The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-02-03
-~-~---~v AND HUMAN.
-. ". II. A. Grants Able
ae.Mon Last Evening.

Selecting AZ his text the passage
found recorded i'm Genesis L. 20. And
God said, let us make man in our
image Rev. II. A. Grant y. D.. pastor
of the Howard Place African Methodist
church, preached an able sermon at the
above church last evening. The speak
er's central thought was the affinity
existing between the Divine and human
life and his sermon in part was as fol-
lows:
All sanity character in this world is
the result Of Divine cooperation. God
and you can make saint out of u SIN
ner, neither can do it alone. lie requires
on your part consent, conservation, the
faith which links you to His gracious
help, and obtains His santifying spirit.
You need His patient enduring love; Ills
spiritual Illumination; flis truth; His
listening ear, and helpful hand. These,
and your best endeavors, can build
sanity character which shall here, and
In eternity, be the admiration of Him.
self and Of the exalted and holy who
worship before Him in sinless bliss. =
Down here, therefore, your highest pos
sibility is to cooperate with GCd. 10
lsve the things He loves; to seek after
the things He desires. and thus to labor
together with Tim. Whatsoever things
are true, honest, just, pure lovely and
of good report, think on these things"
Have continual regard for and readi-
ness to 90 them whenever the occasion
occurs. MY Father worketh hitherto
and work." said our Divine Lord. That
, is. "f am continually in cooperation and
harmony with Him. The things He
would, those 1 do. The things lie loves,
those / seek" This is the secret of that
mysterious power which His inCarnated
life has over us--that lie always acted
] In hos tl,., - u
So must 1t be with us, if our life inilu-
cnce shall live after our probation is
ended.
It must be remembered as suggesting
God as the inspiration of our motives.
and His glory the air of all our efforts
and ambitions. Would YOU bless your
fellow men, cooperate with God in this
also. God alone can estimate tle guam
tity of q man--how much there is of
! him and in him to save or to lose. II
! you would find out his value you must
cooperate with God in saving him. then
! you will work in a larger direction than
! merely seeking his present advantage.
| His needs today, his possibilities tomor-
row. his destiny as God intends it; how
| large the scope Of your endeavor, II thus
! inspired.
Three events are recorded in the Sacred
| Book, which will help us more than all
| others in estimating the imperial guam
| tity of a man. The records are easily
| read perhaps easily forgotten, out the
| combined intellect of the race could not
| formulate or indicate their Importance.
| Listen: "And God said, let us make man
| in our image" And the Lord God COM
| manded the man, saying. ETC." Christ
| also hath once suffered for sins, the just
! for the unjust, that He might bring US
! to Cod
| In these we have the counsel of the
| Trinity concerning His creation. The
! legislation of God concerning his conduct,
| the recognition of his ability to obey, and
! therefore of his moral capacity. And
the gracious efforts of God manifest In
the flesh. TO recover him from the guilt
and desert and doom of the sinner.
| These are the revelations concerning
| the race, whose salvation we are asked
! to help God to save Let us then well
come our unspeallable opportunity to CO.
| operate with God, and remember the
quality of our opportunity determines the
quantity of our responsibility, and our
treatment of this question Of responsible
ity will determine our destiny.