The daily morning journal and courier., 1897-04-17

to Arbitration.
 The Congregationalists of this city, as has been their custom in years past, held union service in the United church yesterday morning, where a large congregation assembled and an inspiring service was held.
 Rev. w. j. Mutch of the Howard avenue Congregational church preached the regular Fast day sermon. Rev. Dr. T. T. Munger and Rev. Dr. New man Smyth also assisted in the ser vices.
 The sermon was of unusual force and inspiration, the preacher taking as his text Isaiah 53 5: And with his stripes We are healed" He said in part:
 "The ideal of the prophet is to be realized in life; the more it is thus real ized the more it proves the prophet true. When the prophet uttered the words of the text, truly the hand of the Lord was heavy upon his chosen people, Is rael. The duty fell upon the prophet explaining why the hand of the Lord thus afflicted His people, and this the prophet did in the words of the text.
 'The prophet rises equal to the oc cason. He states the principle, that the just must suffer for the unjust, the servant of Jehovah must still suffer but while suffering he still serves. That was a prophets version, but it comfort ed those who were thus taught to feel tbav c11ffara5 others
 Not only was the prophecy proved true to the Israelites of that day but the world was bettered for this princi- pie having been brought into it.
 This day stands as a memorial of that principle, the principle of sacrifice for others. Better things are not al- ways attained by direct means but oft times by indirect
 Standing at the mountains base the eye reaches to the crest without diffi- culty, but yet from the mountain base to mountain crest there are rocky chasms and tedious paths for feet to travel in reaching the crest. .,
 "The child cannot always tell why it's father does not give him directly what he needs, but yet the will of the father is the best for the child.
 Thus it is with the attainment of better things in life, man cannot all ways see why God does not bring them about by direct means instead of the indirect
 Every new good coming into life has to be crucifed before it is gloriffed. A thing being new people do not know how to receive 1t until they have been taught to do so by suffering. No new mechanical invention was ever intro duced but it at first aroused the hostility of part of interest unsettled by it's introduction. The same hostility all ways has appeared towards moral re- forms. II is the fault of the old and not of the new that this is so. Tt is one of the truths of progress that the new must be maltreated by the old before the world will receive it. The whole principle of sacrifice is in the healm of life It is within the life itself that the cost and sacrifice must appear, since 1t it Is in it also that the advant- age appears.
 Life and character are not made over from without by outward circum- stances any more than the lily grows from without. Laws and amendments can never make over life. Authority or force can never make over or mend life; no more can the lack of thes deprive life of what 1t is. A mans life lieth not in the things which he possesseth nor in the fault of things does the fault of life lie.
 "Is there to be no better things for humanity because some would crush out all life?
 If the messenger of the longer life is crucifled and maltreated, it is a tes- timony of the worth of the life which is willing to be thus crucif1ed and mal- treated.
 That testimony must be borne by martyrs before the world can ever know of the larger life for which it speaks.
 Tt Is not strange thing that one should be despised or rejected, but to those who witnessed the sufferings there was to those a glimpse of the large life: the life of the eternal, which in Him was seen.
 Knowledge is a part of life. It is a part of revelation. Things must be known before they can be felt in their power.
 "The stress of opposition carried down the Master into the valley, for the power of God even cannot save men from their sins if they are not willing The life of God pours In on man when man is ready to receive it and it is mans only hope of healing. The ser want suffered, but 1t was in rendering a blessed service
 '"The old error is always hostile to the new truth old circumstances are hos tile to it. It is necessary that the old conditions be hostile to the new life in order that the good Of the new life may be made to appear,
 "It is necessary that the new arbitra- tion treaty should meet with hostile cir cumstances at first, and if it is defeat ed it will be because it is necessary to show the forces which are opposed to peace, such as American jingoism and English bad faith, which hostile forces must be removed before peace can be assured.
 eve are constantly seeing the appli- cation of this principle of hostility on the one hand and sacrifice on the other in the realm of science and of all prog ress We see it most of all in the life of Christ, by whose stripes We are healed"
 
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