The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-02-07
THE BISHOP PR EACHES,
Ills St Andrews Church Sermon an Inter
esting and Practical Discourse.

yesterday morning was preached by
Bishop Coleman and to one Of the largest
audiences tho church has had for som
time. The bishop took his text from
Psalm CXIx, 50: Thou art gaod, and
| doest good" The bishop said In part
| There are two great characteristics OF tn
| Christian religion which | wish to direct
attention now. 1t is Il Faith. 1t is a life
1t is something to believe and 1t is. equal
~, something to do. The Life which be-
longs to il SO essentially Is not merely {
state o. Being. 1t Is, rather, state of Ac
ton.
And further, these two features must
agree. The Faith and the Life must be
alike.
Judged by those propositions many mer
are not justly styled religious s-inasnuch
their belief at least. with what they pro
fcss to believe. Some profess to believe
what IS right and yet do What Is wrong.
That is false religion. That is false iv.
ing.
OF course, tho only ono safe universal
model for men is God Himself. However
difficult 1T may be to initiate Him, and
however so far short Of His perfectlons
our own best endeavors may come, lie
must at all times and to ali men be the
pattern to copy.
" Y ulC INV iClU III AUuDb ttS ~ WIluU KIM
OF person we are thus to initiate and COPY.
One description uf Him is given in the
words of my text. He is COOL and does
good. He not only is, but does; and what
lie is corresponds exactly with what He
does. they arc both good.
And this goodness of being and action
Is not relatively and partially, but ubso-
lutely and entirely good.
Said our Blessed Redeemer to one who
had addressed Him as Good Master"
why. callest thou Me gooda There is mono
good, but One, that is Cod"
Herein He does not disclaim His right to
the title good. He, on tho contrary, ad-
mits it,, and gently chides the inconsis-
tency of such as call Him good, and yet do
not recognize Him as God. Thus we have
one of the many incontrovertable proofs Of
Chrlst's divinity.
We ofton speak Of a good man, or of q
good woman, but the term thus employed
TO describe them can only bo u sed relative.
ly. We moan to say that on the whole
they are good, that there Is more of good
ness than of badness in their lives
Nature, it is said abhors vacuum. Tt
may be as truly said that God abhors idle
ness. He did not make His creatures 81 III.
ply to fill space. He made them that they
might do His will, be occupied as fellow
laborers with Him.
In the gospel for the day, He conveys to
u.s. through tho parable OF the vineyard,
His call to work-to all of us. Now that
we have the Septuagesima warning CT the
near approach of Lent, let us be all the
more mindful of the real character of our
molly religion, and strive, after tho exam
Pile of our Adorable Redeemor to bo good
and to do good. There was, by tho con-
fession even of His enemies, "no fault in
II i'm :; and He Went about doing gUud."
Goodness cannot be without its maniGes-
tatlon in gifts and deeds. What saith ST.
James? ''To him that knoweth Ii to do good
and docth it not, to him it is sin"
AT NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH.
Rev. Phillip B. Cabell preached in the
New Jerusalem Church in the mol ming
from the text "For the son of man Is culne
TO save that which is lost"
IN OTHER sANcruARIEs
New members were received at Della.
ware avenue Church in the evening.
The Christian Endeavor Society Of Ger
tral Church held q meeting ut the Huulec-
)athic Hospital in the afternoon
At second Baptist Church in tho evon-
ng u song service was held.
The Rev Ernest Il. Hall Of Princeton |
preached at Hanover Pre5by terian Church
Last evening, by request, the Roy. Y.
McCurdy, ID. d., preached his su,inon
IN Jobs Daughters
MRS. Blanddy conducted revival services
It the First NJ. p. Church yesterday.
Isaac Young of Newport, Y. G. Baxter
nd SIR. Grant, a momber of the Delaware
College Y. M. G. A; c.. Fl. Smith, II. l.,
or, George l.. Norris and W. II. vii.
lans, of tho Wilmington Y. NJ c. A. ad-
ressed he Y. NJ. G. A. echo meeting yes
erday afternoon. Grace Church quart.tte
music.