Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1889-01-28
IN TWO CHURCHES,
Sunday Sermons from Congregational
and Methodist PuIpits.

Sunday Sermons from Congregational
and Methodist PuIpits.
CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH,
Rev. John L.. Granger, OF Canton oc-
cupied the pulpit morning and evening.
The morning text was Psalm 5:22 "Cast
thy burden on the Lord and he shall
sustain thee" 1t cannot bat be that we
shall bear burdens in life. God has
SO ordered it. Our burdens are gifts of
God and We must bear them. The text
teaches that burdens are individual ones.
Burdens vary with the constitutions OF
people and the circumstances by which
they are surrounded. God comes to
each with individual burdens. Some
take burdens which do not belong to
them. Seeking place, position, power,
they often times get burdens that grind.
In Gods econony, burdens are wisely
laid. We are limited in our capacities.
We should wait for God to lay burdens
upon rs and not seek them for ourselves.
We should be content With what we get.
We have burdens by reason of the
positions we occupy. We cannot safely
leave our individual responsibility to
Others. We must be burden bearers .
we must assume duties and responsible.
ties. The burden of a right life is upon
you and me. There IS nothing that can
relieve US of this God given responsible
ity. We haYe burdens on account OF our
relation to others as parents. The
burdens OF the family though sweetened
by love are very great. and we cannot
put them off upon others.
The evening text was from Matt. 28:1s
20. "And Jesus came and spake unto
them saying. ALI power is given unto
me in heaven and in earth. Go ye
therefore, and teach all nations, baptiz.
ing them in she name OF the Father, and
OF the Son, and of the Holy Ghost
Teaching them to observe oil things
whatsoever 1 have commended you; end
10, l am with you always, ever unto the
end of the world" These were the
parting words OF Jesus &c his disciples.
He had lived among them, had instructed
them, had been arrested, tried, con-
demned and executed, and had risen
again according to previous announce.
mens.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Rev. T. A. Burdlck preached in the
morning from the text Nevertheless He
has not left Himself without witnesses. ;"
A recent author he's SAID "A great nation
cannot fight q little battle" So iE is no
small confliot in which christianity has
engaged. To redeem the world, to build
up the kingdom, to change moral de-
pravity is no small labor. What ere the
Influences to be used in this great work ?
The first witness to testify is the truth,
and this gives power TO the goApel re-
liglon. Another with ess is the truth
attested or proven by many things. The
third is the Holy Spirit as q comforter.
Again christian lives testify to the power
of the gospel to change. Divine love as
q sacrifice is the last witness that is
mentioned, and this will one day win the
world to Christ.
In the evening there was a full house,
Notwithstanding the cold, and the pastor
spoke from "Righteousness exalteth a
nation but sin is a disgrace" and asked
the question. Is infidelity treason to our
government And answered it in the
affirmative by saying that the, system
aimed to thrust eway the protecting
hand of G5d and thus destroy our ma
ton, and by fostering lawlessness to 30
weaken and create discord that the end
will soon Not only this bat with
the cry of no God, no bible no CHRIST, it
seeks to take away the foundation stone
OF our republic. laid by the fathers.
Is thls q christian nation? Yes, in
theory, If not in practice. The first set
Elements we're christian. They laid the
foundation on a christian basis. The
customs and laws acknowledged God,
The war of the revolution was entered
into after prayer, Prayer was offered
at she opening of all legislative bodies.
just before the Declaration of Indepen.
dence was adopted, business YVES sus-
pended and the chaplain invoked the
divine blessing. Washington read
prayers at the head OF the army, and
even Tom Paine ives not en- ipfdel ill
two years later when he learned it in
dissolute France.
- PERGaaNA