The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-04-14
G. CAMPBELL MORGAN IN
AUDITORIUM
HUNDREDS ARE TURNED AWAY
In His Farewell Address the Noted
Evangelist Spoke of Christ Re-
ceiving Sinners-An Inn
pressive Discourse.

| So spoke Rev. G. Campbell Morgan last
! evening in his prayer at the opening Or
! the union meeting of evangelical churches
| at the Auditorium, and the words were
| called forth by the vast size Of the audi
| ence. The service was announced for 3
! o'clock and began promptly at that hour,
| but long before then the mammoth hall,
with all its spacious galleries, was COM
| pletely filled, and those who waited until
! the appointed time were turned away at
| the door because there was not even
standing room for them. Rev. DR.. Ra-
der chairman of the committee on ar
rangements estimated the audience to
| number 5000.
DR.. Morgan chose for his text the words:
''This man receiveth sinners from the
| second verse of the fifteenth chapter OF
st. Luke, and in part he spoke as fol-
lows:
Facing this great congregation 1 feel
the need of a two-edged sword, that
may carry the message to the children
of God and also to those who have never
yet received the message Of God. You,
who know God want the message not for
yourselves alone, but for those who have
not vet yielded to the Master. The
churches have one business today-to an
nounce the fact that This Man receiveth
Sinners and 1 know that there Will De
thankfulness all over the house among
those who know this Man who received
sinners.
Spoken as Taunt.
Running throughout the Gospel we
find stories of statements made by the
enemies of Christ which, taken or tnen-
selves. would make a new Gospel. Those
words were spoken as a taunt and meant
to imply that in associating with sinners
He would become a sinner. They VINO
said those words would have been rlght
had they applied them to their own condl-
ton. but when they applied them to Him
they were not right. The proclamation
This Man receiveth Sinners does not
startIe or particularly move TINS audi
ence. but could it be understood II Woulo
move men deeply. We can only see the
proclamation as we see the person OF
whom it was made, and my business in
this house and at this hallowed hour is 10
ask this congregation to see the Person
If thew will So see, then the procldIIa-
ton will ring like music.
eT particularly see four things about
This Man who receiVeth sinners, the nrSL
two of which place Him in living contact
with us while the other two separate anu
set Him apart from US. Ihls man was
a man Of probation, and He was also
man Of sorrows; and in those things,
whether YOU are a Christian or no, you
are linked to Him. He is a Man or VIC
tory and a man of atonement. None OF
rs has been all of our lives victorious
and no other man has been able to ran
som his brothers. In these things we
are separated and set apart from Him
Christ a Man of Probation.
"He was a man of probation, for He
! lived his human life as you must i've
yours and I mine He worked as all men
must. It is a fallacy that work is part
of the punishment; it is nothing OF the
kind Take the story of the fall Of man and
you will find that he worked before ne
fell God meant that all men should
work. Some people stand up and sing
with great trustfUlness, There Is Sweet
! Rest in Heaven but I believe that rest
will be the rest of having plenty to do
And there is no eight-hour movement in
heaven Jesus lived about thirty-three
years in our world and a greater portion
Of that time-eighteen years-he spent at
work in the carpenter shop at Nazareth.
He worked for his living.
"He was a Man of temptation. He
was tempted in all points, sin apart. 1
am getting almost tired of having young
/ men tell me that Jesus was not tempted
/ as they are tempted, because Jesus had
! inherited no sin. You have inherited sin
from your father and from your fathers
! father perchance, but you have inherited
| from Jesus what is stronger than all you
have inherited from other sources. He
created a force with which other men
/ could overcome temptation. This Man
lived his life as God intended you and
I should live ours, and He was the
! brother of US all in toll and temptation.
As Man of sorrows.
'rIIe was a Man of sorrows, and re-
! gard the sorrows of Jesus as almost too
! sacred a thing for me to talk about. He
| suffered poverty, homelessness and mis-
understanding. In those words, Foxes
! have holes and birds Of the air nests,
but the Son of Man hath not where to
lay his head, is shown His consciousness
of His homelessness in the world. The
life Of Jesus could be written in five
| chapters:
! Chapter mo room for him in the inn.
| Chapter II-''FoXes have holes, and the
/ birds of the air, nests; but the Son Of
Man hath not where to lay his head
| Chapter Hills disciples all forsook
him and fed.
! Chapter IV-"Crucify Him."
! Chapter VA borrowed grave in a
! rich mans garden.
He was misunderstood by his mother
utterly misunderstood. And when I say
/ that I do not wish to speak in disre-
! spect of the Virgin mother; [ think we
! of the Protestant churches have degraded
! her more than we should, in the rebound
! from her worship. But she journeyed
a great distance to persuade him to give
UP his work and come home She and
! his brethren were convinced that he was
mad and therefore [ say she misunder-
stood him. He had no man to be a COM
! rade to him in the deepest facts Of his
life.
HE was man of victory And how
one loves to pass to that. He was al
ways the victor, over sorrow, over sin
and over temptation. Did you ever see
anyone who had made a more perfect
victory of life?
A Man of AtOnement.
'He was a man of atonement. And
how shall that be spoken of here? By
stating the actual fact without any at
tempt at explanation or analysis He
assembled the mount of TRANSPORTATION
and in that the life-the human Hfe-ot
Jesus had its end. He was man Of vic
tory and also man of atOnement, and
through his grace I shall one day be-
| come a man of victory.
" This man receiveth sinners In the
| word 'receiveth' the Pharisees used the
strongest word that could be used in
that connection. They meant that he re-
ceived them unto himself as his compan.
ion; that he took them into close com.
partnership or comradeship with himself
And their words implied that in receiv.
ing sinners he was like to become as they
were. The Pharisees were right-if Jesus
was such as they were, for if you make
| friends of sinners they will make a sin.
ner OIL you. But this Man received sin.
| ners and was not polluted by them. The
| sinner was cleansed by his purity. In.
stead Of the sinners defiIing him, his
| purity purified the sinners. His purity
will be stronger than all your impurity.'