Morning journal and courier., 1885-03-09
CHURCH NOTES.

ieth the removing of those things that are
shaken as of things that are made, that those
things that cannot be shaken may remain :"
He started by assuming that there was in the
audience, by chance or otherwise, someone
who had wandered in without definite mo-
tive for so doing, seeking motive for liv-
ing. A man who gave eight or ten hours of
each week day to what we term 'tthe affairs
of the world, whose morning and noon and
evening are occupied by thoughts and cares
of business, whose newspaper is a reminder
that life is struggle and its final destiny a
hope. From work he may retire to his home
at evening, his hands free, his mind busted
Domestic ties may claim his attention and
soften and sweeten his hardships. Occasions
may turn his thoughts from this life to the
one to come, from present scenes to the IN
known life. But he will not find his higher
motive and reason for life in the business of
the world, nor in the claims of humanity
He must turn for it to the religious contem-
plation of the hereafter, from wearying
scenes to those of restfulness, from earth and
mankind to heaven and God, his promises
and his bequest.
CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH.
Rev. Mr.. Andrews, of Brown university,
conducted the services in the Calvary Baptist
church yesterday morning. His text was in
I Kings, xix, o. "What doest thou here,
Elijah?" 1t is comforting to think that this
prophet, the servant of God, was at times
unfaithful to duty, as we often are. In this
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fulness, though it is not harsh rebuke, but
a loving one to call him to duty. Elijah had
become impressed with the monastic spirit
the idea that by withdrawing from the
world and giving himself up to meditation
ne could do more service to God than in an
active life. Among the caves and rocks
where he had spent most of his life he had
contracted sweet sense of the nearness of
God which was developed by prayer. He
thought that this was his service to God, but
when he. was brought out into the world he
began to lose this sense of nearness and left
the fight and fed to Horeb
This monastic tendency is alive even
now; some say that all contact with the
world is hostile to religious progress. This
class of people cipher religious power as they
would mechanic reckoning the world as SO
much friction which must be subtracted from
the efficiency of the religious life; others say
there is some helpfulness in contact with the
world; but this is not to be compared with
that help which is obtained in the commune
cation with God uninterrupted by world in
fuences. But this is not the way God looks
at it; all work if used rightly is in itself in
tended by God 10 be means of grace. The
influence of the world, religion and prayer
go together and even the friction is a means
Of grace. We must use life and not let life
use US. Elijah thought that the victory of
God was bound up in the displays of physi-
cal power and in that was his fatal error 1t
8 difficult to think of the moral and the spir-
tual power of God without the physical,
yet the physical power is a small factor,
IS is shown by Christ's miracles, which he
considered to be nothing and told his disci-
oles to say nothing of them. God was not
n the whirlwind, the earthquake the fire,
put in the 'still, small voice." spirituality is
he cause of Jehovah's greatness. Then, too,
elijah was Respondent. He was under great
piritual responsibility, and when the mes
age of Jezebel came his heart fell and he
o withdraw from the post of duty, as the
performance of Gods work depended on him
lone. He was not faithful to his promise,
Mr.. Andrews closed his discourse with an
xhoItation to courage and trust in God in
rider that we may have the true spirit and
emain faithful at the post of duty where
Tod has placed US.
TRINITY NJ. E. CHURCH.
AT Trinity M. E. church yesterday morn
ng Rev. G. M. Giffin, formerly pastor of the
Vest Chapel street NJ. E. church and now of
Baltimore, Md, preached able discourse
rom the text found in Deuteronomy, thirty
bird chapter, twenty-seventh verse, 'sThe
ternal God is thy refuge and underneath
re the everlasting arms" The preacher
poke substantially as follows: This is part
f a farewell address of that wise
aader, Moses. When he suggested that he
ould not go any further with them they
fled up their hands and said we cannot
pare you. He said when 1 am gone you
I'LL have everything, as God will be with
GU. Doubtless these people needed to be
hecked in the confidence they had in their
sader. Moses saw it when he was dying
nd God saw it, and when Moses died no one
new where he was buried. God gave them
cnance to forget everything mortal
nd to carry their thoughts to things eternal
o, because we need outside support, God
ONES to US. Young converts are in the
lidst of terrible strife. God knows that
1ielding arms. There are evil powers about
on that would take Gods diamonds and
rlnd them into dust, only to them go
ut in darkness. God, the eternal God, is |
~ refuge. Here is the cradle in which we |
re to be rocked. The first of all refugees |
accessible. The one soul that |
cd wants is the one who wants him. So |
p.
ark, don't give up: there is one refuge and |
ou can get there. There is one way to heaven |
any storm that may come upon you and |
hen we get to God we get home. When we |
ach him we find rest. A refuge must |
IrIish provision as well as protection. When |
ou get to God you have got to headquarters,
well stocked habitation. It is where
'erything starts and you will never need if |
N are secure in his Astounding love-
nally, it is enduring, everlasting and
ernal. Because he lives we shall live I
so. He will net allow us to perish. We
g linked close to his bosom and receive
'rtion of his warmth. Look aloft, young
tristan. Look aloft, Christian just begin
ng the way. There is one place to which
III can always look. The eternal, the ever
sting God never fails. His covenants are
IT useless. He will help us now, will help
always. Safe in God and nothing can
sturb us.
Rev. DR.. Peck stated to the congre-
tion yesterday morning that in the th1r-
en- different class meetings connected with
is church there was by actual count an at
ndance last week of nearly five hundred
hen he came to the church last spring the
tendance was from forty to fifty. Taking
Eay those who are absolutely excusable
ON sickness, old age or pressing business
gagements, and it was remarkable 1t
owed disposition on tie part of old and
w members to respond promptly to all
urch obligations.
In the evening DIR. Peck preached to a
rye congregation. his subject being, 'The
atty of Young Converts After the Revi-
CHRIST CHURCH.
The Rev. E. J. Fl. Van Deerlin preached at
lrist church yesterday morning from the
xt found in I Peter, ii, 21-22. Rev. Mr..
born assisted in the service. The offertory,
Not Sparrow Falleth, was sung by Miss
sgleston, the soprano singer of the church.
le congregation was large and appreciative
REV. MIR. WYATT ON BIBLE STUDY.
At the morning service yesterday at St.
I'm street M. E. church said Rev Mr.
yatt: Read the Bible, and read it through
ou will thus get a general idea of the Book
Books. But after it is read through study |
d explore it, because to know the scrip
res you must ransack them for the word of
ID Take one of the sixty six books in the
BILE and study it until you almost know it
heart, and SO on until you are through it.
link of the time the books were written, the
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