The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-25

missionary
Draw, That Only is Perfect Peace and
HanDiness Found by Adopting the
Teachings of the Savior Which are De-
c,ared to be Truth, Love and Eternal
1,,.-AbIs Sermon Delivered Last Night
nv Rev. C. C. Woods of Anthony.
Altar devotional exercises Rev. G. c.
Woods OF Anthony was introduced 10
seIiver the missionary sermon OF the
session. The discourse was repiete Win
much hitorical data with reference TO
TIE religious of the world, the topic
chosen being, Jesus the Only SAVIOR
His text was: Neither is there saliva
lion in any other. Acts Az.
Mr.. Woods put the question, DO men
need salvation?" and proceeded to an
swer it as follows:
Rather ask, does a starving man neeo
fc,d2 Does a smoothering man need
air? Does dying man need vitality!
AS to the fact Of this need, heathendom
and Christendom are agreed.
But is Jesus really the only Savior, or
Is il simply the long-cherished opinion
of the church? Do we not believe that
gfe is the only Savior, merely because
We have been taught that He is!
This text is not true merely because 1t
Is in the Bible. Il is in the Bible De
csuse it is true. Were there no Bible,
Ii would still be true.
The decIarat ton of this text is verified
nv religion, philosophy, historic fact
and human experience. Glance at the
representative religion of the world. Is
there anything in any of them or in all
of them that can save humanity
Whoever would save this world must
supply three things in infinite measure:
truth, love and power Does any re-
iigion, other than the religion OF Jesus
meet this three-fold test? With that in
terrogative in the lead, let US see:
Two religions have been born in this
country. MOrmonism is one. But II
feeds vice like stubble feeds flame. 1t
fosters most the very sin from which
human nature needs most to be saved.
II is at heart a selfish system and can
not save a selfish word.
Positivism is the other religion OF this
century. 1t teaches that ''we have to do
only with physical laws deriving their
authority from experience. Its Trinity
is humanity, the world and space. In
stead of the eternal spirit, its object OF
worship is humanity. Mr.. Comte HIM
self defines humanity TO mean, The
ynbroken whole of conVerging beings
Certainly the wayfairing man, though a
philosopher, does not understand that.
Concerning pardon for the past, peace
IN the present and life in the future,
Positivism is as dumb as the Sphynx of
Egypt. No wonder that Comte was not
satisfied with his own philosophy.
War was the central idea of the old
Scandinavian ehgion-persistent, re-
ientless war IT offers Valhalla, but on
" three paths of blood and portals OF
death
Zorvaster's method of salvation was
that of eternal battle.
Christ calls to temporary battle, but
gives eternal victory.
Under this religion the Persian en-
pire was swept like prairie fire 10 Its
tomb The fatal fact is that this relig-
Ion itself died and a dying humanity
still calls from out earth's night of sOr-
row. what must do to be saved?
Mohammedanism-A Of huna
beings believe today that there is saliva
ton in MOhammedanism. It offers
God who, instead of making men free,
delights to make every man his slave
religion does not recognize human
brotherhood. IT has no idea Of a tender
Heavenly Father. It is cold, dark, re-
lentless fatalism. Hear the cry coming
from that land where Mohammedanisn
rules and ruins:
January 15.-Domestice.-Rev Sar-
kis Y. Yenorkian, a native Armenian
but a naturaliZed American citizen and
a graduate from the Ohio Wesleyan
university. whose wife and four boys
were in Marash, Armenia, at the timt
of the slaughter there, he having failed
I'm his efforts 10 get them out of tht
stricken country. has received from
friend at Marash the following letter
The house Of your eldest brother, Bag
a6aser, was plundered and burned, and
he was killed: your second brother, Kir
agos. is near deaths door, his property
IS all plundered and his house burned
Your younger brother, John, is killed
and his property burr ed. The orphaned
children are wandering in the streets
The families of your nearest relative:
have been wiped out. Your own chill
dren are wandering helpless in th'
streets. For Gods sake, send us help.
Mohammedanism SCOTS at justice and
mocks the peteous cry of human suffer
ing.
The religion of Confucius has been th'
state religion of China for about 2.30'
years. That wonderful people havt
tried this and other non-Christian re
Iigions long and faithfully, but now sicl
at heart and weary with death, they
send US the request which the church
has long wanted to hear.
Their leading stateman and chief rep
reSentatiEe said only a few month:
since TO Methodist bishop: send III
more missions, send US more Christian
teachers"
What is that but the cry, only in an
other form. which assembled from TIL
old Phflipian Jail eighteen hundre'
years agO-"What must l do to b
saVed2"
How much will the Methodist churcl
do in the next quadrennium? How
much will she give TO answer that ques
ton?
About all that can be said Of TIL
Egyptian religion is that it had gen
lus for funerals. 1t exhibits TO the trav
eler the most magnificent graveyard o
the world. There is no salvation in il
for il is voiceless. sOulless-dead-
The Greek religion could not saw
Greece. much less the world The Greel
religion made divinity human. TIL
Christian religion makes human devine
Personal qualification was the chic
end sought by the Gods of Greece. TIL
source Of this religion was three-fold
poetry. arr. philosophy. 1t was far To-
worldly - save the world; TOO human
70 save humanity; 100 far aStray - say