The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-10-01
Rev. W. A. Spalding at the First
United Presbyterian Church.
HE is A FoRclsLg SPEAKER.
discusses "Chrfstian onwsrdness"
Mans Ideals Rule His Life Even
In Struggle for wealth-Past
Only Useful for Its Experience
Services at the other Churches.

Rev. W. A. Spalding. the new pastor Of
the First United Presbyterian church. at
sixth avenue and Seneca street. preached
ms rrst sermon I'm this city yesterday
morning TO a large congregation. He
proved himself a fluent and agreeable
speaker with a forcibie style that Gre
ated very favorable impression on his
hearers
The subject Of DR. spaIding's sermon
was. christian onwardness." his text
being, Il press toward the mark for
the prize OF the high calling OF God
In Christ Jesus" Phil, tlfii In sub
stance he spoke "a follows.
While the words OF tho text are the
express purpose of a great soul they are
we'll worthy being made the motto az any
number OF smaller souls The world both
secular and Christian, has made great
from the pen Of the great apostle Of the
Gentiles and yet the goal OF perfection
has not been reached.
We live in an intensely practical and
serious age: entirely too practical for
any man 70 bank on the good which ne
or DIS ancestors may have wrought
IN the time past. Onward f. the word.
anu Tor Christians II Is upward and
onward a high calling. one that lifts
things.
ness, The two chief thoughts are: First,
it means calling out from somewhat
There are our low ideals II IS trite
lius'ration 10 say that stream cannot
rise higher than it's source. The fric-
ton OF It's environment. and other re-
sistances cause IL to fall much below
the fountain So also, f. It that no
man can rise above his ideal for in an
important sense the ideal is the fountain
spring Of life, and above this he cannot
rise In his actions. II is the men who
think high that do high, and the highest
facts of which we have knowledge are
but the realization OF some noble man :,
highest thoughts.
Ideal Rules Money World.
You take II in the realm of money
getting and even there the ideal rules
Here are TWO men; one can make money
as fast and as easily as the other the
ideal OF one IL TO amBss a fortune. the
Ideal q the other IL TO relieve some OF
the suffering and sorrow and sin OF the
world. Each man Is diligent In business
not so much for business sake as for
his ideals sake think that God calls
them TO the ministry. And God saws. 'He
that winneth souls IL wise and He was
not speaking only TO the ministry. SO
the ultimate ideal beyond the MONEY!
getting can be. ought to be. more than
the mere money having
THE apostle In our text gives everyone
encouragement to say God helping me.
am going 10 reach a certain point but
that point ought not be beneath the
stars. and then II must Of necessity take
In all between the present standing place
=.
Is out from low ideals. an uplift above
the mean. groveling sentiments that must
ind their highest contamination in that
little space OF time bounded by our little
somewhat let as go. knowing that step
by step as we mount TO the highest we
must touch and pass all the lower reaches
OF the less ambitious,
"'rhen we are called away from the
things that are behind. our sins and
our neighbors' sins are 10 be forgotten.
f1nfr .tfs
remember them no more against us for
ever, and we ought not. Our neighbors'
sins because IL we VIII help him. and be
most Influential In leading him up toward
God. 1t will only work harm 20 remember
them. Then there are mistakes. errors
OF Judgment, almost az direful in their
results as sins. Christian onwardness
says. Don't ruin your whole life by griev-
ing over an error OF Judgment Then
there are the failures and successes and
sorrows and 10Y and; indeed. all the pas,
says Leave them behind rover sits
with his back to the bow OF the boat
because no can pull more than he can
left behind, only that ne may better
keep them dead astern. The sea OF life
IL wide and Wild and strange, and we
cannot know what lies beyond the ris>,
OF a days Journey. but we DO know that
nothing lies behind except points TO
conc second thought Is; Christian on
what In the frst instance that some
what Is salvation. personal, individual
This Is the FIRST step. and you can~o,
take the second until you have taken
the nrst Nav | assume that each one
here has taken that hrst step, That
YOU have been saved. and have found
peace through faith then the second
step, and tho only second step IA a
calling 10 the highest possible moral
life.
Goal of Christianity.
Men OF tho world may ba satisfied
with morality that will keep them out
of the clutches of the law, hut our
gudeSook Gays. Re not couformea 20 thls
world They may De satisfied with A
morality that will give a position Of honor
and trust. but our guiaeaook says He
VI TRANSFORMED by the renewing 8f your
mind that We may prove what - that good
and acce * able and perfect viii - floa
THE highest possible attainment az Chris
ton Afa and character IN this world And
fimo Is tho ideal mark which IA the
hfxA calling Of God IN Chgisi for the
Christian man, know not how far short
vau or | may cofne % a.. AlH that "a
ths goal, ard We dare rot remove or