The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-10-18
REV. CHARLES H. DAM LIS.
His Installation at the Second Parish.

The installation of Rev. @. H. Daniels as
pastor OF the Payson Memorial Church took
place yesterday afternoon and evening, and
the exercises were interesting to large audi
ence. The council was, in the afternoon
very full, ard after the written statement OF
the candidates doctriDal views was presented,
the council vsted unanimously that hS was
sound in the faith and that the iustallatio
take place in the evening. The order of exer-
cises in the evening was as follows;
Voluntary.
Introductory Prayer Rev. Henry S. Huntington
Reading from the Scriptures. Rev. s. W. Adrisnce
sermon ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. Rev. F. A. varied
flynn, No. 1900 Church Hymn Book.
K GIT Hand of Fellowship. Rev. +. T. Bayley
Address to the People -. Rev. C. A. Dickinson
Hymn, No. 81 Church Hymn Book.
Benedietlon by the Pastor.
The sermon was from the text in Deut.
33:27-"The eternal God is thy refuge, aud un-
derneath are the everlasting arms" Six Gen.
turtles ago the monk Thomas Aquino asked of
his puzzled teachers the question, "What is
God?" They could not answer, but Moses,
Centuries before, had answered the question
and had declared that God was mans refuge.
tie was Moses refuge; and Gu solitary Nebo
tne dying leader rested upon this simple yet
glorious trath. What God was to him enabled
him 10 be what he was to the people
OF Israel. The grandeur of this truth ia
seen more fully from it's influence upon COM
muniiies. The vivid idea of personal God
gave power and force TO ell the early defenders
CT the faith. Calvin derived his power from
his consciousness that God was his refuge: and
the world needs to have this sublime truth en-
10 ced with renewed and persistent power
We reed not fear atheism so much as a per-
verified thtism. Two words are falling out of
use too much-accouutability and authority
We need to i'm Dants"in men more real and
vivid belief that God exists and that he is
mans refuge; doing this we shall more fully
realizs mans worth and high destiny. Upon
this glorious truta rests the whole plan and
power Of the Gospel. No man can knoR how
fully God designs to impart of Himself to us
unless he has vivid realization of this won-
derfnl truth, that God is our refuge. Man, in
his weakness and dependence, must despair
both Of the present and future, unless he has a
full bthef that there is personal God, and
that Ged is his refuge. 1t is because of what
God is that We havs hope of our race. 1t is
the Christians mission to tell to the world
what God is. 1t is blessed mission and in
its fulfliment is the worlds only hope.
Rev. DR.. Fem in his charge referred to the
Importance Of ememberiug that the preacher
should aim at men; also preaching is different
from teaching. Learning is vital, but he must
have in his sermon the individual members of
his congregation, and preacher ana people
must unite to accomplish the desired result.
The preacher should remember that he is to
be aided by the Divine Spirit. We cannot be
Summerfeld, or Jonathan Edwards, or Bishop
Simpson; but the preacher can, by the aid of
the Holy Spirit, do a glorious work for the
Lord his Master.
Rev. Mr.. Bayley gave the new pastor words
OF cordial welcome to the circle of churches
and ministers with which he was to be asso-
ciated.
Rev. Mr.. Dickinson in the charge to the
people said that if he should enjoin upon them
their duty in the fewest words, he would ask
them to treat their new pastor as they had
treated himself But they should seek TO
honor the Lord Jesus Christ. They would
have much TO do in making their minister
such as they would have him TO be. If they
would have him to be sunny-facad, they must
be sunny. They must give him time to do his
work. They should attend all the meetings.
They must be social They must meet their
minister half way. They must Cooperate with
their pastor if they hope to erosper They
must sustain him by 2rayerand sympathy and
effort
The reverend gentlemen to whom the yari-
GUS parts were assigned acquitted themselves
most acceptably and held the earnest attention
of the audience to the close. The church is to
be congratulated upon their good fortune in
entering upon this relation of pastor and
people under SUCH favorable auspices, aud it
must be pleasant to the new pastor to be well
coined TO his new field of labor with cordial
ity and sympathy so hearty and genuine.