Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-09
CONTRIBUTION SERVICE.
An Interesting Service at Christ Church
Last Evening.
Bishon Mhinnle made his annual Hisi


Last Evening.
Bishop Whipple made his annual vista
ton to Christ church, in this city, and last
evening confirmed class of twenty per-
sons, with a!very solemn and impressive ser
vice, the exercises being witnessed by
large audience, which completely filled the
edifce.
The musical exercises, both of the regu-
lar and confirmation service, under the
charge of Prof. Frank Wood, were Of the
finest character, and added greatly to the
deep interest of the occasion.
The theme of the sermon of Bishop
Whipple was drawn from the gospel of
st. Peter, and the scene where the son of
God, having come down from Gallilee as a
prophet, stood by the wayside surrounded
by publicans and sinners, which drew forth
from the Pharisees sneers and scofings
and the revilement that she consorteth
with Sinners Jesus reading their hearts
gave to them on this occasion, as an illus
tration of his position, the story of the
shepherd seeking the one stray sheep
from his fold, and there pro
mulgated the plan Of redemption which
has since and will apply to all times and
all peoples. The parable of the shepherd
and that of the prodigal son were in them
selves a complete epitome of the gospel of
Jesus Christ.
From sorrow, sin and death, from strug
giles with temper, from homes despoiled
by disease, from the repentent over crimes
done in word and deed, from the bitter
ness and sin seen in the pictures of every
day life, there was constant stretching
out of hands for deliverance and pardon.
Should the waves 9f sophistry and heresy
blot out entirely the faith of the
| power and deliverance of Jesus,
the next day they would all be stretching
out their hands again for living waters for
the thirsty soul; for bread that would sat
isfy the hunger of their loins; for the de-
liverance which can alone bring peace, for
Jesus is the only friend that can satisfy the
cravings of the soul.
| This was as true of the untutored Indian
as of Webster, the great statesman; OF
the tawny African as of the cultured Euro
pean; of the inhabitant of the far Indias as
of the practical, pushing, driving citizen
of the great West To illustrate this want
OF deliverance by Christ by all men, he
cited two prominent illustrations II
the hig her and lower walks of life. When
Webster was on his eath-bed he was ap
preached and asked what he should like to
have for his epitaph. To this he replied
that he would make his own: II have
leaned at times toward philosophy, but in
the deep depths of my soul have ever fell
the consciousness of sin, of my need OF
and of my only help, which is in Jesus
When ''Hole-in-the-D Day." the Indian hero
who saved 200 white women and children
in ba SjOuy roacsaara 6eSarfa5 col
itary, neglected and in poverty, felt tn,
J hour of death approaching in his cabi1
in the wilderness, he wrote to ha,t
} minister come and pray with him as HI
: ~felt that the Great Spirit had sent for hin
} to go on long journey, but that he wa
not afraid for Jesus was going with hin
and would hold him by the hand.'
: 1t was never too late to seek this deliver
: ance, and the speaker made touching ap
J peal to the many pilgrims having no trus
r in God, to seek him who hath an eye to pit,
, and the power to save. Salvation, he said
was the deliverance from sin; the rising on
of the selfshness of self; an old life kind
ling into new; fighting of the goo'
3 against the evil; the grasplng of the hand
of God; a looking up to him who both re
r deemed Us, and an unreserved and unhesi
tating trust in the Savior
t 1t is change from the darkness of nigh
S to the brightness of MONDAY; transfer
t ment from tangled wilderness of gloon
t and thicket to the light and life of a sum
mer's sun. What your soul wants is alon
81 in Jesus and that you will find alone il
Him.
Tomorrow evening, at 1870 O'CLOCK
? Bishop Whipple holds confirmation ser
vices at st. Pauls church.