The times., 1899-09-25
WORDS FROM, THE PULPIT
Sabbath Lessons by the Gity's Re-
ligious Teachers.
The Rev DIR. BrisfeBs First Sermon
After His Return From Europe De-
voted TO Appreciation - DIR. Kent
Expounds on Individual Life and
Inhucnce-Discourse of DIR. Power.

Rev. DR.. Frank NJ. Bristol, pastor of the
Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal Church,
preached to his congregation yesterday
morning for the first time since his return
from Europe President Mckinley had
been expected to attend services, but the
White House pew was unoccupied until it
was learned that the President would be
unable to be present
Before beginning his sermon DR.. Bristol
expressed to the congregation his pleasure
at being with the members again, and his
gratitude to the ministers who had so ably
filled the pulpit during his absence. The
pastors text was taken from Psalm,
xvi:56: My lines have fallen into pleasant
places, yea, l have goodly heritage.
The learned doctors theme was apprecia-
tien He said the Psalm from which he
had taken his text was sometimes called
the Golden Psalm, because of its ex-
preston of the sense of appreciation. He
believed it to be good thing to acknowl-
edge the good things one has. Objection
had sometimes been made to the psalm
because it was poetry. But" he said, "if
it is poetry, it is true, for all that makes
poetry is its truth" by which he explained
he meant that it was the pure language of
the heart.
knowledge, he claimed is essential to
appreciation. Many people live in little
world because of the want of knowledge.
The great world comes to us through rev.
-elations, and the greater these are the
greater become our humanity, apprecia-
ton, and gratitude. The reason the great
Greeks worshiped hand made idols was be-
cause of the little world they lived in.
Il TOT, J,
world he lived in. nor could David, who
had no telescope, appreciate the heavens
he sang about so we'll as Herschel or the
college student of today. The greater the
knowledge, he insisted, the greater the ap-
probation.
II do not like to say, said DR.. Bristol
''that one has a right to a better world
until he can appreciate this one" The
preacher here drew beautiful contrast be-
tween the colorings of nature and that by
art, declaring that no one should visit
pictures after having just passed through a
flower garden, for Gods coforing" was so
much mere beautiful than that Of man
that the pictures failed to be appreciated.
DR.. Bristol referredtto his return to Ameri-
ca by saying that it impressed him with
the idea that there2is more room for ma
ture, more room for diberty, more room
fer God than anywhere else on earth. and
gave as a reason for this that no man can
travel abroad without appreciating his own
country Oliver Wendell Holmes, the
preacher said, once remarked that the ma
tional anthem was made immortal because
it begun with my country. Had It begun
with "our" country It never would have
been sung.
He deplored the pruDeness OF the people
TO depreeiate our system of government,
caused, he explained, by familiarity with
IT, and then he asserted the right Of this
country to extend its eiviliziBg influences
to other lands, making a direct favorable
allusion TO expansion in the Philippines
without mentioning that territory by name.
The pastor concluded his sermon by dwell
ing upon the appreciation of home and its
influences over the earth. Home. he de-
clared. "is type Of heaven