The herald., 1897-07-26

CHAUTAUQUA
Many People Visit Lon
Beach
SUNDAY AT THE ASSEMBLY
GOODS WORKMANSHIP" BY A
NOTED SOUTHERN DIVINE
SUNDAY AT THE ASSEMBLY
DR.. Lamar Will Lecture on Dixie This
Evening-Dr. Dennen Talks
Today

a pleasant degree of warmth and the
water never looked loveler than it did
yesterday. The white sails of the float
spread wings of mammoth sea birds; the
ocean seemed to take on a deeper tint
Of blue and Neptune's horses cantered In
with slower pace than usual The trains
of the morning brought down many Wis
itors, who attended the assembly serv-
ices, while others spent the day pic
nicking on the beach or watching the
boats and waves from the wharf.
The customary scripture classes of the
morning were dispensed with and no ex-
ercises were held until the morning SER
mon at II o'clock by DR.. A. W. Lamar
pastor of the First Baptist church Of
Atlanta, Georgia. DR.. Lamar has at
tended every Chautauqua assembly in
the country from the parent society in
New York to all it's ramifica tons cas-,
and west, wherever their annual meet
ings are held. He has told everywhere
the story of Dixie in the ante-bellum
days, as seen. by boy, and the new
south of the present day, with glance
into the future. He visited the assembly
of Southern California four years ago,
and as in many other instances else
where was invited to return and repe a t
| the lecture.
DR.. Lamar is typical southerner, of
medium height, slender in physique,
swarthy in complexion, like true child
born under the southern sur.
| He is fluent in the use of language,
| rounding his sentences to musical
rhythm in the characteristic southern
| accent and intonation, and speaks ex-
temporaneously, with only a few rough
notes to guide his thought. He does not
| mince words, but expresses his ideas in
clear-cut and forcible language, and
holds the close attention of his hearers
from the opening to the close of the lee
| ture or sermon.
THE MORNING SERMON
The pavilion was filled with large
congregation when Rev. Alfred Inwood
read the lesson of the day and made the
opening prayer.
Mrs. Evangeline Haddon sang Han
del's "He Was Despised," DR.. Jewell of
Riverside following in prayer. The
theme of DR.. Lamar's sermon was God s
Workmanship in the Christian" The
text taken was from Ephesians 2-1O:
1--WE are His Workmanship" Creation
cannot be understood, said the speaker,
till dust stands up living man. The
unfoldings of Genesis confirm this
statement. Through its opening SEN
tence as a gateway he sees emerging
the order of Gods 'creation-light, firm
ament, sidereal worlds, continents, seas,
| rivers, lakes, mountains, living and
creeping things, coal fields, stone quar-
ries, iron mines, gold and silver deposits,
and the thousands of natures beauties
and wonders. Finally, one morning in
the worlds history all creation stood
still and waited for football. Then out
of Gods thought and hand ste pped fort b
man and woman into the light and glory
of Eden's morn Man is the key that
| explains creation. We see why it was
that all are made now to that. First,
after creation happened great sorrow
man fell Out of the ruins God made a
new creation. We are his workman
ship created in Jesus Christ. Observe
the kind of material out of which God is
making saints. He has always had
are peculiar people, marked, and dis
| tinguished by unique characteristics,
| but of what does he make them Many
think he makes saints out of angels or
out of religious prodigies but the truth
is, he makes saints out Of sinners. The
full force of this statement we often lose
sight of. But look at the Old Tesla
ment worthless. Moses was murderer
and fugitive from justice; Abraham,
who could not tell the Pharoah the
truth about his wife; Jacob, scheming,
plotting, deceiving money lender. These
men were turned into such characters
that their birthmark is still upon the
civilization of the after ages.
Look at the New Testament. John, the
beloved, would have made first class
Doodle alderman in Los Angeles; Peter
was a boastful, cowardly liar; Paul was
fire-eating, fanatical murderer.
These men were transformed into the
apostles of Gods SON and have Influenced
all subsequent ages by the power of
their goodness. Sinners made into
saints are no exception to this rule. Take
this audience, for instance; here are re-
| fined, cultivated, modest, moral girls in
their teens who have never committed
any social offense. Are they sinners!
Let them answer I call on any one OF
them present who has never lied to stand
up; never coveted, stand up; never dis.
obeyed parents in the slightest degree,
| stand up. Now, not one in this vast
audience has stood up Why? From the
least unto the greatest we are self-con-
victed of lying, covetousness and other
spiritual sins, and God is shut up to the
necessity of making saints out of sin
ners if he deals with human beings. 1t
is this view of things that shows US what
| the cross of Jesus means.
Secondly-God's workmanship is not
yet finished; he has not in all the world
and never had a perfected specimen of
his workmanship. The best results of
mans endeavor for six thousand years
was an exhibition at the Worlds fair.
But God has never had an exposition in
which to display before His created in
telligences the final result of his saint
making This is a sorrowful thought
and should stir our souls. But the time
lis coming when Christ will come in glory
and His saints and then the righteous
shall shine forth in completed and un-
vailed perfectness and the ass embed uni
verse shall see that marvellous creation