The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-11-27

service Sl65, and the evening service
1881, making total received yesterday
of S7,725, or $945 more than necessary
to nay the church Indebtedness. There
was something rather startling In the
enthusiastic willingness of the people to
help.
The song service of the choir COM
posed Of Mrs. j. C. Gray. Mrs. W. T.
Dixon, Misses Ida Hoyle. Verne Clark.
Laura Hipklns. Clara Hornbnke, Min
ME Maxwell, Grace Updegraft, Eliza
Carmichael Loretta McGranihan,
Messrs. j. C. Gray, George Roland, Carl
Wells, George Hopkins, Herman Hicks,
Robert Hicks, Allen Mckee and George
Matherly, was especially prepared and
unusually fine. Miss Grace Updegraff,
Of Mt. Pleasant, sang several solos with
power and sweetness Special mention
is also due Miss McGranihan,Of Wheel
ing.
During the morning dedicatory SER
vices Rev. Aiken, pastor Of the First
Presbyterian church, of St. claIrsvtlle.
led in prayer.
Rev. S. j. Boyle then introduced Rev.
A. S. MilholIand. pastor Of the First
Presbyterian church. of Uniontown,
Pa, who delivered the dedicatory ser
mon, and took for his text the thir-
teenth verse of the sixteenth chapter of
first Corinthians. "QuIt We like men,"
and also the ninth verse of the third
chapter. For we are laborers together
with God"
He said: AS to the Interpretation of
the latter. theologians are not united.
Some state that God and man labor
Jointly, others say that they labor sepa-
rately. We know now men labor in
preaching the gospel. but we cannot tell
how; It is made eftectual in converting.
If our Father in heaven co-operates
with men in the advancement of COM
mon interests, both will work together
to one great end. God is the senior
partner in this great business but both
working together for one common pur-
pose. Is there enough In common to
warrant 1t? Are not God and man too
widely different? Men labor together
and accomplish the all glorious purpose.
What is mankind? The scriptures,
which are more reliable than Webster,
say to get correct conception Of man.
kind we want to know something Of
man. Man is corrupt. Would 1t not be
better to say that man is godlIke rather
than mankind, for there Is not II just
man upon earth. that doeth good and
slnnoth not, other than the one we have
Just referred to. We speak of man
being wicked; we do not mean the low
est he can get. The likeness Of God in
which he was created, has not been
wholly obllterated. There is nothing
that makes him man without the d.
vlnity with which he was created.
Properly speaking It Is erroneous 10 say
that man is an animal although
some Of them are altogether more Ike
animals than humans.
believe in the Fntherhood OF God. !
believe that man was made in His like
ness and that he Is endowed with abllI-
ty to recognize his creator and in this
works together with the father and
makes hlmEclf co.operntor with God
in establishing the kingdom OF Jesus
Christ upon earth.
What is manhood, but godlIncEs in
human attire? God Is mans Father
and the earth is his mother. Man has
two natures. a pcrlshablc one and an
impGrishable one, mnde in the image of
God, and his spirit shall return to God.
We cannot all be gods and should not
be animals, "Qult ye like men," man
made house is God made house which