The herald., 1896-02-20
AT SAINT PAUL'S CHURCH
Impressive and Beautiful Services Held
Yesterday Morning and Evening
The Rev. Or. Trew breaches the Lenten Ser-
mon Before Congregation Of All the
Parishes Of Los Angeles

Ash Wednesday and the beginning Oh
the Lenten season were appropriately OBJ
served in both morning and evening SOL
emulation yesterday at st. faul's Episco-
pal church on South Olive street.
The morning service, beginning at III
o'clock, was a penitential offering of prayer
and praise, confession of sins and re-
newal of faith, followed by the ministra-
ton of the holy communion, the Rev. DIR.
John Gray, rector of the parish, officiating.
In the evening the large edifce was filled
with congregation of all the parishes in
Los Angeles, when beautiful and Impress
i've devotional services of invocation were
held and exquisite chanting was he ard.
Besides the usual congregational singing
Of praise anthems, Nine. Martinez sang
the beautiful aria of the soprano of Oh.
Holy Savior. Cherubinis mass in ID. and
during the offertory the choir rendered
Mendelssohn's famous anthem, Hear MY
Prayer.
The evening service was conducted by
DR.. Gray, assisted by the Rev. DIR. A. G: l..
Trew of the Church of the Epiphany, East
Los Angeles. who delivered the Lenten
sermon, an impressive and mastery dis
course from the text of the tenth chapter
of St. Marks gospel, beginning with the
forty-third verse: "Whosoever will be great
among you, shall be your minister. And
whosoever Of you will be the chiefest. shall
be servant of all. For even the Son of
Man came not to be ministered unto, but
to minister and to give his life as a ransom
for many" The deductions from the text
were in part as follows:
Our profession as Christians is to follow
the example of our Savior, and also to be
made like unto Him. So far as the lives
OF Christians do not show the working OF
this relationship to Christ, SO far they are
imperfect and unchristian. In placing be-
fore ourselves the example of Christ as the
pattern we will find unbidden oppcrtuni-
ties for application in our daily life.
"The law of your lives" "Jesus says to
His chosen ones, is to be that OF service
and ministration to one another. Whose
ever desires to be chief among you, let him
exceed others in the services he renders to
others. Let him be the servant of ALL
That Is Christian pre-eminence. Worldly
rank and rank in the brotherhood OF Christ
are measured by different scales. The
strange qualification of exal ed rank in the
aristocracy OF heaven is not that you can
command costly retinue of servan g, but
that you yourself are the willing servant of
the poor and the suffering, and that you
devote your faculties, whatever they may
be, to lowly and loving ministration for the
needs of others. For even the Son of Man,
the Greater and Lord of All, when He
tered unto, but to minister, and to give
His life as ransom for His people.
Much more, then, should we be will
ling to work for the services
of others. This ministering to our fellow
men requires great self-denial, but to be
Christ-like We must deny ourselves. II
also demands lowliness of heart. "Take
my yoke upon you and learn of me, for
am meek and lowly of heart,' saith the
Lord.
Humility is one of the last and hardest
graces to acquire, but it needs to be done
for Christ's sake. to be in sympathy with
him. And this last thought brings me tc
| speak Of Lent. Let your keeping of Lent
| spring from your closeness with Christ. as
as you would sympathize with the atflic
ton of your dearest friend. Let that be the
keynote of your observance of this solemn
season. In asking yourself what you shal
give UP and what restrictions you shall
place upon yourself, let the spirit of it al
be fellow feeling with your God and {
sharing of his divine SORROW. Answer your
self thus: Christ, the lover of my soul
suffered for me. He hungered and thirste(
for me; he entered into humiliation anC
shame for me. Let me now, for his sake
forego the pleasures of this earthly life
Let me, too, enter into the shadow of pail
and grief for sin which weighed SO heavily
on him. ct me, too. suffer rather thar
rejoice, and mourn with my Savior and mJ
| God.