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' in i . ??aw I I 77?g Pui/o/l' 1 ? . A SERMON' C^Csffi ! ?Y TAE RE\/- ? Iira^/lENDER5oHN'^p^ s u Subject: The Gospel of Clirist. v Brooklyn, N. Y.?Preaching at the Irving Square Presbyterian Church, ? 011 the theme "The Gospel of Christ, a Partial Message to Its Messengers," the Rev. Ira Wemmell Henderson, 1 pastor, took as his text Romans 1:16, "For I am not ashamed of the gospel s of Christ." He said: The last and perhaps ..he greatest p privilege which our Savior has given 0 unto us is contained in that command which, it is reported, He gave ! to His disciples nineteen centuries J,1 ago: "Go ye into all the world and ? preach the gospel to every creature." JPaul writing, as we have seen, to P the Church at Rome, but a few years ? after the death of the Master, has 11 given to us a record of his personal a and profound conviction of the n worthiness of the good news of the " Christ. .. This, the opinion of the pre-emi- 1 nent evangelist of the Apostolic Church, still stands unchallenged. ' Through all the schisms of the cen- ? turies the Gospel has come down to ? us as pure and beautiful in its mes- ** sage; as strong and as potent in its ? power for good, as it was when first r. our Master preached, with His own dear lips, the message of salvation and abounding love. To-day, as we stand just within the threshold of another century, n with the memories of mighty eras lingering in our hearts, let us glance Q over the achievements of the church , of the living God. Let us, as we 1 stand at the parting of the ways, ~ when to go forward is to accept new ^ responsibilities and to receive re- ^ newed opportunities for service, look critically at the field before us. ?et us determine what course, as Chris- r( tians, we must pursue. Let us con- n sider the message of the church to ^ the men vt to-day. Let us decide, n as God may give us power, our duty j, as the messengers of the risen Lamb of God of whose gospel we are not ^ < ashamed. n About the year of our Lord the g( thirty-second a certain Pharisee, Saul gl by name, journeyed from Jerusalem to Damascus, "breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the dis- u ciples of the Lord." His intent was d to bring bound to Jerusalem all ? Christians whom he might find at ^ Damascus. While on his way and S( when but a few hours distant from Damascus the spirit of God came k upon Saul and a marvelous conversion, worthy of the mission and of the magnitude of the man, took ^ place. Saul's question, "Lord, what wilt Thou have me to do?" was the gj mainspring of action in his life. In ^ the answer of our Lord came a prophecy of that work of evangelization "j which was destined to chanee the do . litical aspect of the world, and to do ? much to ameliorate the social condi tions and surroundings of human ? kind. J Pauf was the first world-evangelist. ^ His mission was to sow the seed in all the first century world. And so ? in the outpouring of a grateful heart ?a heart thankful for success as a J spiritual seedsman?Paul declares, "I * am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ." h This same gospel it is which . claimed the allegiance of Paul and \ which holds the fealty of men in t, every clime to-day, which has taught men the principles of right living and of eternal truth. To the influence , of the gospel is due that esteem for woman which has raised her from a chattel to her rightful position as a , forceful factor in society. To the gospel is largely due that beneficent . avm a n n/1 f orwtvis? * Di/ucxuc wi cuutauuu auu tuai giauuer conception of the liberty of the in- t1 dividual. The words of Christ foretold the w doom of slavery. The eternal princi- ? pies of the new commandment could ? not but be hostile to a system of hu- ? man chattelhood The gentle teachings of the man of \ peace have entered into hearts in every epoch and in every land, f: strengthening and mellowing the in- * dividual character and life. Wher- ~ ever the example of the Christ is followed there is prosperity and peace ,. and purity of heart. Widely spread " throughout a people it has made of that nation a mighty and a moving C( element in the political history of the ^ world. Applied to the lives of men and women in whose hearts the love of God's law was uppermost it has ? given to us our Luthers, our Wesleys, " oar Lincolns, our noblest and our best L1 But it is within the space of the ? past century and a half that the true jj mission of the gospel has been com- d prehended and advanced. Little F more than a century is it since our 11 first plans were considered to send J* Protestant missionaries to the East. b To-day we have the missionary of P Christ in every land. The message of salvation through the Son is reach- ? ing round the world. c But let us for the moment forgetthe things which are behind and 0 look rather upon the present condition of humanity. Let us consider our duty as those who are ."not a ashamed of the gospel of Christ," to carry that gospel into every acting, longing soul. What application has ^ the gospel to the needs of to-day? How can we make it a force in the T lives of men and of nations. n We find ourselves confronted by u diverse and distracting social condi- P tions. The tendency of the times is s 5 ~ ? i? a tuvvaiu tuugiegauuu m migc ? The olden country life becomes dis- ^ tasteful, and men in the rush to gain ' a livelihood flock to the cities. Let e , us take as an example the City of c New York. Here are some of the ? richest of the rich, the poorest of the G poor; palaces, hovels; luxury and ex- ^ travagance, penury, and destitution; P costly cathedrals erected to the glory v of the living God, and beneath their ? very steeples disreputable dives dedi- ^ cated to all that is bestial in man. 0 Commercialism is the watchword. r The city, as the land, is money wild. P The spirit of combination is abroad, and we see huge gatherings of untold t capital to control the industries of rjthe world. Capital fears labor and 8 combines against it. JL.aoor distrusts rthe concentration of wealth and attempts. with but moderate success, o to protect itself from its fancied en- u emy. The immensely rich live their c lives with but small care for or a thought of the wretched existences e worked out by their fellows in the t! slums. Vice shows it evil head at a every turn. There is in New York a a single square, within the bounds of h which reside over 2000 human be- ti ings, who live under the most dis- n heartening conditions. To our shores o have come multitudes from every Eu- n roinan nation, from nearly all the a countries of the world. We have our w "little Italy," our German colony, I v. our JTrench quarter, our Chinatown, j h \ t;. ~ Tl X Tpon the same page of a daily newsa per we inav read heart burning acounts of the unutterable misery of aultitudes of our poor, and the story f V*nnr mnn i n itfaninfirfr t r\ />nn 4 "w ,T vuv jo tv/ vvia rol the supply of the diamonds, or he gold, or the steel, or the rubber, r the railroads of the earth. Thus, in briefest, are described ome of the conditions that make the ocial problem so disconcerting. Let s consider now our duty as men and . omen who love our Lord to carry lis gospel of light and of life to a I'orld that is so sorely in need of it. The prime duty of the church, here s elsewhere, is to instil into the earts and minds of men -the necesity and the joy of the presence of he saving power of the Holy Spirit a the individual life. That's the piritual function of the church. The thical duty of the church is to imress upon mankind the true relation f man to man and to God. In order to impart her fullest influence t is necessarythatthechurch be filled, adividually and collectively, with the eepest grace and the noblest love or man. By the exercise of the true rinciples of the Christ ideals in the ommonplaces of life, the charge of aconsistency -must be. nullified. As body and as individuals the church lust be a brotherhood which, meas,red by its own ideals, is worthy, 'o the church do the people look for be purest, the most unselfish leaderhip. That the depth of the spiritual ife within the church is a sure indiation of the height of the morality f the people is demonstrated by the ges past. Upon us as Christian len devolves the privilege so to mold lie national mind that the law of he universal brotherhood of man lay become the law of our national nd international life. We must con ince the poor or tneir auiy 10 ine Ich; we must convince the wealthy f the dignity of labor. Ours is the bligation to hasten the milleniura f peace through the universal appliation of the law of love. To accomlish this purpose we must obey, in ur daily lives, that command of the faster, "Thou shalt love the Lord tiy God and thy neighbor as thyglf." ' The church must exercise her preDgative as the natural leader in all loral reform. That reform which as not the support of the church lust sooner or later fail. She must isist on a clean public conscience as le logical sequence of her demands >r purity in the private life. It is ot the province of the church as an iclesiastical body to claim temporal iipremacy over the government of le city or the nation, but it is her uty as composed of voting individals to demand, and to enforce the emand> that municipal and national overnment be undefiled. The polics of our large cities will be only 3 bad as the church cares to allow, a a country where the citizen is ing and the ballot alone is supreme trenuously to maintain the honor 9f tie sovereign people should be the igh aim of the church. The church must, however, keep trictly in mind the prime object of er existence. Her mission it is to reach the good news throughout ie world. In the cities is her mision most difficult to fulfil. Here, by jason of the multitudinous obstales that beset her path, she must se extraordinary measures to reach ie people: It is not enough that the piritual needs of the immediate conregation of any church be minisn-ed unto. That the pastor preach egularly twice upon the Sabbath, aat the exercises of the Sabbath:hool progress without interruption, iat the prayer meetings occur as is leir wont, that the church be prompt 1 her financial affairs, is not enough. . yearly contribution to missions in ie foreign fields and the support of city missionary do not constitute le whole responsibility of any tiurch. The grace of the gospel is for all ten. Unto all men must the tidings e told. To the linhearing and the ncaring must the inspiration of the lfinite Son be carried. Christianity lust be proven a practical force in le common life. For the Christ life i practical life written large. As the nly correct system of right living, s the ultimate scheme of salvation lust the gospel be presented to the eople. To them we must show that le promises of Christ are real, that hristianity is a synonym for brothrly love, for the deepest consecraon, for the highest purity of life nd motive, that Christianity is hristlikeness. The church must carry to the multudes of the unsaved a gospel unsuled by her own insincerity and insnsistency. Her creed must be simle, her differences dismissed. Her jrc.es must move in unison toward ae common end. Sect and party trife must be eliminated. It may e that the great divisions always ill exist. Always the Catholics and le various Protestant denominations, ut like a mighty army in which the ifferent regiments have each their nnoifiAn 11 n H or a OCMYi - ion generalship, so must the church I waging the peaceful battles of the loral war march, side by side, sect y sect, creed by creed, in full panoly and with solid front, forward to le victory under the common leadJ rship of the King of Kings, who is hrist the Lord. And now a word upon the manner f the preaching of the good news. The gospel should be preached atractively. Water street missions nd Salvation Army rooms may suit ae preferences of that class to whose piritual natures the workers may rish to appeal. Wonderful is their ifluence and to them be all honor, 'he average self-supporting poor lan, however, does not care to feel nder any obligation to the richer ortion of the community for his piritual sustenance. lie feels, and II too sadly with some justification, tiat the mission?the very name of rhich is distasteful to him?has been stablished so that he may have no ause to intrude his unwelcome pres nee upon tne rnomer cnurcn. May rod speed the day when the church rill see her duty in this matter. The oor, whose only sin is poverty, rhose piety is often more genuine ban that nurtured in a protected ome, should be given substantial pportunity to worship. The Moody evivals prove that the common eople respond eagerly and in force d the appeal of the man in whom bey can see and imagine only love, "he common people heard Christ ladly when the learned scorned [im. We often speak of the wilfulness f those who listen to our discourses pon the duty of every man to acept Christ as the personal Savio^, nd who do not heed our words. Genrally we console ourselves with the bought that we have done our duty t any rate. Perhaps we have. But re we justified to say that Christ as been rejected. May it Rot be bat the rejection has been, not so luch of Christ as of our presentation f Him. Might it not be that another lan with a different personality, with J - CC 4. ~ ? Aifn.AMr.UM umereiiL manual ui cApicoaiuu, 'ith a something in his nature that rould bring him heart to heart with is listener, would convince this sin 1 . I ner, over whom we have tried and failed, of his absolute dependence upon the God who gave him life. The whole power of the body of Christ must be exerted to save men. Too often men are unconvinced because of our non-appealing presentation of the truths of the Bible story. Unto all people must the church of the twentieth century ad- i dress herself. To all men must the gospel be preached. But this gospel of the Christ is not merely a system of ethics, not merely a scheme of life.- It is more. St. Paul tells us that he is "not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for," says he, "it is the power of God unto salvatiot to every one thatbelievetb." Through it we know not only what God expects of ue, but we have a knowledge of the nature of our heavenly Fatheif. Christ came to preach the kingdom. | The outworking in practical life of the principles of the kingdom will make such conditions as we have discussed impossible. "With the entrance of Christ into the heart man will become right toward God. Being in harmony with God he will be in harmony with his brethren. Let us apply ourselves, then, steadfastly to spread the gospel of salvation. The gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is the urgent, the immediate need of this world. Within its principles are contained the so lution or an our most perpiexmg social problems. Let us bring our wandering brethren back from the distant country into the father's home. For ourselves fet us strive to attain unto that perfectness which was in Christ. Enthrone Chri9t in the hearts of men and the law of love, which is the ruling force in the kingdom of our God, will sway mankind. Then will come peace and happiness and joy. For then shall have come to pass the beginning of the endless life within God for us all. Save men to Christ and you have saved the world. The church is confronted with the most stupendous problem with which she has had to contend since the days of the apostles. But with the problem God has given us the power unto victory. His gospel is our shield, our buckler, our guide. He doth lead, we need but follow. Let us then as men who are "not ashamed of the gospel of Christ" go forth to carry that gospel Unto every needy soul. Let us live the Christ life that we preach. Let the church, relying upon the promises of our Lord, strike out boldly into new fields. Praying for divine guidance and trusting to the omniscience of divine love, let us find our duty and live up to it. "Lift up your eyes and look on the fields, for they are white already to harvest." Are you ashamed of the gospel or Christ? The "New" Theology. There are two fundamental respects in which exponents of the "new" doctrines fail of truth. First, their conception of sin omits entirely the element of guilt incurred by violation of the Law of God. "Sin is the transgression of the law" (1 John 3:4). Second, their insistence on the immanence of God in all mankind applies to unrepentent sinners the privileges and promises which in Scripture are reserved only for saints redeemed and justified. This confusion of things which differ lies at the root of the errors set forth with so much ill-founded assurance. Meantime, alas, the people perish for lack of knowledge.?London Christian. Not to Ourselves. "Every human life that failB tc hear its message and learn its lesson, or fails to speak it out, keeping it locked in the sfience of the heart, leaves this earth a little poorer." We cannot live unto ourselves. We belong to Him. We are the servants of every man we meet. This is oui privilege, and "if we do it unwilling*? " TX7 a mnef nco n? iy, It lb a UULJ. IIS uiuwv uuu ?. lose the truth. Our service is the world's claim on us, but we owe it to ourselves to serve. No strong life was ever cradled in a monastery. The bread we break for men is twice blest, and ours is the greater blessing ?Home Herald. The Blessings of Goodness. "We do not realize the importance of the unconscious part of our life ministry. It goes on continually. In every greeting we give to another on the street, in every moment's conversation, in every letter we write, in every contact with other lives, there is a subtle influence that goes from us that often reaches further and leaves a deeper impression than the things themselves which we are doing at the time. It is not so much what we do in this world, as what we are. that tells in spiritual results and impressions."?J. R. Miller, D. D. L I Wondrous Love. F. B. Meyer tells of a dying man who,'as Mr. Meyer was speaking tc . him of the great life to which he was giong, smiled and said, "I put a grand piece of brickwork under your hall. , sir." He did not, of course, believe it would increase his chance of acceptance and salvation, but it gave him satisfaction to have done something that would live. To do solid work in the world will not open the gate of pearl?only faith in Christ can do that; but it will be something to be thankful for when we reach the end of life. First Things First. Lord Dufferin had a servant who, to please his master, tore down a rare old castle that he might build a wall around it. A little girl, who was given a half-crown by her father, spent it in order to get for herself a miroo in whirh to hold it. Wealth iyu,w^ ? ? will not pay us for spiritual delinquency. Environment is not merely accidental, but to build ourselves into it is presumptuous. Eternity cannot be sacrificed to immediate possessions. We must build on rock.? Home Herald. Stars That Shine at Night. The promises of God, scattered throughout the Bible, are like stars in the firmament; if it were always day we should not know that the sky was so full of them, but when night approaches they begin to shine. When the night of affliction overtakes the child of Heaven the promises of +r\ oV?irv<a fnrth nno nftpr VJUU aic DCCJL1 LU uuiav iv* v** ?v. another in the firmament of His Word.?D. L. Moody. The Essentials. Peace and submission are the essentials. The moral being may moralize his sufferings by using natural facts for his own inner education. What he cannot change he calls the will of God, and to will what God wills brings him peace.?Amiel's Journal. Affected piety is effective only in < bringing those who practice it into eternal pity. N J THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING PACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. The Cost of Crime in the United 1 States?A Valuable Service Per formed by the Rev. John J. Munro, the Famous Prison Chaplain. The Rev. John J. Munro has performed a valuable service in compiling and publishing in the columns of Harper's Weekly an elaborate study of the "Cost of Crime in the United States." Mr. Munro, as a prison chaplain and in other positions connected with the relief of our population, has enjoyed exceptional advantages for the study of this and other phases of criminology, and his conclusions are well worthy of attention. He estimates, giving sufficient analysis of the details to enable the reader to follow his computation, that crime costs the city of New York $35,552,134 per annum; that New York State pays (in addition) $40,244,000 every year for the same cause, and that the people of the United States have assessed upon them annually because of crime an actual expense of $1,076,327,605. Interesting as these figures are in themselves the? have even greater interest when we consider them in their relation to the liquor traffic as a cause of crime. The relation of the liquor traffic to crime as a producing cause hae been studied with considerable 'exactness for some hundreds of years? ???? 4-Iia /lava nf Cir M Q f. ever biulu mc u?/o vi vm k/h thew Hale, Lord Chief Justice oi England. In general students have placed the percentage of crime caused by drink at a high degree. AmericaD judges have expressed opinions averaging about seventy-five per cent., while an examination of 1000 count} jails made in 1899 resulted in a similar showing. But for the purposes of comparison here it is better to adopt the ultraconservative estimate of the "Committee of Fifty" in their first book? substantially fifty *per cent. At that estimate the liquor traffic as a cause of crime, costs New Yorfc City $17,776,067; costs the othei counties of New York State $20,122,000 more every year?a total for the State of more than $37,800,000 (How like the traditional "30 cents' the Raines law revenue looks beside that), and costs the United States the enormous sum of $538,163,802. Some months ago the Defender studied the subject of liquor' revenue exhaustively, with the result of showing that the liquor traffic pays to municipalities, States and the Nationa! Government a sum total of $258,000,000 revenue annually. At best thif is only a small percentage of the enormous sum that the traffic takes from the people, but now, when the total is placed in contrast with the traffic's part in the cost of crime the pretentions of the liquor business at a revenue producer appears more ridiculous than ever. A business that rolls upon the public more than half a billion dollars ol criminal costs, and then boastt about its production of revenue witt a paltry quarter of a billion of taxec and fees in its hands, deserves, but for the tragic character of the question at issue, to be laughed out ol court.?Defender. . . A rnmnfirisnn. The average rate of license taxation in 122 towns of the United States having a population exceeding 30,000, is $835, as against an average of $175 charged to similar townt in Great Britain. If the comparisor be made with particular States or certain geographical divisions, the difference is even more pronounced. The average license duty in twentyone New England cities, says the Independent, is ten times the average rate in similar cities in the United Kingdom. Naturally, the revenue thus received is much greater in this country than in Great Britain. Ie the 164 British towns having a population of 30,000 and upward, the pro;eeds from this source is approximately $4,080,000; whereas, in the 122 American towns of the same size It is $36,975,000, or more than nine times as much. An Extensive Propaganda. . There are five great liquor organisations in the United States. These five organizations are, of course, ir league, and usually supply men mniiov onH Hforofuro in ov^rv Innfll contest where there is a possibility of the saloon being defeated. On< organization, the Protective Bureau so-called, is chiefly a distributing agency for saloon literature, edited by Cyrus C. Turner, with headquar ters in New York. According to th< American Brewers' Journal, during 190?-1905 this bureau sent out fifteen different tracts, aggregating more than 10,000,000 pages.. Mosi of this is mailed directly to' voters whose names and addresses are fur nished by friends of the trade. Temperance Forces Aggressive. One fact stands out permanently or we should rather say, looms uj ominously; that in every State anc almost without exception in ever] community, there is going on a con test between the friends and foes oi personal liberty. No defeat car dampen tne energy 01 me enemy, in deed, like the fabled Titan's brood they spring up more vigorously thai ever after every defeat.* It is assur edly the case they are enlisted foi the war, and the only way to meei this stale of affairs is for the liquoi interest to maintain constant vigi lance and solidary.?National Advo cate. . Temperancc Notes. No man in perfect physical condi tion ever wants a drink. America wants men, not drunks, t< defend and uphold her. A single drink of intoxicatin* liquor has often fired a man's brail and led him to commit a crime or dc some disgraceful act. Alcohol is a narcotic, and, whil< quieting tne pain ana lessening cough, diminishes the vitality am power of nature to overcome the dis ease. The heaviest handicap of th< church is the Christian voter that cai be gcit to put his O. K. on the sal loon sometimes. Rhode Island has fifteen "dry' towns out of thirty-eight. Walter Wellman, who proposes t< take the flying trip for the discover: of the North Pole, declares that non< but total abstainers are wanted foi the work of Arctic exploration. Bostock, the noted trainer of wile animals, declares that the animals ii SI)IIIt' WclJ I CLU5UI4C u. uiau ui iuusi habits and will not continue to ac knowledge the authority of a mai who is not master of himself. / I 1 ' ( ! Fashions in Stamps. 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As its pure n Senna, are well known to physicians 5f the world to be the best we have . ate mme of?Syrup of Figs and ? more fully descriptive of the remedy, 1 always be called for by the shorter 'Jfl af Figs?and to get its beneficial 'iff ays note, when purchasing the full jffJ e Company?California Fig Syrup ifl ited on the front of every package, fl I whether you call for?Syrup of Figs j|/ J| -or by the full name?Syrup of Jv Hi Figs and Elixir of Senna. / a W.3.A.. LONDON,ENGLAND. FADELE od??<ly& One 10c. package colors all fiber*, Tbey?W MsbooUni-How to Dye WeanKaod Ills Colon. 01) A Tribute to the Press. , "The newspaper is parent, school, college, pulpit, #theatre, .example, counselor, all in one. Every drop of our blood is colored by It. Let me make the newspaper f^nd I care not who makes the religion or the laws.". ?Wendell Phillips. N. Y.?18 FITS, St. Vitua'Dance,Nervous Diseases permanently cured by Df. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer. $2 trial bottle and treatisevfree. Dr.H. R. 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