The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-08-02
GOOD AND 4EvaL FAR APART.
The World Borrowing Better and
Worse, SoSs Dr. wiubigler.

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The World Growing Better and
Worse. saSs DIR. winbigler.
The Rev.C. F. Winbigler, of Philadelphia,
occupied the ;phipR at Calvary BAPTIST
Church yesterday. .Dr. winbigier is not
stranger to tttE congregation OF Calvary
Church, for hespreached there during DR..
Greene's vacation last season. That those
who heard hing were iauch impressed is
testified in thes fact that by special re-
quest on nexts Sunday evening he will
again deliver tff3 sermon he preached last
Sumner ut Calvary on "The Bible; what it
is, and what its influence On the world"
The subject of the discourse at the morn
ing service yesterday was the inscription
on the cross, Jesus, King of the Jews"
Toward Tire conclusion CT the discussion
OF the subject the speaker made q state
ment which Will no doubt receive the
most serious consideration of his audience
and also Of the outside world, for there
Is no doubt that IL is a question ON
which there Is great diversity Of
opinion. IL is his opinion, the Rev.
DR.. Winbigler stated, that the world
is no. getting better, the tendency being
downward instead OF upward. HEDGES not
mean, he said, that all was going wrong,
only there was a tendency that way. The
good, he said, Were getting better, but on
the other hand the bad We're growing
worse. There is, he said, Ii tendency to
suicide and luxury, hcentiousness and
crime. g
Every great crisis, DR.. Winbigier said,
has had some human being as a kind Of
center, around which all hope and power
seem 10 circle. This statement, he said
wos substantiated by the history OF the
WORLD, from It's earliest period and he
called many instances In support of the
assertion. Bringing the Illustrations down
to the past generation, he referred to the
position Of William Lloyd Garrison and
Wendell Phillips in connection with the
agitation Of the question OF the abolition
of slavery and then spoke of the great
Lincoln, to whom 1t fen TO execute the
VIII Of the people.
The crisis on calvary DIR. winbigler said,
was the Waterloo OF rim; there good trt
umphed, and fIom that hour the glory OF the
sayiours power has been felt the world
over.
Speaking Of the inscription on the cross,
Jesus, King OF the Jews" II was, he said,
written In three languages, the Greek, La tin
and Hebrew. Some cGmmentato tors, he said,
believed that tie inscription was made in
ridicule and derision, but Others simply
ia order Tat the populace might read it.
The Greek, DR.. Wenbigler said, was the Ian
guage Of the head, the Hebrew that Of the
heart and the tin the language of action.
These several propositions the reverend
speaker illustrated Interestingly by exam
pies taken from ancient history. Hea rgued
that 1t was better always to fail ON the side
Of the heart than any other. In connection.
he painted bea utiful picture Of a man OF
gIeatpower hut who hadfailed. There was
no doubt in thcImind of any of his hearers
but that the speaker referred TO Grover
Cleveland lie wasa N an loved by the people
at times and at certain periods 10y some
class Of The people, but withal not success.
Inconclusion, Or. Weubiglera toall
to Put their faith and hope in Jesus Christ,
who is the manifestation of God in the
void.