The herald., 1895-11-18
YESTERDAY At THE CHURCHES
TheoIogians Are Greeted by
Large Audiences
FIRST METHODIST EPISCOPAL
Rev. John A. B. Wilson, the New Pastor,
breaches
At Unity, the First UniversaIist, the Taber-
nacie and at the Church OF the New
Era-Other Addresses

The new pastor of the First Methodist
Episcopal church, Rev. John A. b. Will
son, delivered his first sermon before a
splendid congregation yesterday morn
ing. He chose his text from the fourth
chapter of PHILIPPIANS, sixth and seventh
verses: Be careful for nothing, but in
everything by prayer and supplication
with Thanksgiving, let your requests be
made known unto God; and the God OF
peace shall fill your hearts and mir DIS
with the peace OF God, through Jesu,
Christ.
IT have always found that a pretty
good way to interpret the scriptures, F"
said Dr.. Wilson, ''is to let them interpret
themselves Does this text, tn en-, mean
that the body should be left to itself?
Not if We unders and il fully. Only half
the truth is learned unless the entire
spirit OF the word is revealed. Shakes
peare said, conscience does MAKE towards
of US all but that is only half truth,
and might be more com pletely expressed.
conscience does make towards of bad
men. So in reading the fourth COM
mandment take IL to mean, not only
that a man should rest on the seventh
day. but that he should work on the re-
manning six.
There is so much of the divine word
that receives but partial understanding.
] once went to a man sitting in my con-
gregation and asked him II he had accept
cd the Lord, and he replied that the d.
vine influence had not yet come over
him. And he kept waiting to be moved
ana died waiting.
o. nv brethren. you must work out
your salvation with fear and trem bling.
You must be fitted with an agonizing
zeal for it. Tho exam pie of the apostle
who worked three years night and day
with prayer and teaching to redeem
souls is a good one to follow in regard
to our own souls.
When one has worked with all his heart
and mind and has done all within his
power, then he can leave the rest to God.
Let me illustrate with an example. Sup
pose q farmer has irrigated his land,
plowed and sowed it. and done all that
he could to insure crop, should he then
worry for fear of drougbts and rain? No,
he has done mis- part and for the rest he
should trust to God. And the same is
true of the pastor. He ought not to wor-
~, when all that be could do has been
done, nor fear lest his efforts and ability
might not receive due recognition; but
like everyone else should leave it in the
hands of the Lord.
There are ceItain lines showing what
part we should do, and what to leave to
our Father IN heaven. We only bring
own buroen and Gods. In how many
instances is orr peace OF soul destroyed,
the happiness OF those around us marred,
and the sunshine OF the home dimmed
just because We will not trust in God to
do his part!
minn the law of division of labor, and
shat is tbs unless we do. we Destroy the
religion of God. .ople know that we
claim to meet the trials and viscitudes of
life because We are buoyed up by the
Holy Spirit. What then do they think
If we do not manifest it in our lives?
Their conclusion is that our rel sion is
. fraud or we are hypocrits.
And yet another reason: God has
great purpose in everything. For every
triDulation that we bear, for all that
seems to US wrong, there is some divine
reason. What He sends is for our good,
though we may not see it so. All things
work roethsr for good to them that love
the Lord.
Of the Almighty, for whom the Lord
loveth he chasteneth.
Brethren, a smooth sea never made a
good sailor. The sons of the rich, with
their easy condition in life, are not pre-
pared Tor hard ip, and the servants son,
used to veIv nigh everything, will some
day grow up and lend the wherewithall
of life TO the scion OF his master. Hard
experiences luahe udrIy Cua1aCterS. ANA
experience makes up the sum OF earthly
life. By it We become useful 10 our
selves and TO others. The plain words of
an old, unschooled woman. who in con-
soling another for the death of son,
said. i have buried five expressed more
of sym pathy than could be uttered in
the finest speech. She could sympathize
by experience.
"When l was boy I read the Bible,
because l was taught to read it; and
remem Der the reference there to a mighty
marvelled at it. The perfect architecture
of those days. with its polished stones.
each fitting into its place, is not unlike
the. divine plan of life. Experience is
the iron used to polish US to fit exactly
in our places in the great temple of the
sarth.'
DR.. Wilson then spoke in beautiful
words OF prayer ana supplication and
thanksgiving. ''We should have more
thanksgiving" he continued. 1--WE have
SO much TO be thankful for. know it is
easier TO preach this than to practice it,
but let US all strive to follow the blessed
teaching. We have more to thank God
for than to weep over. What though we
do not always receive all that we ask for
In oui prayers we are granted all that is
good or US. God Almighty knows now to
run this universe of His. Oh how beau
tiul it is to contemplate the peace of
God! His inhnlte grace. how incompre-
hensible. But what a consolation it is
to think that part of that infinite grace
will be placed in our hearts. Through
prayer and supplication and thsnksglv.
ing we may receive the peace that God
will send to u.s.
Unity Church