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THE PULPIT.
A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY
THE REV. DR. H. C- SWENTZEL
Subject: The Divinity of Christianity.
Brooklyn, N. Y.?For the first of a
series of sermons on "The Religion of
Jesus Christ," the Rev. Dr. Henry C.
Swentzel, rector of St. Luke's Church,
Clinton avenue, near Fulton street,
preached Sunday on "The Divinity of
Christianity." The text was from I
Timothy i:ll: "The Glorious Gospel
of the Blessed (ioci." JL?r. sweiuztri
said in the course of his sermon:
Christianity shows the credentials
of divinity. It is not a set of doctrines
and principles which men or even the
best of them have invented, but it
professes to come directly from "he infinite
Jehovah Himself. It is not simply
one among the world's religions.
*It stands alone and is unique In the
manner and method of its origin. It
was not whispered into the ear of a
seer by the Almighty; it is not the
result of visions; it is not the product
of learning and piety. It comes directly
from the infinite God, who actually
adopted Jiuman nature in order that He
might talk with mankind face to face.
It is immeasurably more divine than
the religion of Moses and the prophets
because it was delivered personally by
" T A Tho
me incarnate uuiu uimocu.
themes of which He treats are of such
tremendous moment that any solution
of them ought to be carefully scrutinized.
Who and what is God? Who
and what is man? What is the true
ideal for the present-? What is the
outlook for the future? What of immortality
and heaven.? To these interrogatories
the Lord speaks with
tones of infallibility which popes and
synods have not dared to initiate or
even to claim. The author of the SermoH
on the Mount was the eternal Son
of God and His religion is nothing less
than "the glorious gospel of the blessed
God."
To say that Jesus of Nazareth is a
divine Being is not synonymous with
the error which calls Him a divine
man. There have been many divine
men?men who had a mission and a
message from the Most.High, men who
.were called to lead humanity to better
and nobler things; sons of men who
were filled with God's spirit, and
counted not their life dear if it were
spent in His service, prophets of reform,
prophets of liberty, prophets of
philosophy or literature or art In
the hall of fame stand the images of
the vast army of divine souls who
have been the champions of God's
cause and the captains of His hosts
in every clime. In a far loftier sense,
in a literal sense which warrants no
Jugglery of words and no legerdemain
of metaphysics, was Jesus Christ
God's Son, His only Son. The Christian
Scriptures propose this sublime
truth which should be hailed with universal
acclaim. It is constantly assumed
in the four gospels, even as it
.was by Himself, that though He was
born of the Virgin Mary, He was still,
in the later language of the Nicene
Creed, "God of God, Light of Light
vVery God of Very God."
In ope way or another Our Lord de
clared His divinity time and again.
He made Himself God's equal with
such plainness that even His enemies
could not mistake it They accused
' Him of sacrilege so strongly that they
iwrung from Him the well-remembered
reply: "Say ye to Him whom the Father
hath sanctified and sent into the
world. Thou blasphemer, because I
said I am the Son of God?" It is true
that He loved to speak of Himself as
"the Son of Man," but that title really
was His assertion of deity. He might
have been a son of man without being
a divine personage, but He could not
he truly the son of man unless He
\were, more than all. the Son of God.
It is no wonder than when the people
beheld His moral perfection and saw
. His works and listened to the truths
as they seemed to come from the
v mouth of God, they asked, "Who is
this Son of Man?" The record of the
memorable interview, which has often
been conspicuous in the church's re- /
gard, should not lightly be put aside.
The Lord said to His disciples, "Whom
do men say that I, the Son of Man,
am? Whom say ye that I am?" Then
it was that Simon Peter made the great
confession, 'Thou are the Christ, the
Son or tne iivmg uoa." in advance 01
His birth the archangel gave this assurance
to the Virgin Mother, "That
holy thing which shall be born of thee
shall be called the Son of God." And
when the end came and Jesus had
breathed out His life on the Calvary
cross, the words of the Roman Centurion
were a fitting finale for the record
of His mortal career, "Truly this man
Was the Son of God."
The divinity of the Founder of Christianity
justifies the certitude of His
disciples. This absolute certitude
should be appreciated. We should willingly
take the Lord at His word. And
yet He does not demand that the disciples
shall enslave themselves?He
rwho came to make them free, to give
them "the liberty of the glory of the
children of God." That liberty is surely
not a dead letter. The Divine Master
would not put shackles on the
human intellect He does not discourage
the conservatism which disdains
to consider the present or to
look for a golden age in the future.
Tf Wo ho hatcrrl oricrht TTo will stimn
late thought and investigation. Better
than ourselves did He know that
tiie real advancement of the multitudes
is in harmony with His plans
and that the period of the finest piety
(will be a time of the greatest enlightenment.
The divinity of Christ should
not be treated as a brutum fllmen.
Rather is it a truth?a fact?which
should steady and hold Christian people
amid the growth of ideas and the
struggle of theories. Whatever truths
may be discovered, whatever thinkers
may say or print, whatever conclusions
may ensue in the intellectual world,
the Christian religion is forever true,
because it is nothing less than "the
glorious gospel of the blessed God."
It is on this basis that the honest
doubter may take his stand. Doubts
are not necessarily sinful. People
who never think will never doubt.
It could scarcely be expected that
Christianity would not cause intellectual
disturbances. It has to do largely
.with mysteries incomprehensible and
unfathomable. It presents doctrines
{which it is not always easy to reconcile
even with the best ideals of good |
f
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men. Ordinarily people have poor j
training for such exalted spiritual conceptions
as are presented by the Son '
of Mary. We are schooled to earthly j
things, circumstances assign most of [
our time and energy to temporal occupations;
we live in a world of sense,
and the constant tendency is to say
that the only things that are worth
while are the things which are seen, j
There are doubts which proceed rroui
pride and conceit; there are people
who are convinced that it is time to
break away from a religion which
was instituted nearly 2000 years ago;
there are those who are seriously persuaded
that they know entirely too ;
much for them to consent to accept the |
Gospel of Bethlehem and Calvary, the j
Holy Sepulchre and the Mount of 01- j
ives. Of course they deny our plat- j
form?they say that Jesus was not j
the Son of God. To us who believe in !
the Lord's divinity there is this sure |
refuge, this safe hiding place firom the '
storms. When doubts arise, although
we should do our best to dispose of
them, we should remember every moment
in the face of mysteries and
contradictions and of alleged pffenses
against the intellect that the Founder
of Christianity could have made no
mistake because He was the Son of
God.
PKme+ionitT ic riirinp hecause of the '
VlliiOUUUilJ AW Vm ? -W ?- ? _ divinity
of the Founder, and it is because
of this divinity that Christianity
has endured thus long and all changes
and connections and progress shall
survive until the end of time. One of
the many tokens of its heavenly character
is that it has confronted all the !
powers of darkness and has carried j
the day in every struggle and on every
field. From the outset an effort has
been made to banish it from the face
of the earth. More than once has it
appeared that "the glorious Gospel of
the Blessed God" might possibly be
obliterated; but somehow after each
battle the banners of the cross have
waved in triumph and God's truth has
won.
Does any one inquire respecting the
outcome? does any one cry out
"Watchman, what of the night?" The
answer is Victory, a better Christendom,
a nobler Church, a purer religion.
Let the winds blow and the waves
roar; let the powers of evil and error
do their worst; let the advance and
achievements of the future surpass a
thousandfold the knowledge and conquests
of the past Christianity will
abide with ever increasing glory, for
it is -founded on a rock, and that rock
is the incarnate Son of God.
Justice Reign* Supreme*
In this God's-world, with its wildwhirling
eddies and mad foam-oceans,
where men and nations perish as if
without law, and judgment for an unjust
thing is sternly delayed, dost theu
think thaf there is, therefore, no justice?
It is what the fool hath said in his
heart It is what the wise, in all times,
were wise because they denied, and
knew forever not to be. I tell thee
again, there is nothing else but justice.
One strong thing I find here below:
the just thing, the true thing. My
friend, if thou hadst all the artillery
of Woolwich trundling at thy back in
support of an unjust thing; and infinite
bonfires visibly waiting ahead
of thee to blaze centuries long for thy
victory on behalf of it, I would advise
thee to call halt, to fling down thy
baton and say, "In God's name, No!"
?Thomas Carlyle.
The Hidden Sin.
A majestic tree fell at its prime?fell
on a calm evening, when there was
scarcely a breath of air stirring. It
had withstood a century of storms and
now was broken off by a zephyr.
The secret was disclosed at its falling.
A boy's hatchet had been struck
into it when it was a tender sapling.
The wound had been grown over and
hidden Away under exuberant life,
but it had never healed. There at the
heart of the tree it stayed, a spot of
decay, ever eating a little farther and
deeper into the trunk, until at last the
tree was rotted through and fell of its
own weight when it seemed to be at
its best.
So do many lives fall when they seem
to be at their strongest because some
sib or fault of youth has left its
wounding and consequent weakness at
the heart?Dr. J. R. Miller.
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Ood9s Doable Parpo*e?
God manifestly has a double purpose
in view in bestowing blessings upon
an individual, namely, the good* of tne
individual and the larger and wider
benefits that others may receive
through the individual. To Abranam
He said, "Blessing I will bless tnee, i
and multiplying I will- multiply thee." j
It is an experimental fcact that men i
are enriched in the best things by imparting
them to others. So it is that
graces are enriched by leading others
into gracious ways of living. So it is
that character is improved by the work
of character building in others, and
truth more securely and deeply rooted
in us by teaching it to others. To shut
up one's gifts and hide one's light is to
impoverish and darken one's own soul.
?Examiner.
Be in Barn est.
There are many human forces that!
make for accomplishment, and the j
greatest 'of these is earnestness.
Enthusiasm is the flash; earnestness i
the steady glow. It is that quality
which shines through and glorifies the
simplest deeds and plainest words.
Earnestness improves where all else
is powerless. If you are in earnest,
ideas will develop, plans and methods
will suggest themselves and results
will follow.
No one can work earnestly unless he
is a downright believer in the object
for which lie is working, and willing
to back it against the world.?Selected j
and Adapted.
The Way of Freedom.
If you will let Him walk with you
in your streets and sit with you in
your offices and be with you in your
homes and teach you in your churches
and abide with you as the Living
Presence in your hearts, you, too.
shall know what freedom is. and
while you own yourselves the sons of
men. know you are the sons of God.?
Phillips Brooks.
Sacrifice.
The candle is consumed by its own
fiame. but its exhaustion gives light
to the world. So is lie who lays himself
on the altar of a noble self-sacrifice.?United
Presbyterian *
fleets Compared
Relative Strength of Jap and
Russian Sea Fighters.
OUTCOME CONJECTURAL
^Vhile Czar Has More Battleships Mi
ksdo Goes Him Better on Swift
Cruisers and Effective Torpedo
Boats.
In view of the impending battle between
the Russian and Japanese fleets,
the following comparison as to
strength will be found interesting:
Russia?Battleships, seven; armored
cruisers and armored coast defense
vessels,'two; protected cruisers, eleven;
transports and converted liners
(estimated), twenty. .
Japan?Battleships, four or. five ;
armored cruisers and armored coast
defense vessels, ten; protected cruisers,
twelve; transports and converted
liners (estimated), ten.
Total?Russia, 50; Japan, 36 or 37.
The exact strength of the two fleets
in guns cannot be told exactly, because
the armament of the Russian |
vrOnntPPr fpet and of the twenty odd |
transports is not known in detail.
But in a general way the following
estimate will show the relative
strength of the squadrons:
Russia?12-inch guns, 24; 10-inch
guns, four; 8-inch guns, eight; 6-inch
guns, 150 to 200; smaller guns (estimated
at 30 for battleships and 15 for
all other vessels), 675; total 911.
Japan?12-inch guns, 22 to 26; 10inch
guns, five; 8-inch guns, 34; 6inch
guns, 190; smaller guns (estimated
at 30 for battleships and 15 for
all other vessels), 630; total 885.
Total guns, both fleets, 1,796.
In this table it will be seen that
the Russians have the advantage in
numbers, but are so deficient in armored
cruisers that they stand a very
poor show against the Japanese fleet.
The ten swift, well-armed and wellmanned
armored cruisers which Togo
has constitute, possibly, a more formidable
fighting unit than his four or
five more heavily armed and armored
battleships. During the SpanishAmerican
war the 8-inch rifles witfl
which these cruisers are armed were
even more effective than the 12 or 13inch
guns. The latter, of course, do
more damage, but they are slower,
harder to aim and register a much
smaller number of hits than the
former.
However, the 6-inch rifle is also a
wonderfully effective arm and the
Russian auxiliary cruisers, converted
linars and transports are probalAy
crowded with them. An exact estimate
of the strength of . the two fleets
in respect to this gun is, therefore,
impossible.
In protected and auxiliary cruisers,
the Russians have the advantage.
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Tueir scorn vessejs 01 irum o,aw
6,600 tons, are new, very fast and
very effective, as the little Novik
proved at Port Arthur. In a battle
they are -everywhere, and nowhere
and can brave a heavy fire with surprising
impunity.
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Standard Oil King .Offers. .Another
$100,000 for Missions.
An offer by John D. Rockefeller to
give the second hundred thousand to
the Baptist Missionary Union was received
at the headquarters of that
union in Boston. On Saturday the
union received a check for $100,000
from Mr. Rockefeller, the amount
representing Mr. Rockefeller's custom1
ary annual donation to the Baptist
society to be used for the people conducting
the missionary work in foreign
fields. The contribution was at
once accepted and acknowledged.
The offer received Monday from
Mr. Rockefeller specified that the
money, if accepted, is to be applied
to the upbuilding of the missionary
plants from the running expenses of (
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KENTUCKY LEGISLATOR SHOT.
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: Howard Laid Low by Bullets as He
Walked Away from Foe.
| J. R. C. Howard, representative in
| the Kentucky legislature from the
j seventy-first district, was shot and
killed Monday in a saloon, near his
home, in Clay county, by Tilford
Benge.
The men had quarreled, but made
up, and the trouble was thought to be
over. Howard walked away, when
| Benge, it is said, drew a pistol and
fired five shots. Three of them took i
effect, killing Howard instantly. Benge
gave himself up.
SLIM CROWD ATTENDED.
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Monuments to Valor of North State j
Troops Unveiled at Lynchburg, Va.
With hardly 2,Q00 persons present ;
at Lynchburg, Va., Monday afternoon j
the three monuments to the valor of .
the North Carolina troops in the civil
war, were unveiled.
The main monument was located on
the spot where the last snot was nrea
| in the war by North Carolina troops. 1
HISTORY OF SHOES.
(n No Article cf Attire Have More
Vagaries Boen Shown.
Shoes, or their equivalent, are of
a certainty even more ancient than
gloves, for they were a necessity of
locomotion, while the other was but a
luxury. Sometimes they were made
of skins, sometimes of papyrus, as in
Egypt. Often they were gilded and
decked with jewels, and the most ex
pert artists of the day were employed
to decorate the foot-coverings of
wealthy patricians, consuls, emperors
and their favorites. In no article of
attire have more vagaries been
shown. Today a lady who desires to
be considered in the height of fashion
wears shoes pointed as much as
possible, but in' the time of Queen
Mary the taste was all the other way,
and it was found necessary to issue a
royal proclamation prohibiting shoes
with toes wider than six inches. But
perhaps the most extraordinary development
in the way of footgear
were the "chopines" introduced b?
the ladies of Venice to make themselves
taller than they really -were.
The articles were really a kind of
stilts made of wood and leather, and
sometimes reached the absurd height
of twelve inches. Even a trained
acrobat would have difficulty in walking
on such things, and ordinary
women had such trouble with them
that when the yattempted a promenade
they required the assistance of a
servant at each side and another behind
to keep them from falling.?Redfep?'?
"Royal and Historic Shoes."
LA?Y JOHNNY.
Tommy Tucker?You don't like
jonnny jones, l guess:
Willie Wickham?No, he's so lazy
that he'd rather fight than run, any
time.?Boston Transcript.
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in favor of the Commissioners'
finding, tbe railroad must obey, or its
officera may be brought up for contempt
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The race of Todaa, in India, which
practices polyandry (one wife having
two or more huabands), which was
100,000 strong & century ago, haj
dwindled to 101 persons.
THOUGHT SHE WOULD DIE.
Mrs. 8. W. Marine, of Colorado Spring!
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Mrs. Sarah Marine, of 428 St Urair
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words can but poorly express my grati
tude."
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