The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-01-17
IN THE COLLEGE CHAPEL
REJ'. DR. RIGGS, OF AUBURN THEO-
 LOGICAL SEMINARY, PREACHED.

His Sermon Was Very Interesting and
 Full of Lessons--"Bring Us Not Unto
 Temptation, But Deliver Us From the
 Evil one," Matthew vi: ', Was His Text
 Very Large Attendance.
 At the regular morning service in Bat tell chapel yesterday the Rev. Dr. Riggs of the Auburn Theological seminary oc- cupied the college pulpit. There was a large attendance. The sermon was a very interesting one and full of lessons. His text was Matthew vi, z, which in the revised version reads: Bring us not unto temptation, but deliver us from the evil one" He said in part: 1.-Two things must be made clear in reference to the form of the text itself before one can enter upon the study of it's meaning-one Is translation; the other, discrimination in one of it's lead- ing words. Jesus is teaching His dis ciples how to pray. Over against the tedious repetitions of men who meas ured their success in prayer by their prolixity, He placed the brief pithy ut terances of His prayer In the original there are just fifty-seven words in it and yet it is so comprehensive as to in clude all the great relationship of life. He then told how the revised versions l were adopted by the scholars in West | minister Abbey.
 | Let me ask your earnest attention to some of the suggestions which, as a | prayer, it brings to us. The first of | these iss this: The possible risk involv. ed in all experience And in turn, to
 ask whence the occasion of this risk; l let us not lose sight of the supreme hos. l tile force to which Jesus Is directing our attention. The prayer, remember was given us after that never to be for | gotten struggle in the wilderness. Out 1 of the realities of His own experience
 He hands to us this petition. As one l looks at the lives of men and marks l how they accept gradually but surely 1 the mastership of the devil or on the l other side, kingship whose essence is 1 righteousness, the occasion of all this risk in experience seems to spring main l ly from three things. (a) From what l we are; (b) from where we are; G,
 from what we are aiming to be or do. Tt is the black spot in a mans mora
 makeup that focalize the energies o l evil. And if not these, it may be tn, l impulses which we have not learned tC I govern; the appetites we have unthink ingly nourished, the superficial flippan l cy we have never thought ourselve. | away from; the insufferable imitation O
 a little learning or a little weath whicl we have tried to truly measure.
 T rejoice to say that in speaking 0 | college life in general a young man ha surer chance of coming face to fac, | with the earnest questions of life il | college than he would in the world out side, and this because of the fidelity ant serious purpose in the student body it self All honor to the men who com
 up to a place like this to make them I selves felt as powers for righteousness
 who, with contempt and scorn for re ligion that is not equal to the vigorou
 business, manly endeavor of athletics
 or the more vigorous work of intellec | tual achievement to show men tha
 there is no inherent contradiction be
 tween either and supreme devotion t
 ideals of the new testament But ther are always men in college life wh have no definite moral aims and who q
 not know just what they are in colleg for. And evil moves swiftly over tn bands that hold men together. As sured if every young man who is Seek ing mutual culture cannot be persuade !, to make this prayer those who have tn
 solemn responsibility of guiding tha
 culture should have it often on thei lips. A perverted conception of sue cess gives more men in this land ( ours to the service of the devil tha any one thing know of 1t sets ma in business to all possible triclSiness fo
 money and each one of the profession may be tempted into line to work ou
 its false conception. College days al
 days for decision in these high matter
 of life activities It Is the devils Ii
 that man cannot be a good bushes
 man and be honest, for good bushes , l men nave been honest dSd1n ana aSall
 It is the devils lie that a man cannC
 be successful lawyer without truckin
 to the pitiable trickness of a shuffiin , injustice. It sounds doleful enougl But I am not here to talk pessimisn , Quite the contrary. I want the emphs sis of facts in order to a clearer COT
 ception of possibilities. The risk of Q, 5 perience is one very appeal to heave ? and Christ came to answer that, and
 view of it all He gave us this praye When Christ said, "pray deliver us frol l the evil one' He drew into the visor . of His teachings that neither fore s that makes life, in His own estimate 2 it, serious indeed. But let a man tal ], to the secret place of his heart at tl time when conscience and inclinatic come to conflict. this petition of Il Lord and he shall see his life mo- nearly as God sees it.
 'Deliverance' is the promise of a
 scriptures, 'deliverance' is the reaiz
 ton of an innumerable company wi