The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-27
A SPLENDID SERMON
]. Il. Little Addresses Montana Com
mandery No. 3 K. T.
THE DAY OF THE ASCENSION
He Impresses His Hearers Very
Favorably BY His Eloouence and
the Able Manner in Which
He Handled the Subject.


Montana Commandery No 3. knights |
Templar. to the number of about 40. |
attended the South Butte NJ. +. church |
in a body this morning. and listened to |
a most interesting sermon on The As
cension of Christ" by Rev. j. II. Little, |
who is grand prelate of the knights |
Templar i'm Montana.
In his Introductory remarks Mr.. Lit |
tie said: Brother Sir Knights, 1t al |
fords me much pleasure TO welcome
you 10 this Christian sanctuary on |
this suspicious occasion, when we meet
to commemorate an event sacred In
the memory of all Christian Sir
knights, the sublimest event ever wit
messed by mortal man, and the Gull
mination of a life. the grandest and
most glorious that the world has ever
known The grand distinguishing feat
ure of knight Templarism is its de-
vction TO the Christian religion and
unbounded reverence for Jesus, the
man of Galilee.
I'm the centuries that arc past, when
knight Templarism as an organization
was first formed, IL was to aid and as
sist in regainng the holy places made
sacred by the words and actions OF him
who spoke as never man spoke ana
who taught those sublime truths that
are calculated TO make men free from
the power and dominion OF sin ana
satan. These men were brave and true.
They fully believed in the divinity OF
| the Lord Jesus Christ; they would
| rather die cruel and ignominious
deaths than renounce their faith In him
As to the wisdom of their methods In
| organizing a crusade against the IN
| fidel we may perhaps disagree, but we
| are all united in the belief that their
| motives We're pure and that their ac-
| ton originated from personal devotion
to Christ. We, who are their success
| sors, are pledged to loyalty to CHRIST
| and his religion. and because we de-
| sire 10 be recognized as being loyal and
! true to his memory and his cause, are
| here to-day to celebrate the ascension
from earth to heaven of the immacu-
late Jesus.
of the greatest interest. or should be,
To every professed follower of Jesus; II
| is worthy of the most reNerent atten-
ton Of all created intelligences; now
much more than by those who have
| the greatest interest in its sublime ac-
| complishment.
! Mr. Little then went into the ascen-
sion in detail. speaking from the clause
| He Was Taken Up in the acts OF
the Apostles, 1. .. The life work OF the
Redeemer had been completed lie MAO
suffered and died and had risen trl-
unophantly from the tomb and had
given unmistakable evidences to his
disciples that he was the same Jesus
they knew previous to the cruclhNloll,
| and not a spirit. as some or them az
first believed. For 40 days he tarried
| among those he loved. and after ten
DERBY reproving the erring, but penl-
tent Peter and repeating the ihstruc-
tions he had given them before ms
death, he prepared unknown 10 the
disciples 10 take his departure. lie
| n
and took them on journey towards
BETHANY. where the happiest days OF
His ministry had been spent. ON reach-
ing the Mount Of Olives lie blessed
them. and as He did so He was carried
up into heaven.
, cension and of Christs work on earth
Continuing he said: Brother Slr
Knights, as Christians. we maintain
the divinity and humanity OF oui
blessed Lord. How they are united II
His person we do not profess 10 eA
, plain, neither can we comprehend; we
accent the fact as stated and adort
Jesus of Nazareth as God over all
: blessed forever more. The contempla
! ton of the ascension will pront us nu
] little, however, unless we are willhl
to learn the exalted lesson that Il
, | teaches. :.
/ The ascension of Christ cannot b'
e separated from the preceding years
2 that pure and holy life, ana TO EMO!
l the benefits of that sublime event W.
| must Of necessity partake OF and ente
I into the experience of that hallowe'
0 life. If the ascension of Jesus teache
y | one thing more than another, IL is ina
0 a preparation was made for this, IN
browning act of that wonderful lie
, that the 30 odd years of his soJourn o.
Z earth had been spent with this purpos
a in view. IL Christ had failed in a sin
II ole thing. his life would have been
a | failure, which would have precluue
X the possibility of his resurrection an
ascension. Christ in all things stand
| ont pre-eminently as our complete pal
tern As brotherhood, let US pu
- forth our noblest efforts to reproduc
- The life of Christ in our lives, and thu
- overcome the foes of our comma
X Christianity. our business as soldier
Of Christ is To take up the cross an
follow him: to deny ourselves Tor OF
ie ers' good: shirk no duty, however DIN
y cult IL may be- and evade no connie
y, , for the right, though the foes be M
&c ION the battle field of life let us a
=; | nuit ourselves like men; in the thicke
- | or the fray let us hold up the coIots
- our CAPTAIN: under his banner and "
~ der the sign of the cross, let us marc
shoulder To shoulder to the connlt
With the irresistible battle cry OF VI
an tory in His Name let US night conr
en- peousIy against vice and wickeone
ed in every form. aiding the right again
no the wrong and the weak against I
IA: strong. helping the fallen to rise, che
or ing the faint-hearted and defending I
er oppressed Amidst all the din ana u
IN, IN moil Of the strife, let US hN our es
by steadfastly upon our glorified. ascend
m Lord We may fan in the coniii
but we shall not be defeated; we sh
he more than conquerors through n
he that hath loved US The true chr
az tan soldier never dies, he only steep
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