The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-02-23
Communicated

CHuICu last tfoHluS WAS Ouc u lho
greatest meetings held for many a
day. Nothing since the Sunday meet
ing seemed to be SO full of interest, |
and the people we're held breathless
in their attention from the beginning
to the end of the sermon. The preach
York. DR.. Barbour who Is one of the I
leaders in the religious work of the Y. /
NJ. c. A. was here for the purpose of I
comforting with the officers of the To-
cal association, and kindly consented |
to remain over and preach the even
ing meeting.
He took as his text the words He
| that is born of God overcometh the
world, and this is the victory that
overcometh the world, even our
faith" The sermon was as follows:
The further along ! get in Christian
work, the more share the feeling of
| the late revered DR.. Cuyler, that |
have no higher ambition than to illum-
inc an old text am going to try to
do that tonight. would be like the
/
carried in the procession in election
times, and simply throw light on the
words that are there inscribed. The
bible needs the illumination of the
Spirit, for thus we get the true mean
ing of the scripture. This is war
verse. A war verse is a good thing,
because it will awake a response in
many hearts boy was once asked
which passage of scripture he would
like to have read to him, and he said,
read the fightingest part. Robert
Louis Stevenson once said to his mo-
ther: Mother, if there is ever good
war and hear of it, ! am going to at
J tend it, There are good wars. and
this is one of them. 1t is the battle
of all ages. 1t is one Of principle. It is
} like one Of the mural paintings in the
; old museum at Berlin There is the
L Epicture of the war between the OLD
: Huns, and the Romans. Men are dy-
} ing, but the battle goes on. The paint
/ or has wrought into the picture a bat
J tile in the clouds, and while Attila
/ the sconrge is fighting on the earth.
: the battle in the heavens represents
, the fact that the battle is also being
/ fought in the heavens. The mightiest
+ battles are the battles of principle.
] They are simply the outcroppings OF
. the everlasting struggle which goes
2 Eon between right and wrong. The bat
$ tile is not above us. but, within us. 1t
] is conflict in the spiritual realm. This
Q corresponds with all experience. The
struggle for existence is so often
a mentioned that it need be barely sug-
t gested. The refined and trained mind
4 comes to be so because of the victory
d which has been won in the mental
g realm. If you ever see a man whose
e mental processes seem to work easily
t Won may be sure that he has had q
d battle and has overcome. The reason
t for the mediocrity of the present day
i is that there is too little hard thinking
e and reasoning. We do not read the
+ hooks that would arouse mental activ
It ity and give us mental strength.
e In every battle, two combatants arc
< needed. Here we have the battle be
tween the things born of God and the
things born of the world. We are
0 called to this battle, and we have te
l. remember that we need the strength
J. that is only to be had when we are
S born of God. 1t is in the realm o
mystery, but SO are great man!
s other things. We do not know wha
II electricity is. We are not acquainted
with the processes of life that are al
around us. Men are brought from
darkness to light, but how can we tel
the secret of the power, and the sec
!, ret of it's working. Can we tell how
: is that men are transformed from
!, drunkards into good citizens, AM
that men are enabled to overcome tn
power of sin? In rescue missions, an
in the case of men who have lived
ia hard and wicked life. they cam sa
II. that at such time on such da
O. they were brought into the new life
It. but the little child should be SO trair
lie ed that from the first they are in tn
is care OF God, and have His power 4
Of their hearts. The natural and norma
m thing is for children to grow up 1
the kingdom man who had nc
been inside church for fifteen year
% once brought his little boy who wa
ten years old and said to the speake
!. II heard the address this Afternoon
and think it is time my boy had
Christian father" 1t is about tim
= that a great many children in Ke'
3 kuk had a Christian father. They ha
K Christian mothers. and there wer
\ plenty of men who had their religio
in their wife's name. The men mus
E face about The child comes naturall
! But men who have grown away fro
7 God sometimes need to be brougl
L back with a shock. A man who