The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-09-21
MANS CARELESSNESS
IN PRESENCE OF GOD
Rev. Rogers lsraels Sermon 10 st.
Luke's Episcopal Church.
REVERENCE TAUGHT BY SCRIPTURE
Mr. Israel's Subject Involved an In.
tcresting Trace of Past Customs.
What Constitutes Holy Place..ln.
different Actions in the Church
Bnilding..Nccd Of More Spiritual
and Less Sensual Worship.


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'cNe MS p'e''"N' "' Dor,,,
the morning sermon bI NeN. i.o5''
Israel in St I.uke'S EpiscOpa chul en-
,,o,,orao,. ne tevt was. "pur off
.', 20, ,,,, foo, for tr.
my ShoeS from Oh my 49,
place whercon thou standest IS HOY
ground" Exodus iii =. He said:
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Ii is always an iatcrcstinS putsult 10
trace customs aEl habits back TO IN w
0rign. In some instances there Is al! ~
cuHSrUtv Mica is GmusInS, Whir "Nn'i
are attended with "A II, AninS Sui'lci't -
arouse the deepest iccl.H.s uf our nature
!, may not Ice known 10 many tha' 'hr
two buttons which ev"r! tailor Is 50 car
ful to place NJ the back of coat are tn,
s.olr '2m.nd'rs Of the limr when every
these buttons t. support his sword ~
"a is interesting also - EroW th&t 'hc llt'
nutch Thjcn is Invariably mad" IN IN"
lapel OF the coat, breaking the cor! nun.
Of the straight i!ne If the ed-c had Is OF
gin in tho persecution Oi trer'h prince
whose friends thu. marked themselves III
order that they mgh. be known to rarH
other and 10 MIN. Many re thc INNS
which w accept as rIctters o. custom %
course now. which ~ nrst aros" not rom
whim or !Hncy or fashion. but IRON SnniH
necessity of the I'm" which has boon lo'-
gotten in tho course Of years.
Nou viii, Of cours'. rrsai! he connection
or the text, Noses having Net 'r"In HilI,
marie, - laughto" of Jcih,". patr'drrR
amt priest # Mraian. While i"rdln2 ne
hocks Of MS fath, -in-ldw i" wand-rS INTO
The neiehhDI .ocd II Nit. iiuran, a pa
Shunn,l by the shepherds OF the country
~" th,t aTt1 II wns esnociallv chosen by the DEITY
and had been made holy ground Moses
not influenced by the sup"rstitions OF ihc
natives, finding the ,pasturage esptclai'E
rich and fresh. fearlessly drives his nntk
there to feed. He soon beholds the bn:n-
ing bush and il Is as he draws near 70
Investigate that he - started bS lhr
voice uitering the words of the text "Pnt
OF thy shoes from oil thy feei Tor lh''
place ,wh"reon thou stahdesl Is mol!
ground y
ur,rrr,, ,r-SToN
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God seems here 10 begin that lhstf'r-
tion of His people IN reverence ana Goui,
fear which He consummatrd during me
forty years wanderings in the wilderness
And singular as 1t may appear he begins
with a heather custom. but nevertheless
Il custom with which Moses was familiar
and by which he knew the high priests oi
Egypt signified reverence and devotion.
custom to have grown and spread. The
Jews for many generations adhered to 1t
and We lind i also among the Greeks,
and parsecs observe il
The custom was not and is not now OBJ
s.rvrd howayer for the same reason thai
we remove The haI from The head on en-
Irrinr n nlare of Worship. that Is. rcy.r-
cncc to tn" place; but Ii represented Ia
sandals worn having no uppcrs nec.s-
.riiv admitted sand and dust aud gravel
and is iaviny aside The snnI.ls they re-
moved his inns siynifyinw "A Law
Ia
n.a,tinr In sin ynn nerceive nt once that
he frniinp which we express Inv rcmoy.
;n,, ihe hat was included in this ancient
rmstom and associated with the far deeper
nn" nmS. ', "S s.iT sienitied nv the having aside
'ont,n nin,tion .nntractsl In tn. worN
..rhn m,,nn whareon thou st,ndest is
-" innI ;, snoi,n tha Soio. fro,,, th ,