The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-06-03
THEY HEARD THEIR NEW PASTOR.

h Rev. William ID. Grant at the Soutl
Bergen Reformed Church.
Large audiences gathered in the Soutl
Bergen Reformed Church yesterday morn
ing and evening to listen to the Rev. VIII
lam ID. Grant, the new pastor who is *
be installed tomorrow evening. The pull
pit has been filled by various persons since
January IA, at which time the former pas
tor, the Rev. William Vaughan, accepted
a call to the Knox Memorial Church il
New York. Mr.. Grant halls from the
Broome street Tabernacle presbyterian
of that city, and resigned amid the warn
regrets of many friends. He has become
exceedingly popular with the South Berger
Reformed congregation. His sermon yes
terday morning was chosen from Phillip1
ans ii, IL, ID. work out your own saliva
ton with fear and trembling, for it is
God who worketh in you both to will and
to do of His good pleasure" 1.-THE pre-
vailing opinion" he said, sis that these
words were addressed to the unsaved. u
To show that they We're addressed to the
saved he quoted John Vi, 90, where it
reads, This the work of God, that We be
lieve on Him whom He hath sent.p To
do everything else and leave this undone
was really to do nothing. The minister
followed up this line of reason by seven
scriptural arguments.
1.-THE philosophical reason for the Apos-
tie not saying to an unsaved soul, work
out your own salvation is that one must
have %inyolution before evolutien-cause
must precede effect; life must precede
growth. We readily admit in the physi-
cal world that you can't get more out OF
a man than there is in him.
"But in what frame of mind Is this
work to be done? Are our hearts to be
fearful, and Jul courage weakened by the
thought of our own insecurity ever press
ing upon us? The Apostle wishes to i'm
press upon these Christians the truth that
God is with them-in them. fYe are the
temples of the Holy Ghost Therefore
fear; 'Grieve'not the Spirit of God
1T is a peculiar and delicate task the
iously solicitous. Compare a mar work
ing on a large block Of granite with the
diamond polisher. We are not working
in granite blocks, but on diamonds; with
jewels that are to shine in the diadem of
King Emmanuel for ever and ever. In
view of this, we cannot exercise too much
caution, lest the gem should in any way
fail to reflect the brightness, purity and
glory of God. Therefore work out with
fear and trembling.
''The sculptor has an ideal he wishes to
embody in marble; the painter has a land
scape he wishes to produceu pom canvas.
Each goes about his task with more or
less fear and trembling. What is the be-
lever extorted to work out?'-his own
salvation; that is, man himself is the
rough material to be wrought upon.
The God man, perfect and holy is the
model. We are to reproduce by the
power of God the spirit of sweetness, the
beauty and graces of the fairest among
ten thousand, until we shall arrive at the
fullness of the stature, a perfect man in
Christ"
At the installation tomorrow evening
the Rev. William P. Bruce, formerly of
Greenyille, will deliver q sermon; the
Rev. DR.. Duryea will address the pastor,
and the Rev. Cornelius Brett, the people.
Mr.. Grant is a young man, full of life and
vigor. His sermon are liked by the
South Bergen Reformed congregation be-
cause they are solid. He is also looked
upon as just the man to push the pro-
ject of building a new church, which the
congregation are now seriously contem-
plating,