The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-06-22
FEEDING HUNGRY SOULS.
Rev. Calvin w. Stewart on the Mission
of the Church of Christ.

Of the Church OF Christ.
The First Presbyterian church is regularly
supplied during the absence of the pastor Rev
Elliott w. Brown, by Rev. Calvin w. Stewart
DID, president of the whitworth college at
sumner This college is rapidly coming to the
front as one of the most important institutions
of learning on the Pacific coast 1t has q cur
riculum equal TO the frst-class colleges of the
East, and is manned by full corps of expert
enced and successful educators Dr. Stewart
was recently called from the East TO assume the
executive work OF this institution. He had for
more than n quarter of 8 century been pastor OF
a large congregation near Philadelphia Pa
work OF Pennsylvania.
Dr. Stewards sermon yesterday morning was
on the miracle OF the leaves and fishes, and his
text was taken from Matt xiv: 1920 He said
the miracles of Christ are not merely wonders
but signs One OF their most striking character
istics is that they are not like the pretended
portents of false faiths, mere mighty deeds
standing in no sort OF intellectual relation 10
the message OF which they claim TO be the at
testators. but that they have themselves a doc
trinal significance. He illustrated this principle
By reference 10 several OF the miracles OF Christ
Turning 10 the miracle under consideration.
the doctor said are warranted in regarding
this miracle az s symbolic revelation of Christ
as supplying all the wants OF this hungry world
He dispenses His gifts significant His
agents are His disciples. The first point thus
introduced is the suggestive idea that Christ
feeds the furnishing world by means of his
church The prominent idea here set forth was
the fact that Jesus Christ by His death ard sac
rifce procured salvation for the word, but that
His people are Christs instruments for effectipg
the realization OF the purposes Of His death
Not without them shall "he see the travail of
his soul and be satisfied" Neither the divine
chord, nor the expansive power of the trnth,
nor the crowned expectancy of q waiting Lord,
nor the mighty working of the Divine Com
ferter are q complete means for the accomplish
ment of the divine promise that all nations shall
be saved in Christ II is the followers of Christ
that must take this blessed gospel and give IL TO
the nations. And in this world they must learn
the lesson OF their incompetency for the WORK
according 20 the necessities of the case. "How
many loaves have We? Go and see"
The finest thought in the sermon, and one
very stcking, was that the bread which is given
TO the famishing is multiplied for the future of
the distributor They took OF the fragments
that remained twelve baskets full" Every hon.
es; effort to bring some other human heart into
conscious possession Of the love Of Christ deep
ems our own sense Of its preciousnesA The doc
tor was very eloquent in this part Of his sermon.
He urged his hearers 10 take this bread Of the
gospel and feed upon il, and then carry il boldly
20 all the hungry. Rank altar r&zk will est All
races. all ages win End here food sor their souls
As they part the blessing il viii grow undsr the
divine eve, and the longer trey gre the fuller
handed they viii become. MOI shall the bread
fail. nor the word become vea<, till all the
world has tasted Of its sweEtasss md been re-
freshed by its potent life.
The subject discussed IN The - :ning By the