The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-02-08

| right yonder in the throne room of
heaven
Evidence That Cannot Be Doubted.
THE chief reason why the man
healed of the leprOSy was to present
himself to the priest was for a testi-
mony to the priests tina, Jesus had
power to cure leprosy and that He adj
annulling it," said Rev. George N.
Makely, of Knox Presbyterian church,
in his sermon yesterday morning
IF some one had testified by word
of mouth that Jesus had healed lepers,
| the priests would have doubted 1T. If
some one had argued that Jesus could
cure lepers, the priests would not have
accepted the reasoning. But when the
man presents himself and the priest
examines him and pronounces him
| cured, that is evidence which cannot
be set aside. That is the best testi-
mony that can be presented. The
priests may reject Jesus, but they can
not break down the testimony ss -
"CArist came into this world to save
us from sin. We come to Him and are
forgiven and cleansed and receive
Christian graces and spiritual growth;
and the best testimony we can give
OF His power to save is to present our
| lives to unbehevers for their inSpec-
ton. The example Of a consistent
Christian life is more influential than
preaching or argument to create a IA
| vOrable impression of Christianity An
| infidel who scoffed at the Bible and
| sneered at arguments was silenced
when asked how he would account for
| the blameless life of his Christian
mother. If we are to give by our lives
as good testimony for Christ as He
| deserves, we must be able to bear the
most searching scrutiny without show
ing any remaining spots of the Ieprosy
! of sim
Entrance of Sin Into the World.
Sins Entrance Into Human Life"
| was the topic discussed by DR.. w. r..
Kirkwood at Westminster Presbyterian
| church in his morning address. After
tracing the form of temptation, or trial
| through which the primal pair passed
| and showing the fitness of the Bible
record to the facts of the primitive
condition of man on the earth as we
know 1t from other sources, the preach
| er concluded:
We have seen the grounds for holding
| our faith in the idea of the government of
! the universe by an almighty, wise and
| righteous God who is the author and sup
! porter of that universe. We have seen
| that there are but three possible ways in
! which man could have been placed in the
world as q rational being, viz:
F1rSt-Endued with such a nature as
would have rendered it impossible for him
| to SIM or.
| Second Endued with freedom Of choice,
put kept forever from any opportunity to
| exercise that freedom; or,
| Third-Endued with freedom and per-
| mitted to exercise it.
| The first would make him a mere au-
| tomaton. The second would afford him no
| opportunity for development The third
| alone recognizes his native nobility and
| affords him the opportunity for climbing
| the heights and growing into the being he
! should become. 1t bears, however, the
! tremendous risk of an evil choice and
all the consequences thereof; and we have
seen that mantle Adam-deliberateIy
made the evil choice, and so sin entered,
| and, through the law of heredity, it de-
| scends through all posterity This is the
hard fact which we have to face, not
! alone on the testimony of the Bible but
| on the testimony of nature, the testimony
| Of the facts of our own consciousness.
And for this hard case, nature and science
and philosophy have no remedy. We have
| to turn to this Bible, and it's Divine Au-
| thor for that.