Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-05-03

tribute to the establishment of
truth in society are intricately
blended and mans greater aptness
in discerning and handling the ma
tural is so evident, that the history
of the Church registers a strong
inclination on the part of even the
most noted religious leaders to try
to compass the reign OF truth by
use of carnal weapons.
So you see, that to the military
character of Pauls Mission and
the militant spirit within him was
added subtle temptation to choose
that visible display of power which
might easily captivate the Roman
and win his formal allegiance to
the needy cause.
To say that these evident posi- !
bilities within the reach of this
master of Roman oratory, offered
no real temptation to the ambition
of the apostle, is to close ones eyes
to the fact that he was, as he de-
clared himself to be, a man of like
passions with his brethren, and as
. such keenly sensitive to those op-
portunities which offered field for
the display of his natural powers.
5 That he did not respond to these
: temptations after the manner of the
natural man we are told more than
) once in his epistles. On the con-
d trary to this demand for display
E of personal power, he answered with
n weakness: "And was with you in
weakness, and in fear and in much
S trembling" But is not such weak
S ness sin ? Is not the servant of God
s bound to be as strong as he can
z. be The answer is a paradox o.
d truth which the natural man car
g not receive: when am weak
It then I am strong" For Coo
IF hath chosen the weak things of The
world to confound the things which
Of are mighty, and base things of thu
IS world, and things which are de
n spised hath God chosen, yea, ant
a things which are not to bring t,
in naught the things which are" AM
beneath this paradox is divin
i'd philosophy THAT no flesh shout
~ glory in His presence.
o. sew that men put too eN
.ir clusi e reliance upon physics
We force. and that the Roman ha
of made it his god. Rome had b'
Ike come too beastly prosperous" an
us the Roman too exclusively deve
to oped on the material side of his nj
we ture. Shall Paul, who has receive
,or his commission from Jesus, siren;
IN, then, for temporary or personal al
+ a vantage, that within men which
already too strong? Was not Il
lul Master Himself solicited by Il
ire tempter of the wilderness to tn
nd same task ? eff Thou be the 81
re- of God command that these ston
ave be made bread" Taking the brei
ect as the symbol of physical life, N
ent Beecher interpreted the template
rial thus IF Thou be the Son of G
va come forth from the wilderness
i've the patron of physical thrift. Tea
led men inventions. Multiply harves
to Cover the world with industry a
wealth. Nourish commerce. I
the villages grow to cities. Let h
-eat bors swarm with ships. How gil
,ru- ious wilt Thou be, how will all m
de- follow Thee, and all the world
subdued to Thine empire if TIL
and wilt command the very stones
.nds become bread. If such power
this Thou surely hast shall inspire ev
ION. the dead rocks with nourishmt
imi- Nature through all her realm '
feel the new life, and seed, and fir
arly vine and tree, will give forth G
eed- ious abundance, and the wilderr
, the shall blossom as the rose"
sure When shall the church cease
sent forget the lesson of the resO,
self-limitations in the lives
Ro- preaching of Paul and his Lo
= of When will she cease to stimu
ator. the abnormal thirst for wor
each. glory and to call the product
en- to for Christ Need Peter still W
resus the carnal sword in defense of
very Master? We must allow that
Tesus progress of the church still
very mands the discriminate weigl
the of the relative Importance OF
, the material as an element of that
S and gress. The Master Himself a
h it. mated the material aspect o