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THE REPUBLIC' MONDAY. MAY 27. 1901.
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SUNDAY DISCOURSES BEFORE ST. LOUIS CONGREGATIONS.
"IN THE HIGHEST SENSE GOD HAS HIS WALK ALONG THE PATHS OF INDIVIDUAL LIFE. GOD WALKS WITH MEN."-THE REVEREND W. R. PAINTER, PARIS, MO.
"ALL OUR LIFE IS RELIGIOUS. THERE ARE ALTARS OF WORSHIP ON EVERY STREET CORNER."-THE REVEREND DOCTOR W. J. M'KITTRICK.
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THE REVEREND .TAMES McAl.USTER,
Pastor Central Christian Church.
LINE BETWEEN KNOWN AND
UNKNOWN IS HARD TO FIND.
The Reverend Doctor .T. C. Armstrong,
editor of the rentr-.il Baptist, uiel acting
raptor nf Third Baptist Church, preached
jertcrdaj nmrnln; rn "The Great Unsolved
Pioblem." Ho took ns hi text I Cor. lv.
IS: "V look not at the thing which are
seen, but at the thinp- which are not seen;
for the thing which are cen are temporal:
hut the thins" which are not -een are
eternal " He said. In Hart:
'There Is a foolish notion nbroid that
Christian thinkers are the onlj people who
ome i.p against intelleetutl injHteries.
Prom some quarters It is claimed that when
one becomes a bellcvir in the ltible he has
to swallow whole volumes of absurdities
"Self-respect Is not lost in the ex-
erclse of faith. There is as much
room and liberty to think in a
church as In a unlvertiitj-. it the"
thinking Is right. None are more
concerned than Christian people in
knowing the truth." The Reverend
Doctor J. C. Armstrong.
abjure reason, stop thinking and depoe
his Intellect, while In all other fields of
thought there is a clear sky and a com
plete answer to everj- inquirj. Possibly
there are joung people who have shrunk
back from such threatened mtnt.il suicide
and have determined to preserve room tor
mntal growth by withholding their assent
to Bibln claims.
"I feel justified In atliroiing mat, in pro
portion to the ground embraced, religion
does not confront more numerous or more
formidable intellectual dllllcullles than are
to be met In anj other neia 01 inougnc. in
answer to the charge made. It is. easy to
point to borne of the clearest thinkers. 'and
best-Informed men of this and of past ages,
w ho have felt no humiliation and no debase
ment of their minds bj accepting the doc
trines of rellclon and holding tnem with
perfect consistency and confidence. No sort
or pnuosopnj or lorm 01 uiousiit ca.ii irusal
bly conform to all the field of facts which
doe not Include all that field In Its be
liefs. "Reduced to their simplest forms, all gen
eral .questions may be summed up In one.
and tliat one Is the exact relation bet n
the seen and the unseen, between the in
finite and finite, between the temporal
and the eternal, between the sovereign and
the subject. That there Is an Infinite Is not
doubted any more than that there Is a
finite, nut our keenest research has not
been able to trace the scam of their union.
That particular line where the forces from
each side meet and combine In the produc
tion of a joint result seems to be bejond
our powers to discover. Here lies the prob
lem cf all science and philosophy. As
might have been expected, one thinker
gives larger place to the forces from the
side of the unseen, while another, controlled
wore by the evidence of the sense, allows'
more room for Hie visible? elements. "
"From earliest ages the heathen world
has faced the problem In the old contest
between fate and free will. A cold logic
forced the greatest thinkers of the ages to
picture- the Three Fates determining the
destiny of earthly affairs. One sat doling
out from the distaff, another spun the
thread of events, and the third clipped oft
the predetermined metes and bounds. AH
unmoved by the scenes of human sorrow
and joy at their feet they measured out
the allotted portion to helpless mortals.
Over against them were those who argued
for the liberty of choice.
"When Christianity came, the terms were
altered andslt was a debate over predesti
nation and freedom. Never yet has the
line been fixed where the soverlgn control
glides Into human will and the two wills
become one. The natural scientist carries
on his Investigations In a circle bordered
big around with the unknown. Elited with
nis aiscovcry or the progress in forms of
animal life, he announced the doctrine of
evolution, and defined it as perfect. But
he has come to ec tha,t the laws of ad
hesion, and of chemical affinity were here
all the way through the process, or his
Investigations are totnlly unreliable. Be
jond what he seen Is the unseen. In his
priraarv cell Is wrapped up mstery. To
nlm all cells are alike. Hut one develops
Into an ox, another into a bird, another In
to a fish or a man. If It is to be a man. It
carries the parental likeness down to the
color of hair, the shape of limb, the cast of
mind and the moral dispositions The un
known quantity Is the larger factor.
"In the last and most self-Important of
all the modern sciences, higher criticism. It
Is only a question of where the divine
mind touched and coalesced with the hu
man In these wonderful writings. Radical
critics blot out or reduce to lowest limits
the divine portion, while the traditionalist
assigns a larger place to God. That old
border line Is the trouble.
"Perhaps the pointing out of difficulties
In secular sciences and philosophies Is not
preaching the gospel, but It mav assure
come timid soul to recognize that intellect
ual difficulties are not peculiar to religious
thinking. Self-respect Is not lost In the
exercise of faith. Thnre Is as much room
and liberty to think In a church as In a
university. If the thinking la rlsht. None
are more concerned than Christian people
In knowing the truth, but tiVthem there are
moral considerations which may not great
ly Influence others. They are constrained
.o live and think as citizens of two worlds.
seen and an unseen."
TELLS OF RELIGIOUS WORK
AMONG THE MEXICANS.
Mr. Char.le A. Forse, a prominent Chris
tian Endeavorer, filled the pulpit of Foun
tain Park Congregatloral Church last even
ting. He took as his theme. "Old Mexico
and Its Religious Work." Mr. Porse has
Just returned from a four months' business
trip to the land of the Aztecs, and his ad
dress last night was full of Interest.
The first part of his address related to
social, business and political conditions of
that country. Among the peculiar customs
mentioned were the following: "A red flag
in front of a store does not signify an auc
tion sale, but denotes a butcher shop in
stead This same butcher, instead of wrap
ping jour meat In paper, will tie a string to
Jt. and ou may take It home dangling by
jour aide." '
He said also that It was a common thing
to see drug stores having distinctively re
ligious names. Some examples were. "Drug
store of the Sacred Heart of Jesus." "Drug
store of the Angels." "Drug Store of St.
John of God." and that even the lottery
business K sanctioned bj- such names aa
the -Divine Providence Lottery."
Speaking of religious conditions, Mr. Forse
said that the cltj of Mexico, with Its 3o0.
000 population, had 120 churches the largest
tor w men is 41-6 teet long ana a reet wide.
fThe story of the founding of the Gaulalupe
cnurcn at -vionierej-, was given as rouows:
"A shepherd In the field found a virgin in
a tree and took her to the priest, who put
her In the Cathedral. The next day the
shepherd found her in the same tree, and
again returned her to the priest, who placed
her In the cathedral a second time. The
third -time the shepherd found her In the
tree and returned her to the priest, he said
to him. 'She does not want this cathedral,
out wants one of her own; take her back
and build a cathedral where you found
her.' "
Reference was also made to the custom
ct the country In regard to the association
of joung people of different sexes. He said
a young tnan Is not permitted to call on a
joung ladv until after engagement, and
then only In the presence of relatives.
Returning to the discussion of the mls-
sionarj situation. Mr. Torse said: ".Most .
missions have both Spaii'.sh and I.imlMl
scrvlc-s. ami munj have schools Ip connec
tion wlih their work. M.inv joung people
tome ti lhe schools speelallj for education
al purposes, and are thus brought unilti
the tt.lltience of Chrlstl.inlt. At the Meth
odist school In Mexico 'City the L.pwortu
League tin els twice each week, ami two
of the pupils In that school walked a dis
tance of 1S3 miles In order t attend."
Mr. Torse lel.ited the thrilling experience
of a native inlsloiiarj Isiac B. Uebollo
"Mr. Uebollo was taking a horseback ride,
looking after his circuit work,, and, afttr
he had gone some distance from the cltv,
he was met b anoint r man on horseback,
who approached htm and stated that he
was golns to kill him. At that the assassin
drew his sword and urged his horse toward
the hori-e of Kebollu. at the same time at
ttmpttng to Mrlke voung Uebollo with the
sword. His horse shied, however. In such
n manner that the point of the sword
struck the saddle, and entered so deeplv
that :he continued sluing of the horte
broke the point of the sword ami lift It In
the saddle. Young Uebollo crliil for as
sistance, and u gendarme, hearing the
noise, came up. but not before lleoollo
was knocked from his horse. The man who
mule the assault was arrcMed and taken
nj. ......
On Aptll 1. lstw. ) ining i.euunu - "
his way to preach 111 .inothtr town, and
while en route three men. disguised, hailed
him and asked his name. Tpon receiving
the Information they desired, thet request
til him to dismount. Tpon his question as
to whv, thev- replied that he was a here
tic and dolng'great Injurs. He replied that
his conscience was perfectlv clear, and that
he was serving the Lord The men became
fiightt netl and left hi fore doing any in-
Jury to htm.
"In October. Wl, Uebollo wns on his wav
to attend a meeting of the dlsiilct. and
while on his way three men appeared nnd
asked him for an Interview, which h grant
ed. They asked him to explain his religion.
He talked to them for two hours, after
wihch they requested him to go to their
town to preach. This being lhe same town
from which the three men tame who had
formerlv asn-ilted him, he replied, ".No,
and. upon their asking wh. he stated
that three men of the same town had tried
to kill him previously, upon which one of
them replied: 'I have political imtliorltv and
will protect sour safetv with mv life.
After the conversation, he did go to pre.it ll
in the town, and secured fifteen conversions
while there.
"Whllo entering another town to preach.
a joung man appeared, whom he knew, nnd
requested thHt Uebollo expl iln the Christian
religion to him After some talk, the voung
man jerked from his pocket a pistol and
pitted It to his breast almost lnstantlv.wlth
the remark. "I am going to kill jou' Ue
bollo replied: 'You have me In jour power
and mav do so, but grant me one favor
first. I.et me commend mv soul to (Tod.
The reply came: 'Do. It quick."
"This surprised the joung man. and he
answered: 'l ee j-ou are right: mj- wnj
Is w rong. Forgive me." "
GOD'S CARE OF HIS HUMAN
FAMILY NOT UNDERSTOOD.
Tho Reverend Frank Iondale. rsstor of
Ueber Place Congregational Church,
preached jeslerdaj on 'The Christian
Tower of Strength." Ills text was: "The
Lord is my rock, my fortress, my God. my
strength." He said. In part:
"God's care for the hiirain famllj-. Is not
understood. The human heart turns to ev
ery other source for help. Human sj mpathy
brings to the human heart vert little con
solation. There are times In sorrow when
the only thing to do Is to sit still and weep
with them that weep. God care, his sjm
pnthv, his love brings consolation when all
else, falls.
"To tho believer the fatherhood of God
Is a strong tower at all times. Personal as
surance that the Jehovah Is the rock upon
which he stands will enable the child of
Go 1 to meet every storm and stand against
t r sorrow. It is not a good thing to be
alua'vs looking backward, but sometimes It
Is well, and nothing will bring more strength
to the soul than to look at the deliverances
wrought out for us In the experiences of
the pasL 'I will love thee, O Jehovah, my
strength.' Is the expression of a heart that
has proven Jeuovah in the past. The chil
dren of God In these dajH are lax In their
ascriptions of praise for the mighty deliv
erances of God.
"We deal too much In generalities, and
too little In the personal. It is good to say.
The Lord Is our rock.' There Is blessing In
It. But It Is better far to be able to say, "My
rock. m' fortress, my strength, my deliv
erer.1 Behind nil dark and troublesome ex
periences there Is the bright sunlight of
God's love and sympath), which Is at all
times ready to burst forth upon the soul of
the one who comes to the Father. There Is
hidden awav In the human heart a holy
of holies, and here only God enters, and
there only can tho fellowship with God be
so felt and realized that It will bring Joy
Into the human heart."
ETHICS OF FORGIVENESS AS
SHOWN IN LORD'S PRAYER.
The Reverend D. C Dorchester, pnstor
St. Luke's M. E. Church, preached yester
dav on the subject, "Ethics of Forgiveness."
His text wns "Forgive us our trespasses as
we forgive those who trespass against w."
In part, he said:
"These words constitute what Is In many
respects the pivotal claue In the Lord'a
prayer. Thej' form the kej'stone of an In
visible arch by means of which our world
pf dally activity may be Joined to the
heaven In which God dwells. When Christ
taught his disciples this prayer, he wrought
a miracle of wisdom. The spirit of love
which animates It will alwajs prevent It
from becoming a mere collection or dead
words. A person cannot even utter the first
word of the Lord's prayer and mean what
he sajs without hating within him a love
that looks up to God and out toward his
fellow men. We pray "Our Father, who art
In heaven," not ray Father, or vour Father,
but "our Father." All mankind nre In
cluded In this petition We ask the same
litsslngs for every son and daughter of
God that we ask for ourselves. This real
concern for the welfare of others prepares
cs to come Into God's presence In the right
spirit.
"Our Father In heaven becomes the su
premo object of our thought: we forget our
selves and think only of him who Is per
fectly wise and good and Just. It Is to him
we pray 'hallowed lie thv name, thy king
dom come, thy will be done on earth as It
i In heaven' We earnestly j-earn for the
time to coma when three things shall be
realized on the earth as In heaven: First,
that the perfect love of God maj" be rever
enced by all men; second, that this love
may become tho controlling principle In
datlv
me. jna nnauy. at a result of this.
that God's gracious purposes mav he eir.
rled out on the earth as they are In heaven
"When we pray in sincerity our thoughts
turn Inward; we cannot help feeling how
far we. ourselves, fall short nf the glorv
of God. We realize our own unworthTnas's
as we reverently bow In God's presence and
contemplate his perfect righteousness. ve
are conscious of our proness to hate rather
than to love and to have a spirit of revenge
wueii we ijugui to nave me spirit or for
giveness toward those who have trespassed
against us. Then we crj' out In real peni
tence: 'Father, forgive us'; 'create In us
clean hearts and renew right spirits within
us.' We clo not prav the Father merely to
remove the penaltv of sin. If we have
caught the true spirit of the Lord's Prayer,
but we earnestly desire that the love for
sinning be removed and that God's Spirit
of goodness may drive out of our lives
the spirit of evil. 'O. thou that taken away
the sin of the world, have mercy upon
us.' we crj 'Forgive us our trespasses.'
"But how tnanv of u stop hore and care
lessly glide over the words, 'as we forgive
those who trespass against us.' without giv
ing them much thought? But do not these
words express the very thing we are praj'
lng for? 'God is love." The love of God Is
the condition of all things. It Is the peren
nial source of the life we live. Because
God loves us. he bestows upon U all the
blessings It Is possible for us to receive
and use. 'He hath not dealt with us after
our sins nor rewarded u according to our
Iniquities. We. can recite the Lord's
Prajer until the 'crack of doom,' but If wa
put forth no real effort on our own part
toward cultivating a forgiving spirit, our
much praying will be In vain.
"Dallj- life Is an eloquent praver that Is
always answered. God's kingdom comes
and his will Is done In and through us In
proportion as we cultivate a willingness to
'forgive those who trespass asalnst us.'
What a blessing It Is to be able to for
give! And thus to exercise toward others
the same spirit God exercises toward us!
God wants us to become like him Robert
Burns says: The soul that Is benevolent and
kind the most resembles God.
"The klnadom of heaven ! not n nines
that Is afar off. Christ said: The kingdom
of heaven Is within you.' Heaven lies
around us In our Infancy.' A mother's love
Is almort. If not quite, divine. The loving
and forgiving spirit which the little on
sees In the mother has the essence of God
In It. Raphael's picture of the Madonna of
the Chair teaches the divinity of a mother's
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PREACHERS
The Ueverend Doctor J. C. Armstrong preiched jestenlaj at Third Baptist
Church on "The Ureal Unsolved Problem"
lhe Uetertnd Prank Unuslale prenchtd at Ueber Place CongreKatloinl Church
on "The Chrlstiin Tower of Strength."
Mr. Charles A. Forse spoke at Fountain Pnrk Congregation il Church on "Old
Mexico and Its UeliKlous Work."
The Ueverend I). C. Dorchester preached at St. Luke's M. E. Church on
"Ethics of Forgiveness"
The Ueverend V. U. Painter of the Paris, Mo, Baptist church, delivered
the baicalaureate sermon liefore the graduating class of the Paris High School,
his subject being 'The Bight Walk In the Ulght Pathway With the Ktelil Compin
lonshlp." The Ueverend Doctor W. J. Mclvlttrick preached at First Presbjterlan Church
on "An 'Ail-Around Uellglnn "
The Ueverend .lames McAllister preached at Central Christian Church on "A
Triumph of Grace."
love. I hive seen this love lived out In the
lives of mothers who have livid, not for
themselves, but for iheir children When
these children fall to appreciate and even
rebel ag ilnst the affection n mother be
stows upon them, the true mother nlnajs
forgives, because she never ceases to love
them, and to trj In bring about their best
well-being. So It Is with our Father In
heaven A mother mnj ciase to love her
child, but God's low fur his children Is
never-falling, nnd, therefore, he nlwas for
gives God halts sin, but the sinner, never.
The disobedient child does not reap the
full benefit of a tniithi r's love: so It Is with
us us God's children. We do not profit by
his forgiveness becnuse we are willful
tnanv times Like a htadstrong ehlld we
'turn evtrt one of us to his own waj.
' "That we mnv hate In us the low of
God. and thus make It. possible for his king
dom to come In our Iites. we are given op
portunities t tultivate this love; we arc to
forglw others, as Professor Uowne sas:
' The dutj' and good deert of acting from
gcod will nnd the fin nnd 111 desert from
acting from an etll will is the deepest law
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"Punishments are often the only
Instruments In the hands of a lov
ing God 'it which Individuals with
evil wills arc persuaded to do well.
The fact that God alwajs forgives
does not banish the consequences of
wrong doing." The Ueverend D. C.
Dorchester.
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ccmerning the interaction of moral beings
Tnie forgiveness Is n willlnnncss on the
part of those whose rights have been vlo
lited to forego all Ill-will toward the of
fender; and that Is not all. there mint also
go with It an honest effort to change the
evil will of the offending person Into a good
will A good will must alwajs go on to
good, and an evil will must continue to go
on to evil results Just n truly as the ripple
caused by dropping a stone into the sei
continues to form wider and wider circles
until their Irfluenee Is felt upon the remot
est shore. We nre all of us dropping stones
nf Influence Into the sea of life. It makes
more difference than we think, both to our
selves and to those around us whether we
nre actuated bv the spirit of love or the
spirit of hate. Those who are trjlng to be
Christlike, and are seeking to eradicate from
their nature all hatred and malice have been
conscious of an Injury done to themselves
when thev have given way to wrath and a
bad temper. None are quicker to sense tho
hnteful spirit In us than our friends The
Fame words may be used In Ironj or In earn
est; the same words may wound or sooth"
the feelings of a friend; thej wound ir we
hate; thev soothe If we love,
ft to nor diitv to love one another under
n1l Mn.nml!inPM. Tf Mr. A. fflllS tO dO llIS
dutv toward Mr. B. which is to maintain
an attitude of good will toward Mr. B , the
latter Is not therernre jusiineQ in reiusinn
to do his duty toward Mr. A. We must al
ways seek to contribute to the best good
of those around us and never place oh
stacles In their way or Injure them. If
nipt- hain n4 we should not hate them, but
tather love them, and because we love them
seek to transform tneir spirit 01 naie mm
the spirit of love. Every doctrine of for
giveness must be In accordance with this
principle. This Is the transformation God
wishes to bring about In us.
"Although forgiveness roots In love. It is
not because of that fact incompatible with
retribution, but rather explains and Justi
fies the principle of punishment. Punish
ments are not the worst things that may
come upon us; they are not half so bid as
sin. This principle shows how and w Ivy it
Is a loving God can severelv punish his
children. 'The aim of Chrlstitnlty.' as
some one haB said. M not to satisfy the de
mands of Justice nor jet to save men from
penoltj'. but to save men from sinning and
to bring them to thnt spiritual attitude
which will make it possible for God to be
stow himself upon them In Infinite and
eternal blessings.' Punishments are often
the onlv Instruments In the hands of a
loving God by which Individuals with evil
wills are persuaded to do well. The fact
that God alwaj's forgives does not banish
tho consequences of wrong doing, but em
phasizes the value of a loving spirit In
human conduct. A father mav Inve his son
and -et cause him to suffer tho conse
quences nf his wrongdoing, hoping that
thereby his son's will to do evil mav be
come a will to do what it right. God al
ways forgives, but the way of the trans
gressors must continue to be hard until, bv
suffering the consequences of their evil
doing, they are led to will to do well."
BACCALAUREATE SERMON
FOR PARIS HIGH SCHOOL
Paris. Mo . May 26 The Reverend W. R.
rainter. pastor of the Baptist Church here.
delivered the baccalaureate sermon before
the graduating class of tha Paris High
School this evening at the Christian Church.
His subject was "The Right Walk In the
Right Patnwav With the Bight Companion
ship." His text won "Enoch walked with
God, and he was not; for God took him."
Gen. v. 24 He said. In part:
"It Is not literal, phjsloal walking thnt ts
meant. Rather, It was the conscious move
ment of the whole belnr In agreement wltn
God; the harmonious adjustment of tho
life. It every department, to the will of
God; the sjmpathetlc response of the na
ture of the man to the nature and the law
of the Ixird. It was the soul revolving
through the jears In delightful fellowship
and communion with Its Maker.
"Man can go along through life with
God or he can go without God and against
Gcei. ,
"In a certain onl true sense God moves,
directing his energies nnd powers to the
accomplishment of his holj will and pur
pose. All the forces and laws of the uni
verse nre but the outgoing of the will and
energies of the divine being. God moves.
anil his movement is nis w-iuk mung cnes e
blts of revolving worlds. Everj- step l the
tread of almlghtlnesa, taken with the pre
cision of unerrlns wisdom In the direction
of some grand consummation to which all
things are nastoning.
"And, then, all his movements, even In
nature, ore along the wajs of righteous
ness He. whose goings forth have been
ever of old.' has purposes to accomplish by
means of the material universe; purposes
which nre consistent not only with his
power and wisdom, but with the fact that
"righteousness and Judgment are the habi
tation of his throne. Thev- are worthy of
"himself. They relate to his own glory, to
the final jusiincation or nis own works in
universally approved results, and the vin
dication of his doings among his Intelligent
crentures. They relate, also, to the gov
ernment and welfare of his creatures. For
the accomplishment of these purposes there
must be harmonious movement with God
of all worlds and all Intelligences. There
must be obedient response to tho divine
will upon the part of every created thing.
If one world should break away from its
orbit or reverse Its movement there would
come calamltj to that world; possibly to
the universe of worlds
But there is wonderful harmony of move
ment In all these circling orbs. They walk
with God. In the march of the ages they
keep step with God. He sets the music to
which thej untiringly respond In graceful
revolutions around the central throne. In
animate nature responds to the going forth
of the power of the Creator and yields to
the direction of his wisdom. It Is the reign
of natural law In the natural world.
"But there Is a movement 'also of the
moral attributes of the Creator. His moral
nature seeks to express Itself In the crea
tion, endowment and government of ra
tional, spiritual beings There Is a moral,
spiritual universe, as real as the material
worlds. For this spiritual world there Is
spiritual law as potent, as real, as neces
sary as natural law In nature. It Is the
will of God concerning us. He has a will
and law for men and angels, as well as for
suns and stars and seas.
"In the highest seme. God has his walk.
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along the llms of human hlstorj- nnd the
naths of Individual life. God walks with
men. He levials his clnracter. declares his
will to I hem. uhlle In him lhe) live and
move and hate their being. lv has "made
his Inbli.itlon with the sons of men."
Comes 1 lose to us In the revel itlons of
his word, and espcclnllj In the life of his
son. In vvilk with us until our hearts chall
burn with a st se of his prrs, nw mil our
lives be eunobltd ami Klorlllil In dlvlii"
1 ump-inlonslilp. Thus In 1 vciv hkspeil
compinlonshlp Thus In a lenaiii vrv
blesstd sense God walks with mi n. This
he dots that he maj m I men to wilk with
bin, nurce with him anil do his will. II"
conies to men that his nuthoritj may com
mand them, his goodness ri strain them,
and his love win them Th-it, in beholding
him, and holding fellowship with him thev
maj grow Into his Ilkcui ss, be llll.-d wltii
hN spirit, ami. at last, be one wilh God In
the inmost Impulses of blng; one with him
in thirneter. In the tendencies of life, and
In final destlnv.
"God wants men to k ei slip with him
ill their moral bilng as do the worlds In
their mati rial earier. Enoch did It. lie
turned from the path along which the race
was walking In rebellion against God.
brought his life into hnrmoiij with his
maker, turned his feet to his testimonies
nnd walked In the wat of the Ixird Go I
was moving, and Enoch moved with him
to the infinite heavens.
"We mnv do It. As the stream, lonflned
within its binks Its liwful limitations
flows sweeth. reacefullj to the sea, so we.
limiting ourselves bj- the divine will, meas
uring our golngi bj the divine movement,
admitting to our souls the pure Influences
of a divine presence, mnj move sweetlv,
suhlimelj- along the short stages of our
course to the' wider, deeper, gladder life
bej 0111..
"Thus we may walk with God Or we
maj so against him, bv taking as the mm
of our counsel our own wisdom, and mak
ing our wishes the law of life, rcgirdlesu of
God's will This Is sin Is walking acainst
God. It Is a life out of harmonj-, out of
step with God; nnd that where there Is so
much that agrees and moves with the di
vine order. It Is a disturbance, a break, a
swirl in the outward How of the universal
current. A life out of movement with God
Is an Instrument out of tune In the orches
tra of the universe; a dlsnnl discord amid 1
the nalleiujnlis of the stars; a Jirrlng dls
sonnnce In tho music of tho spin res.
While the Creator and the worlds are
moving one way the sinner is moving the
other wnj-. 'The face of the Lord Is against
them that do evil. God wants us to walk
and work with lilni.
'Wo ought to do this, because God Is
right, eternallj- right. His movements In
nature are along rinht llnis (Us utter
ance" or law are Just and righteous. 'The
statutes of the Lord are right.' His deal
ings wun men are Just and merciful. 'He
Is rlghteoiiR In all his works.' whether In
nature, providence or grace.
It Is to our best 'Interest to walk with
Grd. He is 'with those who aro with him,'
and causes all things to work for their
good. "When jou walk with God, there God
and the unlversn and jou are all going the
same road. You are going with the forces
thnt shall flnilly prevail for good, and
they help jou along the wav.
"But If we go against God. against his
law and will, as expresned In his word. In
conscience and In nature, then he Is against
us. If he be against us. who can be for
us? 'Canst thou contend with the Al
mighty?' Everj-thlng Is aealnst the sinner.
Nature hss Its ratrlhutlons. conscience of
fers Its protests, while Ihf Bible holds
forth Its solemn warning."
TRANSPARENT CHARACTER
OF JESUS CHRIST.
The Reverend James McAllister preached
yesterday on "A Triumph of Grace" at Cen
tral Christian Church. His text was John
xxi. 7, "That Dlfiolple Whom Jesus Loved."
He said In part: "The early artists, in
painting on the canvas, or In chiselling out
of marble, the form of St. John, placed be
tween his shoulders a woman's head, thus
suggesting the ohlef quality of his nature,
luve. St. John's rich social nature, trans
parent character. Inanimate friendship with
Jesus, and deep religious experience, mnde
him the worthy object of the Savior's love.
But we should never forget that the senti
ment expressed In the phrase that loving
disciple could in truth only be applied to
John during the closing week of Christ's
ministry.
"The earlier records of John's career, as
given In the New Testament, show him to
be, at certain critical times In his life, just
the opposite of that loving dlsclplo. In these
Blblo Incidents, in which John Is a leading
factor, he stands convicted of a spirit of
bigotry, selfishness and a violent temper.
In Luke's gospel. Ix. 4Se-i. we see John ex
hibiting a low -browed spirit of bigotry
when he said to Jesus. 'Master, we saw one
casting out devils In thy nnme, and we for
bade him. because ho follow eth-not with
us.' Jesus answered: 'Forbid him not, for
he that Is net against us is for us This
kind of bigotry has been a blighting curse
In the life of the church, and to-diy divides
Its forces Into ects and isms.
"In the closing part of this same chapter
beginning with the fiftj -second verse, oc
curred an Incident which holds John before
us as a man of violent nnd dangerous sem
per. Jesus, while on his wnj to Jerusalem,
had been refused by the leading men of a
Samaritan village the usual nospitaiuy
given to strangers. This so Incensed John
and his brother James '.tint they made this
ana nis orotner mm!' .t mcj iuaur iun
rcquost, 'Wilt that wo comand lire to come
dovvn from heaven and consume them?'
Jesu" rebuked them, and In words so char-
i.mmIi. ,,r hi. n.n smwL nlr t sulci. 'The
acterlstlc of his own sweet spirit said. 'The
son or man Is not come 10 uesiroy mens
lives, but to save them.' In Christ's own
estimate of John, as given In Mark's gos
pel, Jesus speaks of the two brothers, John
and James, as Boanerges, or the sons of
thunder. This would suggest that In natur
al make up John was not of a mild disposi
tion. "This portrayal of John's resl life and
what he afterwards became, shows that
these elements of strength In his life were
dormant for good until called Into active
play In the service of the master. In his
later life, when grace had conquered his
spirit, the almoit perfect flower of an af
fectionate nature gave him the right to be
known, not only as that disciple whom
Jesus loved, but pre-eminently as the dis
ciple of love. God's method of building
character Is to take tho natural In man nnd
transfuse It with the spiritual. Under the
skilled touch of the divine, the crude ede-
raents In life, which, like weeds In a garden,
will grow- rank If lot alone blunting. If not
actually destrojlng the finer sensibilities of
both mind and heart are refined and culti
vated until the violent temper is turned Into
the channel of consecratesl zeal. selti"h am
bition Is changed Into uSjRdftsh service, an 1
low-browed bigotrv Is conquered by the
spirit of a Chrlstlika tolerance.
"In this triumph of grace In the making
of the true man. we observe that the nat
ural forces of life that are capable of pro
ducing the lowest sinner If let alone, trans
fused with the power of God, will make
the noblest saint. John B. Gough sank so
low through drunkenness that he became a
physical and moral wreck. His friends
save him up as bejond all human help.
Under the maKtc power of the triumphant
grace of God. John B Gough was redeemed
and became the leading temperance lectur
er nnd agitator of the Nineteenth Centurj-.
"Mr. Klmbal of Boston, at one time
Moody's Sunday School teacher, said of
Moody as a boj that he was rough and
uncultered. the despair of his teacher. But
God took ileody under his care, and in tlmo
he became one of the greatest evangelists
since the dajs of Paul. Even the anxistle
Paul, through the grace of God, made the
thorn In his flesh a means of mighty power
In the cause of Christ.
"In the presence of the rough, the danger
ous and the undeveloped In character, we
are confronted with the stern fact that the
human will Is jet to come under the sway
of the spiritual. In order to give It direction
and power for good. Angelo, the sculptor,
once stood before a block of marble and
said. There Is an angel there, and It Is my
business to bring It out.'
'There are In everj- life divine qualities.
It Is. our chief business to eliminate the bad
nnrl bring- out th Rood in our nature, nnd
Kim i-ttii iniiy m uuut um;.i.i vi KU,,,B
to partnership with God "
"ALL-ROUND RELIGION"
WORTHY OF BEST EFFORTS.
The Itevereml Doctor W. J. McKittrlck.
pator of First Presbjterlan Church,
prtached jesterday morning on "An All
Unund Ueligion," taking as his text Psalm
1'kl, 1. "Bless the Iird. O m soul, anil all
that is within me; bles his holv name."
He siid In part:
"No race without a rellglm has et been
discovert d no p ople v ho have not some
sort of a heaven bending over them and re
flected In their own hopis and fears; some
divinity, puerile or august, to which they
THE REVEREND DOCTOR
W. J. ile
KITTIUCK.
Pastor FIrsL Preibjierlun Church.
pay homage; an invisible world that Im
pinges upon their everjday life and awak
ens within them the forecast of a future of
sunshine or storm Huliglon' Is Immortal.
Its dread or its glorj Iks upon the whole
round bulk of hiimanltj. like the mountain
or mythology under which Enceladus strug
gled, or the mountain of transfiguration on
which the disciples lejolcul with their Lord.
And not onlj clots religion appeal to the
whole world, but It appeals also to the
whole of the Individual man.
"In this regard it U possible to make
three mistakes, each one of which c-n.slst
in limiting its Inline nee and control to a
segment of our human nature. The first
of these mlstikes is to treat religion ns
though Its only use was to lav hold upon
the Intellect of men. Now. we believe mat
religion Is rational, although Mr. KIdd, In
his 'Social Evolullon.' labored hard to prove
that It Is not. and although Mr. Spencer,
after granting that the religious ficulty le
as normal as anv other of our being, found
that It was never able to do anj thing ex
cept make mistakes. We believe thai the
spiritual progress of lhe world has a ration
al art well as a supernatural sanction and
Inspiration that God has not divorced the
human from the divine reason, nnd th it the
greatest grace s arj grandeurs of our human
lives are not thrown down Into them from
n viol..!. en whirh we ran never lift our
ejes, nnd from an Intelligence wlthwhlclp
we can hld no communion, cureij u um
not give us our reason that we might ex
pend It on crlfl-s and shut Its mouth In the
presence of the real Immensities of time
and eternltj-. It Is foolish to suppose that
God does not speak to It. that revelation
does'not come to It, that responsibilities are
not laid upon It, that It Is not drawn into
the awful presence of a Judgment throne
and held to account for Its attitude ami be
havior toward the supreme Issues of our
mortal and Immortal lives
.u..t ihcn i a inppr In cutting out the in
tellectual faculty and standing It up also
and making It the sole mediator Deiwecn
God nnd man. There Is the danger of re-
.!.! .Allnlnn In n nhllnsontlV. OE exnaust-
Ing Its meaning In simply pasfhig it through
the mind and robbing It of It Jllfe blood un-
.. .... r.ni. a nf mrr intpllertual anslvsis.
Man Is more than reason. Personality Is more
than Intellect, we ao not. get to . . j
all until we get away behind his brain and
down beneath the lowest stratum of his
thinking. Philosophy can no mure make a
religion than Christianity can make a drop
of water or a stream of gas. Bellglon the
proclamation of truth, but it Is a great de-il
more It is more than a square or a circle
or a triangle 11 Is more than a justification
of eternal decrees. It Is more than an ex
planation of the earth and the heavens It
is as much more than these as a man a life
is more than the physical constituents of
his flesh and bones, or as the heaving splen
dor of an ocean is more than a green or
vellow space on a map. Another of these
mistakes Is that In which the field of re
ligion is limited to tha emotional part of
our nature. Here. too. it has ti proper
place and a noble function to fill. God. In
his creation of the world, did not forget
the flowers, starred and spangled from
zone to xone. Tear of sorrow, smiles of
rapture, fall like rain nnd glance, like light
In the approach of God to man nnd man to
God. Great masses of our life are made
up of feeling. It Is movements of the heart
thnt often lift us nearer to our divine Ideals
than anything else can do.
"Men are born to magnanimous achieve
ment bv the surging of the waves and bil
lows within them. All through history,
righteous evolutions and holy revolutions
have carried the Imprint of the storm and
stress, tho praj'crs and the Indignations of
souls that were moved manward and Gnd
ward by giant emotions And religion has
a multitude of messages for this sphere of
our being. It spreads a fragrant perfume
through the henrt. It bears a gospel of
nnnanlntlnn Tt t"lln 111 nblllP the TWAta-
rial regions of carml passions, Introduces
us to a wealin or perennial Kpiruuai com
panionship, unseals within us fountains of
the Jovs thit thrill us. and of the griefs
that purge us. and swings n golden cen-er
through the whole temple of our life. But
man Is more than feeling. Just ns he Is more
than reason. A religion in which undue
emphasis Is put upon tho emotional ele
ments Is In peril of bemg found wanting
when It Is summened forth to meet a temp
tation that demands muscle anil nnre
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rather than sighs and tears. The extrava-
gantly emotional Christian is prone to
lump over fences and s often headed to-
ward fanaticisms Rainbows were never
meant to live In and tne wans ot air cas
tles are too thin to keep out the rain. Some
Christians are alwavs chasing for sensa
tions, on the lookout for a new bundle of
feelings everv morning, tossed from heat
to cold and from cnld'to heat. In a pucces
rlon of violent changes of spiritual tem
perature "It Is hard to find them In any fixed place,
for they are constantly moving to and fro
In the trough of a sen. or darting forward
and backward at the Impulsion of changing
minds, or zigzagging along the line of their
wavering whims and fancies. What they
wlll do depends upon what thev feel like
doing Just then and Jut there. You cannot
depend upon them, because they cannot de
pend upon themselves They are the sphrt
of volatile enthusiasms and the prey of un
reasonable dejections. It Is because their
rellglcn Is poured Into a hole rather than
spread over tho ground It Is because thev
have dammed up lis stream Into a single
channel. The third of these mistakes Is
that In which religion Is directed toward ac
tion nlone, and In which the burden of em
phasis Is placed upon Its ethical commnnd
to the exclusion of almost everj-thlng else.
It Is true that religion furnishes the highest
and purest nnd most strenuous motives of
deed and endeavor It Is true that our faith
Is Judged by Its fruits, that If we know
these things hannv are we If we do them.
and that unless our works follow our prav -ers
the poor thing which we call our re
ligion will be convicted of both hollowness
and shallowness. All this ts o true that It
Is easy to blind our eves to the fact that
it Is not the whole truth.
"The ethics of religion Is not the whole of
It. If we make It the whole of It, It will
be difficult to keep It from degenerating
Into a routine. It was not the whole of it
for him who said. Though I give my goods
to feed the poor, and though I give my
body to be burned, and have not love. It
proflteth me nothing.' it was not the whole
of It to him who told the early Christians
thnt they should be able to give a reason
for the faitn tnat was in tnem. Religion
demands a certain kind of life, but It de
mands more. Its law Is something greater
than a precept or an Injunction. ,It does
not wear Itself out upon us In driving us to
do things. As man Is more than reason, and
more than emotion, he is also more than
will, determination and action.
"What Is he then? He Is a man. a whole
man, a round man, a complete personality.
And It Is to him as a man, as a whole
man. as a round man, as a complete per
sonality that religion makes Its appeal and
furnishes Its power and glory. It Is not in
tended to make us one-sided men or to
throng the whole of Itself Into an slngls
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compartment of our manifold human 111
ture. It Is Intended to embrace ns all round
nnd to till us all through. It is a philoso
phy, and tt Is a ft cling, and It I an in
spiration to life ami toudiict The schola-s
of the vturld are .-.Ml pondering ovir the
words of Jesus and tr.Ing to extract fro n
them their largest and profound si mem
iiMs. Those same words contain c revla
Hon of tlm vc rj soul of God that warms
and che rs our hum in leirts and move
them upward to heaven after hiaveu of
holy jov and rapture. And time I In tliMU
alo the marching orders of the gospel of
life, the ringing comni lnds of an Imper! il
divine will, whost- trumpet notes lr r to
service and put our hands to work in bulld
inc ill) the walls of the klnudom of God It
Is not fragment. irj mm th 11 our r llginn 1
appeals to, not a divided and sundered pi r- j
soinltj. not the bottom of us or th top of
us or the middle of u. but the whol of
us. the entire sum and suitance of our 1
being, all tho lmcrwavm and Imerpen'trat- I
Ing faculties of our complex human nature..
It follows from this Hut tin re Is nothing
In our lives that Is not re .ned to oui re
ligion. Our splritu il possession, the po - '
session of us bv God, th" commi.nlon n
spirit with spirit. i -uih 11 wiilelt v tal 1
thing tint the evcreise of it cannot be tie I I
down to times and season, or to sirred
hoiir.s and sai red pi ices. Everv thins is s
cred thai l touched bv th finger of Goo"
"Everv thing Is holv that Is bre ithtd upon
bv his holy spirit. All our life is religious
eVnm eli.. flnlle rnitml .mil th. intnmrill I. isle
up trt the imHite heights wh-rj- mil 1 tW ir jirM vtraUht.n n- th- artels of hi-1
aptxalitlc Moii. of th HMMfn-irfctPil iii;-t an,j lh( a;., of ius jvm- into th
heaven and the kivU whltf timing of tin arK,r i( n, ir t bins in n.(-h bodv
heaenlv Kin p. Sil.b.ith run; through all inini .,ii .fn. n i:i. ff i tr ard wllL .
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the wecK. rrajpr m inn uusn inn i "-i
ways minim;, hihi i"- ii wi iu-miui-h
ThfTo .ir filar of worship on t-tr 1 tor- I
mors as1 wH us in cailiwirai-. rKrnr
God's spirit Is- there is God. and wherever
God Is there Is religion, and wherever we
nre tint religion should be folbd around
us like protecting armor, or swept like i
sword through the hordes- of d-iily tempta
tion" I.et us take Christ In our Imits
wherever thev go. It will be good to hive
him there when the still lake Ivlnc like
glass beneath the keels, or when the morn
ing wind Is lifting up a tonn In front of
us. or when we come to anchor In the far
off harbor and furl the s ills within sight of
the sun-tipped pluii icl s oft he elt.v of God
"Let us rrnke our religion at home in
everj' room of the house, and give It th
right of wav over everj untraveled road,
nnd follow Its h-mner through the fire
streaked smoke of everv battle, and pillow
our heads upon lt promise' w hen lhe rain
Is on the roof and the night Is crowded with
fears and alarms. There Is no i -nptlnes"
which God rnnnot fill, im hunger .and thirst
that shall cr- out in vain to the love-filled
BACCALAUREATE SERMON TO
ILLINOIS NORMAL SENIORS,
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hVAi KXKfHT.
President of the Gnidiinting CIns,
Normal,
RErVBIJC PPKCIAlV
Normal, 111 . Maj- 2fi Exercises connected
with commencement week of the Illinois
Stnte Normal Unlversltj were inaugurated
to-daj bj the preaching f the b lccnl.aure
pte .address bv President Felmley of the
unlversltj- to the seniors oflthat Institution.
Much Interest was shewn In the exercises,
nnd the great hall of the Normal t'nl-versltj-
was not large enough to accommo
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President Illinois State Normal, who deln "red baccalaureate address
at Normal, 111., vcntcrdav.
FLOOD DAMAGE HEAVY.
Governor Aycoek Estimates It at
Several Millions.
Raleigh. N. C. May 21. Governor Aycoek
pays the. flood damage In the Slate amounts
to several million dollars. Last night's rain
fall was very heavy, and more rain is
falling to-night. All streams in this section.
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Pa-stor St. Luke's il. K. Church.
henrt of our I'athT. no wlrdlng w ivs with.
In us which the spjnt ,4 our God cannot
faith, hop .mil Imr. t le unW untie, uant OC
im! love, t le unltundt.
the hum in soul the dcir-emd t. raver of
tin unlviral human need, shall find then?
food at the nble of tin 1i'd. ami muster
their strength under the openinG of his
boiintirul hind"
SUNDAY-SCHOOlTlNSTITUTE. '
Closiiifr Session Ttt-Niiit J?ri '
in. u ('hiss Lawn I'lirty.
The closing session of the Episcopal Sun
dav School Institute will be held at Schuj--ler
Memorial House this evening at $
n'cloi k Tin- Itevcrend II. E. ! Craig of
St. I-ouis and the Ueverend Mr. Uttle of
Hannibal. Mo . will m.-ke addresses. Re
freshment 'vill be served after the bene
diction. Th" prim ! class of the T.avlnr sVvenos
Baptist Church Surd.iv School w'U give a
ln-.n nirtj net Situnlij .'ificrnoon from 2
to ' at p'cnlc- grounds No. Z In Korect Park.
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Illinois Stnte Normal University,
III.
From the wonls of Paul to Timothy: .
l.nve fought a good fight; I have kept tns
faith." the president discussed th Idea, that,1
the moving forces of the world are not?'
men. but ldea. and. coTsequentlj . that thJ
Ideas of th- school must take possession osV,
the teacher. If he Is to do his whole work.
Tl.o main effort of the speaker was to de-.
velop the importance of the school as an,
institution and the greatness of the worts!
given into the nanus ot me teacner.
MUZZLE ON RUSSIAN PRESS.
Taper Temporarily Suspended fog
Criticising the Government.
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