The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1899-01-12
WITHIN OUR TEMPLE DOORS.
Utterances From Scotland Neck Pulls
pits Last Sunday.

pits Last Sunday.
Following is short account of some
OF the pulpit utterances in Scotland
Neck Sunday
EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
At the Episcopal church at II, a. m.
Mr.. Phelps preached from Isaiah IS
10:
"And the ramsonaed of the Lord shall
return and come to lion wilh songs OF
everlasting jog upon their heads: they
shall obtain jog. and glodness, and sor
row and signing shall flee array"
In simple, unaffected language he
told his hearers Of the great prophesies
uttered hundreds OF years before theil
fulflment at the coming of Christ
how the deaf should be made to hear
the dumb to speak and the blind t.
receive their sight. Then he spoke Of
the other prophesies relating to the
second coming and to the glory OF the
millennium. Many people become
discouraged because the Thousand
years of Peace" have not come within
the last nineteen hundred years. But
the speaker told them that there was
to be no sudden change in the better.
ment of the world. The Christian re-
ligion is progressive. The growth to-
ward good is slow but sure. We can
best see it by comparing the civiliza-
ton OF to-day with that of two thous-
and years ago when people were given
to human sacrifices and thousand
other barbaritles. Every one of lis has
a part to perform in bringing about
the time when "sorrow and signing
shall flee away"
THE METHODIST CHURCH.
At IL, a. M, Rev. 0. Ryder, pastor,
preached from Thess. 5: II. Theme
"The Proper Attitude of the Soul To-
ward Cod" After brief introduction
in which the speaker connected the
text with the text and subject of last
Sunday mornings sermon, he stated
By some this may be regarded as a
hard command. Others may regard it
as quite impossible to obey this com.
mand OF Paul. He proceeded to dis.
cuss the above facts and to show that
the command was neither hard nor i'm
possible to be obeyed.
To pray without ceasing means tc
be In such condition of heart and
frame of mind that you can pray any
where, at any time and under any and
all circumstances OF life. One truth
he impressed was: He who really
prays anywhere will pray everywhere
he who prays any time can pray al
the time. One of the great needs O
the Church of to-day is more men an6
women who are in constant attitude
OF prayer-Jlving such lives that
they are always ready and
anxious to pray. Such a state is
possible. The church needs just such
Christians to carry forward its work
"Can I hope to have such Christians il
Scotland Neck? If so we can shake
this town as it has never been shaker
before"
At the night service he announced
for his text Psalms 81: 90. Theme
Goods Highest Conception of Man
hood-A Good Man." After an intro
duction, the speaker stated: The term
"good," used as an adjective, means suit
ed to the end desired. He illustrated this
truth and then stated that man is re.
garded as good if he is in character
what God intended him to be and does
what God intended him to do. No
man can be strictly called good man
who is not trying to be the best man
that it is possible for him to be. He
who neglects any duty, however hard
or dlsagreeable, in any relation of life
to man as man, or as man to God
cannot be truly regarded as a, good
man. A man who is what God wants
him to be and doing what God wants
him to do, to the best of his ability
with the light he has, is good man.
The Lord orders the steps of a good
man. By His grace and spirit He d.
reefs the thoughts, affection and de-
signs OF good man.
God orders the footsteps of good
man, not only his ways in a general
way of speaking, viz: By the Bible,
etc., but God directs his particular
steps. He whispers into his inner
conscience, saying: "This is the way,
walk We in it,"
There is such thing as Special
Providence. ~ mean that minute care
and ever-watchful supervision which
God exercises over his pious, believing
children IN things both great and small,
which are designed to secure their ever
increasing holiness and usefr1ross