Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-04-21
Sunday Morning Services at the First
PrashEferian Church.


! snowy gifts that enable a preacher
TO achieve popularity, he is blessed
=. with good sense and sound under
3 standing. After singing and prayers
= the text Of the morning was an
nouced from verse 8, chapter ~ Of
the book Of Romans.
/. A few minutes were spent in an
address 10 the children who 20
largely occupied the front seats. on
the subject Of their tempers. The
maker Of cutlery kept his metal hot
so that 1t could be shaped easily.
After 1t was shaped 1t was tempered; /;
II too soft 1t would not keep an edge;
If too hard IL would snap off and
! fly to pieces. We should have
temper enough To not be indifferent,
but not 20 much as To be testy and
ill-natured. Our own happiness
and that Of others depends on how
we control our temper Solo
mon says ''He that is
slow to anger IL better than
the mighty; he that ruleth his
temper is greater than he that TAX
teh a city; aud he that hath no rule
over his spirit is as a city that hath
no walls" II our religion has done
nothing for our temper it has done
nothing for our souls. The words
of the text to adults was: Every
one members one with another"
We are enjoined to endeayor to
keep the unity Of the spirit in the
bold Of peace. The true people Of
God are one in hope and one in
destiny. Yet alas, many individual
churches forget the admonitiOn,
'See that We fall not out by the way"
The apostle paul sets this forth in
18th Cor. If members of the church
should act as harmoniously as MEM
bers OF the body physical, the milen-
nlumn would be about here. The
members Of the body acted recipro-
Cally to aid, strengthen, protect, and
help one another. The hand is a
brother to the feeble eye, anu flies
upon warning OF a secret telegraph
to protect It from blows or sharp
instrument, even TO its own injury
or destruction. The ear warns the
foot to escape the crushing force OF
the rolling wheel. We do not
praise one member for helping
another. Heavens choicest virtues
were obedience and patience
that expected no reward aud
hoped for no recognition. Shall we
say the members Of the church shall
not be as helpful and as harmonious
as the body physical? Our expecta-
tions for the church of Christ must
not be diminished because of the
imperfections of selfish humanity.
Life's relish il marred by the recur-
renee Of moral disorder. The beauty
of nature, the beauty of physical
laws, and the charms of trees, clouds,
flowers, would make this earth a
heaven were II not for sin and the
wretched ofisprings of iniquity.
The perfection of moral law will be I
great as that of material law and I
more 30.
Through Christ's love and teach
Ings the world Is united In the ties I
Df a universal love and the ties of a
perfect, holy brotherhood of man.
In these times Of deep thought q
about the church and It's work we |
need to have our hearts deeply i'm. '
Dued with belief In the higher 4,
ife and power Of the church spirit
nal. Let us elevate ourselves far out a
If the sphere Of local strife and re- q
the injunction of John: !
Little children love one another" I
Some man in the church, 10y his l.
Independent, vaunting, worldly h
pirit mars the interdependence of I,
he members and causes GOODNESS and
ukewarmness In the whole church. I
Shall the blessed work of carrying II
lght to some darkened soul be in il
errupted by anything? Who shall Il
AXE the responsibility? "A
The above isa most meagre and 81
eeble record of the good words vet l.
orth by Rev Newell. Thespeaker's
ow Of language is very rapid but Il
thoroughly logical, His exposition r,
fevery idea advanced is so complete a
hat only II shorthand repori could el
o any justice. This state has few d,
len OF greater ability than Rev. In
Jewell. III
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