The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-16
AT TRINITY CHURCH
Bishop A. w. Wilson of Baltimore breaches
Powerful Sermon


Powerful Sermon
The services of Trinity church were
held in the Unitarian church yesterday
morning. Bishop A. w. Wilson of Balti-
more, who has come here to preside at
the annual conference to be held at Dow
ney on the 26th inst, delivered a sermon
upon the text, He shall glorify me for II
shall receive of mine. and shall show it
unto you.
"All things that the Father hath are
NINE; therefore said |, that He shall take
of mine, and. shall show it unto you. -
John xvi :14.15.
Bishop Wilson began by referring TO tie
time and circumstances under which the
Savior gave his admonitions to the dis
ciples. Said he: THE followers OF
Christ were going out to begin work of
revolutionIzing the thought and action of
the time, to set up doctrines directly OPP
posed to those prevailing and tread in
paths untrod before. But in spite of all
these vicissitudes those eleven men were
to do what their Master intended. 1t
belonged to the divine order of things,
and there could therefore DO no possibil-
ity of failure.
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by the Master is the most significant of
all, 'Ge shall glorify me- Therein is a
complete exposition OF the scripture. To
glorify Christ is to fulfill all tue require
meuts of the blessed religion. No note
was taken OF the philosophers aud sci
ences OF the time, whose lame and
transtiory doctrines and principles give
way to succeeding schools of later ages.
All the knowledge of the earth, of Its
origin and workings and its final end is
contained IN Christ, the image of the God
who made il. And so it is today. We do
rot need to work our way laborlously up
to the heights. out to stand from the first
on the mountain OF knowledge. which is
to understand Him from whom every.
thing emanates."
"And so il will ne-er do for us to sub
stitute the petty sciences and philoso-
phies of tho day for that which stands at
the apex of all knowledge ana which is
all summed up ia the complete knowl-
edge Of Christ.
Sometimes our Christianity is chal-
lenged because it takes this high ground.
The fact is totally overlooked that the
first principle of mans life is divine.
hob him of that and he is no better than
the beasts OF the field.
"Narrowness is often applied to reli-
gious doctrines. Yet Christ was not mar
row. If it is narrowness for one to go
sick. comforting the distressed, casting
out devils and raising the dead then I
would that there were more narrowness
in the world. Narrowness indeed Christ
is the only one who en- braces all natures
and all principles and human experiences
within the range of His own self.
1--WE are not now building thrones for
Christ or setting up Kingdoms for Him,
nor clarifying Him with outward show
and symbols. Christ said: 'Ye shall not
be known as My followers by the systems
of religion We build, or the power and
extent of your works, but in this, that We
love one another" The Lord Jesus is
not to De found in great cathedrals or in
the places of greatest ostentat1on. but
before the cross on Calvary. among the
lowly and the poor. During His life yon
might have found Him at the home of
Mary. among the publicans and sin
ners. or with the lowly fishermen, but
seldom IN the temple.
When Jesus said: 'Ye snail take of
mine, there was more expressed than
some conceive. All that was revealed
by God was Christs. All that the Bible
teaches was His Knowledge. And as for
me, would rather have that good old
obsolete book than all the literature on
earth.
"Geologists claim that millions of
years ago this globe was covered with life
vastly more magnificent than that which
now prevails. l do not know whether
they are fright. nor do l care. Christ
expressed the infinite so feebly pictured
in our erring sciences. when he said ::
My Father worketh and | work"
'There is nothing that belongs to God
that is not Christs and He shows it all
TO us. When Christ shall come again 1t
will finish up this life, and Christ, is the
King and Lord, shall be Supreme and