The Butler weekly times. (Butler, Mo.) 1881-1918, 1882-04-26
YE sTERDAYg WORSHIP.
Tho Gervices Of the Children Of the
LORI IN tho Fields Of Good.
BAPTIST CHURCH

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Rev. Brown, the pastor. preached
III the morning from words found in
the second chapter Of Matthew es-
cribing the flight ints Egypt lis
leading thought was the predomi-
nance Of the Lord, even from his in
fancy. In the evening he preached
from the parable of the prodigal son.
In this discourse he divided the sig
nificance OF the parable into two
branches--the literal and spiritual.
In illustration of the first he pictured
out young man of the present day as
undergoing the same results of his
youthful folly. OF the spiritual as
pect OF this parable he spoke OF its
two interpretations-that of its ap-
plying to the Jews and Gentiles and
that of its referring to the children of
God-inclining to the latter. He
spoke of us all as being prod
igals and said that God was calling
for us to come home. The church
was filed at both services. Sunday
school numbered I25.
THE OHIO ST. NJ E. CHURCH
had interesting services, conducted
bv the pastor, Rev Alexander. The
morning sermon was based upon the
scripture found IN Mathew, sag
16-''Ye are the salt of the earth,"
etc. The evening service was based
upon Ephesians. 5:I-''Be ye there
fore followers OF God.'' In this
text the pastor defined the word fol
lowers as meaning 'imitators.
The audiences were good, con-
sidering the inclemency of the wealth
er. Sunday school attendance
81.
THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
had good services both morning and
evening. Rev. Newton's morning
discourse was upon the first words OF
the Lords prayer: "Our Father
which art in Heaven. He spoke of
four lines of thought originated by
these words: Isl, the brotherhood
of man-oUR Father. I'd, the prin-
ciples upon which God governs men;
as FATHER he will reward obedi-
ence and punish disobedience. sd,
the precious truth in respect to heav-
en- that tits HOME. 4th, fact in re-
spect to the nature of future punish
ment: it is the exclusion of the in
corrible child from home. In the
evening service the pastor preached
upon the words: ''Give attention
to reading" He spoke especially
the danger arising from that class Of
literature which glorified the pistol,
robbery and murder; condemned
such books as the lives of the James
boys and Youngers and the details
of their crimes as published in some
dailies: gave facts to show the IN
furious effects OF this kind OF reading
and closed with series of rules to
guide in the selections of books and
general reading. Congregations
large.
DAKOTA ST. NJ. E. CHURCH.
Rev. Wood preached an interest
ing sermon IN the morning upon
Sunday schools, taking his text from
Deut.. 1867. His topic IN the eve
ming was ''The Heavenly home."
and text Rev.. 7:o. The congre-
cations were good. The singing at
this church is improving and is now
an important and attractive feature
of the services. The Sunday school
had 60 scholars present and and adj
ded several scholars to the roll.
THE CUMBERLAND PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH.
Rev. Henderson preached morning
and evening to good congregations
The Sunday school had IS in atten-
dance, among whom were quite a
number of new scholars. This Sum
day school is rapidly gaining in
strength and interest. AT the
F.! CHRISTIAN CHURCH
there was good Sunday school. In
the morning the members held a short
social worship. but no services were
held in the evening owing to the fact
j that the stove had been removed
while the church was being repaired
and was not yet set up again
!, THE Y. p c.
/ held their r,eefIt1o Yesterday At the