Birmingham age-herald., 1895-03-25
SIT. MARY's-oN. THE. E.HIGHLANDs.

accomplishments nave 1adeo away.
 ST. MARY's-oN. THE HIGHLANDS.
 Rector O.. P. Fitzsmmons gave a mas- terly analysis of the character of St. Peter, taking as his text, s'Peter, lowest thou Me?'1 Character must always be consid. cred iu itself and relations. Peter's char acter in itself was distinguished by bold
 ness, humility and tenderness. With early culture and congenial environment he
 would have been prominent in thought
 as we'll ,as action, but, owing to the want
 of early advantages, ne was strong put comparatively illiterate. His moral expe-
 riences justify the distinction between sins
 which are the effiuence of personality and sins which arise from transcending per-
 sonal limitations. The former class stamp ch haracter as essentially good or bad. The
 second class need not indicate cne or the
 other. To the second class belong the sins of Peter. Having stepped beyond his llra-
 It's, he was taken by surprise, and his true nature becomes temporarily obscured. The
 defect in his religious and apostolic life
 was selfish regard for the Savior to the exclusion of proper care for the Savior's work. Hence the Sayior's solicitude was manifested where thrice He tells him to 'sfeed His sheep.o This lesson, although
 not learned before, he learned from the pale lips of the Savior, and taught 1t faithfully in his Epistle.
 Under one of the above heads the rector
 made a strong point on the rubric forbid
  ing the burial service over suicides, be- lieving that in many instances suicides were not the result of @ wicked nature or mean purpose, but the yielding of will to a force which at the time the person was un- able to resist. At any rate 1t scene strange that the priests should be allowed to read this service over a man who has committed every crime on earth except suicide, and forbid 1t over one who has practiced every virtue up to the time of mournful destruc. ia rf1di xrhioh ka tho appendix vermiformis, produces great deal of trouble and must ultimately disap- pear.
 SOUTH HIGHLAND PRESBYTERIAN. Rev. John Barbour, the pastor, selected as his text Matthew X, ,32.3 33: "Whoso con- fesseth me, him will 1 confess before my father" One of the great elements of ness of speech. He was no phrase mongers no rhetorician. Who can doubt whaf Christ means by his words in the textf In some distinct way in the future, every maR who has ever heard of Christ will be ac.i cepted or rejected of Christ. And it will
 be on this simple principle-friends of Christ here, befriended there; con fessingl here, confessed there. The speaker then. went on to show that this was not an arbi-I trary requirement, but it was due to Christ if we love Him, due to ourselves that we be- not isuuderstood, due to those about uss
 who have right to know our principles,5 , and due to those for whom we ought to labor. If man neglects the duty of con- fessing Christ, large part of the Bible has no meaning to him. He can never consist entity ask any ope else to be Christian he cuts himself off from fellowship and re-,
 jects the call to usefulness and Christian service. The preacher closed by refuting the ob-
 jections commonly made to the necessity
 for confessing Christ, and urged his hear.-
 CTS to do their duty, and enjoy the privilege of the words in the text. ,t Df