The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-09
BUTTE News.
AN ELOQUENT SERMON
Rev. G. r. barrow at the Imman-
uel Presbyterian Church.
THE QUESTION OF DESTINY
The After Fate of Judas Iscariot-Tha
He Is Not In Heaven Is Capable Of
Demonstration-TheS Sinner Pre-
pares His Own Place.

terrain cnurcn was occupied sunday by
Rev. G. II. Darrow, who preached a
very earnest and eloquent sermon on
the subject. Where Am / Going?' His
text was Acts l, %, That he might go
TO his own place" He said:
This text suggests to our thoughts
the after fate of Judas Iscariot. but ii
is not our purpose to ask you To con-
slider his destiny. That he is not in
heaven is capable OF demonstration.
The Savior said of him. 1t would have
been better for him had he never been
born. Judas in heaven, imagine the
controversy there when Judas meets
the Son of God and charges him tri-
umphantly with being an imposter.
having taught lies when on earth. You
said, Better for me had | never been
born What is the past will all my
crime compared with the blssful ages
of eternity before me? MY purpose is
TO ask your attention to this passage as
throwing a flood flight on question
that most profoundly concerns each one
of us. Noyaeers on life's ocean, we are
all of us going somewhere. The ques-
ton is whittier? Eternity is not far
from any of us.
Where am | to spend eternityo 1t
seems to me to be very proper, that
here in Gods house, in His presence
on this Sabbath morning. we should
lilOSl DOudtE liiiS flDSl mo-
mentous question. This world and the
eternal world. in fact, all worlds, are
governed by law. Some of these laws
under which we all live seriously con-
sidered will aid us in solving the ques-
ton before us. The word place in our
text suggests to our thought the law
of adjustment-of adaptation, or the
fitness of things. BY our scientific
writer's il has been called the law of
correspondence with environment.
Place means the environment and adj
1ustment secures the correspondence.
Observe how this law prevails every
where in this material world of ours.
Looking up into the heavens which de-
clare the glory of the Lord. we ask
why is the sun found in the center of
our planetary system This law of
adaptation is our answer The brain
of man is in the head. why? This
same law is our answer. The eyes are
in front instead of the back part of
the head. Why? The law of adapta-
ton answers. that is the place for
them. The structure of the body, it's
uses, the relation of part with part
and each part with the whole in it's
wonderful mechanism, convinces us
that each organ has it's place, not be-
cause of any inherent properties be-
longing to matter. but because of the
general adjustment of the whole Go
into the Businesses of the mountains
round about us. and you will find ami
mails, the black bear. the mountain
lion. mountain sheep and others i'm
their places. where they should be Go
to the deserts of Arabia and Persia and
there you will find the camel. possess
ing extraordinary power of enduring
thirst. and its hump of fat on which
II feeds when its usual food fails. has
its feet shod with an elastic pad. fitting
ii for long journey over the burning
sands where for days neither food nor
drink can be found. Verify, the ship of
the desert has found its place The
same is true of the animals of the Arc
tic region. of the fowls of the air and
the finny tribes of the deep. blue
sea. The agile darting to the zenith
unblenched. bathing himself In the
splendors of the MONDAY sun, his wing
on the wind. his eye on the sun. is in
his sphere. has found his place. So
has the reptile that crawls the earth.
The oyster in his limestone house
in the beds of our rivers on
spider. With his spinning jenny
and power loom in his head in the
crevice or garnet or cellar is in his
place because of this law of the fitness
of things of correspondence with envi-
ronment. | have dwelt on this fact
that you might be impressed with the
prevalence of this law in this universe.
In the ASTRONOMICAL and geological
world this law prevails. 1t is
a universal law. The government
of Jehovah is not in antagonism
with itself 1t is the law of the seen
and of the unseen world. 1t is the law
of the temporal and the eternal. II is
the law of the material world and of
the moral and spiritual world. BY this
law every rational being can deter
mine his future. Not a soul of us will
ever be thrown from our orbit. As
he
places. As soon expect the lark
and the eagle groveling with the rep
tiles in the dust and the reptile soar
Ing and basking in the MONDAY splen-
doris of the zenith as TO find man out
of his place in the future of eternity.
AS soon expect To find the animals of
our forest in the place of the sharks
of the sea, and the sharks of the sea
in the place of the animals of the for
est as to find an unregenerate man in
heaven or holy man in hell. An un-
holy man in heaven would wander
through dry places, seeking rest and
finding none
Everywhere in the Scriptures we find
this law recognized. Men are not
doomed TO an indiscriminate destiny
Gradations here in position and guilt
are followed by their corresponding
gradations of place and condition
hereafter. God is not Knocked; what
also reap The Savior said of Chora-
Yin, 1T shall be more tolerable for So
dom and Gomorrah than for thee
The same law applies to individuals
Mans identity is not DESTROYED by
death. He does not leave his person
atty in the grave. The disciples of
Christ are distinct people and share
distinct destiny from those who are
not. Nothing is palmer than this.
Christ said TO His disciples. In my
Fathers house are many mansions. /
go to prepare a place for You He
prepares their environment in the
Fathers house. Paul says OF believ-
ers: They are vessels OF mercy afore
prepared unto glory Here the law
Of the fitness Of things secures the cor
fespondence. They are made meet for
the inheritance of the saints in light
The unregenerate are vessels of wrath
fitted TO destruction Though condi-
ton is often emphasized in Scripture.
God has revealed the fact of distinct
localities. Men sometimes of trans
cendentaI proclivities cavil and wise