The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-08-08
Or. YOUNG ON. THE
SIGNS OF Times ).
Delivers Sermon From the Text,
"Our Citizenship is in
Heaven"
HIS REFERENCE RE: I; Z TO GRAFT AZ:
Some Christians Think World
Beyond Redemption and
Hold Aloof.
!, REFERENCE TO GRAFT RAE

DR.. w. J. Young. pastor OF Centenary
Methodist Episcopal Church. spoke on
Sunday night on the Heavenly and inc
Earthly Citizenship" taking for his text
Fhil. $40, "our Citizenship is In Heaven"
lie said, in part, that texts like these are
often spoken sof as two cther-worldly and
rot sufficiently practical The world re-
Scnts the lives OF those men VINO, re-
fusing to enter into the conflicts ana
realities OF life, hurry through TO another
y GRID. The apostle, no moro than the
Master desired to take men out OF the
world, but to give then, such point OF
view as would keep them true 10 inc
most exalted principles while busy WITH
the most material concerns. He would
have them see that there Is splritual
eide to life, even to the factory, panF
and store He would have them turn
their gaze more fully on those eternal
laws OF truth and righteousness BY which
ali things must ultimately be controlled,
ilasmuch as conduct is three-fourths OF
lfe. He would have them live more IN the
the real things about us as merely prop
hecles of the better.
There are two possible attitudes towards
this world In it's relation to the world
to come. In the one case, the Christian
looks upon this world as essetially and
necessarily evil, Its pleasures. It's busl-
LESS, Its politics are past redemption, at
least In this age. and under present con-
ditions, The noblest thing, therefore. he
can do is to strive to get to heaven, to
save his soul. having meanwhile as little
to do with tho wicked world as possible,
Less Selfish Attitude.
The other attitude rather seeks to bring
the heavenly kingdom down to earth, to
apply heavenly laws and heavenly Ideals
| 10 the present world, There Is nothing
| particularly noble, but, on the contrary,
| possibly. something decidedly selfish, in
| the ambition to reach the heavenly world
| Il there be nothing more than this. There
IL something sublimely beautiful in the
| life which Is seeking to bring the New
| Jerusalem down to earth even to-day.
| II one might choose tonight between
| a state of bliss in the heavenly world
/ and the place Of a toiler in solving the
1 many problems looking to the establish
ment of Christs Kingdom, one might we'll
choose a humble place In the worlds
i service, and ask the Father to delay Ills
call to tho Land of rest. The dying Earl
4 of Shaftesbury, when told he would soon
be among the angelic hosts, expressed,
regret that he must leave the poor and
the errng, for whom he WAS toiling, for
state of bliss. Indeed, It would seem
that there could he no better preparation
for the heavenly world than the constant
endeavor to make heavenly this presen'
world.
"But we are told" continued the speak,
err. "that the effort 10 make the Wor1a
good is futile, that the appalling collH.
tons of political corruption, grat.,, : n J, >
a honesty, immortality, must lont'n.ule s
Wherever men may be they are t ~,
human beings tbs n sa on en,th the
rules in the other, the ons cross oversize :,
ows all II then, one d!strHsts, Inc ne herr her,
ut' 'would seem as If one must distrus
ben e o Ws nop %ast 1 sas
p s,7s AWFUL shsI stian is bound to lie Ill npti
mist mist III Nils sense, that he must be''sv'