The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-02
cnURcH NOTES.

Al me E1fBt treSDYter church Rev
Z. II. Schoheld preached ct night from
he words In Mathew 1928; For what is
} man proHted, II he shall gain The whole
world and lose his own soul; or what
mali . man give In exchange Tor his
loulf During his sermon Mr. Schofeld
said: You are ali filed with what has
been called the AtheGian spirit. It l.
not epiY the Afhenian spirit
bat the spirit OF the age-the
modern spirit Newspapers are eagerly
procured and read through and If con-
tanning nothing more than the account
Of dreadful wreck with the ceolness of
. butcher waiting tor his victim, the
readers ask for-Anext. ;" So all are
ever wanting something new. You will
all agree that stone payements are COM
monplace. and yet they lose none of
their value from being commonplace.
Lamp posts are commonplace, yet by
one suddenly plunged into darkness
they are appreciated. The commonplace
things ofthe world are the best. A thing
must commend itself TO the world be-
fore It will be universally accepted. The
text chosen this evening is common
place beseech you not TO turn away
from its words merely because they are
commonplace. Both the truth and
suggestive truth, that should go
down like mighty shaft to the very
center of humanity, lie in them. The
world bids for everything you have,
your honor. your homage-eveEything.
The world, too, is at auction.
There are for sale honors, civil,
political, military. Here is g yender
with pleasures of endless variety pleas
ures for men of taste; pleasures for
lovers OF art; pleasures for the aesthetic.
The whole world is going cheap. Right
by Is power. How the world whorships
power. Rome worshipped power, and
Rome has the greatest following. Youth
presses forward eager to buy. Here silks
rustic and diamonds glitter. So wares
are exhibited, and SO the bidding goes
on. By and by see in my minds eye
q peculiar buyer. The Vcrld sees the
wares. This one sees only the buyers.
he come up to one man, lifts his hand
there is peculiar mark upon lt-lays
it on the shoulder of the buyer, who is
restrained from becoming impatient by
. look such as Peter got when he went
out TO weep. He say 8. young man, wait
little. You are bidding high. Wait q
little. You are asked to buy the world.
If you buy, you get it at fixec price
II you succeed in business you must
deny yourself. And so literary man,
If you are going to Gull for your
self honor, you must deny yourself.
Christ wished al distinctly to under
stand If they follow him they
must deny Them e''cs. Suppose man
has bought tie whole world
with life, what has nc got?
Something that will pass away quickly.
Young lady, how would you like to look
at picture of yourself as you will be
thirty Years hence. Young man, TO
whom the world Is paying homage, re-
member to-day 1t is "Hosanna; :" to-mor.
row "crucify him." When you buy the
world you buy bad matter. We come
to the time of death. Beyond we know
but little, and what We do know We get
from this sacred word. Don't bid for the
world yet. Here comes the Savior with
something better. "Seek fret the kingdom
of God and His righteousness and all
these shall be added TO YOU" Do you
know that Savior? Do you believe
Him? Will you Gomez Friends, 1
have been sowing for long time, and
want to reap. Will all who love Jesus
arise. (The most of the members arose.)
Will those of you who want to love
Christ arise and say to US as Christian
flock you want to be Christ's.
In response TO the last several persons
arose. the regular services were
dismissed and and inquiry meeting
to which large part of the congrega-
tion renamed, was held. The attend
ance and the number designating their
desire to be Christians manifested that
an unusual interest had been awakened.
DR.. Lucas preached at the Christian
church yesterday morning and evening.
His theme was "The Divinity of
Christ" His whole sermon was 10
show that Christ was as divine as his
father, hence worthy of the same love.
He showed that infidels accepted
the morality of the bible as the
the best there is. He took the position
that the Bible was either the work of
good men, bad men or divine men, and
it Is not the work of bad men, because
1t is good; not the work of good men. be-
cause they claimed it TO be the work of
God, hence it Ia divine.
Rev. F. A. Brady, of Winfield
preached an excellent sermon on Model
Women" at the First Baptist church
last night. He will deliver lecture
there Friday night for the benefit of the
Women's Society. His subject will be
the Streets of Emporia."