The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1897-10-19

At Einston at the last annual CohleI
once he wanted the Conference 10 adopl
n resolution favoring an increase in tax
ot;on sufficient to run the pubic scho'is
six or eight months in the year; the ar
gument of his address leads loglcals
and inevitably to the complete destruc-
ZION of the whole fabric of public eau
cation. IL. ,
"His position upon this question can
not differ from the position OF Cathoir-
ism. The early years of man h'c
ore the formative years. If it is nee
essity that Methodist boys must be ed
ucoted at Methodist colleges. the
necessity that Methodist children be
taught at Methodist primary schools.
From this conclusion there is no escape.
And this would end the education of the
masses. ,
"1'he wealthy could he educated in the
hetterness of sectarianism and the pride
Of aristocracv. the masses of men would
he left in ignorance-the tolls or the
the educated.
at do not know that Dr. Kilgo clearly
comnrehends the legitimate conclusion OF
oil the pronositiors which he puts forty
in his address. l am inclined to think
that he does not / take it, that he is
bright, enthusiastic, meteoric, llioglcai.
THE RESURRECTION"
In his sermon at Central Methodist
church Sunday, DR.. Kilgo said, among
other things:
..Our religion is a historical religion.
Ordinarily, men lay down doctrine and
then try to build history to conform
to it. In our religion the doctrine pre-
cedes the fact. Indeed, our religion is a
religion of one fact-the resurrection OF
Christ. If he be not risen from the dead
then is your doctrine vain? The resur-
rection was process in life which re-
suited in deliverance from the dead.
Then there is the personal fact: L
am the resurrection and the life This
great process had its existence in Him.
Christ never looked forward to the re-
surrect;on as an incident of life, but as
the great basic fact of spiritual life.
I'VE find life in thousand forms and
phases of expression, but Christs life
is entirely different from any which
God had ever created. A new being
that embodies in himself new life, new
form. new force and personality is
Christ-life. His is not a life that is
subject to ordinary philosophy, not to be
ject to rules of physiology or any other
ology. A new life, an entirely different
thing from what the world had ever be-
fore known.
There is no other life that isn't in
some way related to or dependent upon
some other life. But this life stands
solitary and alone 1t has its origin, its
existence in him, and him only.
q is also a dominant life. No man
can reach it, no man can harm it. My
life is mine. / lay it down and | take it
up. You may take this body and hew it
to pieces a thousand times and still life
will exist through the quivering nerves.
And the end came not till he bowed his
head and said, 1T is finished In that
personality the fires of eternal life were
burning.
/ Another attribute of this life was OBJ
] soulte authority. He took wonderful
liberties with every thing round about
/ him--conscious that he was superior tc
them ALL Disease fled, the seas became
calm, the winds were lulled, armed men
quailed, the strong became weak at his
/ word.
| "And his kingdom is nothing but the
PRONUNCIATION of that life which he lived.
The life that / live We shall live also.
~ ne true Christian experience of ev-
cry man and woman is nothing more
tnan a review and retrospection Of
Christ's life. There are men to-day who
want to reduce our religion to cold
system of ethics-men who talk Of high
| type of civilization-men who are trying
| to analyze the whole thing down to q
cor, bare fact with Christ left out.
| "Just the other day right here in your
city l picked up a Bible intended for use
| in common schools-a book that was in
tended for the use of all men-Jew
Christian, Gentile-with all doctrine elm
mated. What is the result? There il
no Christ in it, no resurrection, no life
| A book more corrupting and damnable
even in the darkest days of heathendom
"They are trying to substitute decen.
cy for morals. Religion is nothing but
honesty say these moral people. These
gospel thinkers all round over the coun.
| try are trying to work out of the
gospel the only element that gives il
| power.
The gospel is a power-Christ is its
power, the resurrection is its life.
have no concessions to make to the
| world and / don't propose to give it
up if it consigns the last one of them
to the devil. I'm sick and tired Of the
whole business.
Again the other day / picked up a
little graded school report and turning
to a paragraph on character building,
read We teach the pupils to look up
through nature to natures God And
this is how they teach the Bible ami
Christ Besides, that fellow wasn't
even acting honestly himself. 1t he
had been he'd have put that sentence in
quotation marks and have credited it to
Voltaire, one of the worlds greatest
infdels.
"Then you come up here with your
little temperance sOcieties--they are
mere tiddledewink societies for the pre-
vention of crimes and other little mo-
dern-day shams, but | tell you the great
power, the only power for the regen-
Grafton of society Of the individuals IS
Jesus Christ and him crucifed. The
church Of God iS tho onIy fhinp that wa =