The Washington times., 1902-04-14
DR.. HENRY Van DYKES
SCHOLARLY SERMON
Large Attendance Listens to
the Princeton Professor.
Not Even Standing Room to Be Had
When Eminent Divine
Commenced.

The largest congregation ever assem-
bled at the Church of the Covenant was
gathered there at the IL o'clock service
yesterday morning, when DR.. Henry Van
Dyke, professor of English literature at
Princeton College, and for the past eight
cen years pastor Of the famous old Brick
Presbyterian Church of New York. preach
ed a strong and scholarly sermon.
On the platform with the celebrated di-
vine and college teacher were Rev. Teu-
mis- Hamlin, pastor of the Church of the
Covenant, and Pro. John De Witt, who
filled the pulpit at the service last night
Before IL o'clock the church was pack
ed so tightly that not even standing room
could be had. By the addition of groups
and single church goers the lobby was fur
Their crowded. until no more standing
room could &c obtained. During the SER
vice several women tainted. They were
removed to the open air quietly, and no
excitement was occasioned.
DR.. Van Dyke took for his text CO.
lossians iii:1: ''If you then be risen with
Christ. seek those things which are above,
where Christ stitch at the right hand of
Cod He said:
Resurrection has a meaning for the
past, the present. and the future. 1t looks
backward to the day when Christ left the
tomb. and forward to the time when those
who sleep in Jesus shall be raised from
the dead. But it also has meaning for
today. There is a present resurrection.
Human lives are even now quickened and
raised up with Christ. They pass from
darkness to light. from the perishing to
the unperishable, with Christ.
st Paul. in the text gives us the law
of this immediate resurrection.
These who are risen must be rising
The resurrection life must be an upward
life. IL must seek those things which
are above. where Christ stitch at the
right hand OF God
Where Is that1 The right hand of
God Is not only In heaven. kut everywhere
on earth. where he is working in right
cousnrRA aud Wisdom and love. There
Chrint Ia proarnt, There tho risen life
fndn ia idcalp aud ita aim, To choose
the higher rather than the lower end in
every affection. in every purpeae, In every
activity, that Ia the condition of the risen
life appi, thin thought Ca nome OF the
different reEiona OF our hetns,
The natural wpilt haa twr 7itsas hnc
appeals to the senae alone, The ether
appeals To the spirit. I'm the lower allie
We read nature sstt af steeeta az
count hoax, in the high siis No ,eat
nature az divine reeni fuli ~ nsales
aud beauty
There ate twe PATHS sisa ie isva sea
friendship \ uan is nrt hNsws - we'll
Nv tho COMPANY ha hasrs "a ~ ths ruf
rrae with whi,h I've hssrs u, the f7aasi
saes hsri rnmren, With respectable f.la
and found ieal msrs tsnss. Nh.tst ~
,alNpi ruhll,ans aud sinhs,s nua e,Nni
snull 81 save. in erett MAN We Meet
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one We should trr Is GIVE rur heat rfiead
shir should help va ~ hn.w eH,saivss an
No ate and encourage ne Ia make our
selves what ve ouaht - he
III tho great Gold cf human teiia there
Ia q hlshe, and a ipwa, aide, The lower
aiis Ia the mere desire to earn eur wasen
aud mahe money, The higher Ia the wish
10 De put weia "a we'll IA possible and