Evening journal., 1899-12-18
SAYS SINNERS
ARE INSANE
Opinion of Rev. Alexander =.
BOwser, Pastor Of First Uni
tartan Church.
REV. HUSTON URGES ACTION


SUBJECT OF HIS SERMON AT
FIRST UNITED PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH LAST NIGHT-NoTEs OF
OTHER CHURCHES. I
when he came to himself he said
viii arise and go to my father" This
is the text from which Rev. Alexander
L. Bowser, pastor of the First Uni
tartan Church. delivered an eloquent
sermon last night. Mr.. Bowser says
"All irreligion and all immortality are
insanity and arrangement"
He further said, in part: when man
is himself as God made him and intend
ed him to be, he is not bad, but good.
Evil doing is not natural, 1t is unnat-
ural; sin is not our normal state, IL is
a derangement. Therefore, as one Of
our most eminent ministers has said
we are all, when doing wrong, partly
insane. We are in a delirium till we
come to truth and righteousness.
DO we not all sometimes feel this?
II you look back to those hours Of life
when you were in your best state OF
mind-when you were most humble, /
most penitent, most trusting, most low
ing, when selhshness seemed killed |
down to its roots-when passion and
love Of pleasure and worldliness were
checked by some great sorrow, when
under the influence Of truth and good
ness you looked at life with earnest
eyes-did it not seem as If you were
then more sane? AS il you were not
only better, but wiser and truer and
stronger?
"The selfish man Of the world is in
sane and sick. He thinks because he !
devotes himself to his own private ends
that he will achieve success. He sets
aside strict conscience, sets aside gen
erosity and gives all his energy tol
| his own advancement He seems to sue
ceed for a time. but there seems to
be some fatal and essential deficiency
Perhaps you cannot tell what it is, but
feel that there is something wrong. The
real difficulty is, that he is inwardly
dying. His life is gradually oozing out
OF him. The inevitable law holds him
in its relentless grasp. He who loves
his life shall lose it; he who loses his
life for others shall find it,
WHY DO WE SIT STILL?"
"This was the subject discussed by
Rev. J. J. Huston, pastor Of the First
United Presbyterian Church last night.
In part, Mr.. Huston said:
Jeremiah, the writer Of the text,
commenced to serve God in his youth
and lived to Sc the decline and de-
struction of his people. He dealt plain
ly with sin, and was unpopular with
his people, but he pleased God The
text is today applicable to the unsaved,
to the Christian who is not doing his
full duty and to the nation that is fail
ing to enact and enforce Gods laws.
THE unsaved can give no reason for
this failure to come to Christ. A lost
person should arise and go to the
Il Father The church is doing more
! good work today than in the past, but
only a portion Of the membership is
active There are $1,000 900 of people
who have never heard of Christ, the
Saviour.
, "Dr Lyman Beecher once said that
his work in Boston was successful be-
cause he preached as hard as he could
on Sunday, and then had members who
went out into the city and preached
every day.
"A nation guilty of sin should not sit
still. Our nation was guilty OF slavery
s and we paid the penalty in the life of
p many Of our citizens. There are evils
D in our nation which we should cast out
2 the saloon, gambling. Congress is not
s sitting still on the subject of the mar
= riage relationship, and the Christian
.. people have been aiding them with pc
= ltitions. Good citizenship leagues should
be formed and the rising generation
+ taught the true principles Of civil gov
l. ernment There is much to be done
and the time to accomplish work short
God is not putting obstacles in our way.
Satan does that, but Christ helps us to
overcome them"
a CHURCH NOTES.
> Rev. Walter e. Avery. of Newport
= preached at Harrison Street NJ. E
= lChurch last night.
\ Rev. j. b. Randall, of Lincoln Uni
. versity. spoke at Hanover both morn
~ ing and evening.
Rev. w. P. White, d. d., Of Phila.
= delphia, preached at West Presbyter
ian Church yesterday.
Thomas McCorkle spoke at East LAKE
Presbyterian Church yesterday morn
:. ling.
u Elder John T. Jones, Of Baltimore
h preached for the Seventh Day Adven
lists yesterday.
Bishop Coleman preached at st. Mat
thew's and Calvary churches yesterda,
IN morning. and in the evening at tn
tx Church of Our Saviour.
rs On New Years eve Grace an
H. st. Paul's NJ. u. churches will hol
s. combined watch services.
by Pulpits we're exchanged by Rev. job
n, c. Jones. of Goodman NJ T. Churc
gel and Rev. T. w. Long. Of Greenhil
e. Presbyterian Church. yesterday morn
ing.
Eben n. Baldwin. of Claymont, mad
an interesting address at Silverbroo
A. I'M. E. Church last evening.