The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1909-10-21
THE PULPIT.
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON CY
REV. J. II. JoWETT, ti. A.
Theme; The Christian Resources.

New YORK City.-The C~-. J. ".
Jowett, NJ. A, the most famous minis
ter of Carr's Lane Congregational
Church. Birmingham. England. who
Is on visit for the first time to this
country, preached SUNDAY in the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Church. TIE
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 mcet
him that cometh against him with
twenty thousand?" He said:
Our Lord was always seeking 70
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 and
women to think. What think ye?"
what king" He says. about to en-
gage in campaign sitteth not down
first to estimate the strength Of the
zoe and the strength of his own re-
sources, and then ascertain whether
there is legitimate hope of his forces
being able to meet and conquer those
who oppose him.
NY simple purpose to-day is to ask
you to do this little thinking, to medi-
tate on what kind of enemy we have
to meet, and / pray YOU not to let
your thoughts wander away to 4 far
on world, but let us consider what
enemies we have to meet in this
world where we have to labor and die.
and 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 ere-
mics in front of us? 1 repeat our
Masters own estimate OF the Zoe
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 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 habitues
CT the theatre, or fond of cards. and
we say they are worldly; and people
who abstain from these things are
labeled unworldly. I Go not think
that covers it in the slightest degree.
Worldliness is not implied in what we
DO or do not do. Woridliness is not in
doing this, or not doing this World
illness is in the spirit 1t is the at
mosphere of the soul. Worldliness Is
the spirit Of the horizontal Wcrldli
ness looks on and out. but 1t never
looks up and prays. 1t Is ambition.
rot aspiration. Its motto is for
ward, never upward" Its goal is
success, never holiness. Worldlness
Is life without the vertical, without
to, .;,.1
our Lord And whenever you find a
man CT woman, no matter what they
do Or ccnt do, who always locks out
to the horizontal end. men and wom-
en- who have no ideal, no aspiration,
no heavenly vision, no prayer, those
are men and women who would be
described by the Master as -of the
world, worldly" Every >dy here
knows what an exceedingly strong
graVitatioa there is toward the hori-
Zontal life In the church and out of
1t you feel this tremendous mesmer-
ism, this worldly fascination, leading
us TO turn our eyes from the heights,
from what Paul calls the heavenly
things in Christ Jesus" We have
got that force Of gravity to meet
the world.
Then there Is the flesh" Every
one knows the power Of the flesh:
not merely the carnal power of the
BODY, but OF carnai power expressing
itself in vanity and pride. The flesh
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" l do not know
how l 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
CT the air" He does not leap upon
You like lion. The devil usually
appears as "the prince of the power OF
the air." and he comes into every
life and lets down the temperatu-e:
he changes the moral atmosphere
1cu were just praying fervently, and
suddenly you experienced a chill. 1t
Is the prince OF the power Of the air.
Icu start with great zeal to lead 4
clean life, and before you know i: t:,e
temperature is perceLtibl chilled.
The prince OF the power cs thc air"
quietly, silently makes ti.a. l.h1aan-
dous change in your moral life By in
fuenciHg and chaDCi1g the at:rcs-
phere. We have SoL the devil 10
meet
HaEe you anything else to meet?
Yes, the 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 as
healthful. There are many who can
Eot hear the voice Of God who are
nevertheless pursued by their guilt.
You do Eot need to hear 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 the Lords presence and of guilt
in the souring Of the disposition, the
manufacturing of cYnics. The man