The daily sentinel., 1911-11-27


errors, Those who profit by the
propagation of those errors will ap-
peal 10 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 unwel-
come, because it 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 It
will vary inyersely. Paul's adjuration
to Timothy TO preach the word" was
chiefly prompted by the fact that It
was distasteful to the hearers of that
day, and the young preacher might
prefer to speak smooth things. AS in
the case of spoiled children, of dyspep-
tics. of pleasure-seekers, of mischief
makers. OF wrong-doers 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 to speak.
The Real Message.
The pulpit message for all days,
even unto the end of the world,' is
the gospel of Christ, for it is the
power of God unto salvation to every
one that believeth.' ITO every one
a personal message of salvation to
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-
ous to his need of salvation, and to
resent any effective measures for at
tanning it. but (and 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-
gcnce 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 so
offensive and pitiable as the slaves of
carnal appetite, they work more So
cial ruin in our day Philosophic
cynicism, intellectual pride and avari-
clous cunning are robbing this gen
Grafton of its best ideals. of its faith
in God the father. and of It's lin
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
tcstant Christendom the pulpit mes
sage for the last half of the nineteenth
century-the message of foreign mis-
sions. Are there not indications at
present that the heat of controversy
and zeal of advocacy have caused this
to be magnifed 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
''Nh Aiit puNSiiph vi llS utlly. sun
ordinate to the furthering of missions ,
Are there not those who in their zeal
TO go and teach all nations. are ready
TO 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 pulpit
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.
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