The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-06-04
THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
Sermon mt the New York Avenue
Presbyterian Church.


New York Avenue nPrezbyterian Church
Rev. Wallace Radcliffe took for the text Of
his sermon Palms xix:4, IN them hath
he set tabernacle fer the sun
In opening the sermon DR.. Eaic,iffe said:
I'm the French revolution frerz.ed atte-
list attacked a peasant. saying, We will
tear down your churches. destroy your
saints. burn your Bibles, and kill your
clergy to which the peasant quietly an
swered: But you will leave us the
stars?'" Continuing. Or. Radcliffe said
that God speaks from the heavens. Lock
ing up to the stars we recognize the power
Of the Almighty. AS the sun stands the
central object CT all things terrestrial. so
the sun of righteousness is the centre OF
all things divine.
Further on in the course CT his sermon
DIR. Radcliffe said: This world was no.
made for Caesar; 1t was made for CHI ist
and in the council OF creation his person
ality was considered to greater ex eat
than anythil- a'i Air and beauy tie
stars. the fruit and flowers. all beings. a |
conditions. are of him. ard fer him. nj
through him. in whom We live and no
and have our being. There wss time
when Christ. the sun CT righteousness. as
not; darkness covered the earth AID gro5B
darkness the people. Mon DID not see Il r
care TO see the coming glcTy: they Lived
and died; as generations came and went
they saw little and thought less. p op IL is
and psalmists themselves did not undo
stand the glory of the light in which tn
stood, at the same time sending from
themselves the word that ives light, TN i!
by and by. through deed and Song and his
tory. through incarnation and resurrec-
ton. Jesus Christ appeared. Bsne of cur
bone, flesh of our flesh. he care al tie
bridegroom cometh forth from his cham
Der. sending forth the thought CT his love
and ministry, the charm and power of his
winning love, that humanity and human ty
might be bound tegether by enc Lo2e. one
idea, and one thought, glory. LIE. This is
redemption.
We persist in constant eclipse OF the
sun. We cover his beauty with sack lOtl
and ourselves with ashes. We always look
through smoked glass; we lecloui ev<ry-
thing that is beautiful. The sun com s
forth upon the morning He looks w on a
barren waste, fruitless trees, d; d-u)
wells. pestilence. s!:kness. and poverty:
and yet the sun makes gal the earth.
There is nothing like the sun that SO glad
deneth the earth. Jesus thus co reth az
the sun OF righteousness. He looks for h
indeed upon desert WASTE. but he re-
with living water. ard give TO these dying
ones the touch CT eternal life. He re-
ioiccth even though he walk through
desert place, when he brirgs the mirist-y
of Joy and salvation. Nothing is bird N
from the heat of the sun. Sem may hi lie
from the light. Upon the cool AID he
evil alike he sondeth forth his beams Of
light Men may hide themse ON he
light. but nothing is hidden from tn. heat
thereof. No man can entirely secluGe him
self from the influences of Jesus Carts.
"All developments of III, come to VI
frcm the pierced hards Of Carist from CAL
vary. We can't escape his in.iuarce: you
can't escape the heat of the sun of Iigtt-
cousness. a man is lost. Eot because re
hasn't the light. but beclus, he does
move in the light. Only in the rays of the
sun Of righteousness taerc is ga vati N. A
good many tell us that they want to i'm !
prove the sun, the Bible. the revelation
But TO. they can't patch up the sun. tn
can't improve the sun, they can't inn rove