Omaha daily bee., 1906-07-14

great sermon which puts people to
sleep"
y hate these little. Sissy things. who go
around claiming TO be pious'
The church hasn't much to expect from
the rising generation Of rich young men,
Money spells the rank and hle Of them,
lowers their moral nature and makes them
proud and disdainfuL Living without any
ambition in life, their only remarkable
achievement is that they are sons Of their
fathers. ia rather have one real man
than a whole army Of dudes from Fifth
avenue or Euclid avenue, or any other
place you please"
Il visited a theological school not long
ago and 1 found myself farther from life
than l had ever been. You preachers
study Greek, homiletics. and history as
dead as Judas Iscariot and you come out
Of the seminsries az NJ for the world as
the lamb is for the slaughter house The
world doesn't know Greek paradlgms. but
II does know a man when It sees one"
DIR. cations Address.
Following is the main portion OF DIR.
Eatons address:
THE Power OF God in Evangelism These
are supreme words. Through them throbs
the divinest experiences of man, the passion
of Christ the brooding love OF God. To I'M
derstand them with the mind. experience
them in the heart. express them in daily
life, is to give the church victory in its
the feet Of Jesus.
There are two manifestations Of the
Bible which Gu hold within Elm themselves ali
others. Tn the creation Of the world and
its redemption from sin God has made
weitering darkness OF primevai chaos
echoes the divine voice Let there be
hold IN daafb re bonds
develops, energies at last in man the image
Of the creator, the one spiritual being In
| whom all other forms and creations find
their end and meaning.
"In the Z. inning God" This is where
| the mind man In It's noble quest for
| truth must at last STOP and find rest. Here
| In the story OF the creation, whether told
| in language OF scripture or science, we be-
| hold unveiled the transcendant power OF
| the living God He II is who created the
| heavens and stretched them out; that
spread forth the earth and that which
cOmeth out of it; that gave breath unto
the people upon IT. and spirit to them that
| walked therein. Let us lift up our eyes on
| high and behold who hath created these
numbers; He calleth them all by name, by
! the greatness Of His might, for that He
| Is strong power, not one faileth.
Power of Mind and VIII.
! The power to create is a power Of mind
and will. II God had created world such
as ours and left II to drift into sin and
ruin, He would have proclaimed Himself
/
| for which power exerts itself determines
| the moral quality of that power. For one
| to slay fellow man out of revenge or hate
or gain is murder But when a man Stays
| his fellow in defense of home and right we
approve his deed and call him by the noble
Now, the message of Christianity to the
! world is this: God accepts responsibility
for HIS own ereat don. Man Is not simply
or omnipotence. He is Gods child, breath
Of His breath, life Of HIS life. When man
sins and suffers. God sorrows and suffers
with him. And in the glorious story Of
| redemption through the cross of Christ Is
set forth the manifold wisdom and power
| Of a God who Is love, who has good pur-
pose in His creation, and who is still at
| work I'm the world bringing that purpose to
| a glorious contamination. In creation and
the power and purpose OF God.
! "One God. one law, one element,
And one divine. far off event,
Towards which the whole creation moves"
The power of God Is like Himself, spirit
bozes ITSELF n the Son Of Man. ana snds
| through the world a ge of hope,
worthy indeed of the awful majesty of the
! divine
Power of God In Evangelism.
We have spoken of the power that Gre
ated and formed the universe, that ex-
pressed itself in the diversities and won
ders of living things, that reached its
glorious completion in man, that sustains
by it's Providence the universe, moral and
physical in its forward march toward good
shores beat out forever their message of
the power. The wild winds roar their
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they kiss the flower and scatter far and
wide its fragrance. The roll OF rivers,
the sweep of clouds across the sky, the
upward rush of sap in the trees and grass.
the breaking OF the springtime, the coming
of harvest, the tumultuous passions OF
man, the solemn hush Of irresistible death,
the rise and fall of races and Kingdoms
the travails OF organized human life the
terror of earthquake and volcano, of food
and famine, all, all proclaim the glorious
majesty of that power, vital and reason
ing, which with bowed heads and in hushed
accents we name-God.
flows down to men through Jesus Christine
power which we call love. out of this
primal fountain flows all love, but in Christ
we behold its full perfection, Listen to
the Voice that calls across the ages from
Calvary. How II reveals God and man
What deeds and heights are stirred by its
, Faccents Of wondroUs love, The greatest
marvel of divine power is the Savior sent
from heaven, who is able to save unto the
/, uttermost all who come unto Him by faith
Now let us turn to the particular appli-
cation OF divine power set forth in our sub
ject. In Evangelism
Evangelism is the telling of good news
which good news is the announcement that
God loves men, that He has come to live
among us in the person of His son, that
He has gathered into His own bosom all
human SINS sorrows, failures Questionings
needs, and that He has gone down into
y way Of the Cross; that He has returned and
breathes upon the world His spirit Hence
forth no man need despair, there is hope
both for this world and the world to come.
When Jesus gave to His disciples the
great commission He prefaced His words
with this statement "All power is given
unto me in heaven and on earth" The
disciples were commanded to tarry In
Jerusalem until they should receive power
from on high. Years later the apostle dis
| covered that the Gospel was the power
OF God unto salvation.
Power of the Messenger.
The power In the messenger The divine
| power promised by Jesus to His disciples
! incarnates itself in the man, IL infiames
and guides his reason, leading into all
| truth; il gives him a vision of universal
! truth in which lies the meaning of the
| universe; In a word, Il helps the messen.
| ger TO see and understand God. II sustains
! the life in noble zeal for noble service.
! Paul who could do all things through
Christ who strengthened him. Luther, who
! changed the history OF the world; William
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| III