The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-22
A MODEL YOUNG MAN.

present. amounted TO considerable for the board
OF education OF the Methodist Episcopal church.
A MODEL YOUNG MAN.
Sermon by Rev. A. Inwood ut the
Battery Street NJ. 4. Church.
Rev. Alfred Inwood. pastor of the Battery
street VI. Z. church, chose az his subject, "A
Model Young Man." in sermon 70 young peo-
pie last evening. His text was: 81 have given
you an example that you should do a. have
done"-gohn kill
After speaking OF VISITING the snodel" room
OF normal school the speaker said: Il 10
wise in every line of life TO take some best
model and 70 tsy to fashion ones self after that
! hold such q one tonight For beauty and
power and inspiration none equal Him; in al
things Christ Is the best model
FIRST, as q son. Referring to Christs visit to
Jerusalem with His parents ct the age OF u,
their return without Him. Mr.. Inwood said:
This was no ordinary boy. He had come to do
no ordinary work, and was. therefore, to hold no
ordinary relation 70 His parents. He was just
beginning to be conscious OF His ministry and
had At once stepped to the place Of teacher, at
whose feet the old doctors of the law sat en-
frauced. But in the tenderest words He said
Mother, don't you know I must from hence
forward be about the great things Of my Father
This extraordinary One might have held Him.
sell Tar from the general law OF obedience: but
He then went down 20 Nazareth with them, to
DC subject TO His mother TO love her, TO care for
her, TO accompany her to church on the Sabbath,
and wien her true. loving husband died, to
comfort her and care for her in the years Of her
lonely widowhood
Again at the marriage feast of Cana, in Cali.
The tenderness Of His seeming rebuke 70 Mays
question II hidden in our blunt English. For
thirty years He had been entirely submissive to
her; now all must change. He said: "His days
OF submission are over; my work Is not now to
do your bidding, but TO do my own greater
work; to listen to my Fathers voice, and not
until hear that do dare TO move" For years
He had held back the omnipotence within Him;
had gone about His simple carpenter life doing
everything TO please her; now all was changed.
What did it mean? Marriage was not for HIM,
but at marriage feast He, too. breaks with His
home life. That home ID most tender in every
life. Ones own home may be bright and beau
tiful, but around the home of childhood are
twined memories and associations never else
where TO be duplicated
One other scene-that at the cross-too sacred
so be but mentioned, when He said. Mother, be-
hold thy Son." The contrast of His behavior to
parents with much Of US is very marked. Moth
Ing was more beautiful in His life than that long
stay of eighteen years at home, staying under
the influence of His mother. How often during
those years must she have come into the carpen-
| ter shop. and sitting down on one of the rude
moment was sweeter TO either of them than
| when the day was done He threw His strong,
| manly arms around her, and together they went
| into the home to spend the evening talking over
| the great work before Him. How she admired
| Him as she saw His growing and taking His
| natural place as Q leader among the young men
| OF His Galilean town. He was, too, a model
worker, and the lesson of those years is this: II
you want TO do lifes work right take time 20 get
ready for It. During those eighteen years as q
carpenters boy He was learning Himself. The
mystery is great how God and man can be
united; but the consciousness Of the great truth
had TO slowly grow in Him. A faint CLEAN came
in the temple. He had needed TO learn all that
came before Him. to sit down and count the
cost, 70 match Himself against all the forces of
darkness He was TO meet, to gain perfect knowl-
| edge of Himself, to understand His age and His
| great world mission. He waited long, but He
| came out as q victor. doing His first work with
| ali the assurance Of one perfectly conscious OF
1 indwelling omnipotence. Long years of waiting,
but His life was impossible without il. In truest
sense. Jesus was "a self-rnsde man" AS with
| him, so with us. God has no gifts for an idle
| youth Are you spending yours in idleness,
| ease and indifference Do you want to know
the end9 I'll tell you-bitter failure.
1 And He has given us here the secret of all
| true life work. II is working under the inspir
| ing thought that You are doing Gods viii as
you do your appointed work. Do you grow very
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limbs grow weary and your back break almost
with the pain OF toll? So did His. Does your
| daily round of life grow awfully monotonous?
4 He has passed through it all, and he kept from
| tagging under all his arduous, thankless work
because He did Gods will-woulc do nothing
else, nor think OF IL as anything else-ss He did
| His daily work. His great lesson is this: Doing
| your work doing Gods viii you put the
greatest amount OF energy into your life and
you do the work with the least possible friction
That will can be done in any kind of honest
| work. IL was true of Him when a carpenter
as q preacher His were very varied occups-
| tons. That Is truth that needs learning now
| adays No honest work is degrading Brain
| work 10 not more honorable than hand work :
| the moral worth OF the toiler and the toll is
the supreme test. We are so largely under the
| influence of false ideals. And handiwork does
not shut as out from the higher things of being
| The supreme question il, what kind of work are
you doing; what 10 your motive in doing il?
| not what class OF work. This / beg of you:
| Scorn ever 10 do false work. Let your faces be
| a. flint against IT,
Life, too. 10 not all one thing-not all house
| work. manual work. once or professional work
You NAV let IL be So but il isn't complete life
| work. Christ's great work was preaching; but
If that had been ali, what them A half finished
4 life work. Would you live after Christ by twin
ing your soul around the soul Of some one that
| needs you, or by putting your hearts love into
| some work that stands still Tor want of helpers
| A sign of the times is this: The weight of the
| worlds unselhsh work is soon TO fall on the
| young people. You are glad OF that, aren't you ,
| Opportunities are around you on every side
| for you young men-to sweeten thetp-ofessionai
and 70 purify business methods, to purge poll
ties of their fifth 70 raise the standard of true
| manhood in the seve-a. walks OF life, 10 grid on
/ your armor for the battle against intemperance,
to stand in defense of our great national institu.
| tons TO plunge with all your might into the
| humanitarian movements of this age, and lastly
| and chiefly. 10 enter into partnership with God
go into the business of saving souls To you
| young women. spheres and opportunities and
| possibilities that are magnificent are yours
/ Don't think your work can go for nothing
| Thou canst not toll in vain;
| Cold, heat. and moist and dry
| Shall foster and mature the grain
| For gamers in the sky
| Again, Christ stands as . model companion
| Character 10 seen in companionthip aud Christ .
| example is great in His care in selecting His.
| They were poor but pure men. Cuffs of sepsra-
| ton are coming seemingly into society more and
| more The lsw of affinity is indeed unchange-
| able, but ought the church 20 countenance
| CULTS, the eutgrowth not of this law, but of
| false ethiesf Companionship is q certainty; but
| q pure, progressive one 10 always safe Was
| Christ too CAREFUL Companionships start lie
long influences, upward, downward. and life
| long surroundings possibly. Christ chose the
purest and best he could, and in ali His personal
1 influence over them ever hroadened their vision
| aud uplifted their lives. He constantly lifted
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