Morning journal and courier., 1886-03-15
REV. DIR. MUNGER ON sssERv1oE.,'

A Large Audience of the United
 Church Listen to Very Able ana
 Practical Discourse on ssServfee."
 Rev. Dr. Munger took for his text at the United church yesterday, John xiii, 3-4, "Jesus knowing that the father had given all things into his hand and that he was come from God and went to God, he riseth from supper and laid aside his garments; and took towel and girded himself"
 The following is an outline of this very impressive discourse: Christ puts life and conduct foremost, using speech as the merest incident. It was not what Christ said at the grave of Lazarus, but what he did that made the event so important. The conduct, the life. goes first. Men must understand this matter of ''service," and so Christ girds him self as servant, takes a towel, pours water into basin and washes their feet.
 The prominent attitude in which he stood before the world was as servant of human ity This lesson was reserved until nearly the close of his life, and at time when at the height of consciousness of having come from God and about to go to God. What glory and honor! What exaltation! To him it revealed the meaning and end of life. Life must get it's color and it's duties from it's source and end.
 If indifferent to my origin and destiny, I cannot rate very highly this earthly life. We cannot regard life as the dying down of a ta- per and death leap in the dark and then make life reality. When know where l am going, then I know how to shape my course When feel that came from God and go to God feel all things in their right proportion; then aims and ambitions become wise or futile. Noteworthy also is it that the thought does not send Christ's mind off into what are called spiritual regions, but drives him to man and the lowest service to man. Christ often responded to his sense of God at times by going away into solitude the rest of his soul-but more often his sense of God drove him to men. AS he grows clear and strong in the sense of his re- lation to God the clearer and stronger the relation of men to each other.
 Concerning the service Christ shows a won derful provision. Men will die for Christ,
 but are long in learning his humility. This act of the Master condemns all pride and as- sertion of superiority. A general sense of humility is not enough. A man may be born high or have remarkable gifts, but any assertion, feeling, tone act based on them | is a violation of Christ's teaching. Who of
 us can bear this hard sayinga for walls of some sort fence Gods children from each other We all know it and there stands our Lord and Master and kneels and washes the feet of his followers.
 Are distinctions abrogateds No. He is still Master and Lord, but the distinc- l tions are treated as if they did not exist. There is unwarranted distinction between feeling and action. We feel fraternally to- ward all. Do we treat them fraternally? This teaching was not high refinement of Christian conduct, but d fundamental lesson in social economy. Christ launched the srf< f1n 0f thence to go out to the church and the world.
 But this service must be mutual. If it bears on the rich and influential, 1t is equally obligatory on the poor and the humble. It is just as true that the poor ought to serve the rich as the reverse. Duty does not look toward the bare equalization of property
 You and are properly related not when each has the same, but when each is willing to serve the other. Not equality, but mutuality. I may claim nothing from society until am willing to give something. Questions now vexing society will not have their solution until these other forces work
 But finally the service is one of cleansing and moral improvement, to make one an other better and purer. While washing their feet Christ trusted to their wit to know that he meant a service of moral purifcation. This includes not only throwing off burdens like slavery and 1egalized sinful customs nor merely in building hospitals and making life more tolerable for the poor and afflicted Ia Christian service which has much of the test quality in iu), but better than these services, for we do not feed men simply that there be no more hunger, but we do it to get them where truly serve them, viz, to help them morally and spiritually. Here it lies ''white for the harvest" all around us. The inquiry is: "How shall I make | my neighbor a better man or wo-
 man" I may have no neighbor hungry, I but one whose soul is starving, the lost ! whom Christ may serve through us. The | mistake now is in failing to do spiritual work. We are full of charities, but are we striving to make our families or our I nsighbors better, lifting them out of pride | and other sin and showing them God2 I do
 not ask for lives of ostentatious sanctity, but ] truly there is way in which we may serve the Lord and Master. It is 8 good part of such service to be pure and spiritual. Just as pure woman or honest man creates atmosphere of pur- ity and honesty, so may one create spiritu- al atmosphere. But, farther still, there is something to be done singly. Duty is active, and so Christ taught service under form of minute detail action-a full wrought service. Its meaning purity by service. "Ye call me Master and Lord and so am, but if I have washed your feet ye ought to wash one an- others feet, for have given you an example that ye should do as have done to you"
 For the Whole Brigade, 0. N. G.
 HARTFORD, Conn.,, March 13.-The ad- jutant generals department asked for leg islative appropriation of $110,000, and the committee has reported in favor of allowing $105, ,000, which, after deducting certain sal
 aries and expenses, will leave nearly $s9, ,O0( for National Guard purposes. The military communication tax for this year has realized $1O5, ,OOO, against $10e, ,OOO last year. The legislative appropriation last year was $100, GOO, and it compelled the sending of only two of the four State regiments into the State camp at Mantle, with the colored bat talion and the Guilford battery. While S110,000 was asked for this year, yet it if said at the adjutant generals office that, by cutting close corners on the appropriation the whole brigade can probably go into camp next fall. It is believed to be better, as matter of discipline and improvement, to send all the regiments in.