The Penn's Grove record., 1909-10-22
THE PULPIT.
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
REV J. H. JoWETT, M. A.
Theme: .he Christians Resources.

Church, Birmingham, England, who
is on q Wis for the first time to this
country, preached Sunday in the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Church. The
sermon was on "The Christians Re-
sources" Mr.. Jowett's text was Luke
1881, "Or what king going to make
war against another king, stitch not
down first, and consulteth whether
he is able with ten thousand to meet
him that cometh against him with
twenty ~thousand?" He said:
Our Lord was always seeking to
get men to sit down to think. He
seeks to win their judgment, to touch
their reason, that they may see the
reasonableness of His doings and the
reasonableness of His evangel. He
is continually calling upon men ana
women to think what think ye9"
What king" He says, about to en-
gage in a campaign stitch not dowIs
first to estimate the strength Of the
foe and the strength of his own e
sources, and then ascertain whether
there is legitimate hope of his forces
being able to meet and conquer those
who oppose him?"
My simple purpose to-day is to asa
you to do this little thinking, to medi-
tate on what kind of enemy we have
to meet, and I pray you not to let
your thoughts wander away to a far
on world, but let us consider what
enemies we have to meet in this
world where we have to labor and die,
n whether we can with our own
strength overcome them. And if not,
let us turn to those resources which
are offered to us in Jesus Christ, our
Lord.
Now what are these enemies that
we have to meet? What are the enc
mics In front of us? l repeat our
Masters own estimate OF the foe
which every one of US will have TO
meet to-day and tomorrow. Jesus
Christ calls one "the world Now
what is the world? We sometimes
say a man is a worldly man. What
is the significance of the term? Too
frequently when we use this term we
refer to something a man does or
leaves undone. Men may be haoitues
OF the theatre, or fond OF cards, and
we say they are worldly; and people
who abstain from these things are
labeled unworldly. I do not think
that covers it in the slightest degree.
Worldliness is not implied in what we
do or do not do. W~orldliness is not in
doing this, or not doing this. World
illness is in the spirit. It is the at
mosphere of the soul. Worldliness 3
the spirit of the horizontal. Work.
ness looks on and out, but it rz-se
looks up and prays. It is ar1aitf1u.
not aspiration. Its motto lar-
ward" never upward" 3s
KuccnSS- never holiness Vail fF--Hs
is life without the vertisa wllna1t
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man n woman, u Pr pa
do or don't do ,5cfs 0ae
to the horizoT end ar-
en- who havs no r. u1 asi irat t5n.
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are me Hcrea v5ull b
descril
world, orl6ly
knows WI en z5.a
gravitation .e
zontal life. L. g1a
it you feel this
ism, this worldly
US to turn our eyes
from what Paul calls fas
things in Christ Jesus m
got that force of gravity
the world.
Then there is the flesh
n knows the power of the
not merely the carnaI mower on
body, but of carnal power expressl
itself in vanity and pride. The fesA
That bows down the soul and rides it.
instead of the SOULS determining the
movements of the flesh. We have the
flesh" to meet, whether in appetite
or carnal desire. The world, the
flesh and the devil" / do not know
how / can define the devil, but Paul's
phrase always seems to describe my
relationship with the devil better than
any other: "The prince of the power
of the air." He does not leap upon
you like a lion. The devil usually
appears as ~the prince of the power of
the air." and he comes into every
life and lets down the temperatures;
he changes the moral atmosphere.
You were just praying feryently. and
suddenly you experienced a chill. 1t
Is 1.-The prince of the power of the air.
You start with great zeal to lead a
clean life, and before you know it the
temperature is perceptibly chilled.
"The prince of the power of the air.
quietly, silently makes that tren,en-
dous change in your moral life by in
iuencing and changing the atmos-
phere. We have got the devil to
nee
Have you anything else to meet?
Yes, b fourth enemy is the binding
power of guilt. In my country there
are prominent men who say that men
and women have no longer the sense
of guilt. l cannot regard that az
healthful. There are many who cam
not hear the voice of God who are
nevertheless pursued by their guilt.
o 40 not need TO heal the thunder
and see the lightning to have proof
OF the storm The souring of the
milk in the dairy proves the storms
presence, and there is often the proof
OF tbs Lords presence and of guilt
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