Notes of a Sermon Preached by the Rey. C. E. Darwent in Union Church, Tientsin, on Sunday Evening, September 16
Text: Galatians 2:0. live th in me.'?
"Yet I live; and yet not I, but Christ You may remember that, of a man, if it is going to be a some time in April, I preached power in him and not fade away a sermon on some striking re-into utter impotence and become solutions adopted by the Senate a mere helpless shadow of a great of the State of South Dakota. thing. The inner citadel must be They were occasioned by the carried, if anything is to keep crime-wave which was sweeping hold of our interest and keep us over the State, as over the whole active. All effective actions and country, and which, indeed, was conduct must be rooted in the sweeping: the civilized and inner man, the mysterious ground the uncivilized world. The Senate felt alarmed and, with of the soul. Otherwise nothing will control our passions, great courage, for there are al-thoughts and tastes. We have ways people who think that any only to turn to the mental lifo reference to religion by public and the aesthetic side of man to bodies is cant, the Senate passed these resolutions, calling on the see how true all this is. There churches and Sunday Schools of must be the "law within," the taste within, the love within, if the State to emphasize '"moral-we are to do any good and conity, good conscience, respect for parents, revenue for age and Peopla have often ead pea hobby as sketching and tin; in it ae canider such a experience, and that all learning is but the handmaid of eternal goodness."" Churehss,—schools, "Don't you find attempting to paint in a Chinese city trying parents are entreated to rear and unpleasant; we wonder you children especially "in the prin-go on. doing it." I sometimes ciples of fundamental righteous-say, "I rather wonder at it myself, judging by the results; the I thought I would send a copy Chinese are trying. Their way of the sermon, hich was of showing interest in you is to hed in the '"North-China crowd round you, and they talk News,'' to the President of and laugh and stand in front of nate. There are few peo-you and crack peanut shells, a ple who are not glad to have sound which makes my skin actions approved, even by creep 5 still I go on spoiling entire strangers. I sent the ser-paper." It must be, that I have mon, and in acknowledgment. re-some strong desire to perpetuate ceived a letter from Mr, Carl the appearance of things in me, Gunderson,—Liewtenant-Governor right inside me, and I cannot of the State. This letter is such help it When you have a a good and thoughtful one, that deep-seated desire to do a thing I cannot help taking it too, as in you, you do it, in spite of un-the subject of a supplementary pleasantness, If you have not sermon. One sentence in it is so the law "within you," you give it deep, and expresses a deep truth up. That is a universal law. It so lucidly, that it would be a finished my musical education, shame to, withhold it from you. that was attempted in my boy-There is*a great deal of foolish hood at boarding-schoo). I had a and ignorant depreciation of practice half-hour assigned me in politicians, as if they were all the middle of play-time, and I did like that snake, caught recently in not practise, but played, and my Hongkong, that, had three parents ceased to waste their chickens and a guinea-fowl inside money in having me. taught music, it. The Senators of South Ts it not in me. I would go a Dakota prove that this current-long way to see a good picture, talk is a slander. Here then is but I fear I spend but little time the sentence, which struck me as going a long way to hear music. It isn't in me. It is a universal so deep: "In other words, we must begin the development of law. That isowhy so much energy. is wasted on education. Numbers a race of people, who hare lar within themselves, if we would of young people have no real desire for knowledge at all. And have them understand and obey the civil law.' I call that a study is a poor thing when it is a bore. Such students sail their golden sentence, worthy of books when they have passed Bacon's "Essays." TI cannot give their exams. Real students are it higher praise. It is certainly few, because real study implies a worthy of our deepest attention. love of knowledge for its own
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.