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; ... IBE-QULQIT. \ SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY ^ THE' REV. EDWARD NILES. . Subject: Godliness In Form. - " * t - 4 ' .* ^ ' * Brooklyn; X. Y.?The Rev. Edward XRes preached at the White Church Sunday evening from II Timothy iii:5: "Holding a form-of godliness, Tmt having denied the power thereof." He said; That "distance lends enchantment -- - - -* /vll .to the view" is true or time as wcji k as space. The older we grow, flie ^ more-immaculate appear the imagined W .days of youth. Christian believers are 'purer in our eyes in proportion to the number o? centuries that intervene. Within the covers of every volume of sermons, whether written in one age or another, are the well-nigh certain jeremiads over "these time of extreme woridliness. unequaled love of money, peculiar indifference to spiritual things." followed by laudations of the apostolic, age its ."the golden era of, Christianity. , Jl reconstruction cf conclititns existing in those New Testament churches from materials }aft'orded us in the .epistles; .Warrant no such assumption. Hieiesies then were rampant inconk sistent lives numerous, backsliders |L distressingly frequent. The things of sense maae cogent appeal. The husks tho srosnel often satisfied to the dis ipcgard of its kernel. : Paul& description of "the last days" was based upon fjftc'ts-about \him.- As he penned the sentence-of our text, he probably had in ' mind fellow* communicants who ? held the form of godliness, but denied the power thereof. x Since then outward changes have V been many, kingdoms have come and gone, languages have died and been born, church order and ritual been metamorphosed. Human nature is unaffected by time or clime. So the New Testament is not a graveyard, with epitaphs of only antiquarian interest. ? but is photographic of contemporary heart throbs. In our Borough of Brooklyn are 156,619 people holding to the Protestant Hr form of godliness. While statistics I are unable to figure out how many hold to the Protestant power thereof. If form and power were identical, not one of the buildings where divine worship is being held to-night would have ~ a vacant seat and every theatre and ; , hail would be utilized for overflow |S? meetings. The original of "deny" has as its ll-Y root meaning "not to seek." "HoldL ing a form of godliness, they have not jr sought for its power." The world has much to say about hypocrites. I believe the outcry against them is out of all proportion to their numbers. The conscious hypocrite to-day is a rare bird. I have made frequent hunts * ' ^ mnef rfiltcront "Or Dim. tut: juuvov hearcji, I have seldom found him. - The number of those called hypocrites. who would rightly be catalogued as formalists, is legion. They are not striving \o deceive others. They succeed in their striving to deceive themK salves. Satisfied with the appurtek nances, the > trappings of godliness, they inquire no further. Attendants upon the services of the church, mem: N bers of it, supporters of its outward ac tivities, they fancy themselves to be godly. Branded as Christians, they :% 4 but feebly apprehend what disrepute -they bring upon the name by their inferiority to the real article. Their ki gullibility is wrongly taken for hy> pocrisy. They submit to the drudgery of rehgion to pacify troublesome ?con^ sciences and impose upon themselves. ^ , An important reason for so many lapses from church membership is because so many become dissatisfied with a form, yet fail to seek the reality, so give up all. Almost every one in this congregation has a fdrm of godliness. You look good. I find little to criticise in what yon do. for there Is so little you do on t which to base a criticism. The trouble lies in what you do not You .may have called me here to predigest your spiritual food, to relieve you from N first-hand study of the Bible, to repN resent your church not only in classis but far the tenement, to be your proxy in heart to heart work for souls, your " V substitute when the battle Is on between good and evil, while you go your business and household ways durv ing the week and on Sunday enjoy your cushioned pews, criticise the sermon and singing. The Lord never called me to any like teak, If there has been any such tacit v agreement I now repudiate it, I am i called of God to point out the forms t of godiifless as means or ooraining us power. The imperative needs of onr inventive age have almost bodily transferred to our language the Greek here rendered "power." in the word dynamo. I believe in forms, just as the railroad engineer believes in'the third rail, as he believes in the elevated structure on the Williamsburg Bridge. But the . mass of iron is a senseless eyesore until it is connected with the main line. ' Even then it is useless until related to the power house, until the power, 'the fire-fed dynamo, sends forth the electric current, enabling the cars to carry thousands of wage-earners to and from their places of everyday toil. What private-concern would be so inane as to sink for two years such a 'wealth of money in an enterprise for accumulating rust? The forms of religion are essential as preliminaries to the accessories of power. Churches. -, ministers. Bibles were instittited-and have been perpet, uated because divinely ordained and humanly tested to be good for making the kingdom of heaven "go" upon earth. In themselves, they have no value. The power of godliness generated in Christian lives must electrify them or they are encumbrances. \ You are commissioned to lead others to Christ Your commission gives you ''power to act." Are you availing your self of that privilege? I find no verse in the Scripture which reads "Be good K and you will be a Christian." I find reiterated, over and over. "Do good." Christianity is not colorlessness. It lias no minus sign. It is ever positive. A negative being is peculiarly abhorrent to Him whose biography is epitomized by "He went about doing good."' "I would thou wert either cold or hot" is His message to such torpid professor*. "Because thou aK lukewarm, I will spew thee out of i $Iy mouth." Better the mistakes, bet5 ter even the sins xbat come trom activ! ' v. .' li Sty tlian i Lie Cabby a Ionics of either seed or bad. True religion consists J no: in outward observances. but in inward graces: not in semblance, but in . reality. Because God is a living God, He has no satisfaction in liall'-alive i saints. We must not only serve Him in tills life: we must also live in His service. The arc lamp unconnected with the dynamo is in the way. Your presence in the church.is in.the way of others, unless the dynamo of power' within you is at work and your light - is shining. A man may cry "Church! Church!" at every word With no more piety than other people, A daw's not reckoned a religious bird Because it keeps c-cawin^ from a steeple. Forms are by r.o means confined to liturgical churches. a nrmieu prayer is less formal than one which differs in phraseology each time it is uttered, if the first come from the heart and the latter from the head. Some one thus confesses and questions and deduces: I often say my prayers. But do I ever pray? And do the vrisnes of my heart Go with the words I say? Words without the heart The Lord will never hear. >Tor wilJ-He to those lips attend Whose prayers are not sincere. Spiritual forces are all about us, pervasive as the subtle element we call , electricity* 'Tho power of godliness is the concentration of this energy within ourselves, so as to make it radiant for good to others. We are in good form. We have taken Christ to be our Prophet and listen to His teachings. We recognize Him as our priest, i accepting the atonement He offers. Is ,He our King Whom we obey, in Whose strength we go out to fight fearlessly? Because hypocrites exist is no reason why you should be a coward. Let us not hesitate to say what we mean. Let us determine to mean what we say.. A form of godliness may speak words of sympathy to mourners, of warning to evil doers, of hope to afflicted ones. But the Dower is not there. It is "voice, voice; nothing more." Although ministering to the self-complacency of the speaker, it ministers to no one else. The form of godliness lacks substance. The flimsiness is repealed when its wearer needs sustaining power. It is no rod. and staff to comfort when the valley of the shadow o? death is to be trod. Jt has no light to shed when a man comes to the forks of the road and knows not which way to take.' it may fool him for a while here. Its hollow- | ness is apparent on his first arrival in j the world that knows no shams. The power of godliness is profitable. j both for the life that now is and for that which is to come. Its possessor has "the tongue of the. tauelit that he may sustain with words film tnat is weary," may "reprove, rebuke, exhort, correct." A man is behind the voice and Christ is behind the man. In times of trouble, it supports unfailingly. When the house is darkened and the friends make their pitiful attempts to condole, they are anticipated by the God of all comforts. He whose form of godliness is validated by its power, with unblanched chfeek, with firm confidence, faces each crisis of life, the supreme crisis of death, knowing Whom he has believed, persuaded that He is able to keep what is committed to Him throughout eternity. A Clear Call. "It is very noble and lovely of you, Elsie, to give so much of your time to that work among the- tenementhouse children. I'm sure I admire you for it; but for my part, I never had any call to that kind of work." "Any call?" Elsie's eyes were gravely questioning. * "Yes, of cpurse. I suppose ybu felt called to go into it. didn't you?" "I don't know. I don't think I ever thought of it just in that way. I saw the need of something I had time and strength to do?that was all. But wouldn't that be call enough?" Would it not indeed? What plainer call can there be than a need that we can meet? What more eloquent appeal than the cry of the hungry little ones around us for bread that we can give? There are not many loud and startling "calls" to any form of service. but God has unmistakable ways of making His will known to every one whose own will is to know it. We have but to keep our ears open to hear His voice, our eyes to see His beckI oning. Every opportunity is a call; j every outstretched hand that ours can meet helpfully is God's beckoning hand to us." To most of rts no other call will ever come than that which comes through human lips, no other than the reveal ing of a vacant place which we may fill, a need for work which we can do. If we wait in idleness for some other vocation than comes to ns in these ways, we are but losing time, and the world is losing our service. Let us instead find in "the duty that lies neare-sit" our present, definite call, sure that when we are wanted for another work that too will be shown us. Opportunity?that is God's clear call to us.?Young People. / Best in Christ. Coming to Christ, we enter into the rest of faith. The very act of trust brings tranquillity, even when the person or thing trusted in is human or creatural, and therefore uncertain. For to roll the responsibility from myself, as it were* upon another brings repose; and they who lean upon Christ's strong arm do not need to fear, though their own arm be very weak. The rest!-of faith, .when we cease from having to take care of ourselves, when we can cast all the gnawing cares and anxieties that perturb us upon Him, when we can say, "Thou dost undertake for me, and I leave myself in Thy hands," is tranquillity depeer and more real than any other that the heart of man can conceive. "Thou wilt I keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Tliee, because lie trustem in Thee." Cast yourself upon Christ, and live in that atmosphere of calm comidence: and though the surface may be tossed by many a storm, tbp depths will be "peace subsisting at the heart of endess agitation."?Alexander Maeiaren. Lofty Examples. The loftiest examples of charity, devotion, self-sacrifice, heroism, trust, patience and patriotism ever known to history have fo\uid their motive and inspiration in the Christian religion,? ' Henry B. Williams. ' BRAVE ACT REWARDED. President Remembers North Carolinian Who Defended Postoffice Against Burglars. As a reward for defending .the postoffice at Emma, N. C., four years ago, against four burglars, President Roosevelt has waived the civil service regulations on the recommendation of Postmaster General Cortelvou, S. 11. Alexander's Christmas, gift was a promotion irom a laborer to a clerkship in the department. Not only has the brave North Carolinian been promoted, but to accentuate the honor an official statement was issued Tuesday, which gives a full account of the deed. The attempted robbery took place on the night of February G. 1901, and the official acccunt says: "After the store in which the postoffice' at Emma is located closed for the night. Mr. Alexander, who had been sleeping in the room adjoining, heard a krcck on the door and in-r y. f ' quired what was wanted. He was to'ji that seme one living near wanted bis mail, and he unbarred the door. "Two masked men entered, covered him with revolvers and commanded him to gi70 up his own revolver .and cpen. the fireproof safe. While one of the burglars, Frank Johnson, who had laid his revolver on the desk near the safe, was stooping in the act of looting the safe, and during a moment vrhen the other burglar, Ben Foster, had his head turned, Alexander seized the idle revolver and shot the latter near the heart. ;Ke attempted to shoot. Johnston also, but failed to do so, as the revolver snapped. "A desperate struggle followed. Foster, although seriously wounded, pursued Alexander and shot him in the abdomen, the bullet comi&g out at tne DUCiC. Aiexanaer, seenig rosiu about to shoot at him again, swung Johnson around so that the bullet struck JohDson's left shoulder from the rear, passed through his neck and lodged in his right jaw, from which it was extracted. Alexander's face and hands were badly cut and bruised before he overpowered the burglars. "Alexander managed, however, to put them both out of the building, to call out a signal of distress and then fainted. The postmaster, hearing the signal, came to Alexander's relief and found him lying weak and faint in a pool of blood. "His bravery is the more accentuated when it is known that Mr. Alexander is a man of small stature, probably not moro than 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighs less than 125 pounds. It would" seem that he must have been possessed of almost superhuman strength to oust the two desperadoes from the postoffice. Two accomplices who were waiting on the outside carried away the wounded burglars to a house, in which they were arrested the same night. "The two. burglars above mentioned, with two accomplices, after trial were given the extreme penalty of the law, which for the offense committed in the state of North Carolina is death. Afterwards the sentence was commuted in the case of two of the burglars to life imprisonment, TJie other two were hanged on February 26, 1902." NATIONAL WEDDING PRESENT Proposed to Be Raised for Miss Alice Roosevelt?Ten Cents Limit. 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