The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1889-01-15
REV. WEBBER's WORK.
Success of lis Mission at Cal
vary Church Last Week.

week, under the leadership of Rev.
Percy Weber, the missionist, have
been largely attende aud will be con.
tinued during the. coming week and
possibly longer. This famous evan,
gelist is young man, but We have
rarely met one 80 burning With zeal
and earnestness for the cause which |
he is laboring. He is logical, eloquent,
persuasive at once. There were no
services last evening but on Friday |
evening Mr.. Webber spoke from the
text, "Enoch Walked With God,
"Volumes could tell no more" the
evangelist said. eft was a world in
sentence" Enoch was God-like
man, and when this was said, we
know what kind of man ne was.
When see one single yellow leaf,
there is no need to tell me that the
frost has come, aud autumn is at
hand. When / walk abroad at night,
there is no need to tell me that the
moon is shining above the clouds.
When we write the biography OF a
man, we take certain pictures OF his
life and they represent the man.
Enoch walked with God. That was
enough to say. 1t should be enough
to say that we are Christians. The
wa~i is the emblem of all modern
civilization. 1t is the grand key
note of all the harmony in
the Universe. When [ think
of christianity, think of it as
of the theme that runs through varl-
Gus songs. There is the bass and
tenor and soprano, all in harmony
with the keynote. Morality repre-
sents the bass. Some may say that
christianity is merely morality. They
say We are full of can't, yet who are
30 filled with can't as the moralists ?
IF / want to be good penman don't
go to fourth-rate penman; l take the
best teacher, and The one Man OF
Nazareth is the best teacher /; all
others are inferior. You may talk OF
Zoroaster, Mohamet, John Stuart
Mil and Herbert Spencer, | do not
say they are all wrong, but they ate
not complete. The church is not a
masonic or odd.fellows club. 1t is
something more than a moral club.
Then we take up the tenor part III
music. How wonderful! How
it sweeps everything before it, wher
attuned 10 the keynote. Alone. il
represents the doctrines of men. LOok
at all the churches in Sedalia. Wh'
dares to say that any one of them il
on the road to ruin. Yet that wa
the doctrine fifty years ago, but no
now. Who knows what the orthadol
theory of the entertainment is L
is constantly changing. We capuo
stand on opinion. If man tells M
that he has not changed his opinion
in ten years, will tell him that h.
has not thought in ten years. 5
long as we retain our Individual;
ty we will entertain differer
opinions. The speaker thel
referred TO the part education
played in the Christian world. Will
education did not necessarily make ,
good man, it will make good maj
better. The doctrines of the learDeC
are many times good, but Christ i
before all. What would you think o
men and women going to see Nun
caksey's picture of Christ and turninl
their attention to the gas lights. The.
are the people who look at doctrine
only. A doctrine is only gas jet t.
enable one to see the truth NOR
clearly. It is not doctrines or opinio Il
that make men Christians. 1t j
found in the question asked by Jesu
the Christ, "Lovest thou Me ?" To-
many of our doctrines ale barriers be
tween US and Christ. Kuox anc
Wesley and Luther and Calvin wer'
not infallible, neither was Andove
College; yet they wer
better than their terrible opinions
They accuse the Episcopal church o
having too much ceremony. Ger
emory is not confined to the Episco
pal church. Singing, praying, bap
tism, communion, all are ceremonie
and all denominations practice them
but true Christians all write on Chris
and Baptism. Emotionalism and ex-
element is no test of Christianity
IL is like froth upoa the top of tn
water and soon dies away and yet
on the other hand, we must not maze
Christianity mechanical. Let us b.
true to the bible. That blessed wore
don't say, feel your way into Chris
tianity. 1t don't depend On shouting
and music.
When we come to the sopran
that is in keeping with the keynot
of Christianity, which scars above al