The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-03-10
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AZ the rfryt BAPTIST church the morning
sermon va delivered By the pastor. Rev. @.
J. Bu.rhest. He took for his subject. SIN
spsration From Heavenly Watchers. His
fexf was:
Hebrews IN: i-~Hsvins - crest cloud Of
witnesses surrounding -
The good who watch as in our work In
spsre rs. he said The enemies who lock
81 as should nerve Is to greater energy As
the soslsrs ard warriors push the cause OF
Christ onward to victory there are many
onIcckers who would not be CHASED esther
~ friends or enemies There are the
cnrioss who want simply 10 know what IL
going on: and there are those who are
waiting for victory ard then they viii Be
found IN the ranks. The undecided In life
seem always in the majority this Is pain
fully true In religious matters. There was
q time ia Israel when two armies faced
each other. While the battle was pending.
there we're NANNY vino were anxious TO Wit
ness IL from . safe distance. They looked
from behind trees, and out from mountain
georges. Some did not have courage 70
light ard we're wanting in principle TO
keep them in their places and 80 were
enemy"
While this scene wss being enacted
brave young captain. with his armorbearer.
went out agains. al odds. and In the might
Of the Holy Spirit put the Whole army Of
the PhiIlisfines 70 fight, and brought to
his father Saul and to Israel the glory OF
great victory. Then the inspired penman
tells us that the Israeiifes came out OF their
dens. hiding places and back from among
the enemy; and of course they shouted
themselves hoarse over the victory they
did not help 10 gain. II does not pay 10 be
mere spectator in this great conflict that
IL being waged over souls. unless. indeed,
one has ascended In victory and looks
down from above. In 1ss2 large church
house burned in New Hampshire Next
day many people who were not aceus-
toned TO 60 10 church went there 10 view
the ruins. Those walls. blackened by fire
and smoke, seemed indignant a. these
idle spectators, and falling. crushed to
death many OF them
The speaker called attention TO the fact
that there was wide interest attached to
the work before the church OF Christ, and
that all OF the past Is interested in the
present He drew from his discourse the
moral that whatever binders must be sur
rendered.
BATTERY STREET METHODIST CHURCH.
AT the Battery street Methodist Epis-
copal church, corner Third and Battery
streets, in North Seattle. Rev. r. W. 10y
preached in the morning ~ usual. After
the sermon the sacrament OF the Lords
supper was administered, and an altar SER
vice was held in the evening.
TRINITY EPISCOPAL cHrRcB.
At the chapel OF the Trinity Episcopal
parish. on Second and Blanchard streets,
the Rev. George II. Watson conducted d.
vino services rs usual. HOLY Communion
was held at 1879. and mathis, with SER
mon. ct IL. In the evening choral serv-
Ice was held.
MARKET STREET BAPTIST CHURCH.
Rev. !. w. Read, pastor OF the Market
street Baptist church. preached in the
morning upon the subject: What the
Church May Learn From the World" In
the evening his subject was: sImpossibil-
ity of Escape II Salvation 10 Neglected"
FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Rev. /. D. Driver. ID. D., Of Portland,
preached in the morning ct the First
Methodist Episcopal church. In the even
ing Rev. Campbell preached. taking for his
subject: Temptation, and How TO Meet
It."
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH.
Attne First Presby terrain church. Madi-
son snd Third streets, Rev. Elliott w.
Brown preached in The morning upon the
subject Of "The True Unity OF the
Church.
81. Marks EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Rev. Arthur II. Vivian conducted morn
| ing prayer and Holy Communion at the
new St Marks Episcopal church, corner
| Fifth and Olive streets
METHODIST rRorrsYsxr CHURCH
| Rev. CLARK Davis conducted services e.
| usual N the Methodist Protestant tent.
| Second and Madison streets.