The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1901-07-02
SECULAR AND SACRED RELATIONS.
DR.. Kilgo Defines These in His Sermon Sun
day Night,

DR.. KilgO preached Sunday night at
Edcnton Street church His theme was
The Correlation of the Religious and
Secular Life and his sermon began with
the statement that "a failure to make
every line of life a religious work is a
failure to make life what it should be.
He who fails to be religious in everything
fails to be religious in anything
DR.. Kilgo decried the efforts of those
who would destroy the line of demarca-
tion between secular and sacred things
and make everything sacred as we'll as
the effort to make everything secular.
There are sacred places and secular
places, there is a difference between the
pulpit and a bench in the capital square
between the morning paper and one of
Paul's Epistles, between a social party
and funeral. The effort to make
everything religious is to break down the
limitations which God has established,
just as is the effort to make it all secu-
lar, even though the men who go to
these extremes are homes. in their en-
deayors.
There is need to broaden these terms
for all things that are honorable to do
have the essence of religion in them. 1t
would be wearing to make life a continu-
Gus song and continuous worship
There is place for work and there are
phases of life to be considered out from
the altar and the closet We must
broaden our idea of serving God. for that
man serves God who serves men, and
whatever service you and render to God
must be rendered him here. There is a
service to God to be performed in the
bank, at the counter in the ditch, a. the
wash board; everywhere men and women
are serving Him when they are truly
meeting the necessities of life
There is one thing about the God that
| serve" said the preacher. 'Hc's got
sense. There's not single word in the
Book that shows him to be a fanatic
Am doing religious work in manag-
ing college? Either l am or | am not.
Ii not ought to get out. 1t is a very
short sighted man who would speak of
education as semi-religious. Bringing
forth the faculties of the mind for service
to the world is religious work. The editor
whose paper is filed with lines of truth
and who presents right ideas is doing re-
ligious work. God needs such service
1t is right that men should be paid for
these things The preacher is justly due
his pay just as other laborers. God re-
cognized this when he had a tenth of the
gross income set aside from the first
fruits for His servants in the temple.
preacher should be paid not in pennies
and poundlngs at Christmas. There's
not line in the Book that shows that
God wants service of any kind without
paying for it: it's just the other way. and
he pays in proportion to the worth of a
mans work.
do you think your service is worth as
much 10 your people as a bishop's?" said
DR.. Xilgo, looking at Pastor Smith. your
people don't think SO. DO you think am
worth as much as President Mckinley?
Ii you do wish you would show it. You
send men to the State Legislature whom
you would never think Of sending to the
Senate OF the United States. Some of
them would not even suit for door keep
ers there. | have seen such. They are
not class, but there have been such.
THE one question is, are you trying to
build up your business and endeavoring
to keep in harmony with God and with
what is right in religion. II whatever
you do is in His name and for Him then
you are In harmony with Him. The mo-
tive Is the thing. II your idea is to get
a compensation and to render a service
commensurate with it that Is all God ex-
poets. But 1t must be done right. then
it's righteousness. II you have to be at