The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-09-26
REV. DIR. MEsERTE,s sERMoN.
Breaches to His Former People Yester-
 day at Davenport Church.

Rev. Dr. I. c. Meserve preached yes- terday morning at his former pastor ate, the Davenport Congregational church. A large congregation was present to hear their old pastor Af- ter few expressive words of greeting, Dr. Meserve took as his text John 1928: Father, glorify Thy name"
 During his sermon he said in sub- stance: The coming of Jesus Christ into the world was like the sunrise af- ter a long and weary night, not in the tropics where the day comes quicker, but rather like a sunrise in our north ern climate where the morning mists are thicker and less yielding. There was night behind Him, deep night, not without the stars of inspired men, but yet dark and chilling. He brought day and it is not yet done.
 There can be no doubt that now and then much to do daunted Him and again inspired Him. Study the char acter of Christ and we will see evil dences of thought and ideals such as we have, but with this difference, that He lacked selfishness entirely. The ambitions of Jesus were ambitions for God. Every true godly man wishes to do the will of God He will never end his thought by rebelling against the will of God.
 I wish to notice several things which glorify God. God is glorified by good government. I think that the Ameri- can people. realize this, but they have not always accomplished it. The ideals of American government can scarcely be surpassed. The Lord Jesus was the king of men. The glorifica- ton of God was one of the things for which Jesus prayed. He permitted the people to greet Him triumphantly as He entered the city, for 1t was His right.
 Another of the public matters in church life That place is never more than religious club in which the Holy Spirit does not find an entrance.
 God Is glorified through a purer home life. How different our homes are! Some are richly furnished while others have none of the luxuries of life We are apt to think that if we carry smiling faces in and out of the doors of the former we have realized the ideal of home They are the happy homes that are founded on Gods ideal of what the home is. God is glorified in a Christian home full of Christian faith.
 God is also glorified by the truth. Can you possibly express Gods changeless thought in human speech :? Hammer expression as finely as you please you cannot do it. It is not hu- man thinking, but Gods truth that glorifies God.
 The inspired men are not ak dead The men through whom God speaks are alive. Given such men and no church will ever degenrate into re- ligious club Let the soul lighted by heavenly grace tell what it knows and though it may be but babbling, it is music and the world will listen. God is glorified in an honest man. We ought to be helpers of God. We are bound to rescue and to minister to sinful men. We Shall never save the world by ceremonies, but only when we so love the world that 1t cannot help seeing it. A man is an angel and more than an angel He is not a ''grabber.'' He is a yielder. The greatest man of this world was Jesus. God is gloritied by Christian manhood and nothing eles can glorify Him as does this