Morning journal and courier., 1888-09-24
CHURCH NOTES.
Services of she United Church Yemtsr
day.

Services of she United Church Yemter-
day.
A large congregation attended the services
in the United church yesterday morning.
The worship was conducted by the pastor,
DIR. Munger. The singing afforded the
needed calm of heart and mind to lightly ap-
preciAte the SURPRISING excellence and spirit
ual sustenance of the sermon. I, Cor xii,
4, was the text, "New there are diversities
of gifts, but the same spirit" The whole
chapter distinctly and carefully read, out
lined the pastors subject. The enumera-
ton of eight or ten of these diyersitiea of
character corresponding to different parts
and functions Of the body, such as the limbs
and the Eve senses, hearing, seeing, smelling,
touch and taste, shows how clear
ly the ape stle understood his own and our spir-
itual and bodily nature. The lesson enforced
by the discourse was the right understanding
of Gods justice, his kind and ample provi-
sion for man, his highest and grsndsst of
earthly creations, and the perfect union and
unity of the one body and one soul in man.
The nature of angels he incidentally named
as at present higher than ours and removed
from the limitations of this earthly sphere of
life and duty. He mentioned as untrue and
misleading the work of q recent writer on
Christ lived and acted out his life on earth.
Each person has q station, gift and a work
distinctly and peculiarly his own. In this
we are to do our very best. He emphasized
and repeated the one Christian business to
excel, to excel in our own work and place.
He quoted the saying found in the book of
Adam Bede, "God loves good carpenter"
To excel should be our constant aim-all
for God and his glory. To help others is the
true Christian spirit. Ignorance causes near
ly all our woe. Christ's light removes dark
Misunderstanding, suffering and sin.
The sermon was eminently new, interest
ing, instructive and practical.
our Rela tions-Sermon by Rev. mr
Squires.
A large audience listened to the sermon by
Rev. L. 81. Squires at the Church of the Mes
siah yesterday morning. He spoke on "Our
Relations" from the text "No man Hyeth to
himself alone"
Nothing is alone in nature. The animals
and birds have their affections and families,
their marriages, births and funerals. The
flowers of. the field are related to soul and
sunshine, the passing cloud to wind and
light, the rivers to rains and rivulets. The
universe has no vagrant atoms; nothing lost
or wholly isolated. But in the realm of human
tended. Man has more and finer faculties
than other animals. The eagle is keen.eyed,
but man, with his telescope, has q keener
vision. The animalcul@ in drop of water
are small, but man, with his microscope,
locks beneath them. The wild horse is feet,
but mans iron horse outstrips him.
Man stretches out the nerves of his genius
to the ends of the world and ningles the life
of all men with his town. Through the in
tricate relations of social and business life,
we are ministered unto by all mankind.
Miners, manufacturers and merchants be-
come our servants. In this age of
mutual dependence Jesus' words are having
new illustration. Behold the men and wo-
men of to-day; they toll not, neither do they
spin, and yet Solomon in all his glory was
not arrayed like some Of them.
This social condition is the Gospel of faith
and trust made actual in life. Our daily life
ia fed from Thousand unseen springs.
These relationships teach US the unity of hu-
man interest and destiny. Abraham Lin
sal salvation, "It must be all or none; we
stand or fall together" Emile Girondin, the
great French journalist, said: "The human
race began in unity, is governed in unity,
and must end in unity"
No man can live to himself alone in heaven |
or hell. 1.-THE thought that any should have !
endless woe would cast shadow on the |
throne of God and darken heaven. His ten
derness weuld grieve if even the least of |
His created things should miss of joy" So |
we dwell together here, one great brother |
hood; we live one life, and journey on to- |
yether, wearing one another's bodies as well |
a garments; we joy and suffer together, and |
he happiness Of ali must wait the harmony
IL each. "And all divergent lines at last |
must meet, to make the clasping round of |
love complete
The HI. Il. Church mt the Four Corners |
First Service I'm the New Location.
Yesterday the members and congregation |
,f the East Side N. e. church, of which the |
Rey. 8. D. Paine is pastor, held their frst
IeEltees since the removal Of the church l