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THE (PU \N ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. E. E. NEW3ERTSul\ject: lUallty In Kelisioo. Indianapolis, Ind.?The Rev. E. E. Newbert, of this city, thrilled and delighted a large congregation last Sun- i day with an eloquent sermon, entitled "Reality in Religion." He took for his text: "The hour coineth, when neither in this mountain, nor yet in Jerusalem, shall ye worship the Father. The hour cometh, and now is. when the true worshipers shall worship the Father in spirit and truth." John i\\, 21, 23. These are great words. I do not * -A- ? ?- ? ? tl-* Ani T come, nowever, to luiexyici ?.u<rn.i. * quote the text because of the spirit it breathes. I quote it as a protest against the limitation of worship, as an answer to the creeds of Christendom. I quote it because it denies formal religion, and places emphasis on truth and life. It does us good to come upon a thought like this, maybe half forgotten. And to find it, after having been made to believe in the little words of a sectarian faith, is like coming out of the fog of the lowland to the hills, to find the sky clear and the sun shining. Or it is like following a foul stream to find its source in a mountain spring. Indeed, it is refreshing to throw off our load of belief and fear and doubt, and think for an hour of life as it is. It is inspiring to think of religion as without bounds or name or division, just a splendid ideal o? life and a daring thought of the eternities. In passing, I think of a great picture and its poor copy. I turn from the copy, badly done, to the original. Its setting is the quaint life and quiet scenes of Galilee. At once we think of the night prayer in the hills and the teaching on the mount, the central figure that of a man who speaks to the people of the realities of life. But we must not linger with the picture. It is enough to catch its spirit. Life is swift, and its course is onward. Religion is a present reality. It is everywhere abroad in the life of the modern world. In worship? Yes. In good living? Yes. Hunt for religion in the beliefs of men, and you lose it. Bind it and bound it, and you have only husks. Live it, and you know it for what it is. Go where life goes, go where the great world's work is done, and you will find real religion. Is the church its audible voice? Then it should bear the live coal upon its altars, it snouia De m love with truth and in touch with life. It should be modern, with a message to modern man. It should lead, command, advance. It should worship the living God, not learn ritual or mumble over relics in the sepulchre of the dead. So long poorly taught, we can hardly think of religion apart from the church, its rites and dogmas. Baptism, for instance, awaits us at the outer gate. Shall it be the condition of our passing through? Does the kingdom of God wait for baptism? Is the rite a vital part of religion? Men have been baptized; but what of humanity? What of the round world? Are the unbaptized outside the gate? Baptism? Oh, go out some summer morning, and stand - uncovered in the fields. Wait reverently for the sunrise. Be tenderly affectioned toward the world. Be thankful for life and not afraid of death. Let nature be to you a sanctuary, the world a holy place. Invite the dew of the morning to wet your head; and in that hour of stillness, reverence and joy, you will receive a baptism, the end of all novitiate and probation. Or what of the ordination of a minister of religion? Does the candidate stand in the apostolic line? Has he had the hands of a bishop on his head? Has he been consecrated by a rite which separates him from his fellows? Is his office holy? Are such questions of grave importance? Or do they concern anybody in this busy world but the ecclesiastic? Indeed, what is a minister of religion more than a man? Or what can ceremony add to a man? Not by any miracle can a priest be made a man if he be not first a man. Fools and knaves have been ordained to the priesthood, but neither bishop's hands nor the most sacred rite can make a fool learn wisdom, or teach a clown to be serious, or put an honest soul into a knave. And then there are the apostolic people. These form an exclusive set in the kingdom of God, a sort of chosen people. They have gone through the gate, and have shut the gate behind them. Nothing of ceremonial or belief has been left undone. They have taken out insurance for eternity. But what of humanity? What of the round world? Where stand the majority of . men and women? In the winnowing of souls, why so few grains of wheat? As < I try to answer, even in part, I think of those who are doing the world's work. I think of the men and women who are fighting the world's battles and winning its victories. I think of the shoulders beneath the ponderous wheel of progress, now rolling on, now down to the hub in the mire. I think of those who are lending a hand in the gigantic world struggle for the supremacy of righteousness. I think of those j in the vanguard who light watch-fires on the hills, who are educating, humanizing, liberating. Or I think of the gentle hands, the swift feet, the tender hearts, the angels of mercy and peace, in whom dwell sweetness and light. Who are they? By what name are thoy called? To what churcn, it any, uo they belong? Idle the question, impossible the answer. Sufficient is it that they establish a Christian civilization. Xo, not an exclusive set, not a small division of humanity, but these lovers and comrades and workers who walk together, constitute the kingdom of God. If this be not so, woe unto the world, hopeless our human lot! Humanity has made many experiments, and from failure learned w:si dom. All that the ecclesiastic would to-day teach has been tried, and it lias failed. At least for 1000 years the religion of dogma and ceremonial ruled the world. These ten centuries are distinguishable by the supremacy of a blind faith. For 1000 years men knelt to the ecclesiastic, and in death turned to him as the arbiter of their etern:? destiny. I do not forget that this absolutism of the church foibade prog-, rcss. I do not forget that it made ' scholarship a dangerous calling, that it set a price on high intelligence, that it stamped every new thought as heresy, that it burned the thinker and hqt'd the truth. And all this was done in the name of religion. It was done in defense of the faith. It was clone for holy church and God. The experiment, j however, was a failure. The absolutism of the church was checked. Humanity broke the fetters that bound j it to little things, and the awakening, j 'wondering world started for freedom. ! We boast a modern age. we talk of democracy, we proclaim the rights of men. because, in the bitter conflict, ; mediaevalism lost. It lost in art; it lost in literature; it lost in science; it lost in politics; it lost in religion. The j triumph was not of a party; it was a triumph for humanity. The destiny of ; the round world was involved. The < Old World principle was hurled back; 1 the New World principle appeared. The mediaeval ages ended, the modern began. The worst stage of religious i nightmare was lifted from the mind i and conscience of mankind. Yet think of what might have been? Think what might have been, had mediaevalism triumphed! Think what might have been, had dogmas silenced reason! Think what might have been, had the absolutism of the church and the Old World principle continued supreme! | Let him who easily forgets think what might have been. Manhood suf- j trace and manhood religion are not 1 ideals of raediaevalism. They are ideals of freemen, wrung from tyranny and paid for with a great price. Only : the man who forgets, values as a small . thing our heritage of religious liberty, j Only the man who forgets is indifferent \ to religious progress. Only the man j who forgets can receive unmoved the j suggestion of a revival of a dogmatic ; faith and an ecclesiastical absolutism which ever has meant bondage, ignor- j ance, superstition, fear, and stagnation, j Only the man who forgets can be mis- j led by the mockery of form or the ! quackery of belief. Only the man who , forgets can deny the logic of the newlearning or turn his back on reason and experience, his face toward the past. As truth is above price, as liberty is worth its cost, as freedom is precious : to every man, I urge on this generation ; that it forget not, neither be indifferent ; to religious progress. In the name of ! freedom, in the name of truth, I plead 1 for manhood religion, for the simple truth, for the honest thought, for the ; supremacy of character. I plead for the modern learning, which emancipates the world, which crowns every man a king and anoints every man a ' priest. I plead for the modern living, 1 sane and gladsome and wholesome. I : plead for the modern age, splendid in achevement, rich in promise. I plead j for modern man, who has come so far ; and done so much. I plead for the ; modern religious idea whose support is the truth that makes men free. The Infallible Hands. A lady, who had been three or four ! years away from her childhood's home | and settled in one of her own, was taken seriously ill. Her mother, with all a mother's solicitude, was anxious j to be -with her daughter at once, and ! hastened to her bedside. She found skilful physicians in attendance and a ' trained nurse in charge; there was ! really nothing for her to do?nothing j that she could be permitted to do. Day j after day she made brief, silent visits j to the sick room, even her presence j could not be allowed long, and went j away powerless to aid. The minister- ! j ing was in wiser, more efficient hands than hers, and she could not be trusted j I with it?would not have dared to trust herself with it. I "But it seems strange," she said sadly one day, "that even I, her mother, ' can only stand aside and do nothing. There never before was a time when 'mother' wasn't the one to help and comfort; it seems as if it ought to be so still, and yet I would be afraid to do , anything, but keep hands off and trust I to a knowledge and strength that is greater than my own."' It is the same in many a spiritual crisis through which we see our dear ' ones pass. We long to shift the bur- I den, to lighten the trials, to bestow the ; coveted gift; but the Great Physician holds the precious soul in His hands, the hands that will make no mistake, and we can only stand aside and trust Him. Lent to the Lord. The Rev. George Gilfillan, the eml- j ???< *tt-o o ili'eHncniieho/l fnr his I UClil Ui) 1UC, n ac uiouusuiv..u^u - | generosity and largeness of heart. On | one occasion he met a member of his | church -whom he had not seen at wor- j ship for a long time. Reminding him | of the fact, the minister asked what j was wrong. "I did not like to come in a coat I | am ashamed of?it is so bare," an- j swered the man. The minister instantly divested him- j self of his own coat, and handed it to his distressed parishioner. "There, my man, let me see my coat every Sunday until it becomes bare, and then call back." The worthy divine then returned to his studies in his shirt sleeves; and his wife, observing him, asked what he had done with his coat. "I have just lent it to the Lord!" was Gilfillan's noble answer. Iuastruraents of God. Evan Roberts, the miner of only twenty-six years of age, whom God has been using so wonderfully in what has come to be known as the "Welsh Revival," is a man of great simplicity and modesty. At one large meeting he went out because the expectancy and curiosity had becbme too great. That meeting proved to be one of the most mightily influential gatherings of any held in the region. When Mr. Roberts left, a young girl rose, and, as if inspired, demanded of the peopie: "Whom are yon after, Evan Roberts, or Jesus Christ?" Who, after all, is Paul, or Peter, or Apollos, or Augustine, or Luther, or Wesley, or Moody, or Evan Roberts, but a minister by whom men believe? God's Doing. ! It is not by regretting what is ir, reparable that true work is to be done, I but by making the best of what we : are. It is not by complaining that j we have not the right tools, but by using well the tools we have. What ! we are, and where we are, is God's I providential arrangement?God's do| ing, though it may be man's misdoing.? F. W. Robertson. Spiritual Life. | Hush thy complaints. Sweetness and I kindness are good when they bear thee j home to God. Cruelty and wrong are i good when they force thee to the bosom j of God. Evil is evil unto him who j doeth evil, but evil is good to tbee if < | it unites thee with God the Beautiful. | WORK OF TRAIN V/RECKERS. Cars Ditched and Six People Hurt, Two of Whom May Di-e. An Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe passenger train was ditched by trainwreckers Sunday just east of Emporia, Kansas. Six passengers were injured, and two will probably die. This is the fourth attempt in the last four months to wreck passenger trains in the same place. Previous attempts were made by piling ties on the track and without serious results. Sunday's wreck was caused by driving the spikes and fish plates of two rails on the inside of a curce. The locomotive passed over the loose rails safely, but a mail car left the track "* J J 1 AA olnnrr + ana was urctggcu iuu ^amo uivu^ tuv embankment before the train was stopped. The next five cars, two express and baggage cars, a smoking car and two day coaches, were ditched. The passengers were asleep when the wreck occurred. There is no clew to the wreckers. Three men were seen Saturday night near the Howard branch section house. Sunday morning a track wrench and a claw bar were missing and they were found in a pool of water near the wreck. WOMAN POSED AS CARLOTTA And Duped a Lot of Simple-Minded Dagoes of Boston Town. A woman, who claimed.to be Carlotta, the wife of Maximilian, former emperor of Mexico, and brother of the present emperor of Austria,- has left Boston, Mass., after securing some $40,000 from members of the Italian colony in that city on the pretense that she was the rightful claimant of the Austrian throne. She is being sought by over 100 residents of the North End district, who for almost eight years have been payin? her money to enable her, as they supposed, to gain possession of the Austrian throne, upon which event taking place she promised that those who helped her would be made ministers and nobles and be' given vast estates. " I ALLEGED LYNCHERS LIBERATED. Jury Quickly Decided Five White Men Were Not Guilty., After being out fifteen minutes, the jury in the case against five white men on trial ^In Orangeburg, S. C., charged with lynching a negro, Keitt Bookhardt, at Eutawville, brought In a -verdict of not guilty. The state's evidence was chiefly that of a man who claimed to have been in the party when the negro was killed. The defense put up wives and relatives of prisoner who swore that the defendants were at home in bed when the crime was alleged to have been committed. TRIPLE TRAGEDY IN MEMPHIS. Man Kills Sweetheart, His Rival and Then Himself. A triple tragedy occurred in Memphis, Tenn., about dusk Sunday night, when Thomas McCall, an employee of the Illinois Central railroad, shot and vmoH "emi+Vi iTpre-iifion. a woman well known about town, and Hal Williamson. The murderer an hour later turned the weapon upon himself, firing a bullet into his bead. The cause was jealousy. GANG IN WASHINGTON. Wayward Nan, Her Father, Sister and Brother-ln-Law "at Home." Nan Patterson accompanied by her father and Mr. and Mrs. J. Morgan Smith arrived in Wfashington from New York at 7:20 Saturday morning and proceeded to the Patterson home on Columbia Heights, a modest twostory cottage, where they arrived in time for breakfast A crowd of curious persons awaited the arrival of the train at the Pennsylvania depot Bones of Jones for Annapolis. President Roqsevelt has approved the recommendation of Secretary Morton that the body of John Paul Jones be buried at Annapolis, Md. ON TRAIL OF SLAYERS. People of Oconee County, Georgia, Stop won* to unase iviurocrers. Rich Robertson, Jim Taylor, Elder Sidney Norris, Will Closes, Joe Patterson, Hog Anthony, two negroes named Shead, and three negro women are in jail at Watkinsville, Ga., suspected of having been implicated in the killing of Frank Holbrook and wife. The people of Oconee county hav*> stopped their work and are all on the trail of the slayers. PORT RATES ARE REFUSED. Petition of Atlanta Merchants Turned Down by Railroad Commission. The Georgia railroad commission Wednesday turned down Atlanta's petition for a fixed, reduced port rate, for which there has been an active and persistent demand from the Atlanta freight bureau and certain Atlanta merchants for the past two years j or more. This action was taken over I the prorest of Cs2irman J. Pope I Brown. i | It costs only three francs to cremate a human being in France. 1 FITS permanently enred. 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