The Penn's Grove record., 1904-01-01

NEW IgkK CITY.-Dr. Charles II. Park
burst, PASTOR Of the Madison San4re frss-
pytsriaq Clnreh preached sunday nio1nlng
on ~ eat hlh BE Ok Christ from the
words found N Mark viii:2s: Whom saw
We that | ann DR.. Parkhurst said among
other things.
it:
Christ Himself asks this Of His disc
" is ne arst Christian c%atecb,sm. sre,
put nevertheless It is eaEechism, 40 i
Jods warrant tor cur asking doesrinal
questions, and His warrant. too. Tor orr
being prepared TO frame some sort Of az
answer to them.
CaEst's inquiry mere means that He sx-
peefs lis disciples to have ccnVIctioas-
CONVICTIONS ~ regard 70 Himself & any
rate-8aa definite enough Tor .hem "a ha
able TO state them. s1ch convies7as may.
os more correct, pay bs less 20, but an inn
perfect opinion Is bette than none. and 10
opinion eads IN being perfect that di3 nus
negia oy DelnE imperfect. ard sounG COM
Eletlon IS blupdsr convicted and converted.
Everything hesran begIna ia a mn.ake.
hrror ls The loaEsy soil out Of Haica frath
vegetables and Blossoms. The history %
PHILOSOPHY science arG Theology illustrates
tois priae3ple WIZ z distgae5 cogeEcg that
Is Hnanswerab'e. SO that we need not he
too much afraid q being IN error provided
only We eilns 70 orr error wita q ;easclty
nav . NOT AmG-F tenacious, Dat THAI is
also honest and Intelligent.
WHAT think sc OF Christ? His appesi
mere Is 70 man considered a. ar aa4inal who
thinks, WAC has ideas, ideas - lis oWn,
lakes impressions from what IS SHOWN bln
tod to him, acted out before hnn. aud NJ
PreSsions thai SO groove lhetHs es lat0
hs sanst nee as 70 take dsnne1 slsps ss6
sAate tMat = i~1ff = 1aaDent. teks
2 ees make on &taase u themselves iA
eve. SO trafe nerutS f~Wfta ~aaF ar ~.
sge q eiaseiyes IL the miad-thsf g
taey 90 u ne mint y an aiert mind, sens.
five, esPanslfe. q man caa. Q. course
.'oH Sithpas seeing anEth.nsi $ g he can
I ak Fltho4t Iesf-iia8 shyltn&i ave in tie
feefiee q Ereas F~ealsies md c9me away
hoih sNeta ithoht caring n9on ms so3l
49, ~ tAsit lInprlnt aN aN ean tocK to-
aer0 tls et g. . ciocf ia rae afternoon
@stao9 epefylng any sunset there y d
a3oe Va y ~ cVtihH stii ~ tAoSt Ok 70
mat esll ourselves hllafs ana thas Is whV
vs. 9-eo'0 Aetie - wa feEhy lspis
aho We garner 50 hftte ot the Aatt
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lafongh me wafer 1ed ssii core cut cry
80 so ~ thAotAa cs44es NApt ny
o. ths e9iiese gotag thfolRa nm midas
.tise ySats VITA Jesus aao In shea
w Icing NsFh
What think ve a. CHRISTI Ae vents %
lad ont from Its disciples. thea, wha in.
preston # Himself lie has left plth taem,
shat stamp Re has pas up3u thew. What
theY tLink o. HIN VOL be oulv anctte.
name tor the record o. Himself tias HIS
teachings and derle nor have left printed
upon Their intelligence. am trriig u
have Won realize that their cpin ga Ct tEi1i
that BE was trying To get Acf 81 eas
iometaing definitely traeabt 10 the
working influence ugcr taa,l 81 His own
presence aud activity. Ae j. cot interest.
~ en f-rr~ Hsna- 4t~rH -.M4r y ~ -
nor what they logically inter lie may Dc,
nor what some one has told them thas 1e
i. LIE has been Cor some time ~5emonstrat.
ing Himself to them hY word. act ard
spirit, and ( they are not altogether Ike
the duck in the watet Of the o. before tie
sunset as presumably they ere aot, tas
demonstration OF Himself to hem has ~
some way told upon fbem, il has lodged
something within them, and lie want
then, TO give . name 70 II. Ehslr opinion
y him was something that ne had Isug-
self been the means Of making to gEoR CD
q them without their consciously having
any part N me matter theWser Hs. II was
not something they had borrowed ron
somewhere nor something that they lad
personally ssriven to acquire,
Opinion, then, II 1t Is ANYTHING more
than mere Quotation. copy 81 vlaf some
one else has thought, IS ore Of the hirgs
thS. grows. The intlaence tsat starts the
conviction Wiil, il it continues 70 pirate,
20 on adding TO that conviction strea CAB
and intensity As Illustrative Of tls com
pare tie leebleness and tinsor8asness Of
the convictions Of the disciples whea they
began 10 believe IN Jesus VITA what thess
eousict5ons were Whea at the sud 81 their
| course shey laid down their lges IN mar
tyrior. That IS the natural eourss 81
fhines. 1t x ~natnral for flower "a con-
anue t. grow Il il staads N tie same sul-
shine and ia Z, as thai Whieh flss made f.
begin to grow. II 4 Hover eonies no out
of the ground. rlows Tor a day and then
sudden seo,,s growing end reiaa rs "a II
q Won knoy. something i the natter
| ether there { a yrorm al tie root or the
| air inc cold or the 80. son 3ry It il MOI
aat,Iral for Il nat Il Is IN improying urots
! .tself, adding 10 itself
ii 4 + scrry condition than, that a n,ar
"a IN. that a Christian believe Is IN. ssfen.
he saws that h. has the same ornioa OF
Christ that 10 had a wear ago. it te q
sal tory AZ the ,vav the vpsl. has been
yassise with him. III the vine IN : : twin
;ng itseif around vour krsllis clothes itself
IN no more leaves and pats forth no more
hlossoms tbis summer shan Il did last sun
I ,oer IN ss9sen INST have bean AZ infs ~
sU.s nna for oiaus life ar shere = so7e.
tbinv ser;ons the matter wis ~ vine
hive IN sb{4 been speasiag Aros4iv OF
CONVECTION in general bqt oil coarse the
FElEFpRFF SDppfrFatW intended IL tn TElg-
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closet ar stored "a ne ~arret smsp~ afsr
disnseS firuitrre or Obsolete hrir.a three
sometime WHICH We eslied land nroner'v
caW 4 belle in Christ. an opinion s5oat
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