The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1895-03-25
CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER.
REV. DIR. PHILLIPS REOCUPIES HIS
PULPIT.

PULPIT.
His Health Nearly Regained-His Yester-
day Mornings Sermon--A Warm Greeting
From His People-A Hymn of Welcome
Written for the Occasion.
There was a service Of unusual inter-
est yesterday morning at the Church
of the Redeemer. Rev. DR.. Watson L.
Phillips officiated after an absence Of
several weeks spent at Hot Springs,
N. O., whittier he went for rest and
recuperation from a somewhat severe
attack Of grip in the early part of the
winter. The kind greetings and mani
fest interest of friends were most
gratifying to him. The doctor is held
i'm highest esteem by his friends and
parishioners, who appreciate and admire
his rare qualities. He read as a lesson
Hebrews 1112; and preached from
Exodus 1877:
"And He called the name of the place
NASSAU and Meribah, because of the
Gliding Of the children of Israel, and
because they tempted the Lord, saying:
is the Lord among us or not""
He said: "While I was absent at
Hot Springs I entered a church and
took a seat near man who had
dirty, ragged and discouraged look
about him. Most of the congregation
had the looks of poverty and rags.
compared them with my own congre-
cation, who have beautiful music and
a pleasant church in which to Wor-
ship.
Seeing a heavy burden upon another
does not help us to bear our own, but
it does make us more cheerful. What
we must guard against is to keep from
getting sour. Keep from complaining.
We should hold as a cardinal principle
that God is among men. He is in the
affairs of individual life, in the howell
of poverty and rags as well as the
palaces of riches and grandeur.
EVERY man has his own creed-his
own way of conducting his life, and
this creed is mostly formed by habit.
Some men are sunny, pleasant and
unselfish and others have the habit of
showing themselves to the world just
the opposite. These never fully enjoy
life. They only see the world of which
they are the center. 1t Is simply be-
cause they are accustomed to put self
in the foreground and regard every
one with suspicion as trying to over
wheIm them. There are those who
have the habit of posing before the
world and giving everyone the wrong
opinion of them. How many of these
small farces are being carried on in
society?
eve have never asked ourselves why
we permit these things to influence
us, yet we have let them mould our
lives and cast our characters. simply
because we are accustomed to them.
ooh, for a broad and intelligent esti-
mate of faith, not warped, narrowed
and crippled Wherever you turn you
are embraced by the power of habit.
You are Impressed that most men, while
hoasting of freedom, are in some way or
other nothing but slaves Our only
hope is the habit of initiating the Christ
life. Our Saviour did not complain, he
did not murmur.
"Of all the habits that lead us captive
none is so aibominable as the one which
keeps us from accepting the holy word
of Christ and from letting His calm
peacefulness of character speak out
through our lives"
The following 'Hymn of Welcome"
WRITTEN for the OCCASION by Mrs. Alverd
e. Winche1l and set to music by the or
ganist, Professor Shepard, was delight
fully SUNG by Mrs. Thompson at the
commencement of the services:
There's a light I'M Gods temple this
morning,
With which sulbeams have nothing |
to do;
A shaft of rays where feeling plays
Between the pulpit and pew
There's "a pulse i'm the air this morning |
BY which devotion is famed,
That throbs I'M each heart till the tear
drops start
But a stranger could not understand. |
There's al chord in the music this morn |
ing
That cannot be written down;
A pean that strikes the eternal heights
Whence infinite love looks DOWN
The love that has kept us while parted, |
And clasps our hands again,
Round his altar-fire which scars the
higher
For the tears that made it dim.
There's a pledge for the future this
morning
Unspoken, unspoken, but solemn and
sure,
For labor anew, and faith that is true,
And love that will all things endure.
A union for aye to grow stronger,
Devotion that shrinlxs not from pain;
With our eye on the Lord and trust in
His word
Let the people all answer-Amen.
BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS.