The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-08-31
A LIVING MODEL FOR MEN
CHRIST so DEN0TINATED BY REY.
 MR. DOOLITTLE.

An Interesting Sermon at Howard Avenue Congregational Church Yesterday Morn ing-The Works of God and How to Do Them-NIan's Salvation and Its De- pendence.
 At the Howard avenue Congregation al church yesterday morning Rev MT. Doolittle, chaplain of the Fifteenth c. V. Regimental association, preached most interesting sermon from the text Galations it., part of the twentieth verse, And the life which now live in the flesh I live/by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Him. self for me-
 Mir. Doolittle said that there was very little, from one point of view to be said new concerning the gospel, and yet the gospel is new to every one until experi- ence makes it known. It is true that we are living two lives in one, and it is time we were all living the life of God in which we would have the same ex- perience which the apostle says in the text that he experiences.
 Faith is measured by unconditional surrender to God, so that you come as God, walking among men, living di- vine life in a human body The basis of bodily remedy is faith, as is evidenc- ed by the story of the leper of the par alytic and others. It is wonderful how Christ throws the responsibility of healing the body back on individual faith in Him.
 Faith Is the amount of God power within us. Power is that which impels, moves. The locomotive is impelled and given power by the steam enclosed within 1t, and when this agency is ap- piled as the designer intended the To- comotive becomes a mighty engine for good and of beneficence.
 So it seems that the power man has is the religion within him, and is meas ured by the God power in him, and what is that? Is it anything but the power to overcome evil? It is likeness with God it is Gods spirit working with the spirit of the world. It is log ically true that good works are really identical with Gods works; that is the same as God would do were He here to control our every action.
 Anarchy is chaos, darkness, and how does it contrast with God? God is or der-He is law; and the contrast is an infinite one. God has made your sal vation to depend in some degree on Himself, but more on yourself. He asks how much you are willing to trust Him, and this is your faith We have in our hands the control of the valves, as it were, which control the divine in- dwelling powers. Real faith is scienti- flc, a divinely guided and pointed pow CT, and without this faith no one can be saved
 Works are the result of life. While it lives the body must work. Gods s works are the fruits of the God life in you; evil deeds are the results of the opposite. We cannot do the work of God without faith Christ Is God s working model, set by God Himself up, Ion earth in human form, that human ity might understand His power. He has done this that humanity might un- derstand its full normal power and how to use it.
 During all Christian history men have been amusing themselves by talk ing to pieces Gods working model. All the world has stood by and said that any one could make a work like that, but after taking 1t to pieces the world could not put the work together again, and so infidels and scoffers have been obliged to step back abashed. Christ becomes the model by showing us God and teaching us to hold on to God, and that it is safe to trust in Him. Here is faith working power.
 The question is not legitimately, What can do?" but "How can l do my best?" It is unworthy of manhood and womanhood not to do your best. No one can be at his best without being Christian; he cannot be right with God until he is right with himself God has designed the human soul for His own, but He has designed us so that we may keep Him out or let Him in. The measure of your faith is the meas ure of the fullness of Christ in you.