The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-15
"BE YE ALSO ENLARGED "
REV. DIR. PRINCE PRE1CHES AT
 TRINITY lK. F. CHURCH.

"Enlargement is the Law of Being'-
 tians Must Take Strong Personal Hold
 on Christ-Life of Jacob is Our Life.
 Rev. Dr. Prince, @ former pastor ot Trinity M. F. church, preached at that church yesterday. pr. Prince is at present professor in Dickinson col lege. After the morning service which was well attended, pr. Prince was greeted by his old congregation and friends, the reception lasting half an hour. He preached upon the subject, Be ye also enlarged" taking his text from II Cor, vi. IS. The following is an extract of his sermon:
 One day Michael Angelo, criticising the work of his pupil Raphael, wrote across half finished sketch the word "Amplius larger. That was the turn ing point in Raphaels artistic life. He was needing larger canvass and grander ideal His work had been cramped and required enlargement. So too every pupil in life's great school
 leaning over his imperfect work, comes the call of the great teacher to broader veins, grander ideals and high CT attainments. Enlargement is the law of our being. You find it running all through Gods vast work of creation. The story of our planet is the story of its enlargement. In Revelation, as in nature, there is a constant and pro- gressive unfolding of truth The incar- nation of Jesus Christ, His crucifixion, | resurrection and ascension mean more 1 to men to-day than ever before. All | physical life is upon the same princl- pie. The tiny acorn enlarges into the monarch tree of the forest; childhood into manhood. The cradle is exchang- ed for the throne. The same law holds in mans spiritual being Enlarging one's business, the circle of his knowl- edge or the sphere of his activities may not enlarge the man. Not until one aspires after God, longs to know God and be like Him does his enlargement begin.
 Only where a mans life centers does | he grow. If living in his lower nature, | in his lower nature he grows. The re- ligion of Jesus Christ develops the en- | tire man. It makes up minds and broadens mans intellectual horizon It l gives meaning and grandeur to him in | life and glorifies the dull monotony | of everyday toll. It enables one to see
 the spiritual over the material, the l at ho tay | human sympathy and helpfulness. All
 parts of the land responded to the cry | of Chicago when in ashes to Johns-
 town when flooded; to Charlestown when shaken by an earthquake, and t to Memphis when scourged by fever. Ireland's woes have never failed in | their appeals to our hearts. The war | with Spain was not for vengeance for | the destruction of the Maine; not for more territory; nor in the interests of ! speculation and commercialism, but the | great heart of the nation was moved | by feelings of pity and humanity The
 one thing the nation needs above all | others is not enlargement of our ter 1 ritory, our wealth or our knowledge l but the enlargement of a strong, right | | all departments of our activity and l power. It is the enlarging of reason, | conscience, faith and moral power of
 the purposes of life and the motives of | life.
 l Our religion needs enlargement. If
 the church does not keep pace with the expanding thought and activities of | the age; if there is not a continual en-
 largement, an ever increasing and ex- | banding spiritual capacity and life, the
 world has little use for the church. The consummation toward which the | Christian is constantly moving is like
 ness to God. We require everything to | respond to this law of enlargement.
 The stage coach and canal boat will not
 meet the necessities of this age of
 steam and electricity. The demand
 each year is for larger and better re-
 suits, not only for fruit, but for more
 fruit For the church to do this year
 what it did last year and no more is for the church to remain at last year 8 | size
 The need of the Christian is to take | a strong, personal hold upon Christ; not as a mere historical figure but as
 a living and ever present savior and rise to higher attainments and richer
 experience, and this means toll anu
 struggle. I. may be sacrifice and sui | fering. It is the law of progressive de-
 velopment in individual and nation. 1 No nation rises into prominence and
 power without its baptism of blood. No
 man achieves success without difficult ties; no idea is given to the world with
 out the bangs of birth. The exquisite
 vase and the refined gold come after
 the burning heat of the crucible.
 When God would make of the sordid
 mercenary Jacob a large hearted and | unsalfiSh man 'tIJe led him abo,it,'