The morning call., 1893-08-07

he created that house? Did he make the
wood or the iron or the water? No indeed.
These things were necessary to have as
preliminaries. When God made your soul
and mine he made the whole Of 1t. Once
you were nothing, row that imm ortal soul
has been made by God. Therefore 1t Is en-
tirely the property of God and therefore
you are entirely bound to his service. You
can not escape that log cally, II you have
reason yOu cannnt escape the cGnse-
Quences. By the very fact that you are
Gods creature you are bound to serve him
according to his wish"
The preacher then said that nothing
angered him more than the refusal or
denial of service to which we had a
right. For instance knife. we might try
to sharpen it, but if we were unable to we
would fling it away. So God, though he
cannot DE angered In our sense, can pro-
duce the effects which are the chastise-
serve him.
The Archbishop said that there were
other motives for The service of God beside
the foregoing that appealed to our finer
feelings and our gratitude. Among these
were that our soul and body, the world
around, the atmosphere We breathed was
Gods gift and that like a fish i'll the water
we swan 10 the sea OF Gods benefits and
graces, graces at our baptism, graces
us in temptation and finally that God
came down to this world. took up our con-
dition and suffered for US. The conclusion
being patent that we ought ITO love him
because he first loved u.s."
but, continued the eloquent preacher.
there are men and women dead to the
claims of Justice, like iron, steel or ada
mant to the claims of gratitude. There Is
one thing. however. they are alive to and
that is their own interest. Now 1t is your
interest to serve God-your greatest.
highest, eternal interest, | may say your
only interest. For the result will be the
most magnificent, the most tiBguished,
Impossible Of conception. Eye hath not
seen neither hath ear heard what G0d has
prepared for those who love him. II we
serve God for these few years-and how
short they will be! How many among
those see now will be alive sixty years
from this day? how many of you have
already one foot In the grave? Even the
youngest of You will be gone in 100 years.
and for service in this extremely short
life God promises you the possession OF
himelf for all eternity. 1 will be your
exceeding great reward"
The Archbishop then spoke of the
magn ifcence of heaven and pointed out
the fact that failure of service would
bring its natural result. LAS the tree falls
so it will lie." He cautioned his bearers
to work while they still had the light. for
the darkness was coming when no man
could work. God gives no second trial.
ut is appointed unto men once to die and
after that the judgment" He then pic
tured the position of the soul that died in
enmity with it's maker. He said that
every man had the light of his conscience
to go by and Gods actual law, Fear
God aud keep his commandments" and
IF thou wilt enter into life. keep the COM
mandments." That was the service GOD
required Of US.
From this be deduced the conclusion
that people were bound TO know their re-
ligion, and with that knowledge could
easily fud out whether they were serving
God by seeing whether their habitual acts
were good. By so doing virtue would be-
come second nature.