The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1907-02-23
REID REPROvES CAREERS |
Presbyterian Minister Sharply
Scores Hypercritica|
FOR SAYING DR.. bREEDEM GOT 500
BUT STORY THAT EvANGELlTs is
PAID LARGE sum DAILY is
CIRCULATED.
FOR SAYING Or. BREEDEN GOT 500

In spite of the fatigue from his
morning sermon DR.. Breeder was in
fine speaking form yesterday evening
Seeking the Kingdom" was the topic
of his discourse. Kingdoms of all
kinds were. talked of and then COM
pared with the permanent universal
Kingdom of God
Many Christians testified to what
the religion meant to them at the meet
ing and several made the great de-
cision and came up front to sit with
! the saved.
Rev. J. C. Reid sharply reproved
those who remarked on the fact that
DR.. Breeder received 500 a night for
his services. His services can never
be measured in dollars and cents"
said Mr. Reid. and we can never hope
to compensate him for the good he has
accomplished in winning some 800
souls to Christ and reviving and en-
larging the religious experience of 800
others
That art not far from the king
DOM" This statement was brought
forth by the question of a lawyer,
Or a scribe, who wanted to know what
! he should do to inherit eternal life,
and when Christ repeated the first
commandment, Thou shalt love the
Lord, thy God with all thy heart,
etc, and thy neighbor as myself" he
answered endorsing the Savior's
teaching and declaring Master Thou
hast said the truth; for there is one
God. and there is none other but he"
1t was then that Jesus said, Thou art
not far from the kingdom" Christ
came to found a kingdom.
'In all history it has been the burn
ing desire of men to found a king
dom. 1t has been the ambition of men
in all ages and in all climes and
among all peoples. 1t was the thought
that agitated the mind of Julius Gaze
ser long before he crossed the Rubi-
con and long before he declared that
he would rather be first man in Capua
than second man in Rome; it cOlored
the life of Alexander: it tloated in
the fancy Oh ollNef tTOlllWell ana IL
caused Charlmagne 10 dream of re-
uniting the vagrant members of the
old Roman empire under his own
standard. This ambition to found a
! kingdom, to establish. an empire
shaped the destiny of NAPOLEON 1t
bathed the earth in blood: it desolated
homes; it destroyed honor and barter
| e faith. and all to be able to say, be
hold. this is my kingdom
But take a look through the glass
of history and no matter how firmly
earthly kingdoms have been estab-
lshed; how much they have cost hu-
manity: how much blood has been
split in building them up, one is COM
PEELED to say that kingdoms pass
away. But Jesus Christ came to the
earth without influence, without arm
les, without resources. without pres
| tige without social standing. and yet
he founded a kingdom stronger than
| NapOleon's. stronger than Caeser's.
more potent than XerXes and With
more subjects than any earthly king
ever had. and reaching to every cline
and ever ocean. down through all the
| ages right into the heart of eternity;
but it was a kingdom of love.
There are those today Who are
within a single step Of the kingdom
and who if they would make but
single step would cross the border
land into the happy land that is SOW.
render of will would cause the door
to fly open and they would be in
vited to enter into the joys of the
Lord Man may be near the king
dom by intellectual sincerity. He
may have studied all the abstruse
problems that confront the student
Of religion. who pursues course Of
intellectual investigation. and he may
have arrived at the irrefutable con-
clusion that Christianity is right.
that it is true, and he may revere it.
and vet be outside of the kingdom
kingdom of heaven. He must how.
ever. take another step and enter into
vital union with Christ. who de-
mands the heart. who is looking for
| the whole man and not portion of
! him.
He may be near the kingdom by
moral integrity. AS Paul convinced
the intelligence of AG'lppa of 81.
truth of the scriptures so Christ
convinced the man of splendid char
acter and high nsegrity fiat a
m:n's heart must be changed: buy
Nicodemus remained cut OF the
Kingdom just s. Agripra did. I be-
iiove that a nj Jral man is nearer the
kingdom than depravel man is Il
have no sympathy with the spurious
evangelism that denounces the moral
man as a stumbling block to others
who are deep in sin. To reach a cor
oret of virtue it is not necessary to
run the whole gamut of vice and
corruption. AS Hugo SAYS. we
reach the highest through the high