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...natural man says that he does not understand the spiritual life and truth, and for this reason does not care for religion. Christ lived for all men and not for the Jews alone, and they denied Christ for the very reason that he would not confine himself to them alone. In the same way God is always seeking and claiming us all, and calls us his own. The fruits of the spirit are manifest in those men who have nothing to do with the church and are in no way connected with it. However, in these same men is found...
...address was based chiefly upon Christ's invitation to "drink of the water of life freely." What makes a man is his will power - power which he must exercise over himself. If a man is offered an education and goes to college, yet does not improve the opportunity offered him, it is surely his fault; and so it is with us; if God offers us eternal life and we choose an evil one, the blame rests upon us. God never violates a man's free will; he can only stir up his soul to action and if that action...
Dreaming is not doing. The man who ran to Christ to ask what he could do for his repentance, and who, when he was told that he must give up his worldly riches, decided he could not part with them, is a fair representative of the self satisfied type. We may talk of loving this or that but when the time for action comes we invariably back down...
...MORROW will be preached the last sermon in the course before the St. Paul's Society, in Christ Church, by the Rev. Dr. Satterlee, of Calvary Church, New York. Dr. Satterlee is a very popular preacher, and is one of the most able clergymen in New York. He was a candidate for Bishop of Massachusetts at the time when Phillips Brooks was elected. It is certainly worth any man's while to hear...
...fifth Sunday afternoon service in the series being given by the St. Paul's Society will be held tomorrow in Christ Church at the usual hour, four o'clock. Dr. Huntington of New York will preach the sermon. The St. Paul's Society has met with great success in its course thus far. The clergymen have been men of wide repute and have never failed to interest their hearers. We wish to call particular notice to the service tomorrow. Dr. Huntington is too well known to need any introduction other than the mere announcement of his being here. There...