Morning journal and courier., 1890-09-15

Sermon by the Pastor, Rev. |. C. Me- serve-Higher Spiritual Motives Church Attendance Doe. Not Keep
 Pace With Increase Of Population
 The Church and the True Way to
 Happiness.
 The pastor of the Davenport church, Rev l. C. Meseave, delivered an excellent discourse to his hearers yesterday morn ing. His text was taken from the tenth chapter of tine Hebrews, 24th and 25th verses-''And let as consider one another, to provoke unto love and to good works. Not partaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is, but exhorting one another, and much the more as ye see the day approaching"
 The duty of the Christian is indicated in the text, especially in that part of the text which refers to the assembling of ourselves together. It is the man. ner of many to forsake this assembling There is growing tendency to forsake the place of | up in the Sunday school frequently ignore the | church when they leave the Sunday school. They do not graduate & from the Sunday v school into rae who have been faithful all the way through whose graduation from the Sunday school finds
 
 mixed, and one result of this is a tendency to the door of Roman Catholics, for they go to church as a rule The habit of going to church remain away from church it is very easy to find l some excuse for an absence from divine worship. who S are universally well on ali the week days. Others claim that they are entitled to Sunday as Q day of rest. Still others, that they must have the Sabbath for day of recreation. True there are more people going to | church to-day than there were one hundred ago put @ ehs ati IS eaFsed % ny the increase in has not kept pace with the increase of popula-
 Sensational preaching and sensational music | are attractions to church service There may be more than one kind of sensational preaching A minister may be regarded sensational who | breaches the truth in peculiarly clear and in- teresting manner; even though his sermons are
 Sensational music may also be of two kinds: it may be of the Salvation Army style. If person gets any religious impression of this kind oi | like the rendering of fine music in an excellent manner. It may have spirit of persuasion, foi should be praise and prayer. There may be 5 good deal of teaching in music. The place fol leaders in music, as in other departments oi
 church work, is the place for Christians. Singer, should be Christians
 What is the right prescription for getting peo , the gospel-which all ministers claim the, , preach but it is possible that some minister
 
 , preached any gospel at all. People ought to 2,
 to church to get acquainted with the gospel i they are not acquainted with it. and if they ar | acquainted with it. they ought to go to church t. become more familiar with it.
 It is the duty of ministers to preach the gos
 endure as an attraction to church service. .'''' W"
 What is the right basis for going to church l. but as proclaimer of truth People of othe a nations go to church whether there's any sens in the minister or not. Americans wont do i | noliS itc
 thing to do. We should go to church for profit J. because we can get good at the service. W 10, | should go to church for an example to others le person may get some good from personal dew to tion at home but he will do no good by remainir F. at home. If he goes to church he will be doiI i good by example
 a, SAnother thing in connection with the rig C. basis of going to church is the sacredness os Gods house. The place of worship should kept sacred One of the good things which h ap been done by this society is the keeping sacr
 of the house of God"