Los Angeles herald., 1891-07-13
Yesterdays Services in Los
Angeles Churches.
Good Congregations the Rule
Throughout the City.
Rev. DR.. Chichester Delivers an
Unusually Strong Discourse.
Rev. A. c. Smither Speaks to a Large
Audience-Dr. Coyle at the First y
Presbyterian = Church
Notes.

At Emmanuel church Yesterday morn
ing Rev. DR.. Chichester preached pow
erful extempore sermon from the 40th
verse of the first chapter OF John: Zone
of the two which heard John speak and
followed Jesus was Andrew" The doc
tor said: There are two races now in
habiting the earth--the cold -blooded
and the warm -blooded-and it is to the
latter of these that this good man, An
drew, belonged 'Pray heaven for a
human heart" sang Tennyson, and this
was Andrews precious endowment-his
human-heartedness.
The doctor announced as his subject,
Christian Service as Exempted in An
drews's Experience. He spoke of how
instructive and natural thing it is for
one who has found Christ to tell some
one else about Him. The old Egyptian
Memnon was represented as keeping
silent all the dark hours of the night,
but bursting forth into strains of weird
and mystic music every morning as the
first rays OF the sun kissed its lips. And
like that dumb idol, Andrew and his
companions had lived mute and speech
less until the first beams of the sun of
righteousness began to fall upon them
when they Immediately began to cry
1--WE have found the Christ" It was
no more possible for them to keep
still then for meadow lark to be quiet
on dewy May morning. Andrew
didn't argue with his brother-he
simply testified, "We have found the
Christ-come and see him." And this
is the true scientific method; not that
of reasoning and argument, but that of
observation and experiment. 1t is
great mistake to seek to uphold
Christianity by purely logical processes.
And yet this is just what too many
Christians are doing today. placing all
their reliance upon argument. and
thing to unbelievers. Even so strong
man as DIR. Patton fell into this error the
other day, when he said in his bacca-
laureate sermon, christianity is not
life; it is a dogma" Surely, surely
the great theologian must have forgotten
himself. Christianity not life? Its
author said, 81 am come that We might
have life;" and its chief apostle said,
81 live, yet not l, but Christ liveth in
me-"
This is an intensely practical age. An
age that wants, not theories but fact, not
dogmatic distractions but living and
beathing truths. Years ago book was
written to prove that steamship could
not cross the Atlantic, and the argument
was that no steamer could be built large
enough to hold sufficient coal to carry
her across. But the first copy of that
book that reached our shores was
brought over by the first steamship that
crossed from Liverpool to New York.
The personal experience to be empha-
sized, however, is personal experience
of Christ himself. 1t was the Messiah
of whom Andrew testihed-the divine
Christ-the living and loving Son of God.
And this is the missisn of all true
Christian preachers and teachers.
The doctors sermon was unusually
strong and eloquent throughout, and
made profound impression On all who
heard it.
TEMPLE-STREET CHRISTIAN CHURCH.
Notwithstanding the fact that yester-
day was fine day for outing, Rev. A.C.
Smither, OF the Temple-street Christian
church, was greeted by large congre-
cation. He preached on the text, Jesus
winning His first Disciples, prefacing his
discourse by saying that the existence of
Christianity was conditioned upon indi-
viduals accepting its tenets.
The preacher then brought his sermon
to close by urging his members to be-
come soul-winners for Christ. In the
evening he preached to large congrega-
ton upon Esther. The church is grow
ing rapidly under the Rev. Smither's
ministry.
CHURCH NOTES.
The congregation OF the First Presby-
terian church heard two practical and
telling discourses yesterday from DIR.
Coyle, of Oakland, who leaves for his
home this week. The morning sermon
was an earnest and forceful appeal to
his hearers for the conservation of their
talents, however few, to Gods service.
The Lords question to Moses, What Is
in Thy Hand? furnished the theme. In
the evening DIR: Coyle dwelt upon Self
Remuneration the Secret of Happy
Life.
A sermon in the morning by the
pastor of the First Congregational
church, Rev. r. G. Hutchins, was.
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the evening addresses were made by
Mrs. Quinton. president of the Ladies'
National Indian association, and by
Major Rust, the Indian agent. A spe-
cial feature at both services was the
magnificent singing of the double
quartette choir in the service of that
church.
At the First Baptist church Rev. DIR.
Henson, of the Chicago First Baptist
church, will preach, and Of Monday
evening next he will deliver one of his
best lectures. Those who ase unable to
attend the Chautauqua assembly will
be glah OF this opportunity to hear the
lecturer.
Bishop Haygood preached powerful
sermon in Tiinito Methodist church
yesterday morning to a crowded house.
In the evening an excellent sermon was
delivered by Rev. Hunsaker, who is a
big man in more senses than one.
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