Show GOV HUGHES AS A PUBLIC SER ANT VANT New Jew Yorks Executive Subject of Sermon by Rev Francis Burgette Short QUESTION OF SALVATION HUGHES SAVES HIMSELF AND ENTERS GREATER CAREER The Salvation of Governor Hughes was the subject of ot an Interesting ser serban serban serban ban by the Rev Francis Burgette Short at the First Methodist church last night Dr Short took his text from Luke For whosoever will save his life shall lose it but whosoever shall han lose his Ufo lifo for my sake the same hall find it He said in part Christ gave that larger arger conception of life Ufe when He spoke of the kingdom of God The kingdom of heaven finds its first expression in the individual heart and life within yon but to re remain remain retain main tain here means to shrivel and die It must seek to express itself in other lives No man is saved until he has hasan hasan hasan an active concern for and in some ome ather ther salvation The kingdom f Ir God must be set up and established hed upon the earth For nothing less than that did Jesus pray Thy kingdom tome come Thy will ill be done on earth The motive maUve that prompted that prayer or that part referred to as also the underlying motive of the text is s that larger conception of life Ufe which the Christian should ever possess His own salvation Is necessary but surely not the end of his concern His Hia chief concern l should and must be the social good the salvation of the social com corn community community And nd the verity of the text Is isrea rea fly recognized by every observing person that personal salvation as an I end means ruin to the one serving be because e cause ause selfishness can have no part in inthe inthe inthe the kingdom I of heaven or the kingdom kIngdo of God on the earth The life Ufe activities of ot Jesus were not I for the purpose of developing or acquiring acquiring ing ng personal person l benefit They had as their sole and supreme object the benefit of the social fabric Thus should each In Individual individual Individual Christian live This will mean but that is an element in inthe inthe Inthe the Christian life Ufe The same Master said aid id Deny thyself and take up thy ross cross and follow me But let us re remember remember remember member that the of the Christian does not mean a negative or losing life Ufe I deny myself when I make I a contribution to the happiness of our home borne but does not that self seU d nial mean an enrichment of my own 1 ife fe and its enlargement in the happi happiness happiness happiness ness of my family life Ufe Christianity does not depress nor suppress the Indi hidi Individual vidual it inspires and enlarges his life as he seeks to give Ive himself to the pub public public public lic good and to lose himself in the pub public public lic lie welfare One just begins to find himself and society begins to discover I tim lini jin when he gives himself over to their concern Thus should it be said of the salva salvation salvation tion of Governor Hughes he saves himself as he gives himself to the pub public publIc lic lie welfare He has been doing this for some time and it would seem to me that he Is now but entering upon a ca en career carer reer where he will become of inestimable ble bie value to his countrymen But you ou say Is not this a trick of f Wall Wail street to shelve him God Almighty only can shelve men History abounds in perti peril pertinent pertInent nent illustrations Some men once ri d to shelve the cry of the Unionists for representation according to taxation ta Men lIen tried to shelve the immortal Lin Lincoln Lincoln coln coIn In your our day and mine some ome men mn one ope on day in Philadelphia tried to helve shelve Theodore Roosevelt it has been said that our war department planned to shelve Admiral Dewey Dowey and that the de desire desire sire was that Sampson should be the great man to destroy destro fleet but standing back in the dim shadows was the great God who ever watch over his own If God has lIas a more Important place for Governor Hughes than that which he will soon occupy he will be called to it in spite of oC Wall all street and all the corrupt politicians In this acceptance which he has made his opportunities will be almost boundless for serving the common good and for hastening the kingdom kIng om of God on earth And in ren rendering dering ring this service In the giving up of larg larger r salary possibilities In this self denial and the losing of himself to the themore themore more moro conspicuous and spectacular life Ufe he lie Is but saving the life Ufe with which God hath bath entrusted him Serving Sering is our chief business Are you among the he saved Are Arc you ou among the serving |