Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1916-11-27
REV. C. G. MoSHER
BREACHES FAREWELL
SERMON ON SUNDAY
The Penney Memorial Baptist
Church Filled to Overlooking
to Listen to Mr.. Mosher for
the Last Time in Augusta
Discourse Powerful One and
Fitting Close to a Successful
Passionate

and friends of his congregation to the
number of 700 or more, Reverend c.
G. Mosher preached Sunday morning
a great farewell sermon. which is here
given, in part. He took for his text
the 18th chapter of First Corinthians:
Now | make known unto you, breth-
rem. the Gospel which Y preached I'M
to you. which also We received, where
in also We stand, by which also We are
saved if We hold fast the word which
II have preached unto you, except We
helieyed in vain" THE 18th chapter
of First Corinthians is one OF the great
chapters in the Bible. AS one star diff
fereth from another star in glory, SO
do some of the inspired passages or
the HOLY Writ stand out like stars of
the first magnitude from the Won
drous beauty all about them. The 23rd
Psalm. the 53rd of Isaiah, the 5th, 9Th
and 7th,of Matthew, the 18th of Luke,
the 14tfl and 18th of John, the 7th and
sth of Romans, the 18th and 15t of
First corinthians, the 18th of Hebrews,
the 21st and 22nd of Revelations are
all great chapters with which every
one should be familiar. In this mes
sage to the Corinthian church Paul
cpitomizes the Gospel which he has
preached to them. The first truth he
had declared was the Redemptive
Death of Christ. For / have delivered
INTO YOU first of all that which also
7 received: that Christ died for our
sins according to the Scriptures.
only first truths are stated in THIS
charter and first among them all IS
the great truth of the redemptve
death of Christ. The atonement is At
the heart of the Gospel message. rake
that out and you may have splendid
ethical system or lofty phlloSopny,
but no Gospel unto salvation. The
british navy has through all its cord
onn = strand of red, a single strand of
scarlet braided in, wherever in the
world YOU pick up a piece OF rope
with that scarlet line you may know
that YOU have found a piece that be-
longs to His Majestys navy. The Cos
nel Of Jesus Christ has through 1t from
The first promise to the last the scar
let thread of redemption, the red ilne
of yicarious sacrifice. and SO, wherever
YOU find the scarlet cord, there you
will find the Gospel of Christ.
There is no other name under HeaV-
en- pnd among men whereby we may
h. saved. Had there been another way.
,jcpcnd upon it that Some other way
would have been used. 1t 1t had peeh
,>lssI hle for men to have been saved BY
any other method you may be sure that
Jesus Christ would never have lelt
Heaven and immortal glory and SUI
fered aconiZed and been cruciiied on
the Cross ct Calvary. If men are all
right Anyway. if good works are quite
suGicicnt. if it makes no difference what
peoplc believe if they are only sincere
the Son OF God would never have been
called upon 10 bear what He did bear
Because there was no other way, He
came and died for us.
And the fact Of his redemptive death
is the Grst truth of Revelation me
:. cord is like unto it. FOR l delivered
unto YOU first of all that which l also
received. that Christ died for our sins,
according to the Scriptures, ana that
he was buried; and that he rose on the
third day. according to the Scriptures.
Have Won ever wondered why Paul
made so much of the resurrection or
Jesus Christ? / used to wonder why
he did that. He went to every great
CITY from Asia Minor to the Roman EN-
nire and chief among the truths that
he stated was the resurrection Of Je-
sus. and this truth he stated again ana
again. Why? In later life 1t has come
to me. 1t was a matter OF good general
ship with Paul, for he chose the SUD-
iects that gave him the greatest lever-
age with the people. He did not make
converts by his eloquence or his pg1c.
but by the power of an unansweraple
fact which he constantly proclaimed.
Within Is years Of the event he preach
ed the resurrection, throughout the
great world centers Of his day. Think
What it meant. for a man to stand up
and claim, unless he could subStantiate
the claim, that a man who had been cru
CITED under Pontius PLATE in Judea, had
risen on the third day and had been
seen of many for 40 days. that there
rad been infallible proofs Of the fact,
and that he could then summon over $50
witnesses who knew the facts.
That is the argument which con-
WINGED the ancient world. They were
a brainy people, no greater people have
ever lived, we study their writings to-
day, these people that Paul faced not
with a doctriEe, but with a fact. He
proclaimed the Resurrection Of Christ
and they could not deny it, as a matter
of fact they did not deny it, although
some tried to explain it, and some de-
MED the deductions he made from it.
None denied the fact that Jesus had
risen from the dead, they could not:
the event was too close to them. You
can't misrepresent historical facts I'M
less they are a good deal farther off
than that was from Paul. The church
at Corinth was founded in 50 A. D.,
less than 20 years after the death and
resurrection of Jesus. He wrote this
letter from Ephesus to the church at
Corinth not later than IS. The Cruel
fixion occurred not earlier than SO. In
side Of % years after the event Paul
committed to writing a statement con-
corning the resurrection of Christ and
made the assertion that he could cas-
lily and abundantly verify every fart
that he cited. These things were not
done in a corner. The reigning Roman
power had a full report Of the trial
and death of Jesus. the matter VIA
easily verified and was verified again
and again, so it was no wonder that