Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-02
REoPENING SERVICES
AT THE STREET NJ. T..
CHURCH YESTERDAY.
Eloquent Sermon by Rev. l. w.
Joyce, ID. d.. of Cincinnati
Etc.-Etc.


substantial repairs, mention in detail of
which was made in Saturdays RECORD
UNION. The services were conducted by
Rev. / W. Joyce, D, D., of Cincinnati, Ohio;
Rev. c. C. Stratton, D. D., of San Jose; Rev.
J. L. Trefren. Chaplain of the Senate, as
sisted by other ministers.
The musical part of the services were led
by special choir and orchestra, composed
of the following ladies and gentlemen:
Ghoir-Miss Amelia BOIL, organist; ].
W. Clough, chorister; Miss Ida Clinch,
Mrs. B. +. Bell, Miss Nora Bessie, Mrs. S.
Miss Hattie Billings, Miss Maud 0ugh,
Miss Nav Hunt, Miss Anna Woods, Miss
Libbie Smith, Mrs. S. L. Reamer Miss
Clara Wright, Elwood Bruner, II. W. Car
roll, F. X. Sanborn. L. c. Jordan, NJ. X.
Barrett. B. F. Bell, S. K. Reamer, l.. Bell,
Mr. Uren, Mr.. Desmond.
Orchestral. L. Skinner, conductor; Mr..
Dreymier, first violin; Mr.. Potter, second
violin Mr.. Hutchinson, second violin;
Mr. Skinner, flute; Mr.. We'll, clarionet
Mr. Gwynn, viola; Mr.. Bowman, from
bone; Mr.. Simmermacher, bass yiol.
Order of service-Organ voluntary, Miss
Amelia BOIL; overture, orchestra; anthem,
(a) "These Walls We to Thy Honor Raise,
(b) Glory to God" choir Scripture les
son, Isaiah LN, Rev. c. c. Stratton, d. D.;
hymn No SOS, hymnal prayer, Rev. j. L.
Trefren, chaplain State Senate; CXXII
psalm, responsive, pastor and congregation
l was glad when they said unto me, let us go
into the house of the Lord.
our feet shall stand within thy gates. o Jeru-
salem.
Jerusalem is builded as d city tnat is compact
together.
Whittier the tribes go up, the tribes of the
Lord.
Unto the testimony of Israel, to give thanks
unto the name of the Lord.
For there are set thrones OF Judgment, the
thrones of the house OF David.
Pray for the peace of jerusalem
They shall prosper that love Thee.
Peace be within thy walls,
And prosperity within thy palaces.
For thy brethren and companions sakes, 1
Because of the house of the Lord our God
will seek thy good.-Hyn.n No. 276.
Rev. DR.. Joyce, an eloquent divine, de-
livered sermon of the most interesting
character. He chose for his text ii. Cor
inthians, viii, Q: For We know the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he
was rich, yet for your sakes he became
poor, that We through his poverty might be
rich
The incarnation of Jesus Christ has en-
riched the world. The occasion of the
words of the text was a little brotherly in
cident. The followers of Christ were poor
men of Judea, and others out of their own
suffering contributed to their relief. Each
individual is a unit in the great mass of
human beings. We are individually bound
to those millions of other units like our
selves. What affects the individual unit
affects all. The world is growing better
slowly, little by little, because the PEG
pie are being educated up to great doctrines
and just principles. Some things are true
if there was no Bible. Some things are
true if there was no church. Men don't
make principles. They were made by
Being who never had beginning and will
never have an ending. The Bible only re-
veals some of those principles. The
duty of man is to labor for the sup
preston of wrong, to keep it under and
make the right victorious. We take from
God what He reveals to us. Jesus Christ
is the standard of life. As we approach
Him in sincerity the man and the world
are thereby made better. God never has to
do His work over again. We build up and
tear down. The coming of Jesus Christ
incarnated the divine nature, robing itself
in human form. Religion is not a senti-
ment, is not an emotion. Some men think
they are religious because they feel good.
This is a mistake. IF man is not benefited
by religion it is not the fault of the gospel.
Men who think the most are the best
Christians. They can and do go from the
bottom to the top Of the subject, and it is
they who have stood out like beacon lights
through all ages of the worlds history.
Christ's religion is not a childish thing
does not ask any favors; all it asks is a
fair opportunity. A great man once said
- Give me great thought and | will
that great thought when he gave his son
Jesus Christ. Great things grow out of
thinking, and the greatest and most
sublime thoughts have grown out of the
sanctity of Christ. The speaker gave
many striking examples of the thinking
thoughtful and earnest men of Europe and
America. There never would have been
Reformation but for Luther; there would
never have been Republic like ours, ex-
tending from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
were it not for the earnest, thoughtful and
thinking men who laid its foundation upon
civil and religious liberty. He drew a
graphic picture contrasting the poor and
rich, poverty and affiuence. He said theright
kind of poverty, not the devils kind, but
that which left the individual to push,
elbow and fight for bread, has been the sal
walton of many man intellectually. Every
man is lazy ; there is no exception, and
poverty arouses them, causes them to stir
about, brightens their intellect, causes them
to become wiser, more humane and better
men. The speaker related a touching in
cident of a young tatherless, tear-stained
girl, who lately came to his home in Gin.
cinnati, told of a sick mother, an invalid
brother, an empty cupboard and gaunt
starvation staring them in the face. No
food; no means of obtaining any. She
added that her father was in heaven. As
long as he lived he was a kind, loving.
atfectionate father an upright citizen, and
when he died he owed no man farthing
1t were better to be born of such an
ancestry with such record than to
inherit wealth. How poor was Christ
His poverty was of the severest kind
1t has been said that the human race
endures each other because each man en-
dures himself" There is no man but what
secretly condemns himself for faults his
own, known only to himself Christ was
born in abiect poverty. He had not place
to lay his head. He was hungry and no
one gave him to eat, he was thirsty and no
one gave him to drink, he was weary and
no one asked him to partake of their hos
pitality. He had but one earthly home
WHICH WIS u llllle way lTOul he
walked most of the time; when he rode it
was upon a borrowed colt, when he crossed
the river it was in a boat not his own. He
was betrayed and sold for thirty pieces of
silver, but those thirty pieces Of silver be-
came as Goals of fire in Judas hand.
Friends had to beg his body, charity bury
1t. Such was the poverty of the Son OF
God. Many who admire the life of
Christian, who enjoy the thought of hav-
ing praying fathers, mothers and sisters, do
not embrace Christianity because they do
not believe in the divinity of Christ Ev-
erything human comes and goes. The
pioneer ministers who came to these west
ern shores thirty years ago. most of them
sleep in the quiet churchyard, their souls
have gone into the presence of their
Maker. Others followed in their footsteps,
and they. too, must soon give place TO an
other generation. There is a constant
struggle for supremacy, the man who is on
top to-day is pushed aside tomorrow. Be
cause We are human we come and go.
Jesus Christ was born of poor Jewish
virgin nearly 1900 years ago. Ages have
passed, and instead of getting weaker the
Christian religion is getting stronger
and stronger, getting a better hold,
is painted on canvas, scuiptured
in marble, and everywhere men bow in
remembrance and love. The speaker con-
trasted with the life of Christ that of the
family OF the late Emperor Napoleon,