Carson daily appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1873-1877, 1874-12-29

firms on tn. Organ and Sings Al
most Persuaded" Etc.
| 1t has been known for some time tina
Mr.. Fisher, Pastor of the Methods
Church, here, and State Superintendent
/ of Public Instruction, will leave these
parts on the first day after the expire.
ton Of his term of Office, for an extended
tour through Europe and Asia, more
particularly the Holy Land. Before
departing from the scene CT his labors
for the past eight or ten years, it was
announced that he would bid his congre-
cation and the public at large formal
goodbye from the pulpit Of his Church.
large number of persons of every de-
nomination, professedly or otherwise,
were present to hear. The church choir
were out in force and played Very i'm
pressivelv some pieces apropos OF the
occasion When the pastor rose he was
perccptibly moved by the tenderness of
the parting. He could not inter a for
NAL or ceremonious farewell, he said.
But in order to address every heart he
chose for the subject of his discourse,
the only universal never-failing friend Of
mankind, Jesus Christ.
HIS TIKI
was, The Son Of Man is come to seek
and to save that which was lost" The
speaker spoke. by way Of introduction,
upon the fallacy of constituting the text
in an absolutely literal sense; and
showed that while Christ was made
flesh" that he might then be the dearest,
closest and best friend Of mankind, he
was in every sense, Notwithstanding,
God and the Word. His remarks on
this topic were, for the most part, re-
markably clear; his words were well
chosen and his manner OF argument
not unpleasing or unsatisfactory. The
preacher, for want Of time, passed over
other arguments which SO to establish the
DIVINITY OF CHRIST
and took the ground that His divinity
was proved, beyond controversy, by
the fact of the universal acceptance
of His teachings, the world wide in
tluence of His example, and the divine
loneliness of His character perpetu
ated, forever, while mere philosophers
are known and loved and followed
only within narrow bounds. In the
SECOND DIVISION
of his text, wherein the earnest pastor
TO the "lOst," he was at one
time moved to tears, while numbers
in the congregation had occasion to
wipe their fOreheadS, too. He told a
very affecting, not to say narrowing,
story of young man who had left
home ard gone to sea to be freed from
paternal restraint, and who had there
by broken his poor old mothers heart.
This was to show how as men may be
socially lost, so they may become lost,
in their relations to
Christ. f,
THE FINAL APFEAL
Of the preacher where he invited all to !
come and meet their Redeemcr who !
had declared it His purpose to seek
hem and save them, was earnest, per
and almost eloquent. Mr..
Fisher has proved himself 4 good
pastor, a genial man in society, a de-
voted scholar; and everybody wishes
lim happy journey and safe re-
urn.
AFTER i II l. Sf-ENDN
vas over, the Rev. Tevis said he had
been invited to sing certain little
piece, "but he didn't know whether
lie could or not" He would sing
mother song, first, at any rate. While
he Congr egation were waiting in
,reathless expectancy caused by the
announcement of so unique an enter
ainmeut, Mr.. Tevis took his seat at a
mall organ placed in faont of the
udience near the platform on which
he pulpit stands. All were affected
With kind of awe and restlessness by
he penetrating tones of the singer and
be mournful strains of the organ. He
ang and played song the burden of
rhich is "Almost Persuaded" The ,
wful danger of putting off the accept
d time until the doom of "lost was
called, was rendered in the figure of .
climax in such tones Of organ and
uman voice as, at once, fascinated
nd made everybody shudder.
chow CAN KEEP FROM SINGING"
,rmed the last line in each stanza of ;
le second pieco sung by Mr.. Tevis.
his he had been requested to sing,
ut had chosen to sing "Almost Per-
uaded" first as it fell in more
with Mr.. Fishers remarks.
he Rey. Mr.. Tevis is evidently one
the old school of Methodists and
isposed to worship God in simplicity !
nd according to the dictates of the !
cart.