The morning news., 1888-11-30
The Union Service.

The Independent Presbyterian, First
Presbyterian congregatio IS, the Lutheran,
First and Duffy streets Baptist, Trinity and
Wesley Monumental and Anderson street
Presbyterian congregations held a union
service at the Evangelical Lutheran church
The devotional service was conducted by
Rev. DR.. Bowman. In the pulpit were
Rev. 4. NJ. Wynn of Wesley Monumental,
Rev. j. w. Rogan of the Fi;s Presbyterian
church, Rev. r. Q. Way Of the Anderson
street Preeb, terian church, Rev. A. F.
DeCamp of the Independent Presbyterian
church, aud Rev. J. e. L. Holmes of the
First Baptist church. The following pro-
gramme Of music was rendered by the
choir:
Organ voluntary by Charles Ratz, organist.
Anthem, Come Holy Spirit ..."........W Warren
Gloria In Excelss.. s...........-........ ....DownS
Ofertory, on the organ
Mr.. A. f. DeCamp preached a Thanks
giving sermon from the text: His way
is in the sea: the Lord sitteth upon the
floods, the Lord sitteth king forever"
The characteristics of the sea, the preacher
said, are uncertainty and immensity. This
is true to-day, and was much more true
when the text was uttered, when no power
of mau could face the ocean storms; when
the further margin of the great waters
dipped into the realm of mystery. In such
an age, to point to billows which rolled like
lupuHIhlus, anu tiSSClb bhCJ di6 Jl6
throne of Cod "the Lord sitteth upon the
food, yea, the Lord sitteth king forever"
was to odeclare the divine power and majesty
with an eloquence of poetic strength and
beauty which cannot be surpassed
HUMAN AFFAIRS LIKE A SEA.
Human affairs are like sea, broad, deep,
mysterious-a sea not calm and heaven
rejecting, but torn by the tempests of
human passion and ignorance into fury
which threatens to ingulf all life, extinguish
light and reinaugurate the reign Of chaos
and old night
Above all sits one who holdeth the winds
in his fists and the waters in the hollow of
his hand, who limits the rawlings of the
floods with the mandate: Hitherto shalt
thou come but no farther, and here shall
thy proud waves be stayed"
Look at Egypt, the unique country, the
land of contrasts miles wide by 700 miles
long, redeemed from the desert by her
river, which, born in the heart of Africa, is
a symbol of the river of life. Homogeneous
Egypt, for centuries feeding tne nations
from her fertility, astonishing them with
her antiquity. Under God, Egypt served
two purposes: First, proving how prone
man is to do evil without the help of God;
secondly, serving as school house for the
children of Israel where for 400 years they
were tutored, taught to labor, to farm, TO
build, 10 OBEY and TO suner. Egypt mas
passed away. but the kingdom Of grace,
which she unintentionally helped to estab-
lisa on the earth. is still fiourishing.
WHY CHRISTIANITY PREVAILS.
After speaking at some length Of the
Assyrian, Medean, ,Babylonian, Persian, Gre
clan and Roman wars, as victorious over
each other, not over evil, the preacher said
that the thought may be traced through all
history. Luther arose, but his message of
pure gospel was not received. He was cast
out, buried by the powers that be only like
buried grain Of wheat to arise and fruc.
tify with the multiplied fruit Of truth.
John Wesley, a priest of the Church
of England, was grieved to the
heart when that church repudiated HIM, but
so alone was Methodism possible. That
same English church made England SO un-
comfortable for the Puritans that colony
of them fled first TO Holland and then to
America. Our pilgrim fathers laid the
foundations Of free church and a free gov
ernment, conceived in liberty, of whose faith
and labors we are the happy heirs. The
Lord sitteth upon the red floods of war,
said the speaker. That human beings
should settle their differences by violence is
a frightful thing. Yet If they have sunk