The Brunswick times-call. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1900-1902, 1901-09-21
VEN. cASSIL's ADDRESS.
On the Christian Life of the Late President
Mckinley.

In accordance with our desires and
those Of large number of Brunswick
iaus who were prevented by rain from
attending the memorial services Thurs
day, we here vi h reproduce the address
of Ven. Harry Cassil on the Christian
life Of the late President Mckinley.
He took for text the 9th verse of
the first chapter of the Epistle General
of st James: Pure religion and uude-
fled before God and the Father is this,
To keep himself unspottsd
from the world"
He said in part:
Uudefiled, spotlsss, pure: Spotless
purity--that is Gods standard for man;
a standard which He never lowered for
a minute. Whatever men may think,
however they msy reason, when the
forces Of right and wrong are Rrrayed
against each other, God never onoc,
thought Of a compromise, Pure, un-
defiled, unspot ted-thess are the de-
scriptive words. When, in the begin
ming Of earthly things, Jehovah created
the frat Adam. the first man, n "living
soul, he made him in the image Of GOD
pure, stainless, sro'less, boly-as all
things are coming from the hand of
the Great Creator. Four thousand
years later, when the second Adam, the
second man, a "qulckening spirit" was
begotten. He came from the same
Father with same stainless purity.
Aud these two Adams-the only di-
rectly created and the only begottsn of
God-wore His ideals of what His
earthly children should be, Why,
then, with these xpressions Of Gods
desire for perfect purity Of life, W th
the teachings and the example Of the
Blessed Master, do not all Christian
men lead the spoiless life? There are
mysteries we may not fathom, and
presume that all the wise theologians
of the world could not answer the
question; but one reason, / am sure,
why we live in plane 30 much lower
than God designed for US lie that so
many men, mutually psssemistic, quote
few of the texts showing the univer.
sal prevalence of evil, and, ignoring
all the other teachings Of the Bible,
forgetting Gods wisdom, and power,
and love, and promises, conclude that
it is useless to try to be perfect, and
so loudly proclaim that we cannot be
what God wants us to be. And yet
think YOU have all known one, or two,
or more, men and women whose simple
presence makes you feel as If you were
in the very presence chamber of Jeho.
yah, so true, so pure, so holy are they |
in thought, word and deed.
Tho tue religious life is not life by |
rule. AT first parents and teachers lay |
down the law to the young learner.
He 10 commanded, under certain cir-
cumstanoes, to do this. or not to do
that. II ne is dociIe, obedient, inclin-
ed 20 be truly religious, these laws
gradually changed, for him, into pre-
cepts; they become principles from
which he acts, and are no longer laws
which he Obeys. He no longer lives
under the law, but 10 free from the law
because he lives 8 lie that is higher
than the law. He more perfectly con-
forms to The law, but that is because he
is moved by the same motive, the same
desire, that prompted the Law Giver to
announce the law. Now he no longer
lives to obey God; but to please Him.
de no longer serves God; he loves
lin. Hs is no more a servant; but