The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1898-04-11

20 years old. weighs pa pounds and as
q giant in strength. He can raise
man weighing 300 pounds from ithe
floor with his teeth.
He sang Jesus. Lover of my Soul
in his native tongue, much to the amuse-
m1nt of those present. He said he EaI
listened to- the addresses just made, an
derstood much chat was said and that he
would remember it and profit by il III
| teaching his own people.
! THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
The services were well attended at the
Presbyterian church ut night, aud the
! congregation heard an able sermon from
the pastor, Rev. DIR. Eugene Daniel
| The text was Matthew 7:17. ''Easter
| We in at the strait gate" The subject
of the sermon was, Christ's Conception
of Lies True Meaning. The speaker
spoke in substance as follows:
Christ. like other men, must have
! viewed life under two aspects. First
He must have thought of it as the period
beginning at birth and ending with death
what we usually call the life natural
the earthly life. Concerning this, Jesus
taught truths Of exceeding value;
1. This earthly life is the gift of God.
! 1t does not come by chance. 1t is not
the result Of caprice. 1t is not the pro-
: duction of natural law, independently
| of God. 1t is not the development of
any Atheistic or materialistic evolution.
Each life is given of God.
> This earthly life has certain en-
dOwmeDts and blessings these, as truly
! as the life itself, are Gods gifts. So
taught Christ i'll the parallels of the
pounds and of the talents, and in all his
doctrine concerning stewardship.
>. This earthly life has its innocent
happiness: and Jesus did not stand
aloof from it's scenes of joy. He went
to Il wedding; He dined upon invitation:
He was guest in home. He wept at
Il grave; but he relieved social embar
rassment and contributed to social hap
piness at marriage.
4. This earthly life has its moral du-
ties Christ taught that these were to
be obeyed, to the letter. He laid
down the law of right and wrong, and
told men to live by it, and to test them
selves by the fruit they bore. The Gle
| msnt of conscientiousness was made
prominent. Living by within or caprice
would not suffice; men must live by
principle. Duty was to be discharged,
whatever the inclination might be- The
life that is true to principle is the only
consistent life.
The other aspect in which Christ view
ed life is that of the Souls true life;
what Jesus Christ so often and so en-
phatically calls Eternal Life" Ian
| Maclaren often wrong in his Mind of
the Master" is right in saying that
this life IS so prominent in the cQnceH-
ton Of Jesus that, in the comparison,
The other is hardly spoken Of MS lite at
iii. A man enters into lie, with
| Christ, when he begins to live religious
ly-as if he had never lived before. The
stress of Christ's teaching is upon life in
that momentOus aspect.
1. Christ Himself is the source of this
life abide in Me" is the law of il.
| This abiding is by Spiritual engraftmg;
by faith; by acceptance Of Christs
word, by reliance upon Christs Person,
and upon all of Christ's offices.
=. This life is sustained by means
which Christ provides, and Instrumental
tiles made effectual by Christ's Spirit.
He plainly tells us what these means
are He lovingly and with ''silver utter
ance," urges us to use them. He in
vites us to prayer, to the reading of our
/ bIDIeS. 10 Lue STRENGTHENING iG1AtN sup
of believers. to the ordinances of the
church, and to her holy Sacraments.
3. The relation between this life and
the earthly life, Christ makes to be
| the relation between sowing and reap
ing. seed-time and harvest, probation
and destiny. With fidelity to truth,
and an answering devotion to fact,
Jesus Christ, whose heart was the kind
Hest that ever throbbed, tells men that
character at death is enstamped with
immutabiity, and that between the man
who lives for self or the world and the
man who lives for God. there is "a great
gulf fixed" No herald of the cross can
say less than this without hazarding the
sacrilige of attempting to be more com
passionate than the Saviour who died
on the cross.
AT OTHER CHURCHES.
The usual services were held at the
other churches in the city. Large con-
II Al