New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-08-12
RIGHTEOUSNESS THE BEGINNING.

Now what Is the hTst thing that CHRIST wants
In this religion Of fsith7 What? Righteousness
That Is the first thing In the Sermon on the
Mount the first thing that men are spoken OF as
desiring Blessed are they that do hunger ana
thirst after righteousness Notice how the whole
man Is concentrated on that We hunger for one
thing and thirst for another, but righteousness
seek" SEEK first tho kingdom Of God and His righteous
ness" DO you remember Chrsts mrs. WORDS IN
Matthew that He someh ~. TO ,a SUM words TSese
shall go away into everlasting punishment ou'
the righteous into ifo eternal -, ,,o Ger.
mon on the Mount That IL what wan, ana yoI
want That IS the beginning the iounasqodh on .,
want pity or compassion. ! am president, OF ~ -
seminary dent aSk my rq isem is Tor rix R
ness | am surrounded by men In civic capaclty
What do also want Of them? Ply hish, &c o,Sr
American Congress? II is Just the conception OF
this thing. the basis OF all mat ought 10 "s
Do yo see that this epistls OF faith begins
with this fundamental conception at the vsry
golden rule Whatsoever ye woua ~ esa n,,y NOR or
should do to you" That isn't ,. thin' OF pity u
Sometimes my men come TO me Ihey d hsYs
like some requests have made. somo rule nave
say the object OF this rule is this Gather .ne
men together who sent you and tell them me ,b te
what they would do II they were president OF the
seminary and in my position ana. VIII ao,D. ~
Their decision sion od w dn 40 thew We're in my place
the president Of the seminary and DESTROYS OF ah-
vancing Righteousness
A FAITH THAT WORKS
Second-This faith must be a working iai'h
Now, again. what lots OF baboe there mas oeen
about Peter and Paul and James; what io's VI
waste paper and time-I will not say thought De-
cause men haven't spent any thought on II.
asked q student the other day in my class what ne
was doing and he said; Doctor l am thinking
said: Bless the Lord that have got man VINO
thinks" Plenty Of men study, put give nie N''"
Oh sit down and look at your New Testament ai mt
snse y% rom besnnng to end then sit down and
look at 1t. Look at It as the sun greeis o1 ~ mn
Yelled and the fragrance comes forth That Is the
way to study the New Testament man mar, T wno
studies in paragraphs In this way-foreiveIn my COB
It the to make an mR P na on
do i on ssy man ma is not justed
bv the works Of the law" What does James say?
A man is not justified by the works Of faith LOOK
Men tell me. as I have intimated, that .o "the
Of good works Justice. honesty, temperance kind
ness love. All you see this old man WIN nis oV9
Strike him in the heart What sort Of work Is
that Come take faith away ava y and A sbri st,fy
man works that cannot be Ys,ihsd except b on
s s5e aid Take away faith and Rahab ought to
have been hanged for traitor 70 her COUNT anI
praying that it might rain for three years
dy qg for yIF thirst imagine your little crying
for a drink of water And what Is the cause OF az
man praying that it may not rain. Why Abraham
and Rahab and Elijah would have been lyn ,l,i
If they could have caught them Justified by works?
Yes. but this faith must be working fath
MR. MOODY'S WAY.
Now I want TO refer to Mr.. Moody for moment
He can 20 out II he wants to while am speaking
haat Nnrfh h.
field until this summer. There has nothing at
tracted me so much about this concern as Mr.
Moody and there is that persistent yokng UP every
day OF those two oxen. faith and works He doesn't
plough with an OK and an ass togetner Ihe sar
w nGEp "So 'S says Mr. Moody at the morning
meeting gps vo 90 y Work. s0a and ffn am going
stick It out don't care what you say And nave
looked these two oxen p.L saye bs,s ofo tbs
that OF our missionary union where the OK STANDS
5hf fba Is TO out the Conservation and the
labor SO closely together that you may say as
" pdn MI tell you this was Moody epste
squarely with you. Is not this work Work OF fal'h
the Connecticut Valley with its buildings? Love.
kindness honesty. Outside OF that region IN VICE.
faith has been known, tower lifts up It's head 10
Heaven telling that underneath It's load there Is care
for the blind or care n for the fynE GI and the
other founded by our Christian men and over mere
are our secular colleges n iafb had shown
Them Tor centuries the way in which the thing ought
YOU viii see a mock sun this side and that. but
there would have been no mock suns u IL hadh pe"h
FOR that real sun In It's splendor and glory
CONTROLLING THE TONGUE
Now we have seen the basis. we have seen the
actions. What next? There is very important
mart Of mans nature. This faith must be faith
that controls the tongue. and language is a great
exnonent of the human character. Write on that
wall everything that has said who is as old
as am. every word he has spoken Would not
YOU know exactly what sort Of a man he was. what
attachments he had made in intellectual STUDY!
Wouldn't YOU know ex.tcty his characteristics.
whether he was passionate man or what kind OF
fed and by thy words thou shalt be condemned
There no power Ike the power OF & am a;n
out in the fSresS Of the BIRDS and the song
of the streams the hoarse music OF the Atlantic
than by coming into the Experimenting An do
remember once going home on one OF ny vaca-
tions, and a young friend OF mine, recently mar
RED and we were both Of US young fathers: re
died and went see him ,f.er my return he
says Weston could De torn into pieces for b by via
h hOrSeS said Dear fellow, I know the awful:
ns NotR hi sns' he Psaid he lad been
could have opened Gods Word and could have
Waters waters viii be with YOU" l could have shown
him that there wasn't hair OF the mead o, ms
notice | could have sho an him there was no eA.
perence we pass through worthy TO be compared
with the glory that will be revealed In US lie
looked up to the heavens listened 70 the trees he
walked by the side OF the ocean; No word there
nuarters of a century behind me- but look back
and see that dark record Of sin and imperfecuon
and misery and despair -,
Is there any flash OF lightning that will answer
70 me this great question OF all questions, Can
God forgive sin7 ! to stand before him in
Judgment VIII God forget? Does the music OF
he ocean sing It? Is there anything in nature
nat tolls IL? But let me turn TO Gods word
where he says: Il. even l. am He that botteth out
INV transgressions and will not remember thy
Gins I look again. Il have blotted out thy trans
gressions like a thick cloud. I Will remember
Them no more" Oh thanks be TO God Il have
Matted them out like a thick cloud thy transgres
sions and will not remember thy sins.
A FAITH THAT SAVES
Then tie next thought This faith. In the next
Mace Is a faith that governs the heart. And
"A tho enistln closes with iust this dea This