The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-05-29
BISHOP PREACHED AT TRINITY.
SERMONS At 10Th SERVICES BY
REV. ROBERT Il. HARGRoVE.

Rev. BaScom Anthony Absent From
the city aud bishop HarErOve Con-
Quoted the Entire Services-The
Atonement. Its Nature and Its Ex-
tent. the Subject of the Morning
Service. and at Night the Bishop
Preached Upon the Parable of the
Good Samaritan.
Bishop Robert X. Hsrgroye Of Nashville
Tenn. spent yesterday in the city. having
come from the session at WaycrOss of the
Savannah district conference Of the Meth
odist Church He came at the invitation
of Trinity Church, and preached al both
the morning and evening services.
Rev. Bascom Anthony, pastor of Trim
lily, was at Wr.ghtsvIle to deliver the COM
mencement sermon at the Girls College.
Bishop Hargrove therefore conducted the
entire service and his sermons were en-
joyed by large congregations. The bishop
left at night for Nashville. While here he
was the guest Of Mr.. J. R. saussy.
The text of the bishops morning SER
mon was taken from Jonn I, %: Behold
The Lamb Of God, which taketh away the
sin of the world"
AT glance" said the bishop, "you
can see that this passage teaches the
atonement it's nature and its extent It
may be called the key upon which the
whole chapter depends. II emphasizes
The true God which is a most important
fact.
THE trouble with the world to-day is
not a lack Of religion. On the contrary
there is too much rehgion--too many gods. I
Athens had 5000 gods. The main thing
is to serve the true God to get the true
religion. The text invites you to search
for the true COD who is the eternal God,
who had no beginning, go back as far as
you viii. All Things were made by Him
and without Him nothing was made.
Long before the crucifxion was foretold,
He existed and was God. All of "ur
science relates to he work of His hand.
In Him was life. Philosophy is now dis
cussing the source Of life. Every blade
of grass speaks of His life. All animal
life, all spiritual life and all eternal life
came from Him.
He was in the world and the world
knew Him not. No wonder the text says
Behold the Lamb of God II calls at
tention to Him and points Him out.
1T may look little superfluous that the
scripture should say John was not that
hRut. Dut WAS sent 70 BtdI NtAHtSS VI liidL
light but when you consider the ten
dency of the people to worship the Gre
ated, instead of the creator, it is made
plain. On being questioned as to whether
or MOI he was the king that should come
or if he was the prophet, Elias said:
am nothing; / am only the voice of one
crying in the wilderness. l am not the
king, but am come to proclaim Him.
He said, i baptize with water as il
that wore enough 10 " their tendency
to make an idol of water and told them
of one mightier than he who would hap
tie with the Holy Ghost. Water is the
most abundant thing in the world. Three
fourths of the earth is water; four-ffths
of the human body Is water. There are
streams Of water everywhere. You can
go but a short distance without crossing
a bridge. You have to build roof over
| your very head to protect you from the
! rain. You drink water and battle in il,
! If water could save, every one would be
| saved No. he sad, it is One higher
than l, whose shoes l am not worthy to
loose. He win baptize you with the true
baptsm-the Holy Ghost
John ministry was a peculiar one. He
! found the people making an idol of the
church and its rites. lie came to rebuke
| this spirit Christ afterwards denounced
| them as whited sepulchres. 1t was the
| office of the priests to make sacrifices an
| the temple, but John said 1 will go to the
! wilderness. Instead of the prescribed diet
of the priests he said 1 VIII live on iocusts
and wild honey. The priestly robe was
! lad aside for one of camers hair. The
! priests, as was the custom, had been bap-
! tizing by sprinkling in the temple, but
| John said. I viii dip my hyssop in the
Jordan and sprinkle the people. 1t was his
mission to turn the people from these idols
! to Christ
1.-THE next day John and two of his dis
ciples were standing, and John said, Be
hold the lamb of God Hearing this they
| followed Jesus. Jesus turned and said,
What seek yep They were doubtless sur
prised at his stopping, and said, Where
dwelest thou?' If Christ were engaged in
the creation of a new world he would stop
10 save a sinner One of The two was ST.
mon, who. after accepting Christ went
and found his brother, saying, We have
found the Messiah 1t is a simple process
! to lead one TO Christ, but it is a work so
divine that few realize what 1t means.
Christ astounded Philip when he said
| that he saw him under the fig tree. Philip.
being devout man,was probably engaged
| in a season of secret prayer, and knew
not that he was seen by any man. Never
was man under the ng tree that Christ
| did not see him. All the sinner needs
is to come in contact with Christ and re-
ceve him unto his heart"
The text for the evening sermon was
drawn from Luke 25 10: Master what
shall | do TO inherit eternal llfeg' The
bishop gave the story of the parable of
the Good Samaritan, drawing his con-
c.usions, and pointing his lessons and
saying that Christ has given the Samari-
tan as an example of what it means to
love ones neighbor.
CLASS GRADUATES TONIGHT.