The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-01-28

| N III
CORNELIUS ECKHARDT
a member of the staff of the Star news
| paper, Washington, d. c., and is well
| known for his great services to the
| Lutheran league in the States. During
| his address he said:
! To have and to hold membership in
| the Lutheran church, the Church of
| Christ, istO my mind an honor Of nOlittle
! moment. To know the Lutheran church
and her Gc>trin-s thoroughly Is to
| know the very essence of Chris tIamity,
and to feed the vast membership ON
this essence is the constant aim of our
! great church. 1t Is gratifying indeed
to note the great interest manifested
| everywhere in our church and hoW well
| she has bee1 brought. to the front dur
| ing the past few years If 1t We're not
| for the pure and NpOtless history she
| has made for herself this interest soon
would die out. Her doctrines have
| stood the test these centuries and re-
main unchanged. The Lutheran church
will bear the closest investigation. This
| is what We want and this is what We
! have been going through with for the
| past few years and that is why the i'm
| teTest is ever on the increase
| If these is any one thing an en-
| ployer appreciates more than another,
| it is the uninterrupted attention to
| business and interest in his business
on the part of his employees. Where
such a state of affairs exist, good re-
suits must surely follow. In this you
will all, no doubt, agree with me. Why,
| then. cannot this be applied to the re-
| laItiOnship between pastor and people?
| We, as laSmen, as members of the
| church. select a pastor, we employ him
and yet | dislike that word in this con-
naction.
Forget That lie Is Human.
We expect him to do the very best
he cam ard some times more; yes. very
often we are decidedly unreasonable.
We forget that he is human. awfuhly
! human and that he cannot possibly do
| just the thing to please all of US, all
the time. We very often find fault over
some trining nghappening, thatisnotworth
| a moments consideration, and what
| does all this lead to? A general dis
satisfac tion; and why? do you ask. Be
| cause Mr.. Brown has a little grievance
and at the first opportunity must go to
| Mr.. Jones, relate it and in turn hear
one from him; then comes Mr.. Smith
| with another, and 50 on until the entire
membership has but one object in COM
ing to church, and that not the right
| one This is law activity. but. my
friends, the wrong kind. Turn Il deaf
ear t0 such ltrifles and if you have any
thing to say about your pastor, be man
ly enough 70 say it to him, and to him
alone; it concerns no one else.
If you haven't anything to do in the
church go to your pastor; he viii find
| something for you, aud until he does
find something do what is REQUIRED
g a.ff taVa
church, take part in the services, sing
| out ON the hymns, and pay close at
| tentiOn TO the sermon, go nome alnl
| proht by II. Ihe Lutner league topic
| FOR thlS uute' me hlhS curing DIS
ease IS very suggestive ONE IN th!S
cohhecuIch' lI.Is continual laull hild-
| ing mas CROWN 10 NE uiSeaSe Wl'h
| many, ANA l!I' sooner we rIu ourselves
ul NJ the better loF tlle Chuich
Nheh once WeSeIe',t u paSt"t IL IL our
bJunden duty TO render MN all the ana
pusflbIe, ana thlS can ne done, on On
- mony ways You ASK now by
pFpfnpt anu ntgular attendance, py
giving our UNDIVIDED attention 20 the
sermon, by singing win our whole souls
ana not leaving th!S lmpolltant part
ct th' worship 10 the ciolr; by regular
! ~ and promptly paying our contmbu-
lions to me pastor $ SALARY ana the eN-
pens S OF the chufch, ana laS't, but not
| least by properly plldhhg our tongues
| | mean by thlS bhat we should be vN-
tIemely caletul as to how ana when
ANA Wh2re we speak OF, not only our
pastors, hut OF one another as members
OF the churct' ana especially OF our
PASTORS IN the presence or children.
In their presence we should never speak
, but in lthe highest terms, and, as said
f,t mn q "a N ar llif Inn
for anything else.
A Good Choir Appreciated
Having inst spol,cn Of the chnir and
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direriinn | want tn saw that / apnre-
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