The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-03-12
nv. W. 7. FLEENOR.
Nv Pastor Of the Market
Street Baptist Church.
me Y. W. c. A. NOW At WORK.
! nnss Meeting Of Wsmea Discusses
wsvs and Means-DR. Psasss Re-
mains with the Bspstsss.

Rev. ". T. Fleenor, called 70 the pulpit
Dxtbe Market street Baptist church two
t~sks ago, Is the latest addition 70 the
ln,uis.eriaI Association Of Seattle. He Il
Il eoouent and forcible taiksr, and has .
rcutaiion as q hard worker In the church.
IHsisa souihernsr by birth and educa-
la. and xss born Ia Virginia in Il a.
YHe removed to Missouri when younR
nsu. however, and was educated In the.
soxy at William Jewell college, 1t LIB.
Inv. No. graduating in 1877. In the
Iams year be was given the pastorats Of
fms First Baptist church Of Atchison.
Kan, and remained in charge there for
fhsec years, when he removed to Stock.
-, Cal. having received o cal, to the
yfs. church there. Here also he r.
nssned three years, and at the end Of that
eeriod was made pastor Of the Pueblo
Isgenue Baptist church in Oakland, Cal,
nd served there six years with great suc.
em. Las. July he received call to the
I Baptist church In La Conner, but there
| lb pastorsts was brief. for last month his
] rssent congregation chose him 20 suc-
I ed Rev. l. w. Read, who had resigned
esssai months before. and thinking that
I seattle offered . wider field he resigned
aad accepted the call. His first sermon
/ hsrs vas preached Sunday q week ago.
n. F!eenor has been married for thirteen
yesrs and has . wife and ono child living.
Mr.. flsenor's evening subject yesterday
rs: "Christ necessity; Hence. Re-
sIlsy," and the text "It was therefore
necessary that the patterns Of things in
| Tie heavens should be purified with these"
| Etc.. Hebrews. IL. %. In part Mr.. Eieenor
said:
There ia law Of complement running
through all nature. Over against every
want there Is response. Reality 10 con-
ptsntly answering the cry of necessity.
Down through the lower and MP through
the higher orders OF life We see this Law.
The mollusk finds its home, food and asso-
cations in the dark water, while man has
hs in the light and hope Of Q higher life
Would IL not be strange to find an animal
and no food adapted to its wants? Or o
plant with no soil to nourish it7 Or .
man with appetites, desires and wants
that could not be met? As well talk OF .
river without channel. or star without
% orbit Absolute necessity implies abb
soiute provision. Natures cries are not
answered by any empty echo. Over
against humanity 10 God with infinite
provision to meet Its wants. Why men
viii honor this law in material and not
human depravity. Are these wants, these
cries, in the history and heart of humanity
resif Nature cannot meet them all, then
there must be Christ
THE first to cry TO heaven was the blood
Of Abel. God responded. The next was
Cain. God answered. The ages ring with
cries after God. David said: Ny soul
shirsteth for God. Oh, that knew where
] could find Him. Prophecy is full of
this cry. The New Testament opens with
'Where Is Her etc. The cry of history
and the heart is for deliverance. Prom
lees and covenants are constantly break
ing through the gloom and writing hope
apon the bold life. God made covenant
With Israel and gave her . law, q ritual
and q priesthood. These Paul Analyses
and shows that they could never take
away sin or satisfy conscience Aaron
Vas their mediator. He had only tho
hood Of animals. Moses sprinkled the
books, tabernacle, the altar aud people.
Christ was written In symbol upor eyerv
serviee from the door to tho mercy seat.
The Jews rejoiced in this service because
Of their dcep-ielt want. They got good
cut Of IL only a. they reached Christ
through ii. Under the law ali things
we're cieansed by blood, but these were
only patterns OF things to come.
'Sin 10 more than . misfortune. more
than stain. 1t is disease deep a. con-
tciousness and deadly ~ death itself.
Life is in the blood. Christ laid down
His life; His blood cicanses as from all
Gin. Mere reformation 10 stale deception.
How the soul longs to break through all
this sham and share in the reality of Gods
rich provision. Christ measures all human
wants. Our one great want IL to respond
20 our wants. The reality OF your longing
Is Christ. Jesus meant this whom He
said: Come unto me all you who labor
and are heavy laden, and I will give you
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