The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1892-11-25
The DAY IN CHURCH.
Rev. DR.. Cooke breaches at the
First Church.
OTHER APPROPRIATE SERVICES
In the Dineront Houses of Worship In
tho City-Btshop Peterkin at st,
Matthews--Large Congregations En-
gage in the Religious Observance of
the Day. =

church, the Second Presbyterian and
the United Presbyterian united in the
celebration OF Thanksgiving, and the
attendance at the services was large.
Rev. DR.. Cooke preached the sermon,
which was about forty minutes long
and an eloquent and appropriate dis
course. AS usual the doctor spoke
entirely without manuscript.
Rev. DIR. Cunningham, pastor of the
church, conducted the services and the
opening prayer was by Rev. DR.. Nc
Clure, OF the United Presbyterian
church. A collection was taken for the
Children's Home, on Thirteenth street.
The singing was by the choir OF the
First church,
DR.. Cooke took for his text Matthew
4, iv-
"Man shall not live by bread alone,
but by every word that proceedeth out
of the mouth OF God"
Following is a synopsis of his sermon:
There is here no d~isparagement of
the bread. 1t mas its place among the
necessary gifts of God. 1t is the APP
pointed means through which we keep
our vital connections with the world OF
matter, OF men in the body, and OF CO.
temporary affairs. Permanent divorce
from it means death. Antaeus must
slip from the embrace OF Hercules, and
touch mother earth again, if he would
not perish. Then, through many ages
OF culture, by a multitude Of experi-
ments involving selection in the sur
vival oil the fitest; by the discovery OF
methods to give us throughout the year
the products OF every season; by COM
merce which abolishes the limitations
of climate and furnishes to all the earth
the fruits and grain Of every land. God
not only keeps his children alive, but
BY variety OF bread keeps them from
Ioathing their food, as Israel did the
mama. Man lives by bread. To win
it means labor, and work means agri-
culture, and the factory, and commerce,
and art, and science, and learning, and
law, and medicine and ministry, the
school, tho housekeeping; the rearing
OF children, tho publishing house, the
newspaper-the all and sundry OF hui
man Toll that keeping mankind busy
shows him to be the child OF the great
Father VINO ever
BY these things men live. They are
not to be disproved in any Of their
stages or processes.
Is any chemistry nobler than the
kitchen when the raw material OF the
field and herd are converted into whole
some, toothsome iood, fit for the thanks
giving of the head Of the household?
Bread selected by the affections; and
prepared by the hand Of love is angels
food. II means health and happiness
and these are supported to life.
Christ taught man to ask for daily
bread and he and the apostles did eat
their meat with gladness and aimpleness
OF heart.
Christ is the perfect-the ideal man;
and he thoroughly appreciated the good
things OF this life. 10 Him every crea-
ton was good and nothing to DO re-
iected if 1t be received with thanKsgiv-
ing. Until his lifting up he lived by
bread.
Matteris mysterious-wonderful plas-
tic-within the limits of law and along
the line OF law subject to man who spir-
itually was made in tho image of God,
thecreatorof matter. Inthe tirstchapter
OF Genesis God gave man created in his
likeness, dominion, thatby the products
OF land and sea he might live, and so it
has been over since. :
But the Master says not by bread
alone.
For man is complex in his organiza-
ton and many sided-there isthe phys.
ical and the metaphysical-the natural
and the spiritual-what no is in com
mon with the body Of Christ, and what
he is he is in common with tho soul OF
Christ. Also, he lives by every word
that proceeded out Of the mouth OF
God.
As the world that is seen responds to
the wants of the natural man, the I'M
seen world responds to the wants OF the
spiritual man-that is, God and the
world stand ready to fill man with their
fullness. Every word OF God, wherever
spoken, within mans capacity OF re-
ceiving it, supplies a human want, is
bread to the soul.
We thank God to-day that man need
not be a famished starving i'll any
part OF his being, but receives every
word OF God only, seeing eternal life in
wisdom, holiness, justice, goodness and
truth is a mental body nourished with
the fruits Of the earth here; and
changed into the likeness OF Christ's
resurrected body hereafter.
The state shall not live by. bread
alone.
II the material be alone the measure
our greatness, then our career will be
short.
Bread is great, but righteousness is
greater.
Bread is nowhere condemned, but
trust in bread is.
We would be, indeed, ungrateful il
we did not consider the bread enough
and to spare in this great land. Its ma
terial III are enormous. But
there is another kind OF life fed from
other sources OF supply. The influences
that come from our history as a people;
our political history; our institutional
history. Those rights that have come
TO us after so much struggle, and that
are so familiar as to be now household
words and common places. are words
OF God by which we live. You will find
them in the amendments OF the consti-
tuition OF the United States and in the
declaration oil rights in the various
state constitutions. They are the
wheaton bread OF the body polite. We
will as a nation be big without being
great unless We live by every word
OF God spoken to US through those
channels by which lie conveys His will
to man.
Words mean revelation-God has
revealed Himself. Our duty is by
searching to find out God and by listen