The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-04

Nallcy--lt is Demanded 1hat Mhh
Awaken. Receive the Good Im-
pulses from on High aud Even
Stand in Awe of Himself.
A New Years sermon that was strong
in thought and gave evidence of much
scholarly research was preached in the
Second Presbyterian church yesterday
morning by the pastor. Rev. Dr. Chas.
j.. Robinson. DR.. Robinson stroNe to
emphasize the fact that man is some
thing more noble and spiritual by ma
turne than a worm or ClOd or inanimate
thing and, being created after the
image of the God is bound by the ma
ture of his creation to aspire to follow
Gods teachings.
Preceding the sermon DR.. Robinson
delivered hve-mnute address to
children. His sermon text was from
Matthew, xii, ~, How much then is a
man better than a sheep" He said:
The importance of the thought is
suggested by the real and exalted
meaning of life and living. In it there
is no sympathy nor congruity with GER
tain teachings that man is only ma
terial thing, clod of the valley. such
belief is neither Biblical philosophical
nor Christian. Man is man and any
attempt to make him anything else will
have the same effect as that of con-
stan+ly urbraiing and demeaning a
bov.
Christ knew that man was made in
His own likeness and He knew what
was in man, that his qualities We're
| God given and calculated to elevate
| him and thc world and not to degrade
either. Christ came not to redeem
| worm or a sheep but the prince of the
| line, the lost heir of Gods kingdom.
| The proof of mans greater aptitude for
goodness is shown in the happiness
| that comes with goodness. In the con-
| sH;ousness of it man often stands in
| awe of himself.
TOLD IN GENESIS.
"The creation of this wonderful
| w Orld and of man and his power for
| good is told in that familiar and first
book, Genesis, written by the cultured
Moses. who could not have laid his in
| tellect and good instincts to the task
OF recording an untruth. God made
man in His own image, in the image
os God created He him: male and fe
| male created He them He blessed
them and gave them dominion over the
whole world. Take that for your
thought, and, too, that the Fathers
| gift was His son.
1T is a sweet thought that Christ
of our nature. 1t suggests what | may
say is a heart-melting impression by
the price He paid in redeeming us
| 'Tpt ne NOT fOrppt I'm This week of
| prayer the debt we owe and the bounty
we get in the payment. In this sea-
son let us turn frequently to that much
loved, that great and glorious chapter,
| the eighth of Romans. God help us
that in grasping its letter we do not fail
to appreciate its spirit and the heart
of it. Leaving out the magnifcence
| contained in the first fourteen verses.
we read in the fifteenth For We have
not received the spirit of bondage
again to fear; but ye have received the
spirit of adoption, whereby we cry,
Abba. Father If children of God, we
are heirs of God. viii we not prove
worthy? The twenty eighth verse
says, And we know that all things
work together for good to them that
love God, to them who are called ac-
cording to His purpose.
MORE THAN CONQUERORS.
"Who is the heir to condemn when
it is Christ that died? Nay as Paul
says, in all these things we are more
than conquerors through him that
loved us 'Ye that were once afar off
; are now made nigh, and, we can add
in the blood Of Christ
ITO have Savior come to redeem
us is but small part we must stir
wake up and realize that to eat His
flesh and drink His blood is to partake
of food sent down from heaven. He
that eateth this bread shall never die
dwell Him in ye and We in Him.
perhaps you have noticed what 6
: shapeless mass is a balloon as it lays
debated and stretched on the ground
. But it is stirred and assumes it's beau.
, tiful curved contour when the air thai
, belongs to a higher altitude enters /
and it struggles majestiCally to be free
= Finally it is released and scars away
upward, upward. How similar is man!
nature. The angels must see it abject
wrnkled and misshapen until entranc,
. is given for the thoughts that com,
!, from higher and terrestrial attitudes
when it rises in its beauty and is read,
for release and flight into the beautiful
. eternity. AS Browning says, We ar
. sunk enough here God knows
- Let our souls be stirred by tn
thought of the promise that we shal
live again How would the angel
sing? Yes, my brother, but how yol
would sing! Let the thought be not il
the flesh, but in the spirit of the song.
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