The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-07-23
AT DWIGHT PLACE CHURCH
TINE SERMON BY REV. DWIG HTM
 PRATT OF CINCINNATI.
ject and the Sermon Was Listened to by Large Congresation-Wher Truth Originate ed and Where it Exists.

A strong sermon was preached yester' day morning at Dwight Place church by the Rev. Dwight Mallory Pratt oi Walnut Hill Congregational church Cincinnati, O. The subject of Rev. MT Pratts sermon was Gods Estimate of Man" and he spoke in substance as fol- lows:
 Truth originated with persons, and never exists apart from persons. IL takes it's rise fin God. All truth issues from and gives expression to His per sonality. With marvelously clear conviction of his oneness with God Jesus could say I am the truth
 ''The great teachers of history are. it's great personalities. The life that touches God becomes a revelation of truth Men write themselves. The Bi- ble is a record of personal experience. When Peter says in the text We are not redeemed with corruptible things as sil- yer and gold but with the precious blood of Christ he is simply proclaiming discovered truth is writ ing out of his own inner life
 "Outside of Christ's redemptive work man has no means of estimating his own worth. The ancient civilization as- scribed no inherent value to a human life Children could by law, be put to death by their parents. Women lived a life of seclusion and servitude. The mass of men were slaves; even poets like Terence. philosophers like Epecte- tus, and wise men like Aesop. By be- coming standard of divine measure ment the cross became the greatest emancipating power in the world. It revealed man to himself by making him acquainted with Gods conception of his worth
 For nineteen centuries this truth has been lifting, lifting lifting man to high CT levels.
 Tt Is the most comforting truth In the world. It is a great thing to be told that one is worth saving. Many an outcast of London was reclaimed by the Earl of Shaftsburys ability to awaken in him a sense of new and possible manhood The fathers estimate of the prodigal in the parable and not the wayward boys estimate of himself was the means of his redemption.
 "This truth is the only basis of a genuine and abiding self-respect. With out conscious right relations to God true self-respect is impossible.
 "A mans moral standard reveals his estimate of his own worth. Any toler- ated evil indicates low and inferior valuation Of ones self
 Mate, ial values can be known only in the light of this fundamental spiritual truth. Diamonds were of no value to the savages of South Africa nor gold and silver to the Indians of the Rocky mountain. As these men were lifted to manhood by ideals of purity, of home culture, of divine manhood, all material things took on value and the industries and arts of civilization supplanted the nakedness of organism.
 "One who accepts Gods estimate for himself puts the same divine valuation upon others. This sent Carey to India. Morrison to China, Moffatt to South Africa. This will be the only redemp- ton of China where, without the gospel, human life is utterly of no worth This is the only preventative of the worlds evil for a Christian cannot do injustice to his fellow man. The moment he deals with man as a child of God. an | heir of heaven, a being of immortal | worth he sacrifices the material to win l the man and not the man ta gain pos session of the material