The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-04-16
SERMON BY REV. E.BURNES
NEJV PASTOR OF HOWARD AVENUE
ME-. CHURCH.
Refers to Higher Criticism-Commcnts
on the Church's Rule Concerning
0us Life,

Oh tne CnuTChB hulc
Amusements-Rewar of the str-nu-
ous Life.
Rev. Harvey E. Burnes, formerly of
the First church of Bridgeport, preach
ed his first evening sermon in his new
passionate at the Howard avenue Meth
odist church last night He spoke very
eIoquently to a large congregation from
Gal. vi, 8: "And let us not be weary in
well doing for in due season we shall
reap If we faint not" He said in part:
THE epistle of the Galatians Is one of
the most remarkable books from the
hands of Paul. 1t is unique in this
that concerning it's authorship there is
no criticism or question. Christian ac-
ceptors and non Christian sceptical
scholars agree as to this, thereby con-
stituting it bedrock of solid evidence
upon which the authorship of the other
epistles accredited to Paul may be pre-
dicted
1.-THE people of Galatia were brave and
hardy. Rome had a severe struggle to
subjugate them, and therefore granted
them spscal favors after subjugation,
making their territory province of the
Roman empire. They were, however,
vain and vacillating The Germans
claim descent from the same stock, and
have been exhorted to avoid the same
errors. Napoleon III who attempted to
gain fame by writing a life of Julius
Caesar, stated that the Galatians and
the French were Of the same stock, and
some eminent English scholars have
held the same view. Indeed, the Gallo
characteristics are not unlike the Gala
tians. The Galatians early received the
gospel and founded many churches,
making glad the hearts of the apostles.
Then their vacillation became appar-
ent In their detection to the standards
of the Jewish church.
1.-THE epistle to the Galatians is the
Magma Charta of the Christian church.
Luther loved the book and said: 1T is
to me as my wife In it's pages he
found weighty weapons to hurl against
the Church of Rome. In the epistle
from which the text is taken, the CEN
trail figure is the favorite one of the
soWer. For do we not read, Behold, a
sower went forth to SOW and de we not
read also of him that soweth until the
flesh, and him that soweth unto the
spirit?' Paul says: Let us not weary
in well-doing.' To this WEAKNESS many
things contribute. One element is the
feeting that one to-day is worth two
to-morrows. We find the same senti-
ment expressed in our modern proverb
regarding the bird in the hand Yet
to- day makes tomorrow possible and |
two fine birds destroying insects in the |
bush are not less valuable while thus
fulfilling their destiny than one bird
captured and in hand. without a to- |
morrow to-day is not of use. We can
not afford to lie idle. In business We
do not do so. We teach children that
laziness does not pay But in spiritual
matters we proctastinate, and wink at |
the procrastination of others. We say
of the unfaithful: o, he will be reviv-
ed We say while losing the habit of
worship, %, by and by, perhaps I'll go
around again.
'Yet the religious life, being purely a
matter of the spirit, must be lived Wig
orously watchfully. There is nothing
to be seen. heard or touched in this
higher life In daily life the senses,
reliable as they are, control our acts.
Yet how little do we know of the souls
of those about us. That scoffer, laugh
ing there may laugh with a breaking
heart. That good man, smiling back
at us may smile with a heart bowed
under the sorrow of sin Those whom
we call good often act as if God were
far away. What they feel we cannot
know. Things we cannot describe af-
feet us deeply. What some one says
displeases u.s. or pleases US, we know
not why. We are happy now unhap-
ply within an hour. We say we will
not be like wicked Peter, denying
Christ and straightway do it. Many
people would go straight to heaven If
they died at a revival They run the
race well, then tire, walk, stand, sit, lie,
and finally sleep. And why these things
are so we cannot tell.
1.-THE new knowledge confuses. Some
new physical principle causes the Cos
pei to be discredited. Further research
shows its conclusion faulty, and the
scientific book that men hailed as the