Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-06-11
INSTALLATION SERVICES.
Installation of Rev. David Winters as PASTOR Vi
the First Presbyterian Church OF this CITY.

Sunday is day never to be forgotten in
the history of the First Presbyterian
church. A new era of unbounded oppor
1unitv lies before it. A new leader steps
unon the scene to plan. direct and inspire
the movements of this large and power
ful body of christian workers, eager to dc
with the might what their hands find TO
do. and certainly a more suspicious De-
ginning could not have been asked. Inc
house was packed with deyout BODY OF
worshippers, who for two and one-hall
hours entered with the deepest interest IN
to all the exercises. First came the mauch-
less doxology, Praise God from wholh All
blessings flow" followed by uplifting IN
vocation of the Rev. Jas H. Brookes, d.
of ST. Louis. Then the whole conGrega-
ton filled the house with that grand oid
hymn, Holy, Holy, Holy, LORD God Al
mighty, Rev. J. C. Miller, of Winfield,
read the scripture lesson, Eph. 4, and also
lead in prayer.
The sermon was delivered by the Rev.
DIR PROXIES from Luke 7:16, And they
ylorified God saying that great prophet
Is risen I'D among us and that God has
visited his people" After brief review
clamation the preacher proceeded to set
forth 1.-The characteristics of Christ as
prophet"
1st. This name is frequently applied to
him. Moses calls him prophet OF such
supreme authority that life and death,
salvation and ruin turns upon the nearing
or not hearing. John the Baptist calls
him the Light Nicodemus says Rabbi,
we know that thou art teacher Tor
prophet) come from God. Jesus himself
takes this title as pre-emlnently his own
saws be not We called Rabbi. He is called
the Day Spring from on high, the wisdom
Of God. Six hundred years before ne was
born he is called the Wonderful Coun-
sellor. Again, he is called the Messenger
of the Covenant. In the last chapter OF
the Old Testament he is called the Son of
Righteousness, and in the last OF the new
the Bright aud Morning Star. In all such
terms are we reminded of his teaching"
characteristic.
ID. AS other prophets he must be
anointed. Elijah is ordered by God to
anoint. Elisha to be prophet in his stead.
At the very beginning of his ministry we
hear Christ saying, The spirit OF the Lord
IS upon me because he hath anointed me to
preach the gospel TO the poor. He was
anointed with the Holy Spirit and with
power. The seven fold virtues and pow
ers of the Holy Spirit and concentrated
upon the heed of Christ. He is led by the
spirit to be tempted: he returns in the
bower of the spirit. Every step taken is
under the power of the spirit. When he
was about TO leave his disciples he be-
slowed this spiait upon them, even as God
took the spirit of Moses and put him upon
the Seventy Elders. By the spirit they
testified of Christ. The spirit is con-
serred upon all believers. Paul in
Indignant Amusement says to careless
Corinthians know We not that your bodies
are the temples of the Holy Ghost. The
HOLY Spirit upon us is Gods seal, marking
us, He is the earnest, the guarantee that
all of Gods shall be ours. To the little
children or babes John says this amounting
abideth with yon. OF this great prophet
raised up, anointed with the Holy Ghost,
Jean Paul Richler says: Jesus Christ
impresses himself upon the hearts of men
rs no other teacher or as all other teachers
combined have ever done" And this
Holy Spirit which anointed Him is inn
parted to us dear Christians. If we walk
as the temples of the Holy Ghost w would
walk as those who are almost lifted up Off
their feet.
Sd. He is the revealer of God. He is
called the word. Why? Because his re-
lation TO God, the Father, is the same as a
word to a thought when it precisely utters
that thought No man hath seen God at
any time but the only begotten who is in
the bosom of the Father he hath declared
him. He says / and my Father are one.
If ye had known me We should have known
nv Father also. He that hath seen me
hath seen the Father. This man who de-
clared these things was either devine or
insane, a contemplate fanatic Or great
prophet. How could he say come unto me
and ! will give you rest if he was not the
great prophet. He WAS the brightness of
his Fathers glory and the express image
of his person. In Him dwelleth all the
fulness of the God head bodily.
4th He is Himself revealed in the scrip
lures Search the scriptures for in them
We think We have eternal life and they are
they which testify for me. He says
Moses wrote of me to the two disciples on
the way to Emmaus, he began at Moses
and all the prophets and expounded
with them in all the scriptures the things
concerning himself.
He talks of the things written in the law
of Moses, in the Prophets, and in the
Psalms concerning himself. These were
the three Jewish divisions of the Old Tes-
lament. Then he opened their under
standings that they should understand the
scriptures, and they said, Did not our
hearts burn within us as he opened unto
lis the scriptures:'
When ChrIsts opens the scriptures and
opens the understanding, the humblest
Christian is lifted up to the highest pin
acle of learning Paul reasoned three
whole days out of the scriptures proving
that Jesus is the Christ. He knew the 303
distinct prophecies concerning him, and
said nothing cut what Moses and the
prophets did say should come to pass. OF
his own words Christ says, "They are
spirit and they are life" We should listen
TO them precisely as though we heard the
tones of the great teacher speaking TO our
hearts and consciences. As all roads in
England lead to London, so all chapters.
every verse in the Bible leads to the feet OF
Jesus
Fifth-Christ. the revealer of God, testl-
fies in these scriptures concerning himself.
Jesus. not Corist, is the name he takes tc
himself when ne reveals any great funda-
mental truth. Thus it is Jesus who speaks
to Nicodemus; who cries out on the last
great da6 of the feast; who comforts Mary
and Martha; it was Jesus of Nazareth
who was nailed to the cross. and was so
declared in the three great languages, He
brew, Greek and Latin; 1t was h. who
spoke to Mary weeping at the tomb, and il