Ka Leo o ka Lahui, Volume II, Number 311, 28 ʻOkakopa 1891 — Readings From the Epistle to the Romans. [ARTICLE]

Readings From the Epistle to the Romans.

As given out by notice in the EngliBh dailies of the city, Elder George B. Starr, of Chicago, gave I his readings on the Epistle of Paul !to the KoßQans. This very interi esting and instructive epistle as ext plained scripturally and spiritually as far as he went by Elder Starr, in a non sectarian spirit, was highly interesting to his hearers. Starting from the first verse, the speaker, Vho seemed to be imbued with> the same spirit that inspired Paul, said that Paul was called of God, and set apart as a of* the Lord, to preach the . Gospel, eonceming the Meaeiah, who had been promised as man's Redeemer soon after ihe Commandments of God were disobeyed and death by sin entered the world. The whole theme of the Gospel, was grace, faith and f obedience; grace frotn God, faith in Jt?sus the Son, who declared who God was aud the object of his miseion from Him, and obedience to his commandments. This gospel, the speaker continued, was thepower of God, unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first and also to the Greek. In the gospel whieh Paul was called to preach, is the righteousness of God, revealed from faith to faith. In this straih the speaker, pro-, ceeded to exnlain the first, second and part of the third chapters. Many ne# points were brought forth and made clear by the copparison ofother texts applying to the gams stibject from the Bible. These lessons, whieh will be contin»ed until the end of the epistle, we feel assured will be highly instructive, and wiU give light upon points of vital importan«e to tlie seeker after knowledge. As tlie speaker said, all knowledge and wisdom is from God, and whatever we have of either is from Hiui. To obtain more of that supreme knowledge and wisdom man must seek it from the word of God, and not from man, whoae wisdom bexbi'e God was fooliehness. * We were highlv interested the lesson of the eveniug, aud yearned for the presence of aome of our city editors, who we are assured are sadly iu need of a better knowledge of wisdom and truth to enable them to speak words of instruction that wi!i elevate and eultghten their readers to a higher plane of usefulness to then)selvos and their noigiibors.