Oxford eagle. (Oxford, Lafayette Co., Miss.) 1876-current, 1910-09-15

errors. Those who profit by the
propagation Of those errors will ap-
peal to every popular superstition and
passion against the truth which threat
ems their destruction. But few will
endure patiently the sound teaching In
the matters concerned. The needed
message for any day will be nnwei-
come. because Il will condemn sinful
and degrading indulgences. and seek
to divorce men from them. Just In
the measure that widespread errors
are fatal. and their influence de-
grading, will the message OF the re-
former be needed. and while men are
human the need Of and desire for IL
will vary inversely. Paurs adjuration
to Timothy TO preach the word" was
chiefly prompted by the fact that II
was distasteful to the hearers OF that
day. and the young preacher might
prefer 10 speak smooth things. As in
the case OF spoiled children. Of dyspep-
tics. Of pieasure-seekers. Of mischief
makers. Of wrong doors and wrong
thinkers OF every sort. what they most
needed they least wanted. He who
has a message worth while will need
to pray for courage that he may open
his mouth boldly and speak as he
ought 10 speak.
The Real Message.
The pulpit message for all days
even unto the end OF the world" Is
the gospel Of Christ. for II is the
power OF God unto salvation 20 every
one that belleveth" To every one
a personal message OF salvation 20
every man that has lived or ever shall
live till the end OF the world" The
man STEPPED in and stupefied BY sen
sual indulgence is prone to be oblivi-
Gus to his need OF salvation. and to
resent any effective measures for at
tanning II, but land this fact will sug
gest where the emphasis should be
put upon the pulpit message for to
day. the man stepped in and spiritu.
ally stupefied by intellectual indul.
gence is apt to be even more oblivious
to his need Of the salvation offered In
the gospel. The carnal mind is not
only enmity against God. but against
man. While its servants are not Sc
offensive and pitiable as the slaves OF
carnal appetite. they work more so.
cial ruin in our day. Philosophic
cynicism. intellectual pride and avari.
cious cunning are robbing this gen.
Grafton Of its best ideals. of its faith
In God the father, and of its ''in.
alienable right to life. liberty and the
pursuit of happiness"
Carey called the attention Of the
camp Of Gods spiritual Israel to the
long-neglected marching orders Of the
captain Of the worlds salvation He
and few heroes of his kind gave Pro-
testant Christendom the pulpit mes
sage for the last half Of the nineteenth
century-the message of foreign mis-
sicns. Are there not indications at
present that the heat of controversy
and zeal of advocacy have caused this
to be magnified to the neglect of some
other things Of vital. perhaps equal.
importance? Has not the zeal Of
some Of its propagandists become so
little according to knowledge that
they are ready TO make the observance
Of Christ's other explicit orders, and
even the question of his deity. sub
ordinate to the furthering of missions7
Are there not those who in their zeal
to go and teach all nations. are ready
10 modify and compromise upon. what
Christ commanded to be taught The
special message for any day, in sci.
ence. in politics. In religion. is in dan.
ger Of becoming like the farmers
mettlesome horse whose natural gait
was running away"
Essential Teachings.
As already intimated the "puIpit
message for today"-the essential
teaching of the Scriptures which needs
special emphasis and repetition. is
that concerning the deity Of Jesus
Christ. his superhuman origin and di.
vine. superhuman. miraculous power.
In our day the carnal mind, self-con-
scious intellectually, denies and de.
rides this teaching, in the name of
science. It is a strange sort of sci
ence" which bases dogma not upon
what IT knows. but upon what IL does
not know. II makes in effect the alb.
surd declaration that there can be NO
truth which cannot be discovered and
demonstrated by the human mind nv
physical means. Whatever IL nv
search. with physical senses and an
piiances. cannot find out. or verify In
nonresident. II is strange that NOT a
few of those who profess to be min.
listers of the gospel have taken a leaf
many leaves. and even whole chan
ters. from this non-scientifc. agnostic
teaching.
Logically enough this agnostic cult
based upon a denial Of all ,hinr,
which so transcend human experience
as to depend upon revelation. so,,r.
ishes most in our great educat,or,I
centers. and hurtfully Affects manv
ministerial students who are subject.
ed TO its infiuence-those having mos,
Intellectual vanity being notoriou.Iv
most susceptible. While the CRIT,
priests Of this modern" cult tall
charmingiy Of divinity" and .spiri,u.
atty" there is nothing more of e,tnsr
Of them in II than there was IN ~.
paganism which expressed ftseI, a.
exquisite Greek architecture and stat.
uary.-Christian Standard.
Heroism.
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