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ERRORS OF MODERN RELIGION Rev. Copela Sermon at the Unity Church Yesterday Morning THE LIFE MORE THAN MEAT The Elder Brother A Sermon on | “Fear'—Funata ¥ From the lee Re ms Other Local News, Personal Responsibility. At the Unity church yesterday morr fng the Rev. W. E. Copeland prea an able sermon, of which the is a synopsis, upon the subj sonal Responsibility oneself evil sullers, by onescif ey vithout gible for in plain co dism anc fixes your o tion not a revelation we siy of a rel such moral we to declare that t but his diccivles can strong vroof of his ex tinns can for the existence human forin. But my purpose attempt to proye the divinity of but to tix your minds upon the quotec from this wonderful pro vity and impurity be one no- ome can purify another,”’ words in m ed con system of religion 1 ght in Christendome as es- sential to vition. You may hear in any pulpit in this ci copt - this, that though your sis be scarlet, yet shall they be washed white snow in the blood of the lamb. The burden of ser- mon and song in christian chprehes 13 that you can’ do nothing of yourself, Christ hasdone 1t all for you and if you only have faith i his sacritices it will be well with you, I would hesitate to antagonize these statements if they were the teackings of Jesug, but like many other alleged teach- mg-wl Jesus they e umm be found in his Wi ¢ s distinetly and nsman that he is responsibie for his vils, nor can he shivk the responsibility for them. “By oneself evil is done oneself one must be purifie whomsoever spoken, th WOl true, conform to cxperi and tench most wholesome doc . There has grown up a belief among men, founded upon the common doctrine ot salvation, that a man is not responsible for the evil which he commits, that he need not at tempt to parify himeelf hut that some ]uxwm orsome institution will do it for him. 8o we find fraud and corruption and erime on the iner , partly, it not wholly, in conseque of this crror in religious teaching needed o terror of the law which lnl every man to reap what he hus N Ve can all he better than we are. No one is helpl 1 md no one is fatally Weneed both the mgs of 1 nd of the church. need to iz that each man, woman or child must work out their own salvation LIVE MORIS THAN MEAT. Sermon of Otis A, Smith at the Pres- byterian Church, Ous A. Smith, of the MeCormick Theo- logical Seminary, Chicago, delivered a sermon at the Sccond Presbyterian church yesterdny morning on the text he Life is more than Tne following 15 a synopsis of urs nimals find here in nature that which is adapted to their highest good. lone in the anomaly of nuture s a disproportion be nt position and his power. rment between his be- ing and his cuvironment. His enjoyment is incommensurable with his power The |t|m'||ll.w|| o( this p has led, in the n.mwm the two div o ByY8i ] feeling o life 'r than the life we see, and finding the world so at war with it, the result has been, alas! too often, a wail of sadness and a wish that n had never been born The t ney b been to add another ~|r|u re of life in the hope that then the position and power of man may be in harmon A inst the first, it was agmnst the nussion of the san of man 1o change that wail of sad ness into a song of joy. As against the snd, while preserving heaven as the 1 of human endeavor--it w His—to give to human li grandear and glory never kuown to pagai poet or D, Vith exalted views of human life, Christ gonght by pi le and m and s 10 frouse man t3 o true sense of his being, and to a rigit use of his power. What would we think of & Raphuel or Mozart who should fors: H\n his high art lower uses m then must it k and \m-lll\ joyt And uro \..uh, retonight hving alife commensurate with your powers? If so, what have you to show in nobihty of sonl, m devotion to truth and in the love ot the good and the pure? T have chosen for my topic The Hunger of the Soul, in the hope to awuken you to a truer view of human life, and arouse you to an activity betitting vour noblest it shall do- so by ‘the four tol- You have a hunger of the son! which no more meat ean satisfy, us shown by the very productions of men, Walk into n libravy, Here are s of history andseience, What losson can Ihey teach us this, that ty to produce such worss ability to produ f of the power to them W “That mm h ability to produce such paint ) hinging on e wall. And so witiimusic i hite Their very existence in objec i an eviderice of the inward power to not only produce, but to appreciate and en joy. And all'ure proofs of which nO more meat eun gratify 2, You have a hunger of tho s hich N0 MOre meat cun silisfy as proven by the expericnee of men wa see bim in bistory, been content with enough to eat drink M s0, never would we hay aneed be- yond the savage state Ihomas Cole in his piet T'he Pas toral Stare," wn ' life wruly Man here But amid M the objec eye is seen the smoke of ing from the rud Even then man could not live on bread | ! me was blenty, foou was cheap, 15y, but even then a evidence that life is me Ihe eariy life of the 1l rellocted cal, und the w so decp and intens tuary sigh fc uuu.. page of 1w o there s no possession the Rock of A 8. You huves b no mere meat can gratity, as shown by the vyices of man Animals have no vices. And why? have no soul | ‘They have no desire save bodily desire THE OMAHA DAII and sometimes, as here, a_sentence, in- dicative of his pe feeling. His ndwriting, he te as in a sprawling hand, all capitals, so to sp ut man has an unsatisfied hungey mind | a regalar Johp Hancock nhand, and so it s well as eraving for food. Fool that he | 18, he tries to still it by feeding the bod he flees from one round of business diss pation or sensual excess to another, but | 78 hungry still. Al it is the hungry soul that 18 crymg for food. Yea, man is hungry the world over—hungry for God—as shown by his vie No man in so starving a condition as he who feeds iy his body. Many & man gets up from a banquet hungry, Ah, your life is more than meat. Meat can never satisfy 1t As shown by your own conscionsness, 1 1 Does the pursuit of meat hall not live cad alone. truth and G i tin his pre and at his ¥ ¢ for evermore THE LLDER BROTE Rev. Detweiler's Sermon at Kountze's Memorial Church Last Bvening. Previons to his sermon at the Kount: Memorial church, corner of Harney at Sixteonth stre last night, the pastor, the Rev. Detweiler, announced a seri of lectures, beginning next evening, under the general he: k Man. In the cov of these lectures he will speak of club feet, bad blood, sour stomach, and other evils that the flesh is heir to. ‘Lhe subjeet of his di course last evening was The E Brothe ascd on the par: The Prodigal Son, found m Luke xv:15-2! Christ’s pr B 88 ful among those v vore le ought of by the Jewish ¢ L the pub- NS mll sinners. This was made a i him by the t this opposition by the pa T L T T dnd left the other ninety-nime of the flock and searched through the mount found it; the parable of the woiu wd finally the pa the prodigal son. The elder of sons in this latter parable, when the dance music e d ned by his riotous liviugr, stry and thrift 'n - the portion of 5 @ belonging to him. The eldex sther when he heard the rejoicing ash 3] nt the oceasion of it mstead of the father. The vant said thy father, heces hath killed the f brother became angry and refused to enter. His conduct is typical of those who stand on the outside of the church and get thewe information of its blessed expericnces from outsiders who know nothing abont it instead of going divectly to the Fath - himselr by The father in the i ) en he learned that his elder son was without went out to meet him. ‘I'hus it is that Giod comes ont to m the sinner wnd in- vite Inix'. to aceept His grace, me I “Tho older brother's reply to his fath question was, “All these I ha served t and thon neve rstome d to make Iy my He spoke 3 1 these year: ved thee Th was no filial ln\\* lhrlv He was (n[ 1 that all the shared in the po was but meet that the retu o i who was d¢ ul and had returned to m. -nmmll. lebrated I it to be called that of the \'father howed no partial lie wa Kind to one as the other was the eldest son’s self-satisfaction that stood in his way It is the empty Ve which being dipped in the comes up fuli. So it is the sinner is utter unworthiness that receives I's forziveness and is tilled with the Ider brotnerin the modern chureh »who serves God only for re- ward while i hisdecpest heart he th transgression, e rves will get, not for what y been bestowed upon him its all about heaven t to work for . Thatisa W wl wants is I “The elder hrother me didno't 1 de doesn’t want, Another lider ther in the modern chu hie b Who nakes the shibboleth of his own erced and Iu~ own narrow idea the standard of ¢ e e R brother in the parable said: . *Here you've gone and mado a feast for this Tepr te, why don’t you send him out into the field to toil and drudge and curn his restoration to favor ¢ Again the elder brothers of to-day are those who picture God as u hard, stern ruler; a master with a long whip. ‘All these do Iserve thee.” He looks on himsclf as a servant.. ‘This parable is a thrust i cold blooded hypo: erites find fault beenuse u notico of. ‘Ilhe nar who couldn’t sce vibed limits of their n the prodigal, discovered a true filial love and was found, ‘Che elder son of his ubject and service he owed, and y does not record whether or not found profit. In ¢o called on his hear servile view ve God for love and for what cady done for them RMON ON “FEARLY Willard Scott's Morning Ad- dress at His Church, At tne St. Mary's avenue Congrega- reh yesterday morning the Rev ott preached, to a &e con m, a sermon on “‘Fear, owm the xt vl in the 21st and 2 ses of I'be sermon ned as follows Busy men in ) raska, who hs time to do their own corres; ploy dictation and the munu « others. 8o did Paul, the apostle, in multiplied | His was “the earc of | in aadition to his are contained in o, e hud a wide corre the cit 4 As and Eur as unable to do so much s men to-day, he w aceustomed Lis muwme io Lis own bundwritog | onee it sprang to its original « | the “end of this letter to the Corinthians there appeared i the great, inky pen- | manship he » his salution and this f any man | love not the I,um us Christ, let him athema, It was worth_his while to make his anathema as wide as he did, for he was addressing an every-man's eity. Corinth was u city of all sorts, originally Greek, the star of the capital of the Achaian € , the center of all the nd south and east s captured 1 oan evil hour by Mummins, the I onsul, a wid nhalf befor st l‘.HH", in desolute forone hundres 3 vas finallv: rebuilt by a Roman colony of freedmen sent by ( beeame the great cosmopolitan e | the west. It was not Greek, Roman, Spartan o Jewish, It was an all-peo. ple’s city, Everybody eame here to ma money or to spend it. Lhe only ty 1ls which bot its mhabitants to ler were enterprise and debancehery, i 0, the brother of Sencea,of seripture says ‘He cared for none of these things,” but go did most of them. It was a *‘don’t care” city as to Lo incinde them then Paul ess them, “If any man.”? If any man loves not uage 1s more rich than | ours and whereas we nin nze one word Hlove” for yarious afiecti little and I sclect one wlapted to the word allied which he specified ad excludes indiftere el as hate Ihe Greeks of Cor osthon onoof Paul's helpers, and otherw raged the name of Christ, “eared for none of these T anathema of Paul includes them both, for neither of them loved the Lord desus The anathema rests upon all who do not loye. I'his “anathema” was a Greek word which has become familiar to us in its ancient form, and meons “to curse.” In the Hebrew it implied “to put under the ban.” It1s aword of solemn abjur , not of malice, but of cntreaty an atha™—'“the Lis coming.” Such was the salutation and sentence of the great apostle to Corinth, in his own handwriting, “If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anath- ema.—the Lord is comng.” It is a deep, pungent eall to repentence. Omaha is \.m not unlike Corinth. te City” 50 she, Corinth was ¢ of Heflas, throueh her the high- ways of the world pass. Her people nre land, and here to make and to spend ity chiefly the Her two greatest hands are en- ind debauchery. In her are the ios who, religious eare for none of these things. “She “don’t ea city, & cosmopolitan center. And 1 says to Omaha, “1f any man love not the Lovd Jesus Christ, Io L him be anathema, The Lord is comi fear is not the noblest motive to SN to be best to be grood. 4 Inmnr nn-\ul with w4tk to the. wing of his e t good with him. It may another, It belongs Luman constitution, mbition and love, it h Pl ‘it exrreise is not but cour: To call one afraid, is often o we 1 that whe: consti- one should entertain s ago in Lon- ty of gentleimen, aside from ation dishonoring and contined it with the consent, ently, of all but one, who finally rising, k:ull entlemen, 1 still a christinn,” and left the room. He was not a bishop, not & clergyman of any di s, but arising member of parhament, atterward to be prime minister of Eng land uneer the youthful Vietorin—Sir Robert Pecl. He was afraid of sucl com pany and speceh, not afraid of aming his sentiments, e was afrand of wrong Why should not one respond to In the village we respond to- the worship—welcoming the bell of mar joyous; to the bell “of death xlmmnl\ll and to the bell n[ warni mizhty 2 to opportu not to the ) J There is a “wrath to come.” ““I'ribulations and | anguish promi=ed to every soul of man that docth ¢ St isa fearful thing to_fall into the hands of a living God?" You fear poverty, ill-fame, loss of ion, loss of health, the solitwde of widowhood and childlessness—why not fear the loss of soul and the futurd sep wation from God? Satan and fools say “don’t make a fool of yourself.” But \\|14n plays the fool but né who is brave when he should fear, nnlnh rent when he should quake in anxie We crown our | houses with electrie rods and our lives with insurance policies—why not pro teet the soul No man knows what the particnlars of future penalty will be, but docs not reap reward f fter in some awtul way, when it is Godless and ir- reveren, we are worshiping out of a false book which should be burned to-morrow, 1 1A judement to come, and Tam afraid of it.” Who chal- lenges my fear as eowardice? 1t is not cowardice, 1t is wisdom in season, and woe to the man who is wise in this mat- ter—too late. heen made since Aungust by pur chasers of lots from Mr. Albright, in the addition west of ALsriG's CHoICH ALBRIGHE'S CHOICE BEATS THEM ALL AND DON'T YOU FOI I, lce, lee. I am loading ice on cars at Cutofl lake and can furnish a limited number of cars per day on tracks of U, P. R in Omaha, very eheap, Parties wishing to buy will find me at the Windsor hotel Monday evening and at Cutofl luke Tues- day. Jonx HALL, - - 500 Per Cent Profit 35 been made sinee lust August by pur- asers of Jots from Mr. Albrighi, in - the addition west of ALpriGur’s CHolck, ALpriGue’s CHOICE BEATS THEM ALI AND LON'T YOU FORGET 1T, Boston's Burly Bruiser, The Sullivan ecombination arrived from Kansus City yesterday evening tered at the Millurd, ‘Lhe bruisers th wentouton a “knocking out” rehersal and were teeling very comfortable when they sought theit quarters after midnight, Ihe combination will try t experiment of giving two gate reccipt attractions in Oumaba within @ month, at the exposition but t. Have You n Them? If not, ¢ 3 AvsiiGie and go out to SourH Omaua with one of his ugents to inspect the magnilicent prop crty known as ALBRIGHT'S CHOLCE - 1 A. will be held H« ha 1H on Fourteenth to muke arrangements for the funcral of General George M. O'Brien, who was a wember of the association Gr citement in BouTii OMAHA over the way acres lots in AvriGut's CHOICE -are goi Twenty-two lots sold in oue day, MONDAY, THE GREAT WIZARD TO-NIGHT. A good many people will undoubtedly o to see Herrmann at Boyd's Opera house and to-morrow. ¢ dealing in the 3 ous, and he is matchles in his illusions! e never bungles r like Herrmann dy adaptability. thing twu-v in ‘e appears more y tllusive than way he does that captivates. The spectator is a trick he is witnessing anything else M Herrmann in which eansed u g Comedy company closed vas unusually clever people of this city « sexcellent com JANUARY This powder never vari continue to ¢ their last visit this eity. an actor of unusual excellence whiie | charming lady, little soubrett the People’s thatre support of this company is unusually strong has been made sinee last s of lots from Mr. / addition west of Av Avnricirs Cri AND DON'T YOU August by pur- RiGi's Crorcy than m othe 200 lotsin ALpricur’s CHolck, A SPIN ON How the Pleasures of Enjoyed by Omahans Yesterday. despite tne fact ten or fifteen degrees below y for sleighing. Wl furs alarge ni- cighing Wero mereury was Zero, was a good ¢ mulflled in woolens ber of Omahans of both sexes and of ages and classes white-crusted streets dren, the young man with his best S roked maidens in outh out for v\lnil'll‘ulrm nd Farnam streets tothe s acontimuous line of sleighs 1d deseriptions. ‘nt turnouts v nificent offc L j Lively racing indulged inat times, furnishing no- littlo amuscient to those contests of ~|n-| ad, as well a thriving |fl:~x~ ric per Imm, Rl cuullll” to the qu mu of (h.\ Buy a Few » elegant lots in CHOICE and doubleyour money betore ALBRIGHT moncy for ok 51 Only a httle money required nd ALsricui’s BaD LoT in this beantiful property - FROM THE 1 A Delegation Visit Omah azers of the ieo ke measure wetion in the most party of 300 who will visit a number of cities in the » and other places arriy Paui Toboggan elub, the Flambeau elub, v Shoe club and Hu- th‘ club. 'X'-.Im""nulu\ o reed ,,m.n to tho v this purpose juests for fi sented to the couneil d the 1.,:m\\m-r T id which will be pr and the board of t nting the winter [ at St. Paul, Minn,, sontemplate visiting senting the winter sportsof Omabi. volves upon 3 toro n and enter strong onongh respectfully Whow wo may visit us enjoy Ablo g yl()~~|| lo. w hore) , to make their i Sormit Osama over the way ac AreriGnr's Choncr Twenty-two lots sold in one day : Boom s Limmmenss IN Sovri Owana THERE IS NOT A BAD LOT IN T1S BE FUL PROVERTY, Funcral to-morrow at 2 t regarding the atternoon at 2:30 Post No. 7 (i, A. R, will meet s arrangements to attend the of its late co 500 Per Cent Profit has been made sinee last August on west of ALBRIGHT Avsrigne's Ciorce AND DON'T YO If not, call o out to Sov il OMAHA known s ALE Great Excitement in Soven Oxa Twenty-two | Id in one day 0 lots in A purity, strength and whole economical than the ord 1d in competition with th | A8 BF 18w (1ests SHBRES ight alum or phosphate powders, Sold only in cans, | Royal Baking Powder Co., 463 Wall street, New York, DIANMONDS, WATCHES, JEWELRY, RONZES —AT- Importer's Prices MAX HEYER & BRO. ¥iio Sanden Eloctric Co. 16 LaBaIto st Chicagy BoYyD’S OPERA HOUSE MONDAY AND TUESDAY, January 10th and 11th Appearance of the World Renowned and only HERRMANN|; Assisted by MME. HERRMANN, 10 his Ma avelous Entertainment The Lmperor of the Magic Art. Wonders Unce Sceure seats at Box O DIVIDEND KOTICE. 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