The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-09-23
REV. DR. HAYNES SERMON
INACCEPTING PASTORATE OF THE
 UNITED CHURCH.
ssEor What Intent Have Nc eSent for Me:' Eloquent Discourse on tho Purpose Large Congregation Present.

l Eloquent Discourse on 'he H"'Poso ] and Power of the Christian Ministry
 Large Congregation Present.
 Rev. Dr. A. J. Haynes, formerly of Plymouth church, Chicago, who has ac- cepted the pastorate of United church this city, for year, conditionally with the hope of his parishioners that his health may so improve as to make the engagement permanent, preacheu lo ct large congregation yesterday morning. His sermon was the one Whlch he hau Intended to deliver week ago yester- day, at the opening of his pastorate' but which he postponed owing to the assassination of the president, preach ing an extenpore sermon instead on the crime and it's lessons. Rev. Dr. Haynes is living in Great Harrington Mass. for the present and yesterday was the guest of Albert $. Holt, t1 Dwight street
 Rev. Dr. Haynes sermon yesterday was personal and powerful. Rev Dr. Munger, pastor emeritus of the cnurch' was one of the most interested hsteh- CTS in the large congregation. lhe sermon was on "The Purpose ana row CT of the Christian Minister" and the
 text was from the acts, 1O 29: Ihere-
 fore came I unto you without gam saving, as soon as I was sent for: ask therefore for what intent ye nave sent for mel" The pastor rerereu to Peter and Cornelius, each of whom hao experienced a vision, had seen Heaven
 opened" while engaged in prayer anu
 ont of whose conference regarding the
 visions arose the enquiry of the text
 and the answer of Cornelius NOW
 therefore, are we all here present De- fore God to hear all things that are ocm-
 manded thee Of God
 On that point the speaker added, II
 is thus with the ministry. The enquiry
 comes to the preacher from the people
 what Is the message you pring! nepiS ing the speaker said:
 "For myself I can only say that tnls is my purpose in coming to you' to
 speak the things that have been com manded me of God; and so far as II may be given me to speak those things
 without fear or prejudice. You cannot expect me in one sermon to more than outline the general scope Of my mes'
 sage.
 'The main features of the Gospe may be outlined in single sentence.
 "I do not expect that we shall DC obliged to beat over old ground togeth' 5 CT. On the map of the Kings country : there Is always marked vast deal ol !, unexplored territory. This is the JOY !. of the Christian thought and life, tha , we may be forever penetrating, witt 9 some secret depths of the holy mystery t of Gods life used our being in Him. l Increased knowledge of tn [ method of creation makes pc Q lief in God more and more imperative I Evolution has unfolded the nationality of the universe, and compelled thinkin' e men to postulate a supreme intelli s gence. The underlying unity of things l the continuous unfolding of everythini
 from simple to complex forms, forc upon men the conviction that ther n must be some far-reaching purpose Ii j. creation. No, 1t Is not the question Q I Gods existence that Is troubling thi
 modern world; 1t is the question Of Ill :. character-not. "Is there God?' ou' | "What shall I think of Him?"
 And it is Just here that would brln 2 to bear the full emphasis of my minis = try. I would show you that God is n being of love, and because of this, lov - and not fear or conscience, should b s the ruling motive of human action. l U establishing this fundamental of faitf I am aware how I shall be opposed s two classes of critics. First. ther
 will be those who draw their chlet VleN l. of evil from the realm of nature. The Y will claim that science passes ster s Judgment upon the ethical character C T. God. They will point out the cruelt
 and rapine in nature. If they expres l' themselves In the language Of sc1enc ,- they will talk about the struggle 10 X life" and the Survival of the fittest A' if they express themselves in poetr!
 they may quote the words of Tennysor ls For nature Is one with plunder, y harm no preacher can heal,
 T. The may-fy is torn by the swallov t' the sparrow speared by the strike,
 And the whole little world where II sit is a world of plunder and prey,'' III Finally. their various objections wi II chrystalize into the practical question y "How is it possible that such God '- vou nreach could have created so ba
 a world?'
 And I may as well say at once thf
 shall be ready to confess that l car
 not adequately answer that questio It that is from the side of nature. To or sure. I can attempt some sort or a IS answer pointing the way to which,
 think. will be, some day, full and sa o' isfactory justification of Gods methe t, in creation. It Is only begging II
 question to say that the world is n In had-it is simply unfinished. Such
 answer is unworthy of one who mak
 even pretense to serious thinking NJ .. does it satisfy man who comprehent le the ethical gravity of the situation
 meet it by all such cumulative prll 1 c,nle as MT. Drummond's struggle r pr the life of others.' The rapines al a. cruelty are there just the same. l. sacrifice our life in the struggle for al
 other life, is to give us world that
 ethical only on the surface or It. M e. Drummond's principle pushed to d, 1oe,cal extreme, would justify the u
 +erance of Professor Huxley. that u to "ethical progress of society depends n D., an initiating the cosmic process, put a. combat ting It," which is tantamount
 .o,,,np that the method of God havil or r,roved failure, man Is called upon,
 he would succeed, to combat 1t.
 ,p uava I here raised problem that
 a,.,oo Jt would seem so, vet