The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-03-07
AN ELOQUENT DISCOURSE DE-
LiVERED SUNDAY BY REV.
WilMOT WHITFIELD.
Feeling of Shame Has Been An Active
Factor in Every Ones Life
Power of God.

| rev. w ll1llOt NnltHeiQ, pastor or the
| First Methodist Episcopal church, de-
! livered a most eloquent discourse. He
| chose for his text the following from
ashamed of the gospel" In part DR..
] Whitfield said:
| 1T has been conjectured that some
| one in Rome intimated that while Paul
was very bold to preach the story of
the cross in Asia and in out of the
way places, he would never have the
| hardihood to come to Rome, the center
of civilization and enlightenment and
! tell the story of crucifed and risen
Christ. No! No. Paul would never
came to Rome. Paul was too sharp
for that
This coming to the ears of Paul,
| he sat down and wrote to Rome say
| ing in substance, I have longed to
preach the Gospel to you who are in
Rome, but hitherto have been hind
cred. I trust 1 shall be able to come
10 you shortly for I am ready as much
as in me lies to preach the Gospel to
you who are in Rome. for l would have
! every one understand that l am not
| ashamed of the Gospel of Christ, for it
is the power of God unto salvation to
| every one that believes. To the Jews
and to the Creeks
| The feeling of shame referred to
in the text is a very strong faculty in
| the human mind and has perhaps a
very important part in the life of
every individual and in the affairs of
mankind. 1t is no eXaggeratiOn to
| say that this feeling has caused ma
| lions to rise and nations to fall. 1t
| has caused men to strive with might
| and main for preferment and it has
| caused men to give up in dspair, and
fold their arms and sink into obscure
ty.
| Mary, Queen of England, is reported
to have said just before her death, that
if after her death they would exam
inc her heart they would find the
name of the City of Calvary stamped
on her heart, for Mary had joined her
forces to those of her royal consort
| Philip the second, of Spain. and at the
city of Calais they We're ANONYMOUSLY
defeated. Mary took to her bed, sick
ened and died. Died of Il broken heart
died of outraged shame. Because OF
this change on the throne protestant
ism triumphed over catholicism and
c changed and the history of the world
wonderfully affected thereby. This is
not solitary example in the affairs of
men when the feeling of shame has
played an important part.
The feeling of shame has been an
active factor in every ones life. It
has had much to do in making each of
you what you are today.
when healthy this feeling exercises
life and character of a man but when
perverted it is baneful. And. alas for
the welfare of man, it is too often per-
verified, so that men are often ashamed
Of what they should be proud and
proud of that of which they should be
ashamed. 1t is no unusual thing to
hear men boast of having by lying
and deception Overreached, and de-
frauded their neighbors. Actually
proud OF what should bring the blush
of shame to rlanhood's cheek
And sometimes we hear such men
called sharp by their fellows, and we
are let to ask is it sharp to lie? Why
no, for the dullest intellects often lie
with the greatest facility. Is it sharp
10 defraud? Sharp to steal? No, a
thousand times 10. Lying and fraud
are the resort of the weak and dull.
A strong mana wise man-can make
his way to success without fraud and
| without falsehOOd The lbertne
prides himself and eXults in his abil-
! ity to betray innocence and virtue. If
shame We're not perverted in him he
would blush crimson at the mere
| thought of such a thing.
Church members are sometimes
! found who are ashamed to let it be
known that they make any claims to
being religious. Some are so bound
by perverted shame that they are I'M
able to do not only what they believe
! they ought to do but what they some
times long to do. They are bound
hand and foot by the strength of this
feeling so that instead Of being glad