The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-04-11
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SUNDAY SERMON
A Scholarly Discourse BY
Rev. Howard Melish.


Brooklyn n. YIN Holy Trinity
Church. Sunday morning, the rector,
the Rev. Howard Meish. preached
from the text. "From that time Jesus
began to preach and to say Repent F"
st Matthew iv;lT He said:
| heard one of the ablest men in
America. Il man who had studied the
popular mind carefully and observed il
mos! keenly, say not long ago that If
he were young again the one message
he would endeavor To- bring home to his
cOuntrymeu is-spirit, soul, manhood
make conditions. not conditions men.
Three forces are producing the Oppo.
site view. The first is materalism.
Materlalism as Il philosophy Is discred.
tied. Twenty-Five years ago II received
tremendous Importance through the
formulation of a doctrine of evolution
by natural selection To-day it is not
taught I'm a single university chair.
But materialsm. as popular concep.
ton OF the world, is more generally
needed than ever before In it God is
identified with His universe. His name
is Force. His law is to be found not in
the Bible. but in the latest text books
on physics. Man is an animal which
thinks lie Is creature of his en-.
vrounent When he dies he is dead
as every other beast of the field.
The second is the teaching Of some
socialists. There Is socialism and there
is Christian socialism. Christian social.
ism endeavors to make q place in So
cialiSm for Christlanity's emphasis on
the individual. Socialism Is concerned
with the economic and industrial reor-
ganization Of society. As interpreted
by SOme Of its eXp0unders it is telling
men that they can't be just or right or
pure or honest or humane under the
competitive system 70 talk about eth.
ical standards so long as men must
compete to live is ch.ld's play. The
Sermon on the Mount Is impracticable;
let MAN obey its preceptS and he is
sure to be thrown by the current of
life on 10 the bank rs wrpckagp. What
Is needed to make men Is u different
order OF society. Such teachings. such
feeling for it has become more feel
ing than clearly articuluted system.
has weakened the sense of individual
responsibility. l can't be pure living
under tenement house conditions.
can't speak the truth In a modern pull
pit or Il modern newspaper therefore
] am not responsible for impurity. dis
AuhtNtA. NinS'
The thlrG force. laying stress on con
dltionS instead of viii, ANA so wenFen-
ing individual conscience. is Christian
Science. At first thought this may
seem an utterly inconsistent statement.
Does not Christian Science lay all the
emphasis on the individuAl-his ptti-
tnde Of mind. his thought? Not at all.
what il emphasizes Is conditions Of
thougnt. By methods which rival the
methods OF uypatla and the Neo-Pla-
tonists. they endeavor to work your
MIND inso state where nothing eX-
ternal to your mind has any reality.
SIN does not exist. The suffering of
little children in the Home of St Giles
the cripple is mere thought. The
dishonesty of business has no reality.
The tragedy OF much of our tenement
house life. With is starvation, unem-
ploy yment, varied lives, or the sinful
luXuriouSness of much of the Fifth
avenue life are mere thoughts. Jesus
on His cross was only acting a part.
such teaching has no social mes
sage. Christian Science has pro-
duced some beautiful characters, is
raelites IN whom there is no guile
who recognize In Jesus. as did Ma
thanlel. the Son OF God,' bit it has
not and cannot produce social re-
former 10 20 into llGck Slum and
stay there working and dying for the
Kingdom Of God, because It has no
message TO the conscience, individual