The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-09-26
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From Mondays Daily.

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From Mondays Daily.
s Rev. T. Ross Paden, preached at
the Presbyterian church last evening
on Dying at the Top" If our gospel
be hit it is hid so them that are
Second Cor, As. Emerson
speaks of man as a "four.
story being with skylights in the
attic" The physical we have in
common with other animals; the
mental is an advance beyond brute
instinct; the moral lifts us above all
else in creation, but the spiritual
! lifts us into Fellowship with God and
is the chief dignity of man.
/ A full orbed education will train
!, not only body and mind and con-
science but must develop our spirit.
ual natures and increase our capacity
for divine conpanionship.
How cheaply we forfeit this chief
glory of manhood. Like the Lom-
hardy poplars that grow. along our
lanes, multitudes are dying at the
top-that part which reaches farthest
out toward heaven Is dead. Now
z death will just as surely creep down
2 from the top as it will creep up
= from the roots. 1t creeps down from
| the spiritual nature into the moral
and relaxes the grip of the II ought
In the conscience; as it creeps up
). from the, moral into the spiritual
and blinds the soul to God. He who
makes shipwreck of faith will make
shipwreck of conscience; and he
who makes shipwreck of conscience
will make shipwreck Of faith.
/ But generally when we see death
! at the top we suspect worm at the
root We sometimes think our doubts
! are intellectual when they are
wholly practical. In e4tlleir origin.
!, Some men want a surgical operation
1 on their heads when the trouble
is all in their lives Our doubts
may arise from a keen appetite
/ rather than a keen intellect. They
: may be due to an impure heart
rather than defective evidence. They
may come from unbridled passions
rather than free mind. 1.-THE way
of the wicked is as darkness, they
know not at what they stumble
Many are not. competent to Judge as
to the real cause of their doubts.
But there is such a thing as
honest doubt Truth is never really
our own till it is the result of our
own thinking. Honest doubt is a
more hopeful symptom of life than
! lazy willingness to accept our. re
ligion secondhand without the, trou
BILE of thinking. ii ~
Sir Oliver Lodge in. the notable
address before the British Associa
. ton for, the ADVANCEMENT Of Science
from which will quote largely this
evening raps both the theologians
and the 1Sscientists9t SHE speaks Of
, the "pugnacious mood which many
scientific men feel toward theology
because Of the exaggerated dogma
!, tisms which our. predecessors en-
!, countered in the past" But then he
, turns around and raps the scientists
who Gin their enthusiasm go too
, far and say the things they exclude
; from study have no existence in the
universe" He Is competent to speak
, either for Science or religion. "We
can account for things only up tt
, a point. Our studies do not exhaus
, the universe" The address shows
) that the theologian and scientist arr
, approaching fundamental agreement
/ as they understand each other better
: and work together as seekers aftel
| the truth.
, Rev. Wilbur R. Kelsey, at Centen
airy church, spoke on IAN Acceptable
. Creed For Every Man. Text
!, Philippians as. Finally, brethren
t whatsoever things are true, whatso
ever things honorable, whatsoevel
{ things are just whatsoever, things
arc Of good report; if there be an.
virtue, and if there be any praise
think on these things"
{ These are among the last word.
written by the Apostle Paul, and they
1 reveal something OF the bigness ant
= beauty of his soul, He had beer
, brought up strictly as Hebrew
= of the Hebrews" . But he hat
Y broken away from the bondage o
t the old system, and had entered ;
new realm of light and liberty: hi
!. had turned away from the orthodoxy
|. of his day and accepted thu
E heresy of Jesus. And now he find'
!. that there is SO much of God ant
3 the divine life in the world that i
g is impossible to set bounds and linn
: its. One may fence in little bi
r of a garden spot, but the whole
| blossoming prairie lies outside. Nov
4 this is really the creed of Sain
5 Paul, and 1t is creed that perfect.
: fits itself to the life of every maj
and woman.
The first noticeable thing abou
Ethis creed is its suggestiveness. /
: compels us to think, but it does no
tell us what to think. 1t does no
attempt to define God. Nor does i
, elaborate the doctrines of any church
such as original sin, total depravity
predigested food. No, this creed onl.
!. of which some people expect us t.
accept and assimilate like so mucl
rpedigested food. No, this creed onl.
!, binds US to believe in the true, tn,
h0nOra hle the. inst the nllre- The