Notes of a sermon preached by} the Rey. C. E. Darwent in Union Church on Sunday morning, October 22
Romavs VIII. 22.
For interloper in the anit Tt had. come in from the outside But what worries the mind of man to-day, is, ae. the writer I have quoted a pare. ead" parcel of the very roctare of the universe. It is internal and integral to the universe as God made it; and therefore it looks as if God modern man in the goodness and power no subject more of God. It axed to be eid that death worthy of their consideration than thst catered the world with sin, but what if of the attitude of the men of to-day there was death before towards the bh, There were once sia? If God could ba what are called And verse in which everything would they are correctly named. No matter smoothly, why did He not? Or per-how poor the personal religion of men haps be could not? We feel then to-William the Conqueror it day that sorrows and evils are not inva-Richard may have been—very it dora bat that in some way they have. wes poor enough, as ours is—still they always been, What then are we to say to believed. They were like one of the that English Lord Chancellors who ssid, "Tay be wrong, bat I ne doubts." They believed without any Satan, bat that only pushes the question doubt whata It is not ea now. No farther back and suggests this question one can deny that, Explanations of why all kinds are given such as Science, love and liable to temptation? So the bar-of pleasure and so on, Sometimes den is on God after all. And then is eaid that presobing is poor, not op there is this text in which St. Pant to date." I must say in regard to that, agrees with the modern man. Thus that my holiday at home has filled me when men read of the love of God, of with admiration for the good preaching kindness, Hin grace, they are rage man. I heard only one to aay the least of it, ud his light was dim that is a tremendous thing for g. And generally it has to be dietment o the univer but th modera man to do; to bring an said, that if men are to be expected to listen to the Gospel from the lips of ie, he brings it. And without atte Beechers and Parkers only, the pro bating to the masees of the people ele: pects for Christianity in the world are ideas on this matter, we have to rememry shady, as it was never intended
news" of the love of God sad hah of ght illiantly. The Gospel the Gospel should need setti s at ber that vague suspicions and surmises may dame, seriously as clearent unbelief. People have resentment t many of the thioge to be welcome from the lips of even that happen to them. stammerer. Again the churches are We have then to ask first is this idea blamed; they are ssid to be so cold aod of the modern man right, and then stiff. Well all I can cay is that if bat Christianity says about it. St, the working man will only go to worship Paul I think cen be shown to ba God when there is " deacon or charch-right, He does not adopt the feeble warden to fall on his neck in the porch expedient of laying all the bla to thank him for coming, then I man as some have tried to do, Mi ashamed of the working mao. responsible for quite enough evil; wai All kinds of reasons are given, bat cruelties, injustices and #0 on. But it the best—the one that accounts for the for all evils, are plenty, with which man has el Ebest nothing to do will never do to ba 19 1s Foot creatores ation of thoughtful people from religion, others hardly conoting,—is one given by the W. and for which he is not in the faintest periodic to bla true, that I feel bonnd to There is death. It is not trae that preach to you about it. It is summed entered the world along with man's. op in these deep tragic words of sin. It existed in geologic sges before St. Paul, the whole creation groaneth wan was created, snd a good thing too that it did. Where should we have now." The modern man, he says been if the thirty-foot flying lizards as the resalt of Chri like pterodactyl, if the icbtbycssuras and other horrid large-mouthed ferocities had never died; Man would have been be " ages eaten clea up. Itis obvious the fibre and spiritual muscle of Chris. it teodom was tougher than ours is; they such a thing as death to clear took the world as it is. But the real that their skeletons are in their reason why they did not worry over the right place in the South Kensington problem of evil as we do, was that they Maseum, Besides, there ist bad to believed that God was not in the be such a thing as death. One geners-remotest degree responsible for it. All tion has to make way for another. The kinds of trouble, evil and sin were from world would have been overfall ages sg0, the devil, from the unseen world. All bat for death. The great mystery of ills were the base sowings of meligaant dying is therefore in the very natare of spirits, Every kind of evil was "an the universe, That men do feel the my-
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