is no new thing that men
are finding out new, though they are
finding II ont more thsn ever before,
that Jesus Christ is the Lord OF human
ity. its rightful head and king, and.th hat
no exaltaticn of life. no uplifting of
soul can come except through him. The
profoundtst minds OF this closing century
are turning 10 the personal Christ rs the
only nope OF the world, while in its. own
rude, untsught way the poorest anarchical
thought. though foolishly crying out
against the church, is saying: "Jesus-
Give us Jesus, tor He was che of US, and
In Him we believe"
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see God and rot live. "He that hath
seen Me hath see the Father" And that
God could live in man was nrst known
when the little baby lay in the manager
OF Bethleham. "God was in Christ re-
conciling the world unto Himself"
Through that life the exaltation of lfo
has come. Through the supreme princi-
Piles that Jesus taught the advance of
life is real. His word invites 10 personal
regeneration and inspires to conservation.
And John and Paul are Joined by Huxley
In declaring that human advances
In character and morals can
never come by natural growth
by cosmc processes. When Jesus Christ
said ihem, He said: "Ye must be born
again, and the two great command
ments of the Christian law are: "Thou
shalt love God and thou shalt love thy
neighbor as tbyself. When John said
them, his words were: Little children
love ono another" When Paul said
them. he wrote: snow abide faith,
hope, love and the greatest of these il
love-" or, i'll that sublime passage to the
philippians: "Have the same mind in
You that whs IN Christ Jesus who, though
lie was In the form OF God, counted it
not thing TO be selfishly retained TO be
on an equality with God, but emptied
himself, taking the form of a servant,
being made ia the likeness Of men ana
being found In fashion as man; He
humbled himself, becoming obedient
unto death, even the death OF the cross.
Wherefore, God hath highly exalted
Him, and given unto Him name that
is above every nnme.' or all names
written in heaven IA names OF power in
the worlds redemption, the name Of
Christ stands in supreme exaltation, as
His sacrifice was In lowliest service for
the good OF men. II we arctic make life
what il ought to be for ourselves and Tor
mankind, it's rover must be mediated to
US through Jesus Christ. We must be
bern from above, as he was. We must
live as lie lived. Under the constant
leadership of His Spirit along the lines OF
love we must serve The exaltati,n n of
life for us Will not be through the gladia-
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