The morning call., 1893-05-22
PULPIT PRAISES.
Rev. w. M. WOodWard's
Theme.
EARNEST EFFORT APPROVED.
A Sermon i'm Which the Preacher
Takes Occasion to Speak of
"The Call"

The congregation Of the First Methodist
Episcopal Church heard vigorous ser
mon last evening when Rev. w. Nj. Wood
ward, the pastor, preached on THE Morn
ing Call" 1t was a discourse strong in
homely SMILES and attractive in illustra-
tons that had the merit Of being pictur-
esque. According to his text the call was,
Awake. thou that sleepest and arise from
the dead"
"My subject was chosen as THE Morn
ing CALL" he explained in introduction.
shut I did not intend to preach on The
MORNING CALL when taking up my SUBJ
ject Having selected it, however. l will
say that the newspaper. THE MORNING
CALL, is daily visitor to my house and /
appreciate it very highly. l consider it
the best family paper in this city,"
Returning to his theme. Mr.. Woodward
said that when sin, the serpent, has blown
its breath over the heart and mind there
follows a sleep that may know no waking.
"Sin," said he, sis striking in its sug-
gestions and analogies First there Is the
quiet sleeper whom you scarcely know Is
alive. You see him in church meetings,
but cannot tell that he is interested.
Then there is the loud sleeper. He
talks very much, earnestly and loudly !;
but he does not believe all he says. He is
not a believer in God; he simply talks
loudly to keep up his courage, like the boy
in the dark who whistles to keep away
COLLINS.
Again you find the talking sleeper who
speaks in his dreams, and the sOmnambu-
list who walks while asleep. How very
often the unbeliever walks in dangerous
places and knows it not. There are in San
Francisco to-day young men ana women
who don't know they are walking in dan
gerous places.
"And there is the careless sleeper who
hears the morning call and gives it 90 heed.
Too late, alas! he may sleep too deep to
arise when the call comes. You know the
sleeper who hears his alarm clock and says,
'I'll economic just ten minutes and then
arise Unfortunately next morning, and
the next, he hears the alarm without heed
ing and at last it is n OF heard at all. 1t is
even so with the call, Awake thou that
Sleepest!"
From this view the preacher turned
to that light that should follow sleep after
the call.
Light is life," he continued. "How
many ways does the Lord work to shed
his great life and light upon the earth {!
How true 1t is that the press of San Fran
cisco and the country is the means OF
spreading the ight-going into the Sums,
pushing investigation in every direction
and publishing it to the world. And the n
Christian men take measures to clean up
these abuses.
with regard to our excellent paper,
our MORNING CALL, having watched il, [
think there is a moral purpose underlying
its actions and its policy and an intention
to investigate existing evils. expose them
and suggest remedies. Let us, dear
friends, be in sympathy with every
morning call. Whether it be to sug-
gest some movement for the betterment of
or haa ic hat
us. We have seen here on Powell street
this tide sweeping away other churches
and threatening our own. and you must
rise UP against IT,"
The tide was the growth of dives and
Chinatown with their kindred evils.