Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-07
MAKING UP HIS JEWELS.
Rev. J. Lee Mitchell Breaches an Eloquent Sermon at the Grand Ave- nue Congregational Church.

AeoFs AIOO 1AASOhCAA AOsASAA~~ Eloquent Sermon at the Grand Ave- nue Congregational Church.
 A large congregation, notwithstanding the indictment weather, was present at the Grand avenue Congregational church yes terday at ali the services. In the morn ing the pastor, Rev. J. Lee Mitchell, preached an excellent discourse from the text Malachi, chapter iii, verses 16, IT. ''Then they that feared the lord spoke often to one another, and the lord heark- ened and heard it, and book of remem- brance was written before him for them that feared the lord, and that thought upon his name. And they shall be mine, saith the lord of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels; and will spare them, as man spareth his own son that serveth him.
 Among other things the reverend gentle man said: There never was 8 time in the world when those who love the Lord want ed everyone else to love him also, as at the present time. There never was time in the history of the world when there were so many excellent schemes for carrying salvation to all parts of the world as there are to-day. There never was time when the Christian world so much seemed to realize the meaning of those words of Christ, "Whosoever will save his life shall lose it, and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall save it." A verse like the one just quoted is almost startling in it's intensity, and yet it would not be surpris- ing, if the deeds of some of our so-called brainy men were disclosed, to find in them no more of right or truth than in the ex- clamations of some weak invalid.
 There are two kinds of reality in the world, one which we may call pig iron reality and the other a loving reality. One only of these, the latter, shall remain unto the end of time. To-day over 7,000,00C dusky souls on this continent owe their liberty and independence to Abraham Lin. coin and an immense army marching and fighting for what they believed to be right ham Lincoln of the kind known as loving reality and that of the army of the kind known as pig iron reality. The reality o1 the next world will be that of Abraham Lincoln-the loving kind. The pig iror reality will soon disappear, but that per centage of love which may be in the hear will remain throughout eternity. Gener ally when a man is talked about his faulti and not his virtues are the themes dis SSssed dss of It this seems world to that se gets a little higher in the world by decrying some one else We neve speak this way of God. Whenever w speak of God we can only speak lovingl, of him. We cannot speak of his faults and it is well that there should be som' l one in the world of whom we can onl, speak good.
 INboy yo o,,a,I, of o,,o ,uo 1o~o ,,o ,- careful to only speak of him to those wh love him also. Those who love the LOT, speak of him to others who also love him There never was time when the standart of christianity was carried & l the world as at the present time Churches have arisen in consequence 0 this gravitating together and convergin on the part of the lovers of the Lord. I many of these churches one man, alas does all or nearly all the talking, but ii many of our services responsive readinfs etc., are indulged in and it ought alway to be the highest aim of every minister C Gods word to make the services of such nature that they may seem to all that the are speaking one to another of God an | his love.
 Nowhere in Gods word is there an mention of loving remembrance of tn struggles of mems soul for pelf but group of little children, an elderly couple sturdy man and woman speaking of hi loving kindness to others, these are tn things which God always keeps in lovin remembrance.
 The power of good will, admiration an well speaking of one another is irresitibl' God loves loving words and deeds also and when he makes up his jewels thes
 two fundamental principles will hay much, in fact, all to do with the makin up thereof.
 Ninety-nine one hundredths of or
 Christian life goes to the production (
 fruit and deeds worthy Christian. Tn
 is right, but there comes time when
 man is judged by what he thinks (
 Christ, as we'll as by what he has done ft
 him.
 The holy coat, which it is claimed Chri
 wore at the time of his crucifxion, is no
 on exhibition in one of the cities of Eurol
 and thousands are Hooking thither to 8
 this wonderful relic. Yet judging fro
 the newspaper accounts of the struggl
 and swearing indulged in by many of the
 pilgrims in their efforts to obtain glimp
 of the coat, imprecations in which, it
 said, even the priests themselves joi
 there can certainly be nothing very ho
 or pious in their minds when in the pre-
 ence of the coat which they pretend W
 worn by the saviour of mankind at u
 time of his most crucial sufferings. IT
 coat is evidently mot making any one ve
 pious or holy, and had the Lord been the
 at that time making up his jewels ho
 very sad he must have been.
 It is not necessary for people to asse1
 ble in large numbers to speak of u
 goodness and loving kindness of u Lord. "Where two or three are gather' together in my name there am I in u midst of them," says the Lord, land th shall be blessed in that day when I con : to make up my jewels"
 The regular choir of the church has I l turned after the summer vacation al l sing both beautifully and feelingly. Dr , ing the offertory Miss Hettie Bradley sal , the solo "The Swallow Leaves Her Lone } Nest" with rare feeling and held the co gregation enraptured with the sweet not E of her clear and beautiful soprano.