Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-01
EQUALITY IN CHRIST.
Visiting r. P. Ministers Filled the
Local Pulpits Yesterday.
SOME TALK ABOUTTHEIR TROUBLES
And Those of the Other Protestant Churches
Of the Country.
SMALL BITS OF RELIGIOUS ADVICE

Local Reformed Presbyterians were yes
terday preached to three times during the
day by ministers in attendance upon the
present session of the Synod. Rev. j. R. j.
MiIligan's pulpit in the Allegheny R. P.
Church, North Diamond and Sandusky
streets, was occupied in the afternoon by
Rev. J. NJ. Foster, of New York. He ar
gued that the churches representing the
Kingdom of Christ were not accomplishing
sufficient work, because they would not
work in union, and the beloved God was
troubling the church because they would not
work in unison. Then he said: "Hence the
Congregationalists have their Andover
trouble, the Presbyterians have their Briggs
troihle and the Reformed Presbyterians
have their present complication. believe
God is back of these disturbances and they
will continue until all churches are made
one. All have the same informing
life. Differences in creeds are more SEEM
ing than real What is needed is more re-
ligion. Differences are only walls, and the
time is coming when the motive of life will
rise above the wall and make one open
sea for all to sail into the heaven prepared
for all, and may God speed the day."
Then he said that the only reason why
Covenanters were not allowed TO go into the
Masonic fraternity was because a man
could not go into a lodgeroom and take his
Savior with him, or take blasphemous oaths.
One should stay out, also, because it only
takes time and money that should go to the
church. "Why are members of our church
forbidden to take political privileges" he
asked. ''Simply because they would have
to vote to sustain a constitution that does
not recognize God, and laws that are in
direct violation of Gods law.
Some Ministerial TribuIations.
Rev. J. l. Thompson, of Utica, O., filled
the pulpit at the Central R. P. Church, Al
legheny, yesterday afternoon. His text
was. ''If We be my disciples We have tribula-
tions." He said that a minister had dual
existence One as a child of earth and one
as child Of God. The tribulations, he
said, did not come because he was in a
material world or in the social world, for
companionship with Christ made these more
pleasant
"a minister" said he, 'is subject to an
earthly sovereign as well as heavenly
King. He has dealings on earth and deal
ings in heaven. He has dealings with
angels, for ministering angels are sent to
the faithful. The tribulations come, not be-
cause he lives in these two, but because
these two are out of harmony; it is because
of the minister's physical existence in the |
world. Earthly claims are the greater, but |
the heavenly commands must be paramount. !
A faithful man must come in contact with |
the world, and therefore be hated because |
l.. L =.
He is brought into conflict with evil, and |
often into conflict with those who claim to |
be disciples of Christ"
He then denounced unnecessary Sunday |
labor, and continued: "Anyone who talks |
against Sunday labor is called bigot-a
name not unknown to the ministry of this |
Our tribulation comes be- |
cause the finger of scorn is pointed at us. |
If we are loyal to Christ we can't get |
through the world without persecution. 1t /
is so to-day for those who set themselves |
against prevailing tendencies.
Sermon by One of the Seven. ..
Yesterday afternoon at the First Re
formed Presbyterian Church, Rev. II. w. |
Reed, Of Youngstown, preached from the |
subject, Equality in Christ" Mr.. Reed |
is one of the young men of Reformed Pres |
byterian persuasion who are too liberal in |
their ideas of the great American Republic |
to suit the beliefs of the majority of the |
ministers of their Church, and are on trial |
for having views too broad for the good of |
the Church. He was introduced by the |
pastor, Rev. Nevin Woodside, as a man
who had gained some prominence in the |
church recently, but he was welcomed to
the pulpit as an able teacher of Gods
truths.
Mr.. Reed is a young man, but is evidently
q very deep thinker on Biblical questions.
He is also quite an eloquent speaker and
holds his audience interested from first to
last. In the services yesterday he made no
to the Synod in conference now,
except in his opening prayer, in which he
set all things to rights. His text was taken
from Colossians, iii, IL: "Where there is
neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision nor
Barbarian, Scythian, bond
nor free; but Christ is all and in all :"
From this text he preached a plain and
sermon on the theme that there
are no masters in Christ in this world, but
the ministers are His servants in teach
ing the word of God.
Sermons in Other Churches.
At the Eighth Street Church services
were held in the morning, Rev. NJ. A.
Gault occupying the pulpit. In the after
noon Rev. R. c. Wylie preached, and in the
evening the congregation was addressed by
the Rev. NJ. R. Somerville. All the gentle
men preached interesting sermons, but little
reference was made to the Synod, and
nothing was said of those subjects most
interesting.
Out-of-town ministers addressed the con-
yregations of other churches In the Ridge
.venue, Allegheny, church, Rev. f. A. H.
Wylie and Rev. L. c. SAMPSON preached |
At Parnassus Rev. John Armor and Rev. D.
q. Coulter occupied thepulpit morning and
evening. In Williamsburg, Rev. j. S. 7.
Milligan and Rev. j. F. Carson addressed
arge congregations.