The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1904-08-03
SERMON FOR SUNDAY
N ELOQUENT DISCOURSE BY TIE
REV. A. B. KINSOLVlNC.

"HuGc Mundane Machine" to Run
Over Our Souls.
SOUTHAMPTON, 7. T.-Dr. A. Z. Kinsol.
wing, rector of Christ ChuTch, Clinton
street, Brooklyn, preached {here Sunday
morning mo- in st. .Anndre9ws punee Church;
Our Debt TO Cod" His text was chosen
from st. Matthew xxii:2l: Render there.
Nre unto Caesar the} things which are
CAESARS; and unto God the things which
arc Gods" Dr. Kinsolving said:
Were ever words more palpably lust and
tar? Could any statement be more calmly
selt-evidencing? Could any discrtanglc.
mcnt of the provinces of God and Caesar
be more distinct, or any declaration of our
respective duty be more lucid? Men have
always been confusing these two things
their debt to Caesar and their debt TO God
mixing up in some clumsy fashion the Que
with the other, fancying that when they
nave discharged one they have done the
other also, finding the one to conflict with
the other through some misunders landing
OF the dignity and weight OF the respective
obligations.
And not only in private life, but in tho
history OF peoples and States what conlu
sion, what biundering has there been,
Look how the cruel Roman empire tried
throug years to crush out the life of the
ShrlS an martyrs Tor simply doing their
duty 20 God, and then in turn, when the
empire had been conquered by the church
and the, papacy was seated upon its throne
and had erected its palatial Vatican amid
the ruins of the old order, see how the
hanghty, earthly embodiment of the heav-
enly autocracy sought to bring low and
make subserylcnt the things of Caesar!
You are familiar, doubtless, with the way
the saving was brought about. \ party of
young Pharisecs-the old hacks mad recent
y retired in confusion-had Joined with
some Herodlans or Jewish nationalists TO
put to Jesus catch question to ensuarc
Him. Master" said they with fcigncd
earnestness, We know that Thou art true.
and teachcst the way of God in truth
neither carcst hOu for any man, for Thou
regardcst not the person of men. Tell us.
therefore, What thnkcst Thou? Is il
lawful to pay this distastcfuI Roman poll
If He had answered eyes" He wou,d
have been at once dScrcdtcd as the Mcs.
siah- King OF Israel. fl mo" it would
have been treason and rebellion against
Rome SO instead of falling into the trap
set Tor HIM, with a complete, a divine
grasp OF the whole situation, He declares a
principle which is the key to this wnolc
compicNitN in life wherever it may possibly
occur. why tcmpst Me, We hypocritcs?
Show Me the tribute money. Whose image
is this stamped on Your current com?
Caesars. Very well. Then what is Cac-
sar,s give back to Caesar, and what IS
Gods to God"
The impression it produced at the mo-
Re1t Rl, was profound When they had
=
went their way" He had lifted
pie controversy out OF the immc.
9d passing circumstances into the
~ largest and widest statcSmanshp
F7 the centuries OF human history that
poised by sIncc nave not exhausted its
Nom.
"RenGcr therefore unto Caesar the thincs
that are Caesars" Not 4 great dca! of
time ] take it, needs to be spent in en-
forcing ths behest. 1t marks the sanity,
m Il, s.Ng f'.,.... .
IS no storgazing cult. The charge against
at ui nvctcratc other wordlinc,- is Il ,ibcl
Christianity has always taught man to do
niobH, patiently, hcro.cally hi full duty to
the State, to rulers. to society. We are part
OF social system which has already taken
shape We arc IN debt TO it in many ways.
1--WE pass is COINS freely; we enjoy it,, on.
dowmcntS.' lis image and auucrscription
{ arc on us: We belong q! right to our age;
our era OF civilization. our nation. State,
city, community. All that is around Us is
but thc provldCntla! setting and environ
mcnt of our lives. 1t is never perfect.
there ., and for great while 10 come is
hkciv to he vast deal that is faulty about
a. But we have no charter from Christ to
he h0ucleSs,Y sour in our attributes toward
It, we are to trust, You and |. the upward
growth, the SOW and painful! evolution oi
human civilization We are to believe thar.
at the heart OF the movement tbcrr are
decphhdcn, interior principles which. IN
cooperation WIFE those special and ln,ycl.
full incentives which God hr.n.> a. hear
from above, are steadily b.ingn- the kug
Gom OF Caesar u some better Id.ll.ucnt
OF ltseii 50 then, even when We scv
Things IN the nation. the municipality the
helgh"orhood, 20 wgOnl; even when we
see tyranny and corruption and abuses We
are, not pcmtlGd to turn away m despair
and disgust. We have no Wrht a. stand
aioot as /. our bands wuul uc crn,am,n-
atcd by any contact with it, Our dHiv IS
To 90 n'ayc.Y nv and try to discharge our