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THE BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE. NEW YORK. MOXDAY. JUNE 2. 1913.

1 Sermon Jot Cove, life's master motive; 'tain deep spiritual experience he acquired a new aptitude, a new capacity, through which ha- could peer more deeply into this wonderful love. A day or two ago 1 was at tha end of the Palisades on tne Hudson, where 1 could see some of the beauty of that most noble river. But a friend at my aide gave me a pair of glasses, and I looked upon the scene again, and how much more profoundly and come to the knowledge of the truth." I This, perhaps, explains the care Our Heavenly Father has always taken to teach us truth. He taught our first par-. ents In Paradise.

By patriarch and prophet He taught and kept alive truth in the long night that preceded the coming of His Son, who is the way, the (rutu and the life. I We must consider occasions when we I estimate declarations. The occasion of Cfte Power of the fioly fibost; tbc Rev. Drt 3obn Benry Jowett- father 3oftn C. Be fori Cbe Rev.

$. van R. Crowbridg. i ESTERDAY morning the motive, in Gcueral Armstrong's lid-j ci Hense-' Pbriisc-, puts "Ood aud country uisi, ui.i Rev. Stephen van Ren.se laer Trowbridge preached.

u(Jt provoked on "Love as the Master pose anger is one of tne hardest sius Motive of Life." The text I control becaus it flashes up so rnpinihians I demy aud seems lo lake the miuti "The love of Christ constralneth us." Mr. Trowbridge said: St Paul fully realized the complexity of every life, the throng of motives, good and UHW1 pusbing and pulling I ucr complete control. i recently ai-upon the central I tcuded a memorial service for a colleo will power. Paul proiessor who had served iiiiy-nve saw the confusion III the lives of wean people who are. governed one moment by one motive and one moment by another.

He saw other lives which were coming more and more under the sway of baser motives'anger, lust, covctousness, and all the other evil spirits that molest the human heart. Paul saw some such lives In the Church of Corinth, precious lives for whose salvation he had toiled and prayed and sacrificed everything; precious lives which were rapidly drifting away from God, bringing reproach upon the name of Christ. and hazarding their eternal welfare by. their indulgence In the pleasures of the moment. Paul's great heart burned ith eagerness to reveal to such men aud women one, supreme motive in tho.

Christian life, which should be so strong and so unifying that it should gather up their scattered energies and concentrate in producing a life of Christlike purity and power. Out of the moral battles of Ills own life he spoke, as he revealed the great truth that: Love is the master motive In the achievement of the Christ-life. Love is the master motive because without Its kindly and exalting influence all other motives tarnish and grow dull. All other motives are empty and unavailing, if lov I severe) because he makes so little of the horrid burden of that Impediment on the soul, which the churches call sin, and by whatever name you call It, the real catastrophe In the moral nature of man. But the Ignoring of the presence of sin Is by no means peculiar to Emerson, and If we for a moment In our happiest thinking assume it away, then our present equipment is not sufficient without the power of the Holy Ghost.

We need the power of God's Spirit for the conquest of Bin. And the conquest of sin means three things. It means that we shall know It when we sec It, which requires refined spiritual conception. It means that we shall have the power of discrimination and dlscernmeut, of knowing Its different guises and detecting the poison. The power to know It Is the refining power of God's Spirit, but not merely the power thai I may know sin when It appears; but the power of repulsion.

The healthy believer not only perceives sin, but he Instinctively recoils from It, turns away from it In disgust. But not merely perception and repulsion, which are both the power of the Holy Spirit, but the power of expulsion; to take the devilish Intruder who has come Into the sanctuary of the mind, some thought of Impure constitution, and lay hold of the thought and conduct it to the frontier of the mind, and drive it out, as the undesirable alien' Is I would like to have the power to perceive sin; the power to recoil from It; the power to expel It. Ye shall receive that power when the Holy Ghost has come upon you; power to see sin, power to loathe It, power to expel It and oast out the devil. Docs It do it? I could keep you' here till midnight touching the fringe of the evidence of the power of the Spirit. Let me give you two Instances of the conquest of carnal passion.

I will take two masculine witnesses who are not given to effeminacy or weak mlndedness. Professor Cuver In his wonderful book on Christian experience, gives this testimony about a young fellow, the son cf a clergyman, at Oxford University. The young man made this confession: "Before the period of leaving Oxford, and my conversion, 1 never darkened the door of my father's church, although I lived with him. For eight years I made what money I could at Journalism and spent it in high carousals with anybody who would sit with me, and drink. I was converted In my bedroom In my father's rectory at precisely 3 o'clock" (I like that) "In the afternoon of a hot July day.

I might say that 1 was converted through Drummotid's book, 'The Natural Law in the Spirit Then I made on my l.aees my first prayer before God for twenty years, and then the Holy Spirit came. And from trat hour drink has had no terrors for me. I never touch It and I never want It." The power of tho Indwelling Spirit. The second case Is this: I had a great Quaker friend In Birmingham, a leader in one of our great adult schools In England where over 100 men meet at 7 In the morning and study the Bible, who told me that one morning there came into the Birmingham Adult School an old man is aosent from their midst. The gifts oiV My dear friends, it is the Christ-love prophecy, and eloquence, and science, and hch draws you back when temptatio I cnarity, and even sclf-sacrlfice, are de-Jrawa you on.

The lure and attack uf pendent upon the insplrlug Influence of emptation are baffled by the ever-rea -the Christ love. 'ever-powerful master motive Va It was of this entire dependence of the -'roucheth at the door." watching motives upon the master motive ihe favorable opportunity to creep fo -that I spoke to you last Lord's Day even- i 'ar and spring upon the young life Uut ing. The rest of the chapter reveals 4h" sword of love, the guardian angel three main thoughts which are the In a flash and its keen edae wl'l stance of my message to you this morn-i'" tn? enemy! Ask God to strengfe i ir jour will to settle the dispute between ihe Christ love la tha i our heart motive nn.i o.i because of its restraints. It Is the aDd nn decision In every -aha ter motive because of Its heroisms. It tho motive.

this declaration was a question proposed by Pilate on Good Friday. Bctoie him tood our Savior, a prisoner, bound and H1 mletv that bonds could not conceal, and he asked. "Art thou then a king?" Christ answered him. solemnly, emphatically, historically. "Thou sayst that I am a king," and then, with a divine light In His blessed eyes and divine authority in His voice, the Lord's own Son lifted His head and uttered the sublime declaration: "In this was I born; for this 1 came into the world, thai I should give testimony to the truth!" In that sentence Chrl3t sums up His mission.

He was, indeed, the light of the world. The light shlned upon darkness, but It revealed for all time the power, tho wisdom and the goodness of our Gdd, and it revealed the purpose for which He sent His Son Into the world to give testimony to the truth. Now, truth has no life of itself. There must be someone to take It up, to preserve It and to transmit it to others. For this office our Lord founded the church, which St.

Paul calls "the pillar end ground of truth." It is founded on the confession of truth. Again we come to one of those great scenes in our Saviour's life. For two years He had been teaching truth and confirming it with wonders. It was time for men to recognise Him. but they did not.

"The light shlned upon darkness, but the darkness did not. comprehend it." "Who do men say the Son of Man is?" Ho asked His apostles. They answered. "Some John the Baptist, and others Ellas, and others Joreiuias, or one of the prophets." "But who do you say that I am?" For a moment there is silence. Than the light of truth breaks In tho soul of Peter.

He recognized the true character of his Master. He makes the immortal confession. "Thou art the Christ, the Son of the Living God." On this greit truth the Blessed Savior builds His church. "Thou art Peter, and on this rock I. will build my church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against It!" This pulpit is new, but Its message.

Is old. It Is the same message that rang the streets of Jerusalem on Pentecost and m-ido men know that He who had been nailed to the cross none other than the Christ, the Son of the Living Ood. It is the message that was spoken In Ephesus, and Corinth, and Carthage, and made men turn from Idols to the worship of the one true God. It Is the message that rang through the Roman Empire and made the imperious Caesar tremble on his throne; it rose above the roar of savage beaBts and wilder men as the Christian martyrs with dying Hps professed their loyalty to Him who gave His life for men. It la the message that tamed the barbarian, that controlled unbridled power, that chained human passion and served the world with Justice and mercy.

It is the message that today rings out from every Catholic Church in the world. Insisting that there is no God but God, and that we are the work of His hands. It tells us why we live and It regulates our life hero with a view to our real life in tho world to come, it bids us render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God 'he thines that are Gods. It pleads for the rights of God. It stands for truth, for Justice, for virtue.

It protects the rich man against unjust assault and spoliation and It pro tects tho poor man against abuse and ex ploltatlon. It teaches nothing new. Truth Is eternal. Like Christ himself, It is yesterday and today, the same forever. Finally, In every Catholic church there Is a mercy seat.

We call It a confessional. The pulpit brings men to the confessional and the confesslonol prepares them for the altar. While other churches have an altar and a pulpit, our church is the on)y one that lias a confessional. Tho reason of this Is very plain. The Catholic Church comes down to us as Christ founded her, unchanged and unchangeable.

She delivers His mes rage as she received it and she stands for the principle that every word that proceeded from His divine Hps Is the word of God, literally true. She holds that His promises are kept. Mindful of divine commission, "whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them," she claims the power to forgive the sinner. It Is only another way of saying that Christ lives in the Church and that Christ's Church must continue Christ's mission. Now, His mission was to teach truth, to offer sacrifice, and to forgive sin.

Hence the Church of Christ has the pulpit, the altar and the confessional. The churches of men omit one or all Just as they alter the doctrines Christ taught, keeping what pleases them and rejecting what displeases. Confession is Irksome. It was meant to bo a part of the price we must pay for forgiveness. We pay it In humllation, for humllation Is the antidote to pride which lies at the root of all sin.

Yet, no Catholic would eliminate the confessional. He knows that it is a well of mercy, of sympathy and of comfort. He knows that It Is a fountain of counsel, and a tower of strength to those who use it. It teaches self knowledge. It trains us In self restraint and it is a bulwark of Justice and virtue.

These three complete the equipment of this new fortress of truth, this new battleship of Christ which is today put in commission. Thus, does this new church continue the work of the Incarnation. When our Saviour came into the world, He came to stay. His doctrine is foe all ages. "Heaven and earth shall pass away, but My word shall not pass away." He died yes but before He died He gave us the Koly Eucharist.

Under the form of bread Christ lives in a living church and enters into the life of His followers who are able to say with St. Paul. "I live, now not I. but Christ iiveth in me." On every Catho lic altar the eternal Son lives and reigns. True, the world denies these claims.

For twenty centuries it has denied them, but todny the church is stronger than ever, the faith of her children is firmer and she Is the only power that really influences life. Why? Because of two divine promises, "I am with you all days" and "the gates of hell shall not prevail against her." This is sufficient reason for all this pomp and all this splendor. This explains our Joy at the dedication of the new St. Agnes. Majestic she stands In a city of beautiful churches, "time's noblest offspring Is tho last." To all the world she is an evidence that the Lord still keeps His royal word "the gates of hell shall not prevail!" because "Lo, I am with you all days even to the consummation of the world." It is because Christ Is in' her and with her that she exists today.

Nothing else could inspire her pastor and her people to build her. New St. Agnes', ten thousand friends hall thee today, noble daughter of a noble mother! Born In poverty, cradled In faith, nourished with hope and love, live thou and reign a refug'j, a shrine, and a school for thy people! Every stone in thy walls Is sacred. Thy every beam is laid in faith. Thy every column and arch and pane gleams with love and aspiration.

As Isaiah said o' o'd. "Arise and shine, Jerusalem, for Thy Light Is come!" so do we say to Hire today Thy light is come! To thee this day has come the Light of the! World, the King of Glory, the Prince of Peace. Into thy gates has He entered. He has touched thy altar. In thee has He set 'up H's throne.

We shall puss and be forgotten, lint while those walls Bland, they will give testimony to the truth. Other priests vill stnnd at thy nllar, but on It tho same Christ will live, the same sacrifice will continue. Unborn gpnrritlons shall gather before this pulp'l but tlicy will hear tho same -dd metiiage, the message of truth. Christ revenled It. the Apostles received it.

the Church keeps it and proclaims It forever. From our hearts, then, we pray, precede ct. May thy tuture 'in bright. niy thy work prosper, may l'fe be long and thy mission 1 could search the hidden things. The trees, and living things moving here and there, and smaller beauties came Into view.

1 know we cannot get away from the love of God, but when the Holy Spirit comes It Is like another lens, another lenB, my dear brother; and you look with Increased power upon the old scene, and you are feasted wlih the glories of tha Lord. -Moy 1 give yoti a third answer to my question? I say that. by the power of the Holy Spirit wo can overcome the Blug of sloth. There are no vocations in the world where It Is more possible for a man to Idle thun In the Christian ministry. You may know when the slug of sloth Is getting hold of you.

You may know it in weariness in well-doing, In procrastination, in dullness of desire, in feebleness of moral and spiritual appetite. You may know It. "Ye did run well. What hindered you?" cried the Apostle Paul to the Galatlans. It was the slug of Bloth.

We need the power of the Holy Spirit to quicken 1 us. When tho Holy Spirit dwells la us the powers of the soul are kept from faintneea and fainting und weariness, and from declining service and Ignoble rest; all the powers of tho soul ere quickened, reln-vlqorated and enriched. I remember Miss Prlca HugheB In the biography or her father, who did such a glorious work for his Master In England, says: "My father's conversion was the prelude of a great awakening of mental power." And she goes on to say the opening of the powers of the spirit was the opening of the doors to bis mind and those powers begou to wake when the soul be-cam allva unto God. Hugh Price Hughes was not only mentally quickened to life by tho Holy Ghost, but the slug of sloth was never allowed to Intervene. In the biography of John Wesley, who was possessed in every move of his life by the Holy Spirit, you will never find the slug of sloth.

Ho was always on the move, always alert, always at his best. Augustine Birrell in his life Wesley says: "I havo fought many a contested election in England for a Parliamentary seat, but John Wesley contested tho United Kingdom for GJd throughout a long life." Ho ran and was not weary, and he walked and was not faint. He was possessed of tha Holy Spirit. One more answer: We require the power of the Holy Spirit for the overthrow of the sovereignty of sin and for the refined apprehension of the love of God, and we require It to exterminate and to make Impossible the slug of sloth, and we require it for tho declaration of the grace of Christ. Words are worthless; mere eloquence Is vapor; flue philosophy is only like woven moonbeams; scholarship is futile if it walks alone.

All these are only like deadwood placed upon the aitar. Every worker and every speaker for Cod knows this. It ls.au awful experienced have had It again r.nd again) to feel that your words are iike feathers where they ought to be bullets. You feel you make fireworks, when you ought to be making lightning; as if you worn Just tickling the surface when you ought to bo plowing them to their depth. These are the days when we have lost communion with the Holy Ghost.

The great Dr. Chalmers in his early ministry preached merely moral principles no moral result, and alter he had been years In the university ho received the power of the Holy Ghost and then he engraved the ethical precepts of his God' upon the minds of the Scottish people. Lastly, wo need tho power of the Holy Ghost for the establishment of righteousness and truth. Your business is to make tho crooked places straight and the. rough places smooth, -Read the dally papers and make a noto of all the crooked places.

We pass resolutions by the million and nobody quakes. Words, but no fire; effort. hut no dynamic. When the Church rpcaks nobody trembles; the world docs not hed. We have not the power of tho Holy Ghost.

It is the man with the Holy Ghost that tells. Ah, and the one thing in the woman's movement of our time which tells Is not the sensational things which they devise to attract attention, and still less those methods of violence which some women follow, doing evil that they might establish good. Not these things. The power of the woman's movement In America, and in England today is this: that there is a large number among those women filled with the Holy Ghost. It Is that that tells; it is that we have got to reckon with; it is that that will win the triumph.

Power to ovevcomo sin, to know the love of God, to keep down sloth, to jpeak the word, to mako the crookfd places straight. Do you want it? How shall we get It? Only in tho old way on our knees, on our knees, and simple speech with Him who has it. Pray together. I would counsel you, my fellow workers, to get together out on the field and pray for tho power. But It must be piayer with a full surrender, for If we pray for puwor with only a partial sur-lencler there is no room to receive it.

George Adam fmlth met a young Catholic missionary priest a couple of years ago, who told him ho was going to seo hie mother for the last time. He was homo from the Congo. "Why do you say ho last time?" said Smith. The young priest replied. "Don't you know that the average length of a missionary's life on the Congo is two and a half years? I am going back, and shall never return.

Therefore, I am paying my last visit to my mother." "But why," said Smith, "do you go to the Congo?" Looking him squarely In 'he face, the priest answered: "fna life I now live in tho flesh I live In the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for There was the power of the Holy unost, ana sucu men can never die. Their bodies tiiay. like John Brown's, "He molderlng In tho grave, but their souls go marching on." My fellow missionaries, will you kindly rise. (All tho missionaries rose In the powB and remained standing while Dr. Jowett continued) Here, my fellow Believers who are round about me, we have a sight to stir the heart and to fill the mind with a vision.

My mends, 1 just want to offer you this good wish, which shall be my prayer and that of my fellow Believers here: May God's holy love clothe you with holy power. May you be transformed by power, transfigured in Christ and transparent In Christ. May Ho make the place of your labor glorious! Wo n.ay never meet again in the morning, but when we meet again at tho end of the msiy you all return with oino-lnff. brinelni vour sheaves with you. Tho Lord lUl you with the power of the Holy Ghost.

Amen. Dr. Jowett will return in time to oc TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OLD. Prospect Heights Church Celebrates Anniversary. In connection with its communion ser- vice Sunday the Prospect Heights Pros tlon.

During that time the church has had only three pastors, the Rev. Dr. William A. Holllday, tho Rev. Herbert H.

Fisher and the present pastor. The pres ent mcmbeishlp is more than GOO, and the Sunday school has an enrollment of move than iihn. I he cnurrh has a property value-l at SRI.noo. The church build-1 ing has been doubled In capacity within' few years. The collection on Sunday amounted to more thun JSOn.

The church Is growing rapidly. Over! 500 members have hern taken In during the past four The congregations are uniformly good imd the aggressive activity Ifi quite notable. About every line cf irk known to active chuivhrs is carried on. seventeen new members were taken in the communion yts terday. I the vesper service In con- nectlon with the dedication' tii Agnes' II I Father John L.

Belford Ifl I preached a sermon which attracted much attention the publication of which has been requested. Father Belford said: There is an Instinct that impels men to rejoice when they have reached a goal. The laborer throws down his spade, glad that his day Is ended. The runner flings himself down to rest, delighted that the race Is over. The student puts his books aside and rejoices that the examination, or the year, or the courso of study, is finished.

The author lays dewn his pen and is glad that his book Is completed. The soldier lays down his sworn and thanks God the war Is over. So It is with the peoplo of St. Agnes today. They rejoice to see their majestic church finished.

For years they havo watched and hoped and striven as they saw this fair form rise out of the ashes. Into It they have built their faith, their hope, their love yes, their very lives; and today they Invite their friends to join with them In the magnificent ceremony by which they, hand over this splendid temple to the Lord and Invite Him to accept It for a House of Prayer, a place of sacrifice, a mercy seat, forever. Years have passed since its foundations were laid. Men have coma and men have gone. Almost a generation has passed, and hundreds who have loved and labored and hoped have been borne past Its unfinished walls to look upon Its completion from above.

Who will ever measure the care and labor of him whose thought and affection it expresses? Few men-In any age have had courage like his, and no man has ever labored harder, more hopefully, more enthusiastically, than he has. This day Is, then, a triumph of religion; It Is a triumph for you, and it is a triumph for htm In which thousands Join to congratulate him and wish him many years to en-Joy this glorious fruit of his labors and his prayers. Yes, there is a spirit In the world which does not rejoice today. There are those who hate God, oppose religion and chafe at every evidence of religious lift and progress. There are also those who tell us It is useless to build churches; that It Is much better to provide the people with libraries, museums, hospitals and colleges.

God, they say, Is a spirit. Ho should be worshiped In spirit and In truth. Every giver Is a church, every word of ours is a prayer, every human act Is an act of divine worship. We all know that God does not need churches. We know that human genius can never conceive nor human power contrive a temple worthy of God.

When man has spoken hla last word and the human race has passed away there will be nothing to compare with the great ternple the Lord has builded for Himself. "Look at the glorious dome of tho far-off sky with its vault of blue and Its starry windows. See the mighty columns of the everlasting hills, the gorgeous pavement of wood and meadow, brook and river; eee tho altars of perpetual the great lamp of the never failing sun, the beauty of passing clouds, the music of wind and waves, the songs of birds, the voices of men." Surely these combine to make a temple which transcends human conception and compels even the unbeliever to bow down and declare "the heavens show forth the glory of the Lord!" No, God does not need churches, but we need them. In every age there is testimony to the hunger of the human heart for God and to the instinct that makes men build temples and churches. In the first age of the race w-e find Cain and Abel building altars of stone and offering sacrifice to the Lord.

Hardly had the waters of the Deluge subsided when Noah came forth from his ark and set up an altar and offered sacrifice. The Israelites had their tabernacle in the desert and Solomon's Temple was his people's glory. Tho coming of Christ brought a new motive into religion. It brought God into contact with man. And the Christian doctrine of the eucharlst Inspired men to build churches t'jat they might always have God near them and with them.

Yes, man needs God. Ho needs Him in his daily life. He needs God's Word to guide him; he needs God's presence to cheer him: he needs God's grace to help him as he hews bis way through tho wilderness of life into the light and the peace of everlasting day. This It Is that inspired this church. It his inspired every Christian church.

It Inspired the hut of logs where the lonely missionary gathers rude savages to hear the Word of Life and receive the Bread of Life, and it Inspired the great temple, where tha Head of the Church In more than regal splendor officiates and promulgates (he solemn declarations that keep truth alive on earth. Every church Is a solemn protestation: "Thou art our uoa ana we are Thy people!" Do we ever stop to think of the scene the Lord must witness day after day in every Catholic Church? There are little children there. In awe and silence they kneel, while from their innocent hearts the simplest prayers arise for parents and for friends and for everything that childish hearts desire. There are young people there. They come for counsel.

They are seeking strength. They feel the lure of the world, the sting of the flesh, the pride of life, and they come to the Good Shepherd for protection, for spiritual' health and strength. There are grofn men and women there. There are parents who come to plead for their dear ones, to obtain help In their battle for success, to ask for health and strength, for courage and for guidance. There are mothers whose- hearts are shrines of love overflowing with gratitude for all they have received and with concern for all the Interests of their family.

The aged are thorp scarred and wounded by time and care, they kneel ill adoring love to ask for pardon and the peace of that happy death that every Christian longs for. There are sinners and saints side by side. Fear and hope, virtue end vice, health and sickness, life and death. What ined'r-v of tlmmht and desire, of sorrow1 and shsmo. of hope and gratitude mint I pass before Him who suent'y rests on the altar thnt men have built for lllm because He deserves It.

and for themselves hecnuse they need Him. "Our heart wns made for Thee. God. and i rest until it rests In Thee!" The preacher essentially a tcarher. Now.

the work of a teacher impart truth. There is nothing in the world so precious rs truth. There nothing dear to Cod. who Is trn'h Unfit. St.

Pt'ul sums up for ur in one cVnr, Soivi -nt'Tic' th- will of the A lllUhlv wh'T he "Go Wills all men to be saved the Fifth -Avenue Pics-byterlan Church, Fifth avenue and Fifty-fifth street. Manhattan, the Rev. Dr. Jowett preached yesterday afternoon the annual sermon to the Conference of the twwly appointed Mission of the Foreign tit.ii rd. It was also his lasc sermon be-.

fore leaving for England on his summer vacatlou. Over eighty missionaries, men and women, who are about to leaye America for various mission stations In Central Brazil, Gua-daloupe, China, gj North China, South China, North 'India, Western India, Japan, Korea, Laos, Mexico, East Persia, West Persia, Slam and Syria, were seated In the front pews of the church, and many of their friends were aUo (Central Co.) present. Dr. Jowett'B subject was "The Power of the Holy, Ghost," and his text was: Acts 1:8: "Yo shall receive power when the Holy Ghost la come upon you," He aid: Lord, wilt thou at this time restore the kingdom to Israel! There they were on the old, material plane, expecting a purely material sovereignty, and soliciting high places In the sovereignty for a favored few. They seemed to have made no progress since the days when the Lord met with them In desolation and Bloom.

You remember how they came to the supper table of the Lord, to that very holy of holies. They came In wrapped In a spirit of personal consideration and controversy. They entered sourly and sulkily, even Into the "upper room," every one glowing with Impure boat, and every one declining to wash the other's For they had disputed bitterly one with another as to who hould be Then came the denial, the crucifixion, and the burial and the resurrection, and here they were on the old, material plane! "Lord, when is thy kingdom when we are to be at thy right hand In carnal sovereignty?" How dull their comprehension! and how painfully slow their growth! and how superficial their sympathy with the purposes of the Son of God! After all that bad happened the apostles are more concerned with reputation and character; more concerned about high places than with noble dispositions; more concerned with getting than with giving, and more concerned with the power to rule than with the capacity to serve. And the patience of the Lord! There Is no 1 atern reprovement; there Is no suggestion that He Is pained by their Imperfect sympathy. will not "break the bruised feed," and- He will not quench the smoking flax; and He mercifully ex plained their perversion as a matter of mistaken emphasis.

"You have got your minds upon the wrong thing, and your expectancy Is not healthily directed. You are looking for the things that In no way concern you. What you ought to be con cerned about Is power. 'Ye shall receive That Is what concerns you; that Is your permanent end, and that shall be your permanent distinction. 'Ye shall receive Put the emphasis there," He seems to say.

"Fix your attontlon there. Let all your thoughts and plans be for the acquisition of power. Think about power; confer about power: pray for power. And when you have got thb power of the Holy Ghost you will find that tho real thing, with the real prerogatives and Its boundless privileges are all yours." Well, the apostles accepted the gracious guidance of the Lord and tarried, and they quieted their souls In darkness, and they partially subdued their sensational cravings, and'they received the Holy Ghost, and all that that menus, with all the power of the Holy Ghost, and this little band of fishermen and of kindred believers transformed the world. Now, then, my brethren, that power Is O.I11 with you.

That power is still offered f.H our emphasis is still perverse, and te are too often concerned with the things. We are upset about meetings and conferences and organizations and languages and our material equipment and our mental resources; and' all the time the good Lord Is saying, "Not there, my child; not there." The emphasis not That is subordinate; altogether secondary. Fix the mind upon power and thou shalt receive power when the Holy Ghost Is come upon you. And why do we need Him? Suppose we look Xbout us. Here am I in the Christian ministry, In which I have labored (or twenty years, and I look over my Held and my Christian fellow laborers, and I hear the counsel and the word of guidance of the Master that I need the power of the Holy Ghost.

I say, how do I need It? Wherein do I require It? Whore shall I meet this primary necessity? I will give you two or three answers. First of ell, we shall require the power of the Holy Ghost to conquer sin. Now, I know It Is commonly believed among men that the Christian ministry Is a kind of privileged vocation. I have frequently heard business men say, "These ministers do not know what we are talking about when we speak of tho seductions of the world, the temptations of the flesh and the devil," and. from my earliest days It has been taught that my vocation is a kind of charmed circle, a shelter against vice, and when a man gives himself to the ministry he comes under the protection of defences are perhaps un- known to the ordinary believer, and he Is secure.

Now, I want to suggest that perhaps of nil vocations known to man. there is none so besieged by the devil as the minister's. I think It Is, perhaps, the peculiarly successful seduction of the devil that he sometimes makes us believe that he Is not here. Of all the places where truth can become Impotent, commend me to the pulpit and to the place of the ministry. Of all the places where we can speak about things that matter little or nothing, but matter to God, commend me, I say, to the sphere pf the ministry.

How are you going to meet In your own personal life and In the lives of those around about you the intrusive. Insinuating sovereignty of sin? I remember John Morley In the wonderful, Illuminating preface to an edition of Emerson's works, rebukes Emerson (and coming from Morley It li all the mors 1 siorm. befurtj we cau una beUer u( lU(j unkmJ Ujt word is spoken, i'ue very iouj vjil inJ exprcBuiou of ihu face reveal "ser that Is aroueeu w.th.u toe it is Indeed a splendid victory iirilllirlliiill l.tni i.i Hiifr la At lir 'and loyl tributes waj on,) which seeiui-1 ibpecliuiy biguiucaut. For yuu uuv uiuuy timed a man'i tmer is tn-J iu sucu difficult work us leaching. Outi of the professor former pupils sai-i.

"in all my four years' tiiudies uudcr b'ui 1 never knew him to be deep down in that old professor's he jl there must have beeo sunio- spring' eternal 10vu which gave to his whoie td a genial and kindly influence! VLove thiukeih uo evil." How often it happens thai buoie evil interpretation Is put upou actions which are understood! Tho motives of malice arj powerful. Indeed, and the lui igiiiatl.iii ii called iuto play to supply some mischievous interpretation. or ye.n afterward the truth becomes Known aui the slanaer falij lo the ground. But damage and the heartache cannot Lib bruished. away.

They, have been the inevitable consequences of the evil thuujhli which, line tho spirits of Pandora's were lot forth into the worid. "Love rejoiceth not in iniquity." Tiitre-are men who actually rejoice in the. success of crooked business and unfair legislation. They are moved by a passion tor their own Interests, and they lvjuiej when harm and Injustice are done their opponents. There are men In business who lejoleo in the downfall uf rival or in the conviction of those whom they are, suing at court.

The couv.ciinii may be un unjust one, but they rcjjlcu in it because it brings them a persjuul victory. Tbey do not attempt to control their brutal and vengeful motives. Lov.j is tied hand foot, as when a nation rejoices over the defeat and humiliation ot another nation. Herod and Pilate became fast friends the moment they ex ceeded in getting Christ arrested! The rejoiced In their success, but they di.l not leallze that In that fatal frien.ishto they forfeited the love of God and bru- themselves. ni ist love is much more th.i:i restraining power to thwart and ovr-rule the sin within our hearts.

It is very motive for awakening and inspiring tile fundamental heroisms of life. Tha other was Its negative activitity, wrestling with tha forces of darkness. we, have lis positive leadership holUinj" aloft the torch of light and blessins. "Love rejoiceth in the truth." beareth all things, believcth all tilling, hopeth all things, enduretli all things." These heroic activities arc liko the Inward movement of a conquering The Ciiurch always responds to the authority of a love that is truly born Christ. And "even the gates of h- 11 shall not prevail against It!" If von have umdo the love of Jesus the lonir l-llng motive In your life you may go into the very centers of crime and vi to claim the precious lives that have been drawn down in sin.

Why did Father Daniien endure the unspeakable differing of life in the le or settlement of Mulokai? Why is EdmumI Robbins rejoicing in the triumph of clean government in the very ward which ufed to be th? disgrace of Chicago? It is localise the master motive has posaisb.d these lives, aud they are able to pea through the superficial externa is. the priceless temple of the bosil! When other motives have made th-ir fubtlo appeals, these men have i 1 with unfailing courage. Miss Jane Addams tolls, In her early experience nt Hull House, ot how she began to aroiicO an Interest In legislation to previ i.t child labor In Illinois. At that time there were no lu'vs to check and control tha greed of the factory owners. In a fc" weeks a most generous offer was mad by these V3ry manufacturers to give outright toward her plnn for a clubhouse and home for working it first she was thrilled with the joy of r.e.c-Ing her pl iu fulfilled.

But she was to understand that there was one hr.n.T-tant condition, that she should i cC meddle In promoting any legislation abreit child labor! She was given the hint 'hat she did not understand the labor conditions and that she had better ket i her Bands off. But as soon as she ihat tho large gift was beins offered to divert ber ftom the cause of Justice slip vefuseJ the gift with hoait-felt indignation. And today LHinois Ica is nil the other States in the mauer of 1c- 'slation protecting the interests of lin- dren! The Christ love was surgine la Miss Addams' and she instauliy rejected the strategem which was intended to purchase her acquiescence in the uvll customs so profitable to tha millionaires in closing let me emphasize the permits neuce of love as the motive wh shall shape and glorify our whole experienc In the life ff the future. There will come a flay when the eloquence and 1- ence and proud accumulations of our earthly life must be left at one side. They are no more than the temporary scaffold ing which is withdrawn when the cathedral is complete, ready to stand forth a marvel of grace and splendor.

They but the school books which con tribute to the boy's education. Bit once the mind is trained and the ly character formed the old wornnut books are no mora than ITiie weli-d mind Is ready ir mirror oavKlJ. hat 'hea' (l0e8 Ga. oa 1 'i' h. Pulslve ask God to give you the calm, restraining Influence of a deeper loi irr riii-i.

Are vnu slow and unresnon- hUn -rt gtntuude aua ucip you miuv. Saviour so as to love Him fervently. God hss given you a will, a free will, that no ona else can tamper with, ft will that is for you to use and not play with! God has given you a will, just as th'j builders of the Imperator have given the great ship a steerir.a; r.pparatua absolutely essential to the voyage. God wants you to make ciiariir the charity of the heart of Jesus, tua master of your life! A mii cmlrihunn (n UUl TJ duqii sec li. ill whose first name was Dick I forget bis other name and he said that for over fifty years.be had been a slave to drink.

What a life! Those who know any wretched, drink-cursed brother, know what an awful thing It Is. This poor old man had had fifty years of it and was on the verge of suicide when one of our adult brothers brought him to the school. He came regularly but didn't give up the drink, and one of the brothers asked him, "Why don't you throw the drink to the dogs?" "I can't," he said. He had reached the stage that Paul got to find got past when he cried, wretched man that I am; who shall' deliver me from the body of thlB death?" And then his friend quietly told him that Jesus came on purpose to do for us what we could not do for ourselves, and presently the old man knelt down and prayed, "0, God. take the drink curse away from me," and Dick said to my friend afterward, then I have not known what it is to want a drink." Even the drink curse is overcome bv the power of the Holy Ghost.

Dr. Dale, my predecessor in Birmingham, a man of most masterly mind, was very uncertain what to ssy when Sankey and Moody first came to that town. For a while he held aloof, but at the end of the mission, a year afterward, he came as a witness, and I remember one sentence of his testimony. He said: "I have seen the sun rise on the Rlgi, and it was a vlorlous sight, but the glory of the sunrise on the Rigl Is a shadow compared with the sunrise I saw in saloons In Birmingham when t' power of the Holy Ghost came and destroyed the sovereignty and night of sin and brought in tho morning." You can have that power In China. You can have that power In New Yo-'-.

"Ye shall receive power when the Holy Ghost is corne upon' you." Let me give you a second answer to the question as to how I require the power of the Holy Spirit. We need the power of the Spirit to apprehend the love of God. Says Paul: "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered Into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him." I think these words were not chosen at random. When he says, "Eye hath not seen," he Is surely referring to culture, and when he speaks of -the ear he is Buroly referring to philosophical training imparted by the public disputes and controversies between those taking high methods In prominent places. "Eye hath not Been." You cannot get it there.

"Ear hath not heard." You cannot get it from the school. "It has not entered into the heart of man." You cannot get It through poetry. Art cannot lead you into the deep, sacred places of the love of God. If there Is one thing that seemed to surround the Apostle Paul and Inflame him with ambition It is that he might enter more deeply Into the love of God. You know his verses run like a beautiful chime: "And to know the love of God." Do we know It? My missionary friends, do you know it? When you speak about mo mmiier motive Because of Its permanence The Christ love holds us back from doing and thinking and feeling a great many things that we would otherwise rush Into.

The Christ love also Inspires us to attempt tasks which appear to be beyond our trnirth The'chr eDtlrC discourage us. dvn, Ve met the Permanent change thlngS and fh th heroisms tehee's unatu ft, merates the restraints wWch'love exert," Love envleth The blessfna of is vet tha know lts sacil Joy. And vet the Instincts of envy and Jealous? defy our better natures and rob us of t0 -t-l tnSb'rtn! right from his brother, Esau, the dis- 0n9 aB0ther suspicion honor ltLta "trlfe '0r tfce P't'ons of honor at the Passover supper, the Phari- Ihftr eBU.8' yet deliberately closing m. te. "J8 every appeal hich He are 'nsces where the impulses of envy usurped the masteiv But where the Christ-love secures control the very roots of Jealousy are weeded out.

The man in narrow circumstances can look upon his wealthy neighbor without envy, because he knows that if he earns the approval of Christ he has his heart 8 desire. Paul did not envy Barnabas for the property which he possessed Barnabas did not covet the gifts of eloquence and personal magnetism which made Paul so much more a master of men. The love of Jesus was such a strong current in their lives that it completely swept away all such petty rivalries! "Love vaunteth not. Itself Is not puffed up." We dislike to hear a man boast about his achievements, whether he be a candidate for political offlco, or a business man, or a doctor, or a minister. We do not like to hear a schoolboy boast ot how well he stands In school or how quickly he can learn his lessons.

And yet there is an inherent tendency to pride which asserts Itself In some way in almost every human heart. Edward Steiner, in comparing Americans with other nationalities, says that there Is a streak of Insolence and boasting In our nature. We are proud of the size and prosperity of our country. We challenge Europe. Wo are confident over Asia.

We despise Africa. There Is Just one power which will redeem our national character from this fault of pride. Tho Christ-love must come flooding into our hearts to give us a. new sense of brotherhood and to help us realize that we are far from having fulfilled the purooscs of Jesus. Instead of vaunting ourselves.

Instead of pushing forward in on unpleasant way, Instead of feeling satisfied, we ought to humble our selves in the presence of God and confess that we are not worthy to be called His children. "Love doth not behave Itself unseemly." In the extreme freedom of the life of today there are strong tendencies to immodest behavior. The extreme fashions In dress, the questionable dances which threaten society life. th unbecoming tn.lo-, Thn nlit Vethodlnf nUn nf null all dances an.t theaters under the ban has failed because it was too severe a law. Christian people are not willing to cut themselves oft from enjoyments that are worthy and true.

But there muet be some restraining power to keep the ideal sunn- pure ana to ir-iri mc riii-ium-uui-iiii i mcuif CI San? cSr Ten! ing's entertainment which wii. be truly I behavior which injures our social life It will people know that you know it? Ist.apy" nls puIpit on September 15. JST kf.ar'gV" "ft W9 SSr'! about the love of God as if we were rolling the sweet morsel under the tongue? I think the Psalmist when he cried out. taste and see how gracious the Lord Is," was speaking out of the depth of his experience. taste and see." Do we know that? I know some of us have a kind of happy feeling when the days are favorable and fair, but to apprehend the love of God in the darkness.

In the deso- byterlan Church, the Rev. Dr. Edwin D. lation, in the disappointment and defeat: BaIley D.D., pastor, celebrated the to know the Great Lover when I am In. 0ntrr of sin' You cannot accomplish this hyjeive: jsk.

ccclesinstlcal prohibitions, nor by statute I in the enthusiasm ot Jesus. Are yen law But the upllftln- influence of an I fault-finding and unforglvlug? Stuoy ti. ardent love for Christ will keep eachjefl'ect of Christ's crucifixion upon tla Christian on his guard against the subtle 1 lives ot those early disciples. Are you temptations (hat lurk in social life. anxious abcut the future? Reuiemo Love sceketh not its own." The Christ I that love Is immortal and those who love balances a man and restrains him love deeply and sincerely are the vcr from the grasping and the overreaching children Cod.

Are you toworl which are so natural to him. You feel Christ? Ask God to forgive your in- sorrow. Do we Know mat: when. I go home week after week from this church without a convert, do I know my Lover? Am I sure of it? Nestling in Him: feeding on Him? We shall know the holy love of God by the power of the Holy Spirit. Bishop Mole, the saintly bishop of Durham, and one of the most beautiful spirits it Is my pleasure to know, wrote in his rare biography, "Never shall I forget the peace which came to my own soul from a more Intelligent hold upon the gracious personality of the Holy Spirit.

When I received the power of the Holy Spirit it was a new development i of insight in tne love or uoa. A new development of Insight In the love of God! It was Just as though the great and saintly bishop up to that time had been confronted with the "unsearchable riches of Christ," and then from a cer- that your rights are of supreme impor tancs, that you have good reason to expect remuneration or applause for certain things which you have done. You feel that the main thing for you is ta make, a success of life, even If you have to be somewhat regardless of the comfort or advantage of your rivals or your business friends. Your eye is continually upon what Hfo will yield you. And you foreet that "It la more blessed to give i than to receive," and that the master I.