Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1905-06-17
THE PULPIT.
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
Or. A. w. STRIKER. PRESIDENT
Of HAMILTON COLLEGE.


son Place VI. r.. Church In the absence /
or Dr. Locke. the pastor. He preached \
the following sermon on Service"
My text is that verse in the twelfth I
chapter OF the epistle 90 the Romans I'm /
which the apostle says that there are I
some things hard TO be understood |
which the unlcarucd and the unstable 1
wrest TO their own destruction II IS I
true that Satan often hides in -hc dark
passages Of Gods word. IL lis also true
that the hardest things % understand
are not those that the intellect has 10
unravcl and explain. but the things
that concern the deeds. For my part.
whoever else may have found 10 hard.
have not found the ninth chapter OF
Romans as hard rs the twelfth. Even
AZ I did not DO it very well 10 was easier
70 think straight than 70 is 20 be good.
II IFS q wonderful thing that. after an
these mighty. rcvcrbcrating words. that
search the very heights and depths OF
tho plan OF God that make this letter
So compact up 90 this point 10 al broad
ems ont in the most natural fashion
into administrative matters. ! notice
that the thing about the twelfth chap
+ ter is that 10 does not say anything
/ about what we must not 10. To lis
always true that 80 you get light iu
/ darkness viii go ont. The way 20 keep
our hearts empty OF evil lis Co hll them
up 90 the brIm with good. We Go not
got the darkness ont of this room with
N broom. buf with n match or n shark
Dr Thomas chalmers use1 to sneak
about the "cXpulSiye power ~ the new
anection~ TO many "A man who never
amounted 20 ANYTHING the honest. pure
love 90 a true woman has been an iu-
centive 90 him to make something OF
himself FOR her sake. and whenever the
love OF cod comes into the human
heart it drives out OWL and seeks fo
clofhc itself with living and loval ac-
ton. ar7l IL there lis any one who thinks
the deed is easy and the doctrine hard.
thnt lis not my oxuorionce.
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saws 10 is reasonable service. Tie
said. trv it. nut 30 to the proof. and Doe
was au expert who had tried It Cor
thirty years. L am going to take ouc
, special line OF analogy Nou have
often heard DO said ~ "a man of intense
activity that hc was a perfect steam
engine" and that would he said more
: often 10 There were more mon who
were what they ought to Doe. -a perfect
steam engine think there is % sor
mon in THAT ANA am going to try
O. get az 60. You VIII help. You viii
, think a great many things which
, won't and preach sermon to you-
b. selves about being perfect steam cn
- giues. For or present purposes Wt
VIII talk about that particular style of
steam engine. The railway locomotive
% America is doing a great business ir
s making thea So. and wherever they ar,
seut-Africa or South America coz Asia
every one of them is Sind of mission
airy force. e living testimony OF tha
force and skill which are resident b.
free mankind. The can now i> lou,
and clear for Americans who shall h0
more committed t0 teach the work.
b manhood. The tide OF time is r.Siu.
and sineW and muscle are called lnu
the service of God. This is mo time Sol
lmpmg or lettering.
, Look out unon this world and SCI
how God is comprcs>m- and packing
az together. II w. WON'T take ou
p Gospel in the missionary ship. 10 Sha.
40 Boa the warship. somehow mon ar
going to Dee brought together We ar
# conceited l0t we Americans. but w
do not like 10 De told So. We have
good thing. and like to keen 10. W
say OF the Chinese. "shut them ont
put them aside" And perhaps OF som
others. also. Don't let those -ood-fOi
d nothing Russians. Poles and Italian
come" Bless your heart. Your grea