The herald., 1895-11-04
YfSIERDAYAT THE CHURCHES
Despite the Weather Congrega-
tons Were Large
WITH THE PRESBYTERIANS
Rev, Burt Estes Howard Preactes in
the New Chapel
Or. Campbell Delivers His Farewell Sermon.
The Discourse At UnIty-Musc at
st. Paul's-Other Services
WITH THE PRESBYTERIANS

Services were held in the Presby terrain
chapel on Figneroa street tor the first
time Yesterday morning. The magnifi-
cent edifce was crowded with large
congregation which had gathered to
greet their pastor, the Rev. Burt Estes
Howard.
The text was taken from John Kills.:
"By this shall all men know that We are
my disciples. if Eye have love one to an
other.' In part the gentleman spoke S
follows:
1t was the last night. The supper was
endeL. Judas had gone forth on his
shameful MISSION, leaving the Master
alone with tke eleven. 1t was time of
supreme tenderness. The hour had come
for the breaking of ties that had grown
very close and strangely intimate. When
hearts that have loved deeply draw near
the moment of separation the words that
are spoken take on wishful seriousness
and fullnes OF meaning they do not
commonly pc ssess. If at no other season
in those experiences when our hands I'M
clasp the fingers of our beloved and we
look into their eyes at parting, W.T. are
honest with language. We say what we
that the words we are trying to think
about this morning were spoken by Jesus
ut the time when HIS heart was pressed
full of loving desire to say just the thing
the disciples needed to know; when VIC
rememb Der that it was the night Of the
betrayal ana therefore the last Opportu-
nifty for familiar fellowship, we can not
be far wrong if we assume that what He
said was intended 20 express truth that
H. lad Of INN nrta nnn nd
that He said just what He meant to say.
Tne disciples were to be a distinct
order among the various schools OF
thought and the various societies. They
were to have a distinguishing character
istic to marx them as belonging to the
brotherhoods and associations, each with
its system of signs. of grips, pass words
and insignia. Jesus gave His disciples
no mark like these.
He had no rings or badges or jewels, no
gorgeous ritual or stately ceremony. He
sent his brethren ont in the world with
the simplest test that ever men assumed
as the evidence thew should give and
look for in dete rmining their relation to
him. Jesus said, 'Thls shall be the sign
by which the world shall perceive that
you are Christians: this love that you
have one for another"
dow 1t shames the tests that We have
imposed on men before We have been
willing TO admit them into our fellow
ship! May il not be that We have made
it harder for men to enter our number
than to enter the Kingdom of heaven?
Who Is the Christian? Is it the man
who believes thus aud SOP the man who
assents TO somebody's creedP What says
the Master? Hereby shall all dstin-
guish my disciples: because they love as
have loved" 0, simple sign of true fell
Iowship, how we have dishonored thee
by our blind insistence on tests of our
own making!
No DOUBT 1t saems ike very made
quate definition of the word Christian to
some of you. We are slow to let the plaiC
teachings of Jesus into Our way of life.
II is such a plain test-this test that
Jesus gives. There is no searching of
records or balancing of logical niceties to
tell where man stands in relation to
Jesus. And the test is 40 universal 1t
is so definite and so genuine that no one
can fail to apply it. That man who loves
as Jesus loved is Christian, whoever he
is and wherever he is found or whatever
his theological views"
The emphasis laid on love in these
days is piLifully weak: the emphasis laid
on opinion is wickedly strong. | have
no fault at all to find with Christian doc
tfine. When we regard religion better we
shall find that it is the highest reason
and the most exact science.
And, beloved, if in your own heart,
during these moments we have spent in
trying to understand something of the
Chrst-love, there have grown up eager
questions as to how your life might be
like Christ's, very spring of love in TIE
world, you will find the secret where
Jesus found it. in these three things: In
understanding the ideal toward which
God Is lifting the world; in seeing the
divine ideal lowering above every pitiful
soul that touches you. and in getting
firm hold of the great truth that the man
who is God-flled and who tries to do
Gods work is the man who becomes the
manifestation of Gods heart to the
world.