The morning times., 1896-03-30
baltimore Store.
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n'Soi fdhcour or part Y spi rit di dividing clergy
| from people or one part Of the diocese from
| dhotner, that We may all be of one heart
| ana one mind in doing Chrst's work, and
that each and all of US will feel the
terrible responsibility or being the first
| 10 preak or disturb that halo wed bond Of
| union.
AS Tor our out ward work, we must
walt until IL shapes itself before u.s. We
| cannot forecast the future. The only
wise course is TO pause until we see what
needs develop themselves.
Gods ways are not always our WAYS,
ana we can hope for no success il we sub
sutute our methods for His own. II is
seldom the work we would most love to
DO that God calls us 10 do IL is often
tunes that from which we most timidIy
shrink.
What we are all to aim at is to face
realities and facts and 10 do Christ's own
work in Christ's own way. If our efforts
for the spread of Gods Kingdom are die
tated by any wrong spirit or selfish motive
then, as all past church history shows,
those efforts must signalIy fail.
POWERS OF THE CHURCH.
Nothing that is done for self outlives
It's little day. But if, On the other hand,
those efforts are true and are inspired by
the promptings of Christ and the spirit
OF Christ within US, then we can begin to
forecast blessings that viii come upon our
diocese. Eye hath not seen nor ear heard
the things which God bath prepared for
those that love Him in this world. and
the expansive, liniitless power OF church
that with one heart and one soul dedicates
the strength OF its being To the life of God
Is force In tie world thss utterly SURPRISES
and eclipses ali other forces.
What a crowd of witnesses encompass us
around. Christ from his throne is looking
down upon US and the augeis and the arch
angels from the heights and battleiLents of
heaven are regarding Us.
Around the goal for which we are striv-
ing are grouped the forms Of our depa rted
leaders and our departed friends who have
finished their work. Before US, in This
lower world, is our life path; before US Is
the glorious lfe-path which God is call
ing upon us 10 tread. new opportunities.
new conditions of spiritual life, aud new
powers OF usefulness, such as the world has
never developed in past ages or past days
and new sphere, il we only have the faith
and earnestn ess to fill it.
And forgetting the things which are be-
hind. and rea ching orwarJitothe thingSthat
are before. press forward to the mark, for
the prize or our high calling or God is Christ
Jesus"
Dr. Satterlee preached at st. Johns
Church at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon.
Only the size of the church prevented him
from having as large a cungrega ton as
he had at the morning service at Epiphany.
number were compelled to turn away
from the afternoon service because or the
throng in the small edifice.
In the evening Bishop Saterlee delivered
n third sermon at st. Paul's, and as ar the
two previous services an immense coDgr2-
CATION was present. DR.. Saterlee's reputa
ton as a robust and untiriug worker was
borne out by his first day here. for in spite
OF the fact that he had delivered two
sermons during the day, his evening dis
course gave no Indication OF WEAKNESS.