The herald., 1896-10-05
lessons FROM THE PULPIT
Services Resumed at the
Unity Church
MR. 1A0MS0N'S Opening SERMON
He Discourses on the Vacation
Of Christ
THE DAY AT THE CATHEDRAL
Feast Of the Most Holy Rosary and Of
st. Francis
An Appropriate Discourse Delivered by the
Rev. Father Nunan
THE DAY AT THE CATHEDRAL
Feast Of the Most Holy Rosary and Of
st. Francis
An Appropriate Discourse Delivered by the
Rev. Father Nunan
Rev. John A. B. Wilson's Morning Ser
mon at the First Methodist Church.
Sunday Services at Other
Churches.

Regular Services were resumed at the
Church of the Unity yesterday. There
was a large congregation in attendance
!, ut the morning service, when the pastor,
Rev. j. S. Thomson, delivered an elo-
quent sermon on Christ's Vacation,
taking the text "He went into the bor-
ders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into
house, and He would have no man
know it; but He could not be hid."-
Mark vii:24.
The cities Of Tyre and Sidon ipbChrist's
time were flourishing seaports, wealthy,
progressive, luxurious and devoted to
science, art and philosophy, said the
speaker. They were the Liverpool and
Glasgow of the eastern Mediterranean.
The Phoenicians framed the original of
our modern alphabets from the hero
glyphics of Chaldea and Egypt Herain
king of Tyre, and Hiram, the celebrated
artist and architect of Tyre, helped Sol
omon to build the temple at Jerusalem;
and that temple was in many respects
copy Of the grand masonic temple of
Tyre. Ezekiel gives fine description
of the power, riches. splendor and en-
terprise of these two cities, which were
thousands of years old, when Christ Wis
tied them.
1t is evident from the text that Christ
went to Tyre and Sidon for a needed
rest from His many labors of teaching
, the ignorant, preaching the gospel, and
healing the sick. He desired that He
should not be made known to anyone in
those cities, and this shows that His
object was not to preach and heal; for in
that case He would have been public
character. His rest enabled Him to
perform more miracles and to do more
good than if He had kept on working
and Straining to the utmost His ener-
gies.
He employed His time in visiting the
temples and the bazaars, in watching
the ships, in studying the customs and
habits of the people, in travelling along
the seashore, in hearing and seeing the
waves, and in bathing in the blue waters
Of the Mediterranean.
Like Ezekiel, He appreciated the quail
tiles and acknowledged the worth of the
Tyrians and Sidonians He declared
that they were more religious people
than the citizens of ChoraZin and Beth
saida, and He said that the Syro-
PhQenician woman who requested Him
to heal her daughter had great and gem
uine faith. Christ himself, acknowl-
edged the superiority of heather cities
to Jewish cities in matters of religion
and morals. He had no national preju-
dice and no religious bigotry. 1t is one
of the benefits of travel that it broadens
a mans mind, civiizes his heart. and
eliminates his misconceptions. Christ
travelled, and whenever and wherever
He saw good, He acknowledged it,
In our age of hurry. unrest, nervous
ness, struggle, competition. when strong
men are dying suddenly in middle life
from an exhaustion of the inner forces
of life, it would be we'll for us to follow
the example of Christ, and take needed
and refreshing rests, recreatons and
holidays. In this way, more and better
work can be done. When man commits
suicide by overwork without rests and
necessary changes, he does much less
good work than If he had respected his
Sabbaths and relieved his mind from a
continual strain in one narrow direction.
Gladstone furnishes the example of a
man that Is healthy and vigorous and
Industrious in old age. He took his rests
and now he is wearing the crown of a
noble and useful life.