The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-19
ANACONDA NEWS.
It IS A DEATHLESS LIFE.
That in Christ Is As Fresh To
Day AS at Creation.
WILL NEVER GROW OLD
Christ Becoming All To-Day in Our HUI
manities and in Our Patriotism.
Rev. W. r. Busters Ser
mon Yesterday.

Rev. w. T.. custer, pastor or the
First NJ. E. church, preached to fine
audience yesterday from the text found
in Colossians Sill. Seeing that we have
put off the old man with his deeds, and
have put on the new man, which is
renewed in knowledge after the image
of Him that created him, where there
is neither Greek nor Jew circumcision
nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scy-
THAN, bond nor free, but Christ is all
and in ALL He said in part:
When we realize the conditions at
Colossal in the timeof Paul and see
what he desired them to understand,
in relation to the gospel of
Christ we shall have a better
and broader idea of the truth as it
is in Christ Jesus. To effect this has
been found necessary in all ages. 1t
is an easy matter to distinguish the
old from the new world. Upon the
hinges of the first advent the door of
the future swings open, while the door
of the past swings closed. The new
has been growing ever newer as the
ages have passed by, while the old has
been ever growing older
While in the reverie of the study
there came an illustration to mind
which / once experienced. Over the
dust-covered plains of Nevada, where
for many weary miles nothing but
dreary wastes of sage brush could be
seen, the train swung YEARLY: at hot
monday, at dull and dusty evening 1t
crept along, all too slowly. AT times
there would be just little breaking
Ct the monotony; and when at last the
end of that mysterious Humboldt river
was reached, where far along the
mountain side one can see where in
previous ages the water mark testified
to sea higher and grander than the
murky and stagnant waters that now
are therefor the river here sinks I'M
der the mountains-there came the
thought of the ldow rold. 1t was just
like that. Selfshness, pride, hatred,
avarice and inhumanity, mingled with
fearful sensualty, had dried and blast
ed it all. Far UP along the noun
tain side one could see a mark indicat-
ing that ages before some golden age
had existed before men were corrupted
and fallen as they then were. Our
train climbed in and out up the steep
grades of the Sierra Nevada mountains,
just as in the early ages Christianity
had the sleeps to climb, but when the
summit was passed and the valleys of
California We're entered, the great val
leys of oaken forests, the f1owery wales
the progress and life manifested in the
cities, plains and groves of the most
beautiful of lands.
Christ Will Never Grow Old.
$50 it has been with the new world,
and Christ has made it possible. What
ever else may grow old the spirit, the
power and the life in Christ will never
grow old. 1t is as new to-day as it
was in the morning of creation it will
be as new and as fresh when proba-
tons day is done as it is now. Creeds
may pass away, systems may decay
economies may vanish, but these things
which are the fundamentals of our re-
ligion will remain forever and forever
new and becoming newer all the time.
Christ is becoming all to-day In our
humanities. No sister of charity ever
kneels beside a wounded soldier upon
the field of battle, no deaconess ever
seeks out the poor and those in want,
no nurse ever kneels beside the suffer-
ing one in the hospital without Christ
being back of that and it's inspiration
too. The institutions of mercy found
in Christian lands have all been in
spired by Christ. To do unto others as
we would have them do unto us, and to
have the established principle of flu
ture responsibility to be as it is given
in the closing words of the 25th chap
ter of Matthew. where action in rela-
ton to the poor, the sick and the ones
in trial is the one thing looked upon
by our God: these must forever be the
foundation of all humanitarianism.
Christ in Patriotism.
Christ is coming to be all in our
patriotism In the old world. before
Christ came, the highest principle of
patriotism found was self-preservation
and conquest What cruelty, what in
humanity we see. there? The war of
the rebellion freed many slaves who
were helpless; our last war WAS found
ed upon a much higher principle than
any ancient war known to history.
Christ is reigning in culture. No one
can be right in life and in heart with
out being like Him, and as many owe
their all in character to Him, who will
not acknowledge His lordship as there
are active members in the church. He
is all in our liberties
81 never fully realized this until af-
ter taking part in a debate started by
infidels in an infidel neighborhood upon
the proposition: Resolved, That we
owe our liberties to Christianity From
o'clock in the evening until / o'clock
next morning the debate lasted, with
the city hall filled with people. The
leading inf1del of that place said next
lay: I have always depended much
upon the assertions of our infidel
friends and have taken for. granted
that they had the right side, but from
now on I am done with infidelity
Christ is all in our experiences, as
He should be all in our ritual, for it
means nothing excepting as it leads to
him. All denominations will yet unite
in spirit, being baptized by the spirit
of the cross, and they will unite at the
cross All schools of the higher life
who teach sanctification, holiness and
perfection, will yet meet. clasping
hands about the cross. Higher can no
one ever attain than the feet of Jesus;
better can no one ever attain than
was Christ, and highest and brightest
experience is found nearest His side
May He be all and in all to us in our
theology, our church work and our
lives as Christians. We can overcome
with Him. We can be prepared for
heaven and all its immortal and glori-
fed companionships through Christi
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