The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-05-02
PASTOR AND PEOPLE.
Discourses From the Pulpits Of
the City's Churches.
WHAT MEN OWE TO ONE ANOTHER
Hsssonable Laws for Sunday Rest-In.
consistent Christians Condemned
Church News Notes.

Rev. n. P. Tedrick, pastor of Grace
n. E. church. spoke yesterday morning
On the subject: sour Debts and Debtors.
Be opened with reference to the manner
h which Chinese geographers, when max
ing maps, magnify the size of their own
country in proportion as they diminish
that Of the United States. The same
spirit Of selhsh mess was exhibited by the
Jews and the Greeks an their divisions of
humanity.
y Continuing, he said in part:
Americans call everybody else a for
eigner. having little interest n the welfare
Of even their next-door neighbors. But
Paul, in the free spirit of Christ, breaks
away from all such imaginary boundaries
and proclaims that he is debtor to every
needy member of the human family. Paul
considered himself debtor to the Gentle
world, not because he owed them money
or any consideration for raising, educa-
ton, philosophy or art, but because God
had called him apart as chosen vessel"
of salvation, had given him q revelation
of the true destiny of man and the con-
ditions by which 1t could be obtained. His
mission was to bring the kingdom of
heaven among men. In the world, "every
the hindmost," was as practical
then as it is today. But Paul
sought to make every man feel that
he was his brothers. keeper So we. like
Paul, are to stand IN Christ's stead and
cry: "Be ye reconciled to God" We all
have gifts differing. Some are skillful
money getters without taking lesson or
hard exertion. Others toll from the cradle
to the grave and cannot earn enough to
pay for their winding sheet. Some in the
face of adversely get q fine education,
while others spend fortunes and then the
world won't say they are educated. Some
never know the sensation of pain; others
never know what it is to DE without pam:
yet each has something for the other
meekness, patience and perseverance are
as important as muscle or cash. It is the
spirit of Christ that makes us more de-
pendent upon each other. The savage
can get along on q few roots and herbs
without help from his fellows.
The wife of John Adams could spin,
weave, cut and make clothes for her fam
lily. We cannot do as she did, we are de-
pending more on each other.
This morning the world has been get
ting breakfast for US. The China
man, the Japanese, the inhabitants
of the South sea all have been at work that
We might have the blessings and Injuries
Of earth. Thus we are all debtors, not
only to each other. but to the tribes ON the
opposite side of the globe.
In general the wife is q debtor to hus-
band and husband to wife, parent to child
and child to parent. teacher to pupil and
pupil to teacher. But the church of Christ
owes great debt to the world. 1t is not a
savings bank or mutual insurance COM
pany, but bank of issue; paying out in
the genuine coin God has given us 1t is a
recipe for moral biliousness. As activity
keeps healthy the body, SO doing good,
paying debts and helping to elevate hui
manity dispels moral dependency and
keeps us in spiritual glow.
This is the living, vitalizing essence of
Christianity. Let US exercise it and thus
pay our debts, do our Fathers will, and
prove ourselves worthy of all things.