The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-07-24
ANACONDA news,
PASTOR IS INSTALLED
Impressive Services at the
Presbyterian Church.
ONE TOUCHING INCIDENT
Rev. DR.. 7. II. Cleland's Emotions Almost
Overcome Him as He Delivers the
Installation Sermon OF
HIS Son.
ONE TOUCHING INCIDENT

last evening on the occasion Of the n
stallation of the new pastor, Rev. Frank
b. Cleland. The church had been beau
tifully decorated with flowers. 1t pc
sented gay appearance.
very touching scene was during
the preaching of the installa ton SER
mon by Rev. T. H. Cleland, D. D., the
pastor of the Presbyterian church in
Duluth, father of the new pastor. DIR.
Cleland wept as he announced to his
son that his parents We're proud of him.
and when he reminded him that he was
the fourth generation of Presbyterian
ministers.
The installation service was opened
at o'clock. Mrs. Richardson officiated
at the organ and played one of Dudley
Bucks grand marches, which was fol-
lowed by the singing of the Gloria"
by the choir and the congregation.
Rev. Groeneveld of Butte then offered
a prayer, after which the choir sang
the hymn Il Love Thy Lord.' Rev.
A. b. Martin of Deer Lodge read a Sc
lection from the gospel.
Rev. Groeneveld introduced Rev. DR..
Cleland of Duluth, Mimi, who preached
the installation sermon on The Gospel
Still a Power" DR.. Cle'and said in
part as follows:
The apostle had planned more than
once to come to Rome, but had been
disappointed. To him the success CT
the gospel in the proud imperial city
was no problem. His own Hebrew peo-
pie could boast of a history older
than that of Rome: her prophets, law
givers, kings and sages were more than
a match for the renown of the senator's
and emperors of the imperial city, yet
under the shadow of the temple the
cross had won signal triumphs. He had
matched swords with Pagan magic IN
Ephesus and yet in the presence of the
Temple of Diana. the seventh wonder
of the world the enemy had capiiu-
lated. He had carried the gospel into
the thick struggle of bulls and bears,
in the busy streets Of commercial
Corinth and had won signal success.
He had braved the Acropolis of
Athens, where art had its shrine and
learning, its home, and here also the
gospel had proven the wisdom of God
as well as the power of God.
IF then the gospel was more than a
match for the miracle-loving Jew and
had won trophies amid the cultured
Greeks, ii was with heart mistaken
and with lips unblanched that he
knocked at the gates of the mistress
world.
"A similar crisis confronts the gospel
to-day. We are crossing the intellectual
equator into an age proud of hsr
achievements and defiant of all chal-
lenge We are fond of calling this a
progressive era. The platform is
charged with magnetic sentences that
round up with the words, nineteenth
century 1t is quite common to hear
that the power of the pulpit is effete
and decadent.' that the gospel is out
grown that learning has cut the
foundations from under the Bible
that the church has lost her hold upon
the Masses that the spell of enchant-
ment that once bound the nations of
Christendom to religion has been brok-
en- that the young man who passed
from Sunday school to the university,
from his ancestral beliefs, and that in
a word, the age has broken her letters
and Is no longer chained by faith. The
material progress of which we are so
Justly proud, awakens no alarm to the
champions of the gospel. when they
recall that this age of light and free
done is chiefly her own creation.
1T is a great way from Watts tea
kettle to Baldwin locomotive and
from Franklin's kite to Edison's dyna-
mos, but Christianity laid the track.
It was the trumpet of this very obso-
lete gospel that heralded old things
have passed away, behold all things
shall became new When the worlds
debt to Christian service for these 10
wonderful centuries is already so
great, it is no time for the gospel mes
senger to shake with alarm, to rest
upon past achievements; to count the
edge of the sword of the spirit rusty or
blunted, but rather to take courage to
advance to march from victory to VIC
tory, from conquest to conquest.
There is no ground to count the Cos
pei faint or obsolete because of it's
od q "a of
mankind; to the simple Jew and to
the learned Greek-the lowly or great.
However in some respects the classes
and races of men may seem to differ,
in most respects they are a common
lot and are bound together in links.
THE child who first sees the light,
whether amid the splendors of an i'm
perial palace or in the humble sur
roundings of a lowly cottage, enters
the world with a wall. When a man
goes out of the world whether amid
the solemn dirge of nations mourn
ing or hurried away without note to
Gods acre, all alike return to dust.
THE unveiled dark continent of Az
RIGA is not darker than the faithful
portrait of darkest England in Lon
don, the center of Christendom For
two decades you have heard it dinned
into your ears that the only remedy for
our social organization is revolution.
Iney tell US 1nat the Ola yoke OF KING
ly tyrants has been seized by money
kings and laid on the necks of toiling
freemen. Men are as cOVetous lustful,
passionate and selfish in the 18th CEN
fury as they were in the LIST century.
In the race of life the fittest survive
and the devil takes the hindmost. The
gospel of law, of truth, Of right, of
mercy and love finds a market to-day
has a field-fnds a task-It can never
be obsolete.
Now mark you how Christ repre-
sents himself to the world. He doesn't
call himself a lily, bright star. a lux
ury for the few, the leading 400
am the bread of life, the necessity Of
universal man. / am the water of life.
What age or civilization can live with
out me? l am the light of the world
not of Judea, but of Rome; not of the
LIST century, but of the twentieth CEN
tury--the eternal sunlight that lighteth
every man that cometh into the world.
He is for all and all ages and all man.
kind.
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