The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-02-23
AT THE crNrRAL cHR1sr1AS.

Some very interesting services were
held Sunday in the Central Christian
! church Preceding the preaching more
than one hundred engaged in the services
| peculiar to the Y. P. S. c. E. The intelli-
| cence activity and real conservation
| evinced by this society as such and in in
| separable relation to the church work is a
source of great promise and encourage
| ment. The brief addresses OF both young
| ladies and gentlemen were of very unusual
| int crest and in the Judgment of many of
us who are older aud have more expert
| ence, their attainments are far in advance
| of that acquired by US so early in the
Christian life
Pastor Sims was greeted both morning,
and evening with large audiences. In the
evening the speaker called attention to
the revelation OF Gods will in three dis
pensat!ons, viz: Patriarchal, Jewish aud
Christian ages He briefly recounted the
evidences of types prophecies pointing to
and fulfilled in Christ.
Calling attention to the preaching on
first Penticost after the resurrection of
Christ. the speaker said: We modern
preachers have TO study hard in order to
prepare our sermons, but the men
who first preached the gospel of
Christ did not acquire their sermons
nv study but holy men of God spake as
tn y were moved by the Holy Spirit as
Christ had said ut is not you that speak
but the spirit of your Father that speaketh
in you" Certainly then they could make
no mistake nor could any superhuity nor
insufficiency attached to the truth they
proclaimed. The speaker gave clear. ear
nest and emphatic presentation of all the
conditions and agencies which character
lied the proclamation of the Gospel of
Christ at the first. He reasoned that there
is unfalable safety in believing and obey
ing Just what God commands and that
whatever is more or less than that which
God has declared to be his system and
power to save mems souls is sin of pre-
sumption.
Last night the usual prayer meeting pre-
ceeding preaching was conducted by /. w.
Gill; who possesses the happy faculty of
inspiring such meeting with nnf1sgging
interest throughout, and hence great
ernestness and solemnity characterized the
deyotions of this hour
The theme considered by Pastor Sims
was "The Beginning" The speaker said
that the crop of Christ stands in the center
OF revelation. The law, the prophets and
the psalms pointed forward to the crop.
The Acts, the Epistle and Revelations
pointsback to the crop.
The truth that Jesus is the Christ, the
son of the living God" is the rock On which
the church was and is built. 1t is written
He was declared nightly to be the son OF
God by the Resurrection from the dead"
dead and am alive, and have the keys of
death and hell"
At the beginning the church of Christ
was organized after Christ had arisen from
the dead, and the Holy Spirit had de-
scended upon the Apostles and they spoke
as the Spirit gave them utterance.
This is also the beginning of the last
will and testament of God This first
will and testament was the old covenant
which was sealed with the blood beast"
The last will aud testament was sealed
with the blood of Christ. The conditions
and blessing of this will were not made
known until the Holy Spirit as an advocate
spoke through the apostles on the day of
Pentecost. This was also the beginning
of reception of the Holy Spirit as COM
forter. Hence because ye are sons, God
hath sent forth His spirit into your hearts
by which we cry Abba Father" This is
also the beginning of the spiritual priest
hood. Christ as the great High Priest
entered not into the hottest mode with
hands, but into heaven itself, there to APP
pear in the presence of God for u.s." It is
written without the shedding of blood
there is no remission and that ''the blood
of Christ cleanseth from all SIM" When
then and by what means we come to the
blood of Christ we are then and there
made free from sin. Again, the blood of
Christ was shed in His death, thence when
aud where we come to the death of Christ
by Gods appointment we come to the
blood without which there is no remis
sion.
Theme this evening is Classification"