The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-08-07
UNION SERVICE YESTERDAY
FEY. ADDISON MOORE PREACHES
IN CALY1RY B1PTIST CHURCH,.

Large Congregation Heard the First
Baptist Church Pastor-"Tho Incar-
nation of God and of Jesus Christ"
His Subject-An Excellent Sermon.
Rev. Addison Moore of the First Bap-
fist church preached a union sermon
yesterday morning at the Calvary Bap-
tisI church before a large congregation
made up of members of the two church.
es. His text was taken from st, Mark,
x, 35, As, and from Matthew xvi, 10;
Whom do men say that I, the son OF
man, are?" He said in part: There
are two great forces at work among
men which tend to separation and Sc
clusion. There are firstly the forces OF
natural order, whereby men are sepa-
rated by national ideas Of race, Ian
guage and religion Secondly, that Of
social order. whereby men of the same
race, language and religion are sepa
rated by caste, rank, class and culture.
IIFIOu Is the uIllpe sal ldIINA, iiic'ii 'iAN'b
be the universal brother and 60 having
established him claim to divine worship.
Jesus hastens to lay great emphasis
upon His human birthwright and de-
clares Himself to be not social, nor
national child of favored race, but the
Son of Man, who came to life all men in
to unity of faith that would be the ba-
sis for unity of life. In it there is neither
Greek nor Jew circumcision nor uncir-
cumcision, barbarian, scythian, bond
adged or free. The distinctions of race
fade away before its cross-at His bid
ding humanity stands forth as broth
erhood with Jesus, the Son of Man, ae
elder brother
plato dreamed the most sublime of
all the dreams of antiquity, and this
dreamed he incarnated in his republic.
but his republic was to be state where
the home was destroyed, where woman
was degraded, where slavery existed,
where life was bound by hard fixed rules
and methods that allowed no play for
glad and spontaneous energy.
Secondly, the ideal of it transcends
this greatest dream of the old worlds
greatest philosopher as the day tram
sends the night as the blaze of noon
tide sun transcends the glimmer of the
glow worm 1t aimed at the good of all
by seeking the good of EACH 1t lifted
all men irrespective of race or rank, into
an equality of rights and a sovereignty
of duty. 1t taught the mother to enable
the son, and inspired the son to become
the useful citizen and brother of his
kind The ideal manhood of Jesus is set
to relieve the misery of men and to
redress the wrongs of mankind. God
created man. but Christ created human
ity. God is incarnate in Jesus, but Jesus
is to become incarnate in humanity.
''It is a sublime picture that presents
itself to our view as we contemplate the
conquest of Christ over humanity. He
has dominated home life and formed
such character as found expression in
Wesley and Gladstone. He changed
the worlds calendar and made perma-
nent a new era. He has impelled the
world to set apart a day that commem-
crates His ascendency over decay and
death. He has held and still holds the |
undying love of the best and purest men
on earth He has shot life through and |
through with sacredness. He has filled |
humanity with an enthusiasm for |
righteousness that conquers evil and !
brings peace and joy to the heart, just |
as the soft south winds push back the
Icy storms and bring summer to the
waiting earth.
Humanity has learned it's worth since
Christ has come to enable men. He
leads us to highest conception of the
possibilities Of life and fills us with
strength to attain such heights. What
man has done man can do, and by
wondrous precept, and more wonderful
example Christ as Son Of Man, inspires
us with rarcst hopes, ard energies us
with sacred passion for the establish
dng Of a brotherhood in which righteous
ness re!gns.
What think We of Christ? And across
the years many mighty spirits make
answer The poets, led by Dante. sad
lone spirit, so full of wondrous thought:
Chaucer in quaint English guise. and
Milton and Shakespeare (rancy's sweet
est child) and Cowper, and Coleridge
and Wordsworth and many another
bright soul following in their train reply
he was the soul Of our poetry, our in
SEPARATION, and our JOY
ASK the men of thought-Bacon,
Licke, Leibnitz, Newton and Berkeley
and Kent, Schelly and Hyne, and they
confess that Christ stands alone, pre-
eminent among men,.
ASK the philanthropist, the men and
women who have been foremost in doing
good to man, and Bernard, Francis
d'Assisi, John Howard Mrs. Fry, Flor
ence Nightingale, Wilberforce. surround
ed by the noble band of all our good
Samaritans, make answer, He inspired
us with love for men and hatred for
wrong that saps mems strength
ASK the musicians, the great masters
who have woven for us the divine har-
monies of the oratorio and for answer
they bid us listen to Elijah st Paul.
THE Redemption The Messiah
ASK the painters and eculptors who
have made mute canvass speak of love
and holiness and chiseled the shapeless
marble into noblest form, and answer
comes from famed Giotto and Fra An
gelico, from Michael Angelo and Raph-
ael, from artists many down to our pres
ent time, He has been our dream by
night and our joy by day to depict him
worthily was the highest, thought alas
most hopeless feat of man.