The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1901-09-09

There was an unusually large congre-
cation at the 10:45 a m. service In the
Benefcent Congregational church, yes
terday, and the pastor. Rev. Asbury h.
Krom preached an able. eloquent and
deeply interesting sermon.
He dweit upon the duties of a Christian,
the fundamental question and perplexing
problems OF life. the proper use OF
wealth. the good in lives of others, and
that only and true hope based upon
larger and fuller life modelled after the
example set by the Savior himself.
The reverend speaker took for his text
st. John. chapter x. verse x. as follows:
II am come that they might have life
and that they might have II more abun-
dainty"
Most men instead OF beginning life with
we'll finished ideal spend most OF their
lives in constructing one. For, the great
burden of mankind the conditions in
which one finds oneself, the opportuni-
ties. the victories. the defeats OF
life have as much TO do with
shaping ones ideal as the ideal IT.
self has to do with changing the condi-
tions or regulating the failures and sue
cesses.
Only gradually and not always then does
the main end and aim of life fashion IT.
self. We learn by degrees the kind OF la
Dor WE can do. IL is only by gradual
processes we learn the kind OF work we
prefer SO many men and women go
through the world not quite certain as TO
what they should like 10 do even had
they the opportunity.
This is as characteristic OF the great as
II is OF the small. How many men OF gem
iV, haf
with only meagre success until kind of
destiny has placed In their hands the
work they could do better than any other
and they have gone forth TO do IL with
"A song upon their lips For ! take IL that
that which We can do best VIII In the
end bring us the greatest JOY aud no
small amount OF the wretchcdness and
misery OF life springs from the fact that
great men are trying TO narrow theil
lives 10 small things and small men arc
trying TO widen their lives TO fit and iil
the channel OF great things
II came" SAYS Jesus Christ, that they
might have ..fe and that they might have
II more abundantly.'
NO DOUBT OR HESITATION.
A striking statement I'm the light o
what has Just been said. No doubt o.
hesitation in his mission. No questioning
or cropping after other things but from
the first knowing that he must be abou
His Fathers business.
But the certainty concerning his mis-
sion In only paralleled IN it's uniquenes
by the nature OF the mission itself
II came that they might have life" w
have overlooked the Significance OF this
Ask any child in the Sabbath school tn
purpose OF the mission OF Christ and IN
answer viii concern Itself with the wor
salvation.
II. x..,o 90 vcot .rd 20 say. fl,c t,el
He came 10 save men. In the ninth vcrs,
the one preceding our text. ne says.
u am the door by Ne II any man cnte
IN he shall be saved. Salvation. life, th
same. Synonymous terms.
So-often Va have thought OF saivatio
az something added unto man, ths
makes him so unlike other men, tbs
leaves him an unreal man.
So seldom have We thought or the savr
man as a man who has begun 20 liN
more. whose whole being has begun
expand and quicken because OF new COZ
dltions. "a more hcalthfh environment
That this Is tho thought OF Jesus the
can be nttle question and a remains e
" 10 ask what Jesus means by life.
II would seem that in substituting q
word iife for Salvation We had only il
creased our difficulty. So many things
this world We can recognize. distingui'
frofn Othsr fhings. note their sction al
resciior. 50 few things W. can really d
fnt
Nor d1f9 1ilf knoNlndge seem 10 d
crrs-e. D. manifold WAYS we apply n
elscffic current ana tnrn "a continually
tcN service for msn but we can no mo-
define if Than WHOM Franklin drew
farthvard with his kite. How mich mol
W know about nfe fhsu our forefafher
uut lifc Itself We arc uo nearer n dehn
ton than men were thousands Of yea
sso. In the spiritual realm we can on