The Newtown bee., 1900-01-05

body of the incarnate God in the world must continue to be the same body, the dwelling place of the same eternal spirit or it is none of His.
 II Christ then came into the world to es, tablish visible, organic kingdom, pos sessing and dispensing invisible. spiritual graces, gifts and privileges. To be g member of that kingdom means to be in the way of obtaining by loyal citizen ship, the gifts and graces and final alory that, as far as we know, can be obtained through no other channel. In this re. spect the Kingdom of God bears the strictest resemblance to, and analogy with, the kingdom of the world. Birth, loyalty and obedience are the conditions of citizens title to the full enjoyment of his privileges in this republic. Bap- tions of effectual citizenship in the King dom of God. Baptism, then. is the only process known to Christ and His Church by which men are received into the out ward body of the kingdom.
 LOYAL FAITH AND WILLING OBEDIENCE, 6 desire to do as the Father would have us do In ali that He has commanded in His law or In His church, then are the conditions without the fulfillment of which our nominal citizenship is as use- ] less to us as are naturalization papers nd ffo aF kn, the life prisoner st Sing Sing.
 It is sad, aye sinful thing, that the outward union, 80 evidently intended by our Saviour Christ, should be lacking among those who have been born by an outward rite into the visible Kingdom of God. I am not now going to advocate this form of church government or that, the position of the Anglican church, together with nine-tenths of Ghristendom is too safely entire Rched In the Bible, in history and in common sense to need any advocacy from nae, but am going to in- sist that whatever mans relationship in the church. Amay be, whatever school of thought he may adhere to, whatever form his Christianity may take, he must make sure of this one thing, that his choice or his preference is based upon & motive that Chrlst is willing to accept, and he must have made that choice out of 8 sense of duty, moved by his loyalty and obedience to Christ and from no other motive under the sun. The question for you or
 cn Is ,aSsSe tk E.1 9s .xpx SS AR. s S,, But the question is: How does God send his gospel?" Is it not exceedingly strange that higher code of ethics pre- vaiis about this thing in the political than iR tic spiritual life. Be mans motive ever so low and selAsh in his choice of party, there Is public opinion to demand of him that ne must be ready to defend his party by rational argumens, that he must try to convince men that
 THE GOOD OF THE COUNTRY
 and not merely his own interest dictates his policy.
 \ Did you ever hear of man turning Democrat because his wife's mother had QuarEeIed with the aunt of 8 Republican h candidate's sister-in-law. Did you ever hear Of 8 man becoming an sdllerenE of Free Silver or Single Tax in order to get 8 higher social standings Though party allegiance is undoubtedly in 99 cases out 100 inherited from father to son, yet you would have hard work to get B man to acknowlege that he is incapable of form ing his own opinion on public questions, I Loyalty and reason and the public good are ever the motives by which men at Ieast profess to be inspired In civil life. Are loyalty and faith and the church's good the motives that men even care enough about to profess in respect of their religious allegiances7 Not st all, A quarrel with the minister, the gossip of Mrs Jones about Mrs Brown. the social inferiority of the Smiths to the de SnyEhes, the devasEatfons or Jensin,a chickens m Adarns' garden, avery man ner os trivial and disgusting thing ia argued as sufficient reason tor religious strife and Apoatacy, What kind of 3 kingdom Of God shall this be where men hold opinions about their duty as citixens that they would be ashamed to own at a political caucus.
 Surely it Is an evidence of She Ind we'll Ing vitality of Christianity thas at eur- wives in spite Of all the maaa, gcontampt- |ibls thinga by which Christian men en- deavor to bring 1t Into disrepuEe. The intelligent, the loyal Churchuan. the Churehnan who has the love oE God in nls heazt and iIktIs aelfrsspscE in his ahsxaesas sa 2 churosszaan sronl pFirOiplsI