The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-05-27
SERMON AT CENTER CHURCH
PREA CHED YESTERD4Y MORNING
BY REP. NEWELL M. CALHOUN
On Love of the World-The Difference
Between Selfish Love and Gods Re-
Man May distinguish Between Them.

Rev. Newell M. Calhoun, of Win
sted, fellow of Yale university, oc-
cupied the pulpit at Center church at
yesterday mornings service and
preached an able and most interesting
sermon. The scriptural reading was
from the Nineteenth Psalm and from
l John second chapter.
Mr.. Calhoun preached from the text
! John 2-15: Love not the world,
neither the things that are in the
world; if any man love the world, the
love of the Father is not in him." He
spoke in part as follows:
We, ourselves are not found obeying
of most of us that we do love the world
and the things in the world. 1t seems
reasonable to do so. We are in the
world and this is the only world of
which we have experience. The safest
carpets that have touched our feet have
been the green grasses and the MOSES;
the mountains preached to us before
our ears were intent to other preach
ing. We have looked up at the stars
and felt leaping in US a sense of the
eternal and the immortal. 1t is a very
beautiful world despite all that has
been done by some to rob it of it's
beauty.
We find some of the best women and
men whom we know love the world
with the greatest love. 1t is only those
who are sodden and sordid who do not
love the world, those out of sorts with
themselves and their Maker. 1t is only
when stepped in selfishness that a man
ceases to love it.
Jesus Christ didn't obey this COM
mandment literally. He loved the
world, the mountains, the flower
sprinkled fields. We read that God
so loved the word'' Then was the
apostle mistaken? Was he an ascetic?
Did he preach different view of Chris
tianity than Christ. No Then where
is the explanation? Did he refer to a
different world?, No. Is not the word
love used in a different sense? God
so loved the world" and the inference
is that there are different ways of low
ing the world, way that men have and
way that God has. Gods love was
creative and redemptive, that brooded
over men as we'll as over the world
that He had created
There is a forbidden love and per-
missive love and the latter is what is
spoken of in the text. God so loves
that He gives and men so love that
they lust Their love is lower love, |
lust, self centered love. That is the |
forbidden love, the love that looks out
with an eye to see what it can bring
back to itself.
The permissive love is like Gods love, |
like the beautiful sea of Gallee that |
takes all that is given to it and send |
a larger stream. This forbidden love is,
then, self conferred love, well named |
lust The permissive love is discern
ing love that sees through the form of
things, that discerns back of all the
reality Of love God the Father. This I
love is one that penetrates all things
until it finds a personality with great
heart throbbings for all things. The
love that is forbidden does not discern
these things, except to make them con-
tribute to itself.
Each may judge for himself how his
love of the world is affecting him. Do
you so love the world that you give of
yourself, your money your strength for
helping your fellow men? Is your love
and regenerative? Are you
helping to restore this world again to
the original Eden or are you trying to
get out of it all you can for yourself?