The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-30
CHRIST SHALL COME
 ID BE OUR JUDGE The Rev. QuincyEwing Breaches Very Strong Sermon. SPECIAL SERVICE AT NIGHT s. A. Elliott of Savannah Talked to Members of the Brotherhood of
 St. Andrew on the Idea
 of Brotherhood.
SPECIAL SERVICE AT NIGHT

The services at the Church of the Ad- vent yesterday morning and night were attended by large congregations. In the morning the rector, the Rev. Quincy Ewing preached a forcible sermon, taking for his text the passage from the Te Deum: We believe that Thou shalt come to be our judge. The discourse was full of deep and profound metaphysical thought and was considered by members of the congregation as the greatest effort the rector has made since he took charge of the church. MT Ewing said in part:
 We enter today that season of the church year when our thoughts are in- vited to dwell with special fervor upon the coming into this world of the founder of Christianity We accept it as a fact that Jesus of Nazareth appeared on earth 1904 years ago to teach and establish by divine right and authority new religion We believe that He spoke and acted for God in His life of association with men; we are convinced that it was the duty of those whom He moved among to give His full opportunity to deliver His divine mes sage.
 Must Expect Another Coming.
 The speaker then went on to show how the first advent of Jesus Christ is believed so it becomes incumbent for all men to look for the Saviour's coming again. to reap the fruits that were to grow from the seeds of His sowing and to reign over the kingdom tRat was to be established in His name. "The vital truth" said MT. Ewing, underlying this belief, l should say, is that Jesus is always come and al- ways judging the earth judging it by just being Himself and by compelling it to judge itself The artist who writes great poem or paints a great picture or com poses great symphony is henceforth the judge of all men that read the poem, that look on the picture or listen to the sym phony. He judges them by compelling them to judge themselves to the extent of making them confess their own ability or inability to appreciate what is beautiful So the spiritual life of the Christ, lived on this earth, could never cease to call hu- manity to judgment
 Effect in Men.
 Continuing along this line, the speaker spoke of the effect it would have on men if it could be known for a certainty that Christ would appear four weeks hence. He dwelt upon the effect it would have on human society, how business, amuse- ments, ambitions and all the affairs of life would give place to preparing for judgement. "The Bible would have more jealous readers" said Mir Ewing, during the next twenty-eight days than it has had in the last twenty-eight years" MT. Ewing said that there would be no sense in absenting ourselves from places of decent amusement or to deem it a safeguard to read nothing but the Bible as when the Great Judge came we would lot have to fear any greater judgement from his lips that we have not already pronounced upon ourselves.
 Sentence Passed Upon Ourselves.
 In conclusion, MT. Ewing said: Arm ed with omnipotence, He would pass but the sentence upon us that we had passed upon ourselves in the acceptance or re- jection of those truths on which is based His Divine right and authority to be our judge. His spiritual presence and char acter are just as close to us at this mo- ment as If He stood visibly before that altar or in this pulpit and the judgment of His Christliness is passed upon us, for or against in the high court of etern- al verities, just as though he builded here His throne of judgment and spake out wardly what we feel and know. What we might say or what we ought to do in the presence of the visible Christ would not affect that judgment in the least. He would still be Himself. as we our selves. and between Him and us ground of spiritual union or of spiritual separa- tion. The attitude of our souls towards the truth and the greatness that is Christly, whether the Christ Himself. be visible or invisible. seated at the right hand of God, or beneath some Nazareth roof of man, that not only determines but is our sentence, and this sentence there is no power in the universe apart from our own souls to repeal or modify. We are, what we are, facing the low things and the high thing of our human life We are what we are facing the spiritual ideal of Jesus Christ. and what we are, no spoken words of His could tell us bet ter than the inarticulate syllables of our own conscience
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