Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1880-05-24
1748---188Q.
133d Annual Meeting Of the Ministerlum of
Pennsylvani1.
Tho Synodical Communion


service there were perhaps hundred and
fifty members on the ground.
The Saturday evening preparatory ser
vice was held in Trinity church according
to announcement, but, contrary to an
nOuncement. Rev. r. Hill, Of Allentown,
preached the sermon, instead of Rev. F.
w. WeiskOtten, Of Bethlehem.
The opening liturgical service was read
by Rev. II. NJ. Bickel, of Philadelphia.
The sermon was based on Genesis, xii,
:: - My son, God will provide himself y
lamb. There are types Of spiritual things
in the Old Testament, and it Is impossible
not to See resemblance between the Of
| fering of Isaac by Abraham and the Of
| ing of Christ for the worlds sin. In Isaac
| We have All heir, SO also in Christ in one
the wood Of the altar borne by the intend
| ed sacrifice, in the other the wood of the
cross borne by Him about to he sacrificed ::
MOriah and Calvary loom up before us,
and in each of the victims is told the story
of bitterness and agony that preceded
the sacriticial hour. The text is
a word of prophecy. Abraham's impress
sion was that God would provide way in
his extremity, and speedily were his words
of prophecy fulfilled. We may see here
the lamb, token of the Levitical sacri
fees, which were in turn types Of Christ.
Christ is an atOning Lamb. n
more perfect tabernacle and more per-
feet redemption is for us. Man has sinned
and justice condemns, but God has pro-
| vided Himself Lamb without spot or
blemisl. Christ is our tower the believer
runneth into it on His human side. and is
protected on the side of His divinity.
Christ is worthy lamb. Heaven
! Iars sfnp, Il xl1al l.
is, and shall We be silent? The Lord has
provided; be grateful. and let Him re-
ceive time and substance and service in
return. The words of the text are words
Of hope in extremity. We behold the
mother, the servants. the unsuspccting
| son. the agony of the fathers heart. So
the lamb of God is u necessity to us.
''There is none that dOeth good" saith
the scripture, and do we not recognize that
it is awfully real and true. We cannot by
any works atone for our sins and trans
gressiOns; Christ is O,w only hope.
Il Abraham saw that Gods ever
lasting covenant was upon him. So must
We look upon the Lords Supper.
The words of the text are words o: faith.
Abraham trusted all in the hands of Cod
He did not doubt he could not resist. In
selfemptying faith he stood before God,
confident that u sacrifice would be provii-
ell. This is the faith that brings us to
Christ. The broken body and shed blood
are life, forgiveness, salvation. Abraham
needed no drawback, for God knew better
than he. So may we run with patience
the race that is set before us. Abraham
knew God only as jehovah -Jirell-"G
will provide" In life, that is so full of
labOrs, questions, and miserics, how conl-
fOrting it is to know of Christ. and to
know that God will provide Him as the
Lamb of Atonement for us. Then let us
together rejoice, and say:
"Just as am without one plea,
But that Thy blood was shed for me-
And that Thou bi'lst mecOme to Thee,
D, Lamb of God, come, cOme.'
The service of confession and absolution,
conducted by Rev. G. w. Schaeiier, ID. d.,
president of the synod, closed the exercises
of the evening.
The Sunday Sessions.
Sunday morning the members of the
synod met in Trinity chapel and ut the
hour for morning service proceeded ina
body to the audience room of Trinity
church, where the synOdical communion
was administered. Rev. J. Fry, ID. d., of
Reading Rev. F. w. Weiskotten, of
Bethlehem, and Rev. J. ID. Schindel, of
Allentown, sat within the chanccl and con
Quoted the altar services. The regular
morning communion service of the church
book was read, including the repetition of
the Nicede creed by the congregation.
The choir of the Salem church, Leba,-
non, Rev. G. III. Trabert, pastor, was pres
ent and sang with the choir of Trinity
church during the service. During the
singing of the 260th hymn" With Joy
our voices we unite, and lift our hearts
above Rev. DR.. Schaeifer, president.
ascended the pulpit and followed with the
synodical sermon from the text, Acts,
XXX, 35: 81 have showed you all things,
how that so labOuring ye ought to support
the weak, and to remember the words of
the Lord Jesus how he said, 1t is more
blessed to give than to receive" especial
stress being laid in the words ascribed to
Christi 1t is more blessed to give than
to receive" This passage put in the
mouth of Paul and written by Luke is
lbove tradition and stands out bold in it's
Paul's travels and preaching
we're described and the arousing of the
people to righteousness by the apostles,
Who were at ached very much to Paul as
heir spiritual father. The text is burn
ng light, glowing through all history,
md is blessed heritage of the Christian
hurch. The text is an unquestioned
ruth, tested by experience. There are
profound mysteries in the Divine Word
but they are not set forth to incite wonder,
'ut to be understood. We are given faith,
leroism, an active principle, to enable
IS to apprehend and penetrate them.
faith comprehends what the world cannot
namely, that it is universally
more blessed to give than to receive. The
ext is particularly appropriate to to-day's
ervice. We are met to take counsel to-
ether to plan for the hest interests of
he Redeemer's kingdom. The special act
n which we are to engage proves in q won
erful way the spirit of the text. Here
'ne gives and many receive. The giving
how precious, overwhelming, grand, de-
oted and Divine Yet how humiliatine
nd painful to the giver. Once given no
reater gift could be bestowed. Receiv.
,g the gift, We ought to he
ratcful in the deepest sense. Over the
of the Lords Supper
hould always inscribed the text. The
living of the Saviour was not Obstructed
y ingratitute, but He continued givin.
ntil lie is spoken of the Son of Man who
ad not where to liy his head If it were
Ot for the giving where would we, the
sceivcrs, be? Let us give attention to the
'unsel of these days. And telling then
le people of our congregations what we
ave seen of the Lords goodness and
illness, let their hearts be warmed with
IFS for work.
The doctrine of the text is not so we'll
,dorcfood nc II n,,Obf tO bo In tho cbr;a