Evening journal., 1891-03-23

retsry of the Methodist Educational So
ciety. DR. Payne was called away by
urgent business Saturday morning,
Big Day In All tho Churches.
This has been big day in all the
churches Big crowds Of people were in
town despite the fact that the weather
was so inclemeut
The exercises in the M. =. Church
began at A. M, when conference love
feast was held. 1t was led by Rev.
Charles Hill The exercises were
quite spirited, and the church was
crowded
Bishop Fowleris sermon.
The feature OF the day was the sermon |
by Bishop Fowler at 10.3O a. m. His /
text was Let this mind be IN you, |
which was also In Christ Jesus, who, |
being IN the form Of God, Thought 1t not
robbery to be equal with God but made |
himself Of no reputation, and took upon
him the form OF servant, and was made In
the likeness of man and being found Ia
fashion as q man he humbled himself,
and became obedient unto death, even
the death of the cross, wherefore God
also hath highly exalted him, and given
him name which Is above every name.
Phil, ii. 5 8,
lie opened his discourse by making
reference to statue in one OF the gal
lerles in the Vatican at Rome He said
in part
1T Is only a fragment It is ap
psrently chiseled by some great sculptor
to represent Hercules The head is goae,
the arms are gone, the limbs are gone
There remains only the trunk with the
stumps OF the limbs Yet it Is the centre
OF that great collection Of works OF art
Michael Angelo called himself the pupil
Of this. he would stand by the hour to
pass his hands over 1T, imagining as best
he could the modelling and fashioninR Of
the chisel IL was only fragment Of
marble, but it is the finest monument OF
human genius there.
TO day / ask you into the great gallery
of God. ! ask you to pass by all the
other wonderful Images and statues, and
! want TO lead you up TO the one supreme
character, the character Of Jesus Once
TO have seen Him is to be forever blind
to everything else Everything else IN
| this gallery is as nothing to this one
/ character. So let us this morning give
attention TO some of the exortations of
this God This itself is a witnessing
text II is an argument that cannot be
Il easily answered You remember the
| text: he humbled Himself and made
himself obedient TO death, even TO death
on the cross and made Himself Of no
| reputation. That Is not our argument
That is not the way we.reason. Men noun
to thrones over the heaps of the slain
| but somehow Gods ways are not our
ways We worship this image because
Christ exchanged the crown and the
sceptre for the felon's cross Because He
exchanged the songs Of the angels for
the hootings OF the mob. God for this
hath highly exalted Him and given Him
name which is above every name Let us
see something of this exaltation. fnd N
the very preparation Of this coming that
, it was destined TO be q great event W.
j Judge the event somewhat by the amount
OF preparation made for the coming
of that event by the workmen and the
3 materials you see III you see many
! workmen and much valuable material vol
say that Is to be a grand palace. Yor
Judge by the preparation made for 10. 81
D il Is with reference to the coming 0
Jesus. Everything was put In order 70
e Him. The outside world was looking 70
. | Him. God even used Philip and Alexar
. der TO prepare the way for him, and
"a 1
d their success Their conquering arm
prepared the way and made 1t possibl
J, for the heralds Of Christ 20 enter th
e conquered heather lands. They spTea
t the language which His herslds spoH
u and made II possible for them to
II understood. God used every know
!, agency to prepare for the coming {
( Jesus.
"We have a right to judge a man b
q the company he keeps have righ
L to Judge Jesus by his company. 90 I
/ Nazareth and see the men there. If 20
h will study and watch them you will hay
little idea that this was not the societ
Of Jesus. We could not furnish societ
h for Him. Earths millionaires were- bel
: gars compared to him. Old sages wei
& Ignorant when compared with those WI
4 kept company with Jesus. So that He hs
i no society here. He had 20 bring 1t wit
Him. Go to the wilderness and see Hi
"A meet thRt enemy-struggling for what
~ dear to every mau. Satin proposes
ar accomplish victory. By some means al
In at all cost the influence Of Christ must
'5 broken down. Jesus conqurs
! the race is His. Jesus triumphal
70 all is lost He stands alor
Il in the wilderness. A vast no
: that no thought can humber comes pou
~ ing ont from the courts Of Heaven Bl
.a Jesus must fight out that battle alon
g He does it, and after the hosts of daI
s ness are vanquished the minister TO tl
i victor. They fan Him with their pinioi
n and feed Him with the nectar Of lif
, Those were the companions of Chri
Jesus. The whole moral government
a. in the hands Of Jesus, and through Iii
~ we are all lifted into the plane Of NOR
{ righteousness.
AZ He closed with a beautiful descriptil
~ Of what he thought we're the glories
IL heaven, and dwelt upon the mutabili
iii of earthly and the immutRbility
~ heavenly things
I'D Ordination of Deacons.
ur This sermon was followed by the orc
n" nation of the following deacons: J.
H. Vert, j. e. Graham, Clarence Northrc
ne John H. Simms H. Q. Turner and NJ.
'ss Graham.
of The Memorial Service.
on In the afternoon memorial service "
ler held for Rev. s. r Gardner Address
as were made by Rev. |. N. Foreman, M
~ Sanderson and others on the useful a
an sanity life of the deceased minister.
W After memorial service Bishop Fow
le- ordained as elders s. M Morgan, r.
Coursey. 2. n Webster, w. P. Compt
aud L. f. shepherd.
'te Temperance Meeting.
At3p. m. Walter Thomas Mills
~ Chicago, Iii the renowned temperar
~ orator. delivered s lecture on IT
r." Church and the Liquor Traffic.
~ ~ spoke for over an hour. Among 9th