Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-01-31
IN THE SANCTUARlES.
MANY ELOQUENT SERMONS DELIv-
Erred IN THE CHURCHES SUNDAY.
BISHOP JACGAR TO The YOUNG MEN.
He Spoke Plainly, hut With Grent
EIoauence and Force-Dr. Moore on
the Cunciform TnbIcts-Tbe Drum
mer Evangelist.

Bishop Jaggar preached n magnificent
sermon 20 young men Sunday night at st.
| Pauls. and. by special request, he re-
peated a sermon delivered three weeks
ago. which the vcstry at the time Of
its first delivery, deemed specially calcu-
lated TO be helpful to the young men Of
the various educational institutions Of
the city, who were specially invited
and who attended In great numbers. the
weather being considered. The main floor
Of the large audience-room OF st. Pauls
was filed throughout. and there were
numbers in the galleries. The Bishop has
been preaching, at night. mainly from the
Old Testament. and his text for the eve
ming was a part Of the 2lst verse Of the
18th chapter Of the Book Of Judges:
"Then Zebah and Zalmunna said. Rise
thou and fall upon us. for as the man
IS. so is his strength"
MANS DESIRE FOR STRENGTH.
After a graphic review Of the antece-
dent story, and portrayal Of the immedi-
ate sccne-to-wit. the death Of Zebah
and Zalmunna. the two princes OF MI
dcin. routed and captured in battle and
finally cut down by the sword Of Gideon
himself in the midst Of the assembled
hosts of Isracl-the Bishop spoke wisely
and relievingly Of that savage age and
time.
lie then alluded to the almost univer-
sal and hoalthful desire of man for
strength and power-not for strength
only, hut for the power amongst men
which strength gives. lie spoke Of this
desire as specially characterzing young
men who had any outcome in them, and
then he pointed out three or four kinds
Of strength which men coveted and
sought TO develop.
He began upon the lowest plane Of mus
cular strcngth-more brute force-the Ro-
man gladiatorial ideal. utterly out of date
i'm our Christian age and civilization.
Every man recognizes the value of bodily
health and strength. but only as means
10 an end. No man who has anything
in him regards the development of such
strength as a worthy aim in life
He next alluded to the man whose am
bition is simply for success in society
for that superficial. Vc1ecriug Of beauty
Of person. dress and manner which gives
man a certain sort OF prominence and
influence in what we call Society" Here
again. he said. no true man would be
willing TO admit such aim in life.
while every true gentleman Will concede
that a certain regard 20 attractive APP
pearauce among ones fellows is not to be
reprOYed or dcspised. The Bishop was
somewhat severe upon "the society man.
but only upon that society man who
knows no higher aim in lie than mere
social success.
lie then rose 10 the strength, the pow.
er and influence of the merely intellec-
tual man. infinitely higher than the life
and aim Of the two classes already cha
racterized, but still to be condemned UNI
sparingly if regarded and followed as
the highest aim in life. He spoke most
and pathetically of the lew |
great human intellects Of the world who |
have recognized nothing higher or more |
inspiring than their own development and !
The exercise of their own intellectual |
powers.
THE COMPOSITE MAN.
lie spoke next of the strength Of self !
Will. saying that many a young man is |
misled just at this point. and then pic !
ured what he termed the composite man, !
as he said, a peculiar development of our |
own AuglO-SaXon civilization in these lat |
Ter days having something i'm him Of al 4
he classes before sketched. but being, |
II his aggregate personality. an advance !
upon them all. As an illustration of this /
class he spoke Of some OF the dudes and |
,Iub men of New York society who had |
ately won distinction al the lannon's |
mouth. The informing spirit of these men !
was the idolatry of manhood. Many OF |
hose who had mingled with them in the |
lance and revcl of exaggerated society /
Il u raft
SIN. and the sturdy manhood they had |
displayed i'm march and biy0uac and bat
le--On the bloody fields Of Santiago and |
N all the combats Of our late Spanish
var. The Bishop however. reminded his /
audience that life comprehended some
hing more than society and war-tO-wit |
he modest, regular daily duties of the
.itizen. and Of the man responsible Tor
he daily bread ana the proper training |
If "A family. and ne lamented that many |
If these men. when they returned again |
20 their homes, had proved themselves
again utterly unequal TO the test-show-
ug that after all, idOlatry or manhood
rs a motive power is not enough TO lit
lne 90 live worthiiy and well the daily
life of man. He appealed TO the compo-
iite man" to change and elevate his IDEAL
and concluded the sermon with a graphic
Who. lacking an favorable adventurous
circumstances, had yet lived a life of
supreme power and supreme benehcent
man Jesus, the peasant,
and the carpenter of Nazareth. who had
'cVolutionzed the ideals. the convictions,
he conditions, and the character of the
Norld-banishing from il more and more
IF evil and breathing into it more and
more of good.
The young men who We're fortunate
enough 10 hear this thrilling sermon
cannot but be helped by it, and it is
hoped the Bishop may be induced on
some fitting occasion 10 preach again 10
the young men of Richmond.
DIR. Moore on Cuneiform Tablets.
Rev DR.. W. w. Moore, of Union Theo-
logical Seminary, delivered Sunday al tho
Second Baptist church the second cf his |
highly intellectual discourses on the Ties
timony of the Monuments to the Truth
Of the Bible" His theme was THE Bible
ana the Cuaeiform Tablets" The church
was filled and much interest was mani
Tested by the large congregation. DR..
Moore said i'm part:
THE two most ancient seats Of CiviliZl-
lion and empire known 10 history are the
valleys of the Nile and the Euphrates.
Oi Egypt and of the relations existing
between her hoary records and those OF
the Bible we have already spoken. We
Y sh this evening to speak of MesOpO- |
-amia, where records equally ancient ana.
Id the student OF Scripture even more
Important than those of Egypt have been
brought 10 light in our own day In the
most romantic manner. Fortunately for
Is. these records are not In the form Of
ordinary books. as in that case they !
would never have survived the treatment |
they have received, but of terra Gotta
nblets. which, when moist and soft. were