The daily morning journal and courier., 1899-07-17

"W0RKING OUT SALVATION"
SUBJECT or STRONG ADDRESS BY
 REV. R. T. MACNICHOL.
Delivered at Park M. E. Chapel, Morris Cove, Yesterday Anernoon-The Oc- casion of the Chnrch's Second Anni-

DeiiVereu at fafK M. H. Chapel, Morris Cove, Yesterday Afternoon-The Oc-
 casion of the Church's Second Anni- versnry.
 Yesterday was the second anniversary of the Park M. E. chapel at Morris Cove. The afternoon services were at- tended by an unusually large congre- gation among which were many cot tagers. The sermon was delivered by
 the Rev. R. T. McNichol of St. An
 drews' M. E. church, who congratulated
 the church upon the fact of it's having survived the early period in it's history and it's present prosperity He selected as his text the twelfth verse of the sec- ond chapter of Paurs address to the Philippians, Work out your own salva- tion," and as his subject Working Out Salvation"
 He spoke in part as follows: There is so much said nowadays about faith and works in the New Testament that 1t is not surprising that difference of
 opinion should exist among Christians
 in regard to the method of salvation
 how it is to be secured. And yet those
 who stand prayerfully in the light Of
 this holy book, which teaches the total
 depravity of man, is moral poverty and
 helplessness, and the infinite demerit of
 sin, teaching, which Is painfully corrob-
 orated by history, experience and obser-
 vation, it is astounding how any can
 did thinker and student of the Bible,
 can believe that by his own unassisted
 effort he can merit the favor of God,
 that he can compel the creator by virtue
 of anything he is or has done to admit
 him into that world of unspotted holi-
 ness, between which and the child of fallen Adam, apart from the atonement, exists barrier broader than the Atlan-
 tic and higher than the stars. A man can work out his own salvation as tree or animal can cooperate with external forces in its own development, but sal vation is not to be secured by human works. By grace are ye saved through faith" Grace is the source; faith is the condition. Faith is the gift of God as intellectual or physical power is the gift of God. Salvation is not the result of works lest any man should boast. But faith and work are inseperable. Every Christly Christian is an example of their influence.
 If then the salvation of the man can not be secured by any work the man may perform, if it Is not a debt, the divine being is obliged to pay to the human agent for his fidelity. What does St Paul mean when he eXhorts Work out your own salvation!" He meant Be workers together with God, because He worketh with you; therefore work with Him and thus work out your own salvation" God works in the soul of the believer as truly as He works in the air and in the earth. His power works in the Holy aspirations as well as in the equinoxial storm When the believer puts no limitation on Gods power, but says Thy will be done" he is then working out his own salvation People know themselves and others know God is within them or not. Like the tenuous principle of life He cannot | be seen or felt by the physical faculties. 1 He is invisible, but the product of His | inward operations Is visible to all.
 Cohesion keeps together the particles | of which all bodies are composed. The | principle is unseen, but it's effects are | Vegetable life in it's growth | and fruitage is everywhere conspicuous, but it's essence is totally hidden. That | which produces is out of sight. No one | can see it. No one can comprehend it's | mysterious force and yet no one doubts as to it's existence. As writer has said |
 Tt is hidden omnipotence, creative vitaIizing potency that speaks and shows itself in the blade, and | trunk and branches, and leaves and | buds and flowers and fruitage and rich harvests
 We cannot see the essence of human fife but it is there. God works in us as we'll as for us