The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-01-01
AT DWIGHT PLACE CHURCH
"THE ENDING YEAR IND THE En-
DURING CHRIST,o

FEATURES OF II DiscOurse Delivered ny
Rev. Or. William w. Leete Yesterday
\ Forenoon.
Fl AT the Dwight Place church Rev. DR..
Leete's morning theme yesterday was
"The Ending Year and the Enduring
Christ" His text was Hebrews xiii, s.:
Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, to-
day and forever" The substance of his
sermon was in part as follows:
I'VE live in world where things are
constantly changing. The scenes and
circumstances Of childhood quickly give
place to those of youth and manhood.
We may visit the old home, but we
find many things changed We notice
the old fence has been taken away, the
trees are rent and some of them torn
down. Even the color of the house
has changed. Our own father and
mother, if still spared to us, are chang
ed. Their hair is whittier, their step is
feebler, but the love in their hearts
for us is still the same. Their forms
change but their hearts remain as ten
der and true as the years roll on. Their
is still the same sunshine in the little
room, and at night we see the same
moonbeams glitteIng over familiar
scene. We see the same stars as of old,
and though our friends change, our
circumstances change and we our
selves change, we know that God does
not change, Jesus Christ does not
change, and our love for the old story
of the cross is still the same The story
of the wonderful life from the babe of
Bethlehem to the years of divine teach
ing and healing, to the patient endur
ance of that life, the death on the
cross, the resurrection from the dead,
the message of life for mankind is still
dear to the human heart and seems
still freshly written every year.
1.-THE truths taught by our Lord Jesus
Christ are as necessary to the world to-
day as they ever were. His rule of life
does not change. Men have mastered
many mysteries have learned to con-
troll to some extent the wind and the
waves and many other things, but the
old problem of the mastery Of self and
of adjusting human life so that it will
be in harmony with it's surroundings is
a problem still unsolved and it's only
solution is found in Him who is the
same yesterday and to-day and for
ever. The temptations of human life
are still the same as in Eden. The
methods of the tempter have not chang
ed. Ye shall be as gods is still the sub
tie suggestion. The dedication of self
or the deifica tion of God are still the
alternatives In the problems of sins
and death, of holiness and life of how
to be at peace with God and how to
be at peace with man amid the various
warning passions there is ever a north
star for our guidance and if we enter
the safe port it must be under obed-
fence to the captain of our salvation,
the Lord Jesus Christ
1.-THE great ideas Of our Christianity
God, conscience, duty, immortality,
1ove-are what the world needs. These
ideas have been moving men down
through the ages. Under the rule of
Jesus Christ governments become just
human life becomes transformed. The
walls of the sacrifices of human vic
Tins nave been changed to the glad
Christian songs, the glad Hosannas
the TIE Deums' Other great truths are
often propounded but have no such
force in them to carry them out. Chris
tianty is a propagating force. Shakes
peare gave the world many beautiful
thoughts, and men have been great ad-
mirers Of his ideas, but no societies
have been formed to carry them to 9TH
er lands. But Christianity has been
carried and propagated and has chang
ed countries and peoples and instead of
the horrors of cannibalism we see har-
bors filled with the ships of Christian
commerce and people worshipping in
Christian congregations. Jesus Christ
is still the same in that He brings to us
Ahe love of God, which is the great an
hor of the soul. And this love has
-pst wonderful Transforming power.
me harlot and the prophligate have
taken hold of it and have been redeem
ed. We may call this salvation any
1aing we please, but there is in the
s@sss of Christ the great fact of the I'M
lffoIe love of Cod
- Leete here referred to the great
l6gcoveries of science, to the progress
Of the world empires, to the marvellous
progress of the nineteenth century in
many, lines, especially to the progress
pf Christianity and noting among many
bther things the fact that the Christian
church had made more progress during
this century than during all the pre-
ceeding ones. He said Jesus Christ is
the same teacher for the present and
future as for the past. The great
truths of Christianity are now estab-
lished beyond preadventure. Sin is still
the scourge of the world. Jesus Christ
is still the source of moral strength and
power Let Him have His way in hu- I
man society and the world will be
paradise Charles Dickens was once
asked what he thought was the choic-
est piece of literature, and he named
''the beautitudes" Mr.. keene said
there was one sentence no actor could
properly pronounce. 1t was Come I'm