The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-02-15
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FAIR HAVEN HAPPENINGS.

Rev. N. g. Cheney's Sermon at East Pearl
street M. E. Church Yesterday Morning
Third Entertainment in the Peoples
Course This Evening-Other Items.
Rev. N. G. Cheney preached in the
East Pearl street M. E. church yester-
day morning from the text taken from
the tenth verse of the. second chapter of
Colossians: Complete in Him." His
sermon was in part as follows:
This word, complete very plainly
embraces something wherein every
thing requisite is furnished, SO that the
whole is in no respect defective, but
is entire, perfect, in Christ. Every
necessary thing provided; not jot or
a little wanted, not an iota missing;
complete in Him, incomplete without
Him. The soul alone is but part
of the whole; the rest Of the whole is
found in Jesus Christ Jesus is the
complement in the technical sense, that
which is necessary to make a sphere
complete. Christ supplies the sinners
deficiencies. Christ produces equilibrium
without which the natural soul cannot
rest, or repose cannot be found, but
complete in Him, both restfulness and
perfect repose belong to that Which
was before a sinful soul.
Jesus and the sinner belong together.
They are for each other. 1t is a sinner
that needs mercy; nobody else and
mercy could not be If there was not a
sinner. They in heaven that never sin
do not know what mercy is from hav-
ing experienced it. They only look at
1t and see it outside of themselves. But
praise be God, We know. These two
should always move toward each other,
the sinner and Jesus. They should
come together and they should be one,
as was the divine intention.
Christ moves toward the sinner al
ways. Would that our hearts could
move to Him, yes into Him, that He
should abide in us and we in Him.
1.-THE Bible needs no engravings to
illustrate 1t. It's illustrations are here
to-day, In part. It's illustrations are
found in many a Christian home. They
live here among US so far as Christ
like habits are concerned They are
like the rest of us, these saved ones,
these that have received Christ, these
heavenly people that mix with us; they
are sometimes recognized as heavenly
beings, but here they are, or part of
them, not all of them, because some
of them are in the invisible sphere.
''Each, Jesus and the sinner, has
that restfulness and completeness &C
cordine to the text, and therefore con-
tentment and satisfaction. You can
see that the sinner is satisfied, but how
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the sinner comes to Him, until the sim
ner yields to Him.
mo one ever endured such repulses
and prosecutions as Christ. No one
ever knew your Utmost secrets and real
life, knew all that you supposed was
unknown as Christ Jesus; and yet He
helps you now, He is waiting for you
now. He bears with you now and will
complete your nature if you will only
let Him do so?
How can you cast aside this love?
How can you steel your heart against
such tenderness of love? What con
science can be left in a man who can
look upon this sphere and not respond
Nothing suffices without Christ. What
will it profit you If you should gain the
whole world and lost your own soul:
Inmaterial things you may count as
certainly yours now, even though you
have been deprived of them, if you are
complete in Christ"
The third entertainment in the peo-
pies course will be given In the Grand
avenue Congregational church, to-mor-
row, Tuesday evening, by the Boston
Rivals. This company comprises bril-
liant combination of solo artists In
the company are Miss Spencer, con-