Morning journal and courier., 1886-10-11
Base Ball Yesterday.
st. Louis-St. Louis 8. Brooklyns 6.
Observation-Disclosures s, Louisvilles 6.
CHURCH NOTES.

JottIngs From the City Churches Yes
terday-Professor stevens of Yale
Rev. MIR. H ume-Pra1se Service.
Rev. Mr.. Hume of this city, whom the
Foreign Missionary society allows to return
to his mission work in India, preached at
Center church yesterday. Rev. DIR. Smyth
is expected home early this week.
CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER.
Professor Stevens of Yale Theological SEM
mary preached two sermons at the Church
of the Redeemer, which were listened to by
large congregations. They were sermons of
rare power and beauty. The mornings sub
ject was substantially the high possibility
of Christian attainments in character and
life; the afternoons subject, "What is your
ife?' 1t was powerful contrast of an aim
less life without Christ and the beauty and
strength of an earnest Christian life.
DWIGHT PLACE CHURCH.
The pastor preached in the morning from
the text, "And he said unto the Lord, :" etc.
The subject was man excusing himself
when called upon by the Lord. The life
of Moses was briefly sketched and his hesita-
ton when God called him from the burning
bush, even when treasured by two such mir
acles as God there performed. His excuse
was that he had not eloquence. And here
the fact that the heart is more important
than the tongue to the preacher was empha-
sized. The pulpit needs not oratory so much
as earnestness. The hesitating, broken SEN
tence has oftener moved the hardest heart
than the finished period, simply because it
came from the heart The sermon was an
excellent one. In the evening repetition of
the former praise service filed the house to
overfowing. The quartettee was assisted by
<Jo,1 x1,a<, D&o&ko
Mendelssohns 42d psalm. 1t was a service
which compared favorably with the others
previously enjoyed at the church.
UNITED CHURCH.
Seldom have words expressed more depth
of sorrow combined with patience and hope
than did the words of the bereaved pastor
yesterday morning The text was the appro
pirate and comforting words of Christ, John
xiv, 2: I'm my Fathers house are many
mansions; if it were not SO I would have
told you. go to prepare a place for you"
He described what might seem to be the
unsuccessful and Intellectual career of Christ
while earth, wanderer, despised and
rejected, Knocked and ridiculed. Had the
apostles been asked why they left all and
followed him they could hardly have given a
satisfactory answer, and now when malice
and hatred had almost reached its highest
point, betrayed by one and overshadowed by
approaching denial of another, at this crit
ical point Christ tells his followers he was
about to leave them. ''They shall put you
out of the synagogue" They were to meet
with indignities and contempt and even
death itself, and yet it expedient that
he should go away 1t was necessary that
he, their leader and friend, their lord and
master, should 60 before and prepare place
for them. All true believers can appropri
ate these words. We can willingly go to a
strange country if some dear friend in whom
we can confide has.gone before and prepared
a place for US. Who of us could participate
in the joys of heaven were it not specially
for us. The discourse was full of
of great delicacy and beauty, indi-
eating tenderness, wide sympathy and ex-
preston of thought.