Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-03-07
BUTTE NEWS.
A STRONG SERMON
ON MORAL men
NOT ENOUGH, SAYS THE BIBLE
TO BE MCRAL-MUST BELIEVE
IN GCO.

EVANGELIST Oliver had large and APP
preciative audience at the Mountain
View church last night, and gave them
a fine sermon on Morality he gave
them the very plain gospel on the point
as to whether mere morality IS enough
to carry man through this life ana into
the better beyond that most people de-
sire.
occasionally find a man who says.
man cannot live up to his own ideals,
and therefore, if man is created IN the
image Of God and is SO imperfect. God
himself must be faulty But | draw
coin from my pocket. On the one side
is a very good image Of the eagle-but
after all, it is only an image; it has not
the strength, the spirit. the life Of the
eagle. So with man. he is in the image
Of God only in that he has soul, liv-
ing spirit. The naturalist who was sat
isfied with the eagle on the dollar would
get very crude ideas of the read bird.
and the man who is satisfied with him.
self is satisfied with mighty scrubby
object. The image of God in man is not
the real God we worship: for our like
ness is only in our having an immortal
spirit
A fine sermon followed, in which the
the gospel declaration, Except We be-
come as a little child. we shall not en-
ter the kingdom of God" meant a con-
slant growth, as the child grows in
| strength and stature
Some men say, I don't need to be 4
/ Christian; do not need to be born again
in the spirit; 1 pay my debts do not
drink and beat or starve my family, do
| not con1nlit a1n1thrV' Well 7 Slpi,iSp
you do not-that is merely a measure OF
| self protection, and you deserve no cred
! it for your actions. If you did steal,
people would brand you as a thief, and
/ you wouldn't like that; If your word was
not good, they would call you liar when
you We're making your most solemn
pledges; if you did commit adultery, you
would be breaking the law of God and
man, and make yourself a vulgar beast.
| You cannot point to the members of the
| church may occasionally do some of
/ these things and say, I am as good as
! any Christian, for look at those in the
| church who occasionally do some OF
and I do not They may have slipped
| into the church for some purpose, for
! business preferment, for social advan-
tages, for any one of many other things
but they belong to your own crowd OF
sinners. and you know it: if they did no.
they would lead better lives"
1.-The becoming as little child II
faith in belief may be eXemplified by {
comparison of diamond and grair
of wheat The diamond represents the
mature mind, polished, educated, spark
ling in the world. Most of US if asked
which we would prefer would say til,
diamond, because of it's greater value
But let us see. The diamond is a dia
mond for all ages to come; cold, insen
safe stone, without possibilities o
growth. or change; a mere stone, at TIN
end. But the grain of wheat has within
itself tiny germ that bears boundles
capacity for reproduction, for the gOOt
of the whole world. Like the germ O
faith and hope that springs up in TIL
Christians hope, it is given from above
and the good that it may do is in
calculable.
1.-The moral man who is always pratt
| ing about his morality reminds me O
farmyard back in the east where
used to pass. Out under one of tn
great trees, the proprietor had fixed
large mirror, and the Unfortunately Val
peacock for whose benefit the miro
was kept used to spend hours befor
the glass, trimming it's plumage. am
admiring itself without end But. poo
) fool, it was only peacock after all, jus
like the moral man who stands aroun
admiring himself"