The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1906-08-27
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BY REV |. \ POWELL D \ |: Ill.
Iltr-hnractcizcs Christ's Crucifixio,l
m as Patllos Of History and and
Y Tragedy Of Humanity.
WAY OF GALAXY WAY TO GOD
Every Man Has Ills FGS'olgott1l11aa,
and tile Soul Must@P;a.ssss
s5 Through the Fire Ss,s8

i..The Trnsfguration'' was the su Be
icct az d most powerful nnd strongly
4l,u,nnt delneation Of THAT event In the
fife of Christ, preached by Rev. T.. T..
Y Powell lin the Seventh Street Christian
u Church yesterday morning. a largo con-
N gregation for: the season Of the year
md the state of the weather filled tho
{ church, and Mr. Powell held all through
this discourse the undivided attention Of
allis audience. ~ 5 Y RI
/ Mr., Powell Is gifted With n splendid
4 dow Of lnng,lnge, which. backed ~ q
4 rare earnestness of manner and sincerity
ofEtone is we'll calculated to enthrall any
Is body Of hearers
u The text OF the sermon was taken
\ from st, Matthew xvii. land after six
i days Jesus taketh Peter James, and.
s5up into O. high mountain apart, and
4 was transilgured before them; and II IS
4 face did shine as the sun, and Ills
\ rnimei,t5 was white as the light.
Peters Confession.
Mr.. Powell introduced his subject with
4 q reference 10 the fact thnt six days
1 before Simon Peter, looking stcadfnstly
into the face Of his Master, declared
with passionate conviction, Thou !lft
N tile Christ" s5 IA 55 /,
VIA The preacher characterized this as tho
&stlblimest confession OF faith 1lr. PoWeiii
pictured in beau tiful and glowing terms
1.-THE scene of the transiiguration l ~
While the disciples We're rejoicing With
their Lord I, lie announced that He must
n 70 to Jerusalem Here lay u difficulty,
& because they could not reconcile the truth
4 OF His being the Christ with the cross
/ and the way Of Calvary. But the speak
4 or showed the way Of Calvary was tho
swayRcf His enforcement, ana the scene
4 or the TRANSFORMATION was that when
! gnve Him the hope and trust st to follow
| out Ills career to the bitter end. $
The last act at Calvary Is the pathos
5# Of history and the great tragedy Of hu-
i manly, yet It served it's end In being
1.-The finish OF mnn--llfe filled with sor-j
! row and bitterness, and the beginning
iEof the sweetness and tho Joy Of the life
eternal. SO 1t is with man. With the
4 encouragement OF q -bo-loped-fo tran s.
yfiguration to come In the after life 4 nc
i il enabled to pass through this life and
rising above lts gall and NORWOOD ,arost
I in$,the assurance that. as certain as he
\ lives faithfully up to his trust, the re-
ward will come.
Il T TRANSPORTATION.
The speaker played on the keynote OF
N hope and faith and encouragement,
which he drew rs the chief lesson to
tr:,nsfiguration& Of Christ.
III a said that he was q firm believer in
conditional Immortality, inasmuch as
\ he could not bring himself to believe
4 that the soul, rotted and contaminated
Z witt, evil through and through. without
II d sense left OF morality, could be at
home and ease among those that had
q passed through the ordeal of fire and
become purged from their sins and weak
ness. i2 e Ri HI
Going back to his original strain, the
preacher laid emphasis on the fact that
tic way Of all humanity must be through
/ a Golgotha and q Calvary; that each
unjust shoulder his cross, and that each
must live his life according to his own
i conscience. supported always by the hope
that in tho end would come the trans
X 1iguration, when the earthly Ills We're laid
4 away and forgotten for the Joys to be
had and lived through In the life to
come.
The speaker clothed his address in a
splendid vehicle Of language and idea,
strong with the pathos and the hope
II. OF mortal life and happy in the choice
\ OF his expressions of faitll in the divine
L guidance and.'cafr sof the children Of
y. God. The audience was Srapt in the
/, cloquence and sincerity OF the speaker;
4 and he never for moment lost their
. interest or their attention.
Mr.. Powell and his wife left for their
4 home in Louisville, KY. yesterday after
noon.