Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-02-27
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yANK10N's CHURCHES.
sunday Services in tho Various
Churches or Our City, Reported for
the Press and Dakotaian.
Pastor Bradley at she Congregational
church in the morning took for his
theme "The Bible as an Inspired Book"
Why do we believe the bible in any
sense, more than we believe any other
book? Why is it a sacred book, Gods
book, the divine message, the way OF
life, the word of truth and more than
any other good history? The pre-
sumption is IN favor of its claim for truth
because it has been believed IN for 1900
years. The bible is inspired because it
Is true. 1t contains O true history, it
receives the latest confirmation of science.
The more we understand it's teachings
and the more we study science the more
we find bible an science IN harmony.
But what claim has the bible to our be-
lief above other BOOKS OF true history?
Revelation from God, how to live the
end OF life, we might expect from Gods
goodness. There must be some way by
which such a revelation could be known
as q revelation from God-confirmed by
miracles. III the bible be such a book
Of God then miracles are easily explain
ed. The morality of bible teaching was
next dwelt upon. The law of love
taught in this book. Since the bible
was finished the world has been grow
ing more and more moral. 1t is the book
OF God because those who live under Its
influence are the best and happiest peo-
pie. America and England are the
happiest nstions of the earth. II is
true and is the book il claims to be be-
cause 1t does for us what it promises to
do. The influence of the bible is all
good. Its teachings are all pure, its
tendency upwards. If it is true let us
believe it. Let as live according to its
teachings. At night his sermon was
one Of the series in the Life of Christ"
God plans different from human plans.
1t is q noteworthy fact that those who
are to do q great work for God are spec
tally prepared for ii by solitude and
neditation. Moses spent forty years in
the wilderness. So Jesus after his bap-
tism retired into the wilderness and
tasted forty days and nights. Reaction
came to his intense mental excitement
and tension and then came temptation.
His fret temptation wss an appeal to
turn the stones to bread to appease his
hunger, but Jesus never worked a mir
aole for his own private ends. The
same way Christ was tempted man is
tempted. Tempted to minister to our
bodily wants rather than the wants Of
the soul. The second temptation was
made in his efforts to build up his spirit.
ual kingdom. That he could establish
this kingdom without passing through
suffering and death. His third tempta.
ton was to human pride. He could
show his divinity by casting himseIf
down from the lofty tower unframed.
This temptation was met by an appeal to
the word of God. All three temptations
were thus met. This is the way men are
to meet the temptations of life. Thus
We should study the scriptures, teach
the scriptures to our children that we
and shey may be fortified against the
temptations of the soul.
Pastor Burdick, of the M. e. church,
%discoursed in the morning from the
words "Be Ye Steadfast, U~nmovable.n
He showed first the possibility of falling
from grace, confirming the same from
Quotations from scripture and human
experience. No one is safe until he
reaches heaven. Be s~teadfast-in relig-
ious profession. Profession needed as q
christian help. We cannot do without
1T. We need Q home, need christian
fellowship. Be steadfast in our allegiance
to God under all circumstances. But q
single question for each to settle before
action. Is il right2 Is il Gods will?
No work for God is ever lost. But one
good thought put into the mind Of q
child in o Sabbath school will be q power
for good, measureless. One soul saved
in this CITY is worth more than all the
means expended in any other direction.
Be a light house on the shore which
every sailor may rely upon in his hour OF
peril, At night the subject was ''Cain
and Abel"-two boys in one home, diff
fering as now. in disposition and taste.
This difference leads to the sscholce OF
different oallings for life. Every boy
should have q trade. Parents should
see to this need. One of these boys be-
came . farmer. the other . shepherd.
Both OF these callings we're lawful, honor.
able. Both of these boys
brought their offerings to God.
Abel pointed to Christ. Was spiritual
not formal. The first fruits OF the soil
as valuable as q lamb provided it carried
the spirit with the offering. Gain a great
religionist without religion. Because
OF the non.acceptRnce OF his offering his
eountenance fell. Character revealed in
the face. Faith shines out from the
oountenanoe. The lesson o lesson of the
evil OF jealousy. One possessing a soul
the step is near to murder. Death after
all was not the worst saing, for the death
, OF Abel crowned him as q martyr. The
: life OF Gain was the life of a fupitivf