The herald., 1898-10-17
AT THE CHURCHES
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David Walk, in the Church of Christ, yes
terday, announced as the subject OF ms ser
mon, Spiritual Gifts,
Supernatural as Related to the
Endowment' Apostolic Age
modern church possessed such supernatural
gifts. Men would make pilgrimages from
the uttermost parts of the earth to witness
such phenomenon. Such church would
get away with all the fakes, humbugs and
frauds which today lay claim to ex-
traordinary powers, But do not such pow
ers exist, and are there not manifestations
which cannot be accounted for on rational
grounds? No! The gifts were impaired for
the purpose of supplying want which has
not existed since the close of the apostolic
age Not line of the New Testament was
written for at least thirty years after the
founding Of the church on the first Pentec
our Lord, nor was the sacred canon com
pleted till about the close of the first CEN
tury. 1t was needful, therefore, that the
primitive Christians should have the gifts
of the spirit, partially distributed among
select disciples, to guard them against false
tetic mountebanks and jugglers as have ex-
listed in all ages; but we now have, in the
pages of Gods complete revelation the sub
stance of all that was comprehended in the
spiritual gifts of the early Christians. We
therefore need no supernatural endowments
other than those which we receive through
Christ. Besides, Paul distinctly declared
that those gifts were temporary. he ex-
horts his flock to desire earnestly the great
er gifts, but he will show them something
still more excellent = and that something
more excellent" is love; Love, he says,
chon vanish onA tho pff of
tongues shall cease and the gift of knowl-
edge shall come to naught; and while other
gifts shall pass away, these three, faith,
hope and love, abide forever; and the great
est of these is love. This is plainly and dis
tinctly the teaching of the great apostle.
Think not that l came to destroy the
law or the prophets; I came not to destroy
but to fulfill" was
The Spirit of the text from which
Today Rev. Burt Estes How
ard yesterday preached
to the congregation of the Church of the
Covenant. While the present is an age OF
keen criticism, it simply means spirit of
investigation and discrimination which,
by the grim logic of events, involves radical
changes in existing forms. But while old
things are passing away, the eternal veri-
ties remain. In and through and beneath
all things that appear is the eternal spirit
holding in its hands the material universe
like clay. We are still slaves to the exist
ing order of things, and we are still wor-
Shipping the craven images OF intallibilitty Of
the Bible, of faith, of economics and of
state. Though there is a breaking up of
old and cherished forms of theology, ther.
is no evidence of decline of the religious or
social consciousness. Though there is a
growing revolt against much of the theo-
logical statements that have held the ale
glance of the church for several hundred
years, there is everywhere deepening
ing forth in the thought of men clothed with
moral beauty and redemptive power. The
Christ of God is aso ending the throne of the
great human world.
Rev. c. J. X. Jones Of the Church of the
Unity based his sermon upon these words:
. Il know, Him upon
Posittveness whom l have be-
of Liberal Faith lieved," the subject
tiveness of the Liberal Faith" The
speaker described the negatons of the
liberal faith as formerly preached,
which arose from a want of knowl-
edge Of its grand affirmations: He then
showed that therA had: been no fall of man
and, as logical deduction, no atonement,
no personal devil, no hell, no implacable
deity following humanity and prosecuting it
with eternal suffering. The glory of the
Creator is everywhere, exhibited in all and
through all his works and their phenomena.
Humanity moves onward and upward as it
goes toward it's destiny. The liberal faith
affirms that humanity in all stages and in
all ages of its development has been and
shall be forever more under the divine care
and loving keeping.
Rev. A. c. Smither preached yesterday
morning at the First Christian church upon
the subject of "a
What IL In Consecrated Hand"
Thine Hand? from the words Of
God to Moses, "What
is that in thine hand?" After relating the
historical circumstances giving rise to this
question, the preacher elucidated the
thought that God expects his children to
use the powers and faculties that are in their
possession. The measure of this response
bility is the measure of our ability. The
requirement is according to the ability. God
requires that men shall use these faculties,
even though they be limited in nature. The
question of God to Moses is equally appli,
cable to this age and generation.
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