The Indianapolis journal., 1896-10-12
SERMON BY DR.. H. A.GOBIN
THE PRESIDENT OF DE PAW AT
ROBERTS PARK CHURCH.
SpirituaIists Dedicate Their New
Church BuiIding-Progress of the
CoiIege-Avenue Revival.

DR. H. A. Goblin. president of DePauw
University. preached at Roberts Park
Church Yesterday morning. DIR. Goblin came
to indianapolis with a company of recruits
during the early years of the war. He
was licensed to preach from Roberts Park
Church by the conference DIR. Goblin is
man of marked personality, with massive
features and quiet, but forcibie gestures.
He was heard with close attention by a
large congregation yesterday. For the sec
ond lesson of the morning DR.. Goblin read
the account of Christ's TRANSPORTATION
recorded in Mark tx, where the disciple
tells how Jesus went up into an exceed
ingly high mountain taking with him Peter
and James and John, and was transhgured
before them and Moses and Elias appeared
and talked with the Savior Coming from
the mountain they found great multitude
of people conversing with the other dis
ciples. who were unable to cast out dumb
spirit with which the son of one of the null
titude was possessed. Jesus moved to COM
passion by the tears of the father cast
out the spirit. After reading the lesson
DR.. Goblin said that he would preach, not
from single text, but upon the two trans
figurations. The first TRANSPORTATION, he
said, was when Christ was on the noun
tain and was made glorious, so that his
garments shone like white snow. So close
ly is mankind engaged In lingering over
that glorious TRANSPORTATION, the preacher
said. the world does not observe the trans
figuration of humanity downward AS they
descended from the mountain they met the
scene where humanity was in wreck and
ruin. Christ impressed upon His disciples
that he was come on a mission of alievia-
tion, to remove distress and cause of dis
tress and that they were to follow His ex-
ample
WAS that poor boy a figure of divine
inspiration? Was he a creature of God?
Was he a representative of humanity?
What would mankind be if he We're a
type? He was transfigured humanity. In
his humanity was transfigured downward.
That alteration was a consequence of the
curse that had become current in the world
on account of the transgressons of men,
Christ listened to the cry of the father
and healed his son, who was himself so
debased that he had no idea of his own
true condition and might never have been
saved If his salvation had depended upon
his own prayers, said the preacher The
work OF the religion of the Lord Jesus
Christ is largely a homes wing work One
glorious thing about Christianity is the fact
that it makes people more sympathetic for
those who are repulsive, he said. The real
TRANSPORTATION that comes to those who
walk with the Lord is to change the ordi-
nary and make it the extraordinary, to
make us love the unlovely But the work
ers for Christ. said the preacher are often
times met with ingratitude. Even SO thew
are themselves ungrateful.
When God lifted you out of the dark
ness, were you sufficiently grateful? Did
you express that gratitude in a proper way I?
1t is a beautiful thing to be with God on
the mount, but it is far more beautiful
thing TO be with Him in the valley of dark
ness. Paul's favorite word, was redernntion
God did not intend men to writhe and foam
at the mouth, possessed by evil but in
| tended for them to be delivered in the
| person of His Son, Jesus Christ