Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1906-02-22
OUR MID WEEK SERMON

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the proportion of faith. Rom. II
10.
The verb to prophecy as it is
used in the New Testament, and
as it is often used in the Old
Testament, means Ito preach.
| Let lis preach according to the
| proportion of faith. The faith
the Christian religions not
being preached in he right pro-
portion This frequency of
preaching the faith out of propor-
ton has tended to the rending of
Christendom, and the nultipll-
cation of sects. There IS no
Christian denomination that does
not preach some important truth.
| The trouble with most of the de-
Nominations is that they unduly
emphasize some truths, and con-
sequently do not put emphasis on
some other truths. They do not
hold the faith in the right propor-
tious. Now if this is true of re.
lig1ous denominations as re.
|ligious societies, it is also true of
individual Christians. One mar
puts great emphasis on right be-
lieving, aud does Eat put enough
emphasis on right living. An
other unduly emphasizes right
works, forgetting that works
without faith are dead, not evil,
but dead. One man has decided
views on the inspiration
of the Bible, but fails
to comprehend tn t the Bible is
to be applied to every day life.
F One man emphas,a practical re-
ligion and ignores emotion. Each
; forgets that both iorms OF rel1-
gion have an equally important
part in life. C,.c nan seems to
think that all rel. sion consists IN
saving himself alone. tie says
Christ came to fit US for heaven
! and to rescue us from hell. An
other says the kingdom OF God is
: for this world, and for this world
alone, heaven and hell are only
: conditions, One man becomes SO
worldly in his religion that he
. ignores the simplest desires OF
) the human heart. Another ems
y phasizes the JOY of living until
Z he forgets the soberness of right
living. Another SO ignores the
/, fact that the body is as much a
!. part of man as his soul that his
= system becomes too abstract for
, people to understand, or his
: method of living too uncomforta-
! BILE for people to live. One EN-.
: phasizes the love and mercies OF
God until God appears weak.
Another so emphasizes his hatred
LOT sin and the sinner that Goo
appears cruel monster. One
emphasizes Gods omnipotence
until he appears rs unaproacha
= BILE as an Oriental potentate; o.
: he emphasizes His omnipresenct
until God aud nature become syn
onimous. One man goes K
n church and prayer meeting regu
w larly and makes a good appear
ic ance there, aiitl s'lll not go call
10 ing or riding on Sunday, but hi
!, week day business transaction
,d are not in accordance with tn
n Ten Commandments strictly IN
IS. terpreted. Some SO hate ritua
that they will not observe the or
binary rules of decent politenes
= when they are in Gods house
4 and others go to the other ez
y treme and make the worship 0
God anything but solemn AM
reverent. All these differen
men hold the faith out of pro
portion. This ought not to be
It makes Christianity appear
weak or an unsatisfactory system
True Christianity gives US
strength for every phase of lif
in this world, physical and mer
= tai as we'll as spiritual, and
Y the assurance of hope for tn
world to come. A careful
n thoughtful, unbiased stud
Iof the life of Christ as told in tn
Gospels. and ,.'c interpretatio
of that lite as given in the Act
and the Epistles shows us th