The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-04-30

The eleventh annual session OF the
Sioux City Presbytery convened at Sac
City last week. Rev. A G. Martyr,
moderator, presiding.
The Presbytery was largely attend
ed and was an enthusiastic session.
The delegates from Deaison were Rev.
Martyr and wife, Mrs. Sears McHenry
and Samuel Luney, Denison bad a
prominent place on the program as
Rev. Martyn was Moderator Mrs. A,
G. Martyr was acting President OF the
Ladies' Missionary meeting and read a
paper on the Mountain Whites, Mrs.
McHenry had charge of the devotional
exercises and was Chairman OF the
Committee on Resolutions, and Mr..
Luney was chosen as alternate Com
missioner of the General Assembly at
Philadelphia.
The following is a synopsis of the
sermon delivered by Rev. Martyr, and
Denison friends will be interested in
reading it:
The sermon of the moderator. Rev.
A. G. Martyr of Denison, was based on
Hebrews 1927 THAT those things
which cannot be shaken may remain. y
In Introduction he dwelt upon the fact
that the giving of the law at Sinai
shook the earth: the giving of the Cos
pei at Calvary is to shake both earth
and heaven. The conclusion will con-
tinue till the world receives it's last
shock and falls asunder. The gospel
cannot build up and make strong with
out shaking down. In the midst Of the
broken and perishing things of the
world there are others thatare immov-
able and eternal and the object of the
process is to prove that they can stand
the test. The created things can and
must be changed, but the things that
are not made cannot be shaken. They
are things that belong to Gods own
nature-his truth and righteousness
and love, which are unassailable and
eternal, and give eternal power and
life wherever they enter. Well for us
to know that outside in the world, and
within our own souls. there are stable
realities, and to see them and have
them rising up and becoming stronger
under the shock of every earthquake
The speaker then developed tine
thought along many lines, showing the
evolutionary changes OF the ages 0
History in the forms of human society
in the SCATTERING of nationalities, il
moral and political cataclysms, in out
ward systems of religion. Under tn
latter he dwelt at length upon tn
transitional changes in the Presbytel
ian church. 1t is the evidence of
Divinely commissioned church that sh
should adapt her presentation of tn
message to the needs of the passin
generation of men, and adapt hersel
to the manifest phases of devout huma
thought. Amid these changes i
forms of doctrinal statement, the fur
damental truths of our faith abide
The speaker then brought out the nee
essity for the recasting of the Confess
ion of Faith. making it clear and Ell
phatic in Its enunciation of the thre
great truths of Scripture that al
among the peculiar glorles OF the go
pei of the Son of God,-God's love fc
lost world, Christ's compassion fo
perishing humanity and the gospt
panaceas for the sins and sorrows {
the human race The new creed shoul
be positive, concrete, brief and con
prehensive and irenic in character.
AS illustrating the law of the text, th
speaker then passed from the gener;
to the particular and appealed for proc
that there some things that endure
First, to the Individual Experience {
Men. In mans nature, there are tul
damentals, precious and eternal yer
ties that rest on the basis of intuitio
e. g., the conscious need OF God, til
cry of conscience. the divinely huma
aspiration of the heart for perfection {
life, and the hope of Immortality whic
has risen above the wreck of all pas
ing faiths to put on new and highe
shape.
A second thing that remains is tn
Christ Character and Work. The hol
which Christianity has upon the worl
depends upon the historical and esser
tial Christ. His is the magnet {
power that attracts the whole natur
of man and men, the verdict of the in
teillgence, the assent OF conscience
the allegiance of will, the loyalty G