Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1898-04-14
GOLDsBORO. N. c. THURSDAY APRIL a, 1898.
SATURDAY SERMON
Published For Sunday Perusal and Every
Day Guidance.

Day Guidance.
At this glorious Eastertide,
when the abounding love of God
for man triumphs over death and
sin through the Resurrection of
His Son, it is meet that we should
dwell with more than wonted fer4
vor on the ruling spirit Of tie Un-
iverse-love.
Turning to the fifteenth chapter
Of Corinthians, the twenty~sixth
verse, we find these words: 'sThe
last enemy that shall be destroyed
is death. !" Again, in the fifty
sixth verse, we find, s'The sting
of death is sin.''
Death and sin are the twin vam
pires that fasten themselves to the
throat Of humanity. Time wss
when they were not, and time is to
come when they shall not be. The
history of man reveals to US that
they appeared together, and to-
getber they shall disappear. Be-
fore mans appearance on this
earth there was cessation of life in
plants and animals. The sting of
death came only when sin came
into the world.
Every human being adds some
thing to this poison sac, and the
little added by each is ever giving
new strength to the poison and it
will not be annihilated until man
ceases to exist. This impression
comes forcibly to every student of
humanity. The human race is in
the tolls Of a rentless, undying foe,
and the battle always seems to end
in defeat. It was this that de
stroyed the many splendid systems
of philosophy developed by the
early philosophers. Plato, how
ever, stood very high, and we might
think he would pierce this cloud
that overshadowed the earth. He
| did not. for he failed in the sub
lime conception of great eternal
world beyond, where everlasting
life IS given to all who enter
therein.
Modern students of :. certain
phases of nature have come to the
conclusion that she is red in tooth
and claw, and she does not care
whether the blood stains are of the
guilty or the innocent. Huxley,
ono of the greatest observers of
this phase of nature, has stated
bis conclusion in somewhat of this
form: 81 see no reason why
things may not go on eternally as
they are, and often hope for the
coming of a great comet that will
extinguish life on this planet. -
There are other students who
have observed this same phenom-
ena that Huxley and others have
looked upon and come to the above
conclusion. They find nature red
in tooth and claw. They note the
evidences that struggle for life
But they have looked beyond this
and discovered another struggle
lust as powerful, if not SO evident
as the former. Some one has ex.
pressed it as "the struggle for the
life of Others
Every plant that spreads its
leaves beneath the kindly rays Of
the sun seeks to reproduce its life
by seeds, and in the fulfillment o.
this desire dies.
i Every bird that builds a nest ii
building it, not for itself, but fol
the eggs. And in watching ten
deriy over these it is giving up it
hope OF another summer that tn
birdlings may go out into tn
ceaseless sunshine.
The fearful gorilla sits beneatl
The tree whose branches shield it
mate and their young, and listen
for the dreaded cry of the enem,
in search of food, and it knows, i
danger comes its life must be givel
: up to save the little ones. Her
is the struggle for the life of 9th
ers.
The savage goes out and seek
for game, and, hungry as he ma.
be, touches it not until he ha
brought it back to the cI1ld an
mother waiting in the wigwan,
{ Love began when the first hu
} man child was born, when though
. and cara of tho child fooE ,,raco