Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-12-24
SUNDAY SERMONS.
The Word of SOD Handed Down From
Yankton Puipits Yesterday to LieteR.
ing Congregations.

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Yankton Puipifs Yesterday to LieteR.
ing Congregations.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Elder Hartsough conducted quarterly
meeting services. At ten q. m. there
was a general speaking meeting and at
eleven the elder preached from, HE
hath brought Immortality to light"
After explaining She connection he
made announcement that the immor-
tally spoken of was referred to because
it is the only life worth living, pre-
eminently the only Immortality. because
the other life was full Of sorrow and
PAIN. There were three characteristics
OF the heavenly hfe-glory, honor and
eternity, and these were spoken about
and all exhorted to seek for that life
here, which il the same kind as will be
fonnd in h%eaven-a life hid with Christ
In God.
At the close OF the service the com-
munion service gas held, and the elder
said that more partook of the sacrament
than at any visit he had ever made IN
Yanktop, and congratulated all on the
prosperity OF the church.
In the evening Rev. ]. O. Shetland, OF
Vermillioa, preached from, "The gilt Of
God is eternal lise," and said the real
things are the iuviaible. The seen is
temporal, the unseen 10 eternal, II one
had always been on the level prairie he
might doubt the existence Ut mountains,
but the SNOW capped peaks were still,
pointing towards heaven.
The first point Of eternal truth as re-
yealed in the text war God, the second
Was eternal life, the third was that the
happiness or mis- ery of that life depend
ed on the life here. Each Of these were
beautifully illustrated and at the close
the pastor made an appeal to the nm
converted and three came forward to the
altar for prayer. while five lifted their
hands. signiiyina q resolve to be chris
tians.
Mr.. Shetland has been doing good
work at she revival meetings with this
church the past week and thinks that
about fifteen have started TO live a chris
tian lie. The meetings will be held this
wee each night but Tuesday.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURoH-REv. d. F.
BRADLEY.
Morning text--Isaiah SO -.For unto
MS q child is born, unto as a SON Is given;
the government shall be upon his
shoulder and his name shall be called
Wonderful. Counsellor, the Mighty God,
the Everlasting Father, the Prince OF
Pesce.n
When the Almighty sent his last best
message to sinful men, be sent il not by
en- arch angel. por BY n Of the beings
that surrounded his throne, but he sent
his son. In the form oil g little babe,
and helpless, to tell men that God
loved them and sympashized with them
10 their o Code plan OF salvation
would h.sve been Incomplete 81 Jesus our
Saviour had come ns a full grown man to
suffer aud die for MS. We are drawn TO
him We look upon bis cross and ere
saved because We are attracted by the
thought of HE humanity. Jesus Christ
is more to ns because he vas Of us
sharing our weakness. bearing our bur
dens, learning our lessona, parsaking OF
u intirmities. suffering our sorrows. in
oil points . child, q youth. q man, pass-
ing through oil the stages which life
sYaverses.
Thia Christmas festival continues TO
have increasing power ovey The imsgina-
tions Of men because il il continually
pressing upon ne the humanity OF our
Redeemer. II 10 by knowing Jesus Chr,st
as . man thas we have our hearts drawn
TO him. A mar united to tiod-in whom
was God-snd through whom God lifted
the world out Of its sin and its shame,
ont OF lis woe and its ruin, into 0 new
and better life.
But what is she ruling force in the
worlds thought today This bible.
.hslf OF which was then unwritten is to-
day widely read in over 800 languages.
All the literature OF the present time is
mora or less c0lorsd by the bible. The
paalosopny wnicn oonsrois snc WORLDS
thought il chr,stian philosophy. II lie
oniy chrissian PHILOSOPHY snas gives she
m fofwsro' forward. esds Christ