The herald., 1897-01-04
SELECTIONS OF Sermons
The Gospel From the City
Pulpits Yesterday
MISSION Of ARCHDEACoN WEBER
The Evangelist Will Be at St.
Paul's for Ten Days
THE NEED OF SALVATION
EIoquent Addresses Delivered by the Mis-
sion Preacher
Ds. Thomson's Discourse on the True Dis
THE NEED OF SALVATION
EloQuent Addresses Delivered by the Mis-
sion Preacher
Dr.. Thomson's Discourse on the True Dis
cevery Of the Messiah
Making a Better Year" the Subject of
DR.. Days Address-"The Season
of the Last Supper" by Rev.
A. A. Rice


of the Last Supper" by Rev.
A. A. Rice
At st. Paule church Archdeacon Web
ber, the well known evangelist. took for
his text et. Luke, 9-23-"And He said
TO them all: If any man Will come after
Me, let him deny himself and take up
his CROSS daily, and follow Me-
This Is the first Sabbath Of the new
year. said the preacher. Jesus Christ
made all days one and the same; across
the portals Of all my days His name is
written.
The most interesting fact of our exist
ence is individuality and the most i'm
pertant Is Christianity. Christianity is
of the most value to the Individual. There
are three great words In the Christians
Me-believing. renouncing and doing.
The great story of the gospel is: Be
holy. Because your Father Is holy,
walk worthy of the vocation wherewith
ye are called, and when He shall ap-
pear we shall be like Him. Christianity
Is nothing, more or less. than Christ in
our lives and surroundings. The final
test of anything is results; the inherent
test of Christianity is its wonderful
force changing selfishness into selfless-
ness The greatest thing in the world Is
love and the great work in life is use
fulness. AS Christ comes to us and re-
veals Himself in our hearts, we see that
our most splendid work is that we shall
be fishers OF men. We shall go out to-
morrow with Few motive; life will be
lighted up according to the motive pow
er; 1t has a neg meaning when we listen
to Him. When men have reached the
heart of the Christ. there Is spirituali-
ty; mentality is mere reason. The mes
sage bring this morning Is the lesson
Of selflessness. There Is something more
in life than mere culture; something
which, having not. our lives are dust
and ashes. With love to God in Christ
in our hearts we shall wake up In that
morning where God shall wipe away all
tears from our eyes. Some day we shall
know the mystery of divine love. The
most important thing in the Christians
life is selflessness-it is the true altru-
ism. Some one has said: Let us add to
our litany: Lord give us self-respect.
Self-respect is remembering that ! am
the friend of Jesus the Christ. AS we
take up our cross and follow him we
become selfless. Don't think too mucl.
on vice. Make all the VOWS you can that
you will walk in truth and righteous
ness. The great characteristic of the
Masters life was sympathy. The self
less life is unfiinchngly obedient to duty.
Devotion to Christ on Sabbath is devo
tion all the year. The ultimate end of our
teaching is the following of duty All
true men and women are first sympa-
thetic and then obedient. The true life
Is generous. You and have that strange
generosity which says: Go thy way
until more convenient season." The
grandeur of it all Is that the sinner
cries, Abba Father, and God pours him
self out in the hearts of men. So If you
have this life you are selfless, generous
and obedient. If I have the love of
Jesus the Christ I shall not only have
obedience, but the sure vision, the splen
did vision, of eternal life Know this.
that Christ's message for the new year
is to hear of Jesus, learn of Him, deny
yourself, take UP your cross daily, and
then know the richness and power OF
living.
EVENING SERVICE.
The evening service at ST. Paul's
church was attended by an even larger
congregation than that of the morning.
which quite filled the large audi
torium. Archdeacon Webber held
the close attention of his hearers with
his earnest pleading for more consecra-
ton in the Christian life. His apt il
Illustrations, his eloquent and finished
style added to the strength of his dis
course. His special work is conducting
missions In the Episcopal church. and
no one who listened to his impassioned
utterances for the saving Of souls can
but be convinced that he is especially
adapted to and consecrated for the field
of labOr he has chosen
The text Of the evening was taken
from the closing verses of the last chap
ter of the gospel of Luke beginning:
Then opened He their mind that they
might understand the scriptures"
1T is the prerogative of the Christian"
scriptures. Only in proportion as men
and women understand the great teach
er, do they understand his message to
them. My message to you tonight is
fhe message Of great Joy. The word gos-
pei means good news. Christianity is
the religion Of Joy. Christ looked at his
enemies and those who reviled Him and
said, Come unto me- Christ was no
blind enthusiast He came into the
that basest Of all things-ingra titude
He was the grandest of all optimists.
Because live yea We shall live also In
gratitude was something of the first CEN
tury and it Is something of the nine
teenth. Some Of those who profess to
reviled
love Jesus will go and sit In the halls
with those who say He Is only man.
"What shall say of that man or wo-
man who believes in father or mother
and who will sit and hear them reviled.
I can understand and sympathise with
the man who has not risen UP to my
Christ, but I cannot understand
those who listen, with itching ears to
hear Christ pulled down from the
throne. Character always tells as char
acter always works, so what men an:.
women are gladly doing tells what the
character is. Though we may deny
with our lips, yet when there comes
the magnificent light of Jesus Christ
the knee will bow. After all, the essen
tial goodness there is in human nature
is greater than the evil The good Is to
triumph and the evil will not. The
greatest thing in the world Is love.
Love is so wonderful who can ever de-
scribe it. though we are always trying?
God is love: he says, Come to me and
will give you rest Greater love hath
no man than this, that man lay down
his life for q friend Christ freely
laid down his life. though he was not