The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1893-07-03
DEDICATION.

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place = Worship.
The old school house at Yatesville, which
was recently abandoned by the School Board
has been purchased by the few enterprising
Methodists Of that place and under the
leadership of James Patterson, the live
superintendent of the Sunday school, it has
been completely renovated within and placed
under the care Of the trustees of the First
Methodist Episcopal church of Shenandoah.
On Sunday afternoon it was formally
dedicated and will hereafter be known as the
Yatesville Methodist Episcopal church. The
dedicatory sermon was delivered by Rev.
William Powck from the text | Tim. 3.l5 (:
"These things write l unto thee-that thou
mayest know how thou oughtest to behave
thyself in the house of God, which is the
church of the living God, the pillar and
ground of the truth"
The church was never intended to be the
exponent Oft set of truths but of the truth it..
self-even the truth of Him who said, 81 am
the truth !" The welfare of the individual
and the safety Of the community depend upon
l.
lation by the people, The church is the di-
vinely chosen and qualified instrument by
which these ends are to be secured. She is
not called to seek the reconstruction of So
ciety along political lines, to exhibit the model
of reconstructed society in individual speci-
mems of reconstructed humanity. And this in
turn is not to be thought of in connection with
mere outward rites but real inward grace inn
parted by the divine Spirit in response to an
intelligent faith in the pure truth of the gos-
pei. Such a faith cometh by hearing and
hearing by the word of God"
The world needs the truth concerning
Deity, Humanity, Eternity. 1t needs to
know that God is neither all justice nor all
mercy. He is revealed to us in the solemn
relation Of Judge and the endearing one of
Father. He has been pleased to manifest
Himself to us in His divine Son in response to
the pathetic appeal "show us the Father and
it sufficeth u.s." The Holy Ghost has been
given us as the guide of the ignorant and the
Comforter of the sorrowing. Humanity
needs, in order to truest humanitarianism, to
feel its responsibility to its Father. God-to see
in the blood of the cross the remedy for not
only sin in general but sin and selfism in
particular. 1t needs to realize that the only
certain cure for the evils of which we hear SO
much is to be sought not in the leaden bullet
of the bloOd-thirsty Anarchist but in the
golden rule Of the meek and lowly Nazarene.
More than this we need to learn that there
are evils in this life for which no remedy is
to be found this side of eternity, and for
which there is no ameloration save in that
sublime faith which links the finite with the
infinite. God inhabiteth eternity and rules
the world with reference to mans ultimate
good. The period we call time is only little
breathing spell between two eternilies, vet
vain man would crowd all there is of being
and blessing within its narrow confines and
its earthen vessels. But voice rings out
sharp and clear above the din of life, 'The
world passeth away, and the lust thereof, but
he that doeth the will of God abideth for
ever"
After the sermon Rev. Powick dedicated
the building to the worship of God, assisted
by Rev. Thomas R. Edwards and Thomas
Hough. The full choir of the Methodist
Episcopal church was present and added
greatly to the service by their music. Other
improvements, upon the exterior are con-
templated in the near future.