The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-08-24
FROM THE CHURCH PAPERS


King Edward remind US Of another coro-
nation postponed. The
COMING Redeemer of sinners is
CORONATION. destined to reign, in
some substantial sense,
over the nations OF the world But the
day is long in coming. Nineteen centu-
ries of delay have sorely tried the faith
Of the church. 1t is vain to speculate
concerning the event. Bitt to desire it.
and long for its occurrence is eminently
Christian. No higher title to throne
can be imagined than his who made the
world, and no claim to popular applause
can equal his who gave his life so freely
for his disloyal creatures.-Central Pres
byterian.
There is story of an atheists child
who had learned something about God.
The father wished to
GOD is HERE. expunge ne thought
from her mind, and
he wrote on a piece of paper. God is
nowhere" He asked the child to read
the words and she spelled out, God is
now here The child's unconscious mis-
reading of the atheists creed startled
him, and brought him to the feet OF the
God whose very existence he had sought
to deny. Wherever we are we are in the
presence of God.-Southern Churchman.
In life's whole pilgrimage there are
giants to be overcome-giants Of selfish
ness, of hate, of
DOOMED GIANTS. ill-temper, of evil
pa o n S of all
sorts, and of unbelief. But God is pledged
against these. and offers to drive them
out If we ourselves advance faithfully
against them, they are doomed giants,
and we can yanuuish them. Difficulties
are often not as great as we think, and
the lions in the way are chained lions.
So in all the efforts at social reform.
What giants rear their threatening heads
and shake their fingers at the people OF
God! There are giants OF intemperance,
of commercial greed, the giant Of gam
bling and the social vice. Men say: ut
is no use to try: it is impossible to drive
them out. They are too strong for US.
and are strongly entrenched. We are as
grasshoppers before them" But God is
against them. They are. therefore,
doomed. Have faith. see ALL fight on,
nor be afraid.-Religious Herald.
It is the duty Of young men to go to
church, and that duty is often emphasized.
But it is even more
YOUNG MEN AND the duty Of the
THE CHURCH. church to so to
young men, and
that duty is not sufficiently recognized
and talked about We have no difficulty
in finding the command to Christians to
go into all the world and preach the
gospel but to hear what is popularity said
about churct-going as the first duty of
n-Christians, you might be inclined to
think that the great commission read:
Come We from all the world and hear
the gospel" But there is no such COM
mand in the New Testament. If Chris
tislns were doing their duty to young men
of the world by carrying the gospel to
them. and preaching it as it should be
preached. in season and out of season,
where the young men are, more OF the
young men would be drawn into the
church When the church is active in its
field Of the world. more of the world will
come to the church.-Sunday-sc Times.
One Of the most persistent enemies that
a nan has to fight with is himself. That
enemy has to be fought with
FIGHTING at unexpected times and at
SELF. all times. Yet If man is
determined to win the victory
he can be successful. even in spite Of all
the advantages which self has in the con-
such a fighti Henry Ward Beecner once
said, forcefully: NO man is such a con-
queror as the man who has defeated him
self" God is with US in this struggle,
ard through Him we shall have the sure
victory.-Christian Advocate.
The fact seems to be that higher
criticism is a very rational procedure.
but that the higher crit
HIGHER ics'' have brought their own
CRITICISM. method into reproach by
their arrogance and intol-
erance. Time and again they have ex-
plotted their half-finished and tentative
processes as though they were assured
results. They have promulgated their
Euesses and conjectures with an air of
authority. In the nature of the case they
deal with mere probabilities. but ortho-