The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-12-07
IMPORTANCE OF THE SANCTUARY.
Rev. w. w. Ferrier at the Brooklyn
Congregational Church.

Congregational Church.
At the Brooklyn Congregational church
Rev. w. w. Terrier preached yesterday on
the subject, "The Importance of the Ser
vice of the Sanctuary" The text was from
Hebrews x:25: Not forsaklng the assem-
bling of ourselves together, as the manner
of some is.
This importance is evidenced in the FIRST
place. the speaker said, by the origin aud an
cient sanction of such services. The worship
OF the Christian church rests for its foundation
upon the worship of the Jewish synagogue.
Christ. BY His attendance, gave sanction to
this synagogue method of worship, and thus
gave example to all His followers.
This Importance 1t was further said was man
Hest from the results accruing from such ser
vices-good results as well to those who are
Christians as to those who not 1t was
when the disciples were with one accord in
one place that the baptism OF the Holy Spirit
came upon them, resulting in the adding TO the
church of 5000 in one day. And these results
were not only in the early days of the church,
but down through its entire history. Some
times 1t has been the reading of the Scripture,
sometimes the sermon, that has touched the
heart OF some hayward one and turned him to
Christ. Again it has been the prayer, or the
singing of some God-given hymns To measure
the Importance of that sanctuary sevice where
Elizabeth Quincy Fry was led to give her heart
To God. would need to know not only the
value in Gods mind of her soul and of the souls
in which she was instrumental during her long
life in saving, but also her worth to the world
one OF the greatest p hilanthropists of any ma
ton or age.
So deeply rooted in the needs OF humanity are
such services that there 10 no reason for believ-
Ing that they will ever perish from the earth.
They are essential to the existence of the
church; and If the fellowship found in and
fostered by the local churches were to cease,
individual holy living would largely cease from
among men. But Notwithstanding this truth
and its general acceptance by the church, there
are very few pulpits today from which it does
not seem necessary for the pastor to say In the
words of Paul: "Let us not forsake the assem-
bling OF ourselves together"
Men and women admit In word the importance
OF these sanctuary services, but In practice they
deny IL. On the slightest indisposition and
with the most trivial of excuses they absent
themselves from the house of God. No wonder
that in many places the cause OF Christ
languishes and that inidelity and immortality
hold high carnival, when the professed
followers of Christ neglect or refuse to
manifest that earnestness IN the work of
the church which they manifest In the
other affairs of life. How any one believing in
Gods word, and protesting acceptance of Ii as
the guide of his life, feel the little RESPONSE
bility that some perso feel in regard to these
services, whether for prayer or for the study
and proclamation of that word, so necessary to
the vitality OF the church and to his own Chris.
tian experience, is one of the great mysteries
Christ had no excuses and never shirked duty.
When under the divine necessity the salvation
of man was possible only by His humiliation
and death, He did not hesitate to make the sac
riice There Is a day coming when every one
of US shall wish that we had been more faithful
in all the duties Of life. when We shall wish that
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and that the little gifts in His name had been
big gifts For the time Is coming when the
Christ in all His beauty and perfection shall be
disclosed TO u.s. and in the light of His perfection
our imperfections shall seem greater even than
now.
In conclusion Ii was said:
Even in this world we are continually
and forcibly reminded of the fact that
we can build no firm foundation for
happiness except in Christ Today in the city
OF New York one OF the greatest men of the CEN
fury lies dying In circumstances most p,tiable.
BY the Atlantic cable Cyrus w. Field linked
together the Eastern and Western worlds
aud made for himself an immortal name aud
fame. In honorable ways wealth came to him
But few days ago the tomb claimed the mortal
remains OF a loving and beloved wife; and a SO n
as a defaulter swept away the accommodations of
the fathers toll, and now as a criminal and q
maniac lies behind the iron bars.
In view of oil these things, may God give US
all more of the spirit of Christ. There is
legend of Christ which poet has expressed as
follows:
"He walked beside the sea; he took his
sandals OF
To battle bis weary feet In the cool, pure
wave
For he had walked across the desert sands
All day iong;-snd AS he bathed his feet
He murmured TO himself: Three yearsl Three
yearsl
And then, poor feet, the cruel nails will come
Aud make you bleed; but that blood will love
All weary feet on all their thorny ways"