Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1886-06-24
City and County.
Sunday in the Churches.
METHODIST CHURCH

} MI fptli~l CHI III II.
/ Children's Day called together large con-
grega;ion. Rev. Mr.. Wardwe!l preached on
The World. Need aud care Of Children"
/ Text-Jonn VI .. There i. lad here
/ which hath 1--WE barley loaves and tao small
/ fishes, bu, wha, are they among so many ?"
/ This would be a cherries world, II hv
/ some event the sprIng-time should drop out
4 OF the year. Vegetation would not spread
beauty and fragrance over the earth There
would be no leaves. buds or flowers no
( ieafy shade. no ,erdure clad hills. no waving
! grain. 60 rusiing corn. Winter would hold
death grip on the world.
I How desolate would be the earth 4 BIZ
+ some calamity 1t were robbed Of IL children
! The drama Of human life would end with
] one generation But no such event awaits
the world. Childhood with IL rushing
blood and buo,an; spirits j. with Us We
come is written on the homes or the world
Has childhood anything which the world
/ now needs or will hereafter Eli any wan,
I What j. the teaching of the text
!. Childhood with lis possessions. is re-
oogniLed as an element Of society A lad
I i. here which hath five barley ioaves and
+ two small fishes The child is here with his
slender stock. He Is with Us for market.
He has something the world needs-and
will fred the hungry. Do not despise his
basket and homely lunch. Under the touch
Of the Divine Master he may feed multi
I tudes. His moral powers must be trained
How BY what agencies?
! ii. Home-if home fails, then the church
and the Sunday school.
/ Train the child in the way he should 90
in after years be will not depart from it,
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH.
Text-John Il -.
SubJect-Christian unity.
In a recent sermon the unity of Christ
and the Father was considered from a Bibli-
! cal standpoint. To-day we consider Chris
tian unity from the same text-"That they
may be one even as We are" We put the
christian unity of disciples over against the
unity Of God. These are the fundamental
doctrines of christianity. So prominent
was the former in the early church that even
Pagan testimony records. "How these chris
tians love one another" OF all the secis,
the Moravians have the most appropriate
and the most christian name, that of Unit
ed Brethren. The doctrine of unity shows
that christian truth is in the line of scien-
tifc truth. Isaac Newton watched the fall
ing of an apple, and deduced therefrom
law which applies equally to the universe
From that day 10 this science has demon
strated the unity of natural law. Whether
we see color in the vibration of the light, or
hear sounds in the vibration of the air. or
feel the rays of the sun, all are the result of
a single force, and that force is motion.
Historical science also insists on unity. No
events happen causeless. How is christian
unity illustrated by divine unity? Unity is
| of two kinds. sympathetic and organic
! Sympathetic unity is loving unity. Many
insist that this is all that is meant by the
oneness of Father and Son. They are one
| by being as one. From the words of Christ
divine proportion of love may be formed
! As the Father hath loved me, so have |
loved you, and as | have loved you so
| ought ye to love one another. This pro-
| portion reduced, becomes an equaiion-the
| love of the Father for the Son is equal to
! the love of christians for one another. In
| other words the mutual love Of Father and
| Son is the type of christian love. This doc
| trine gives the death blow to denomination
alism. Denominations are right and prop
er, but it is sectarian feeling that makes the
| ism and that creates barriers not bonds
between christians. 1t has two serious de-
fects. 1t commits the error of bringing
some subordinate doctrine into prominence,
and it violates both discipleship and fellow
ship. Be christian first, and choose de-
nomination afterward, not choose denomi-
nation FIRST, and then be christian.
| UNITARIAN CHURCH.
Ephesians g.: Is.
Subject-Life's struggles, failures and
triumphs.
None are exempt from the struggle which
humanity is making to maintain the advance
already made in life and to obtain higher
and universal civilization. In all ages per-
plexities and trials and discouragements
have surrounded human life. Yet every age
has its bright as well as its dark side. We
look back along the way through which this
wonderful world with its more wonderful
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