The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-02-26
A CINCINNATI PASTOR
EXCHANGED PULPITS WITH REV. VI.
l.. HAINEs YESTERDAY.
Sermon Preached by Rev. r. Trum
bull Lee, at the First Presby-
terrain Church.

DR.. NJ. L. Haines. of the First Presby
terrain Church in this city. exchanged pull
pits with DR.. E. Trumbull Lee. pastor OF
the Second Presbyterian Church. of Gin
cinnati, yesterday. DR.. Lee was greeted
by two congregations of good size, consid-
ering the cold weather that prevailed.
Governor Mount attended both services
and took an especial interest in the pres
ence Of the Cincinnati pastor. because of
the fact that he delivered an address in
the latter's church nearly year ago, on
the occasion of a home missionary rally
held in that city. to which he was a dele
gate from the Indiana Presbytery.
DR.. Lee is a man of middle age. Of fine
presence and a scholarly preacher. His
discourse last night displayed mature
thought and was delivered in an impress
sive and eloquent manner. The text was
taken from the 18th chapter of Matthew,
18th, 18th and 30th verses: "Come unto
me all we that labor and are heavy laden
and will give you rest. Take my yoke
upon you and learn of me, for am meek
and lowly in heart and We shall find rest
unto your souls. for my yoke is easy and
my burden is light" DR.. Lee said in part:
This text, in the invitation that it CT
fers and in the inducement TO acceptance,
Is remarkable utterance. No religious
teacher has ever lived who has proposed
by so simple measure to relieve the sor-
rows and diStresses of a sinful and heavy
laden world No religion has given utter
ance TO such proposition, backed by all
the infinite resources of an Interchangeable
Redeemer and buttressed by the expert
ence of thousands and millions of people
through T0tllQniIImC
these words have already entered into his
tory by the gateway of personal expert
ence. Many multitudes of people have
heard and needed the invitation and have
found the fullness and sweetness or the
blessings which are voiced here by the
Redeemer of mankind. Hence. therefore,
1 shall confine Your attention to these two
prominent facts; first, the invitation and
second the assurance. The invitation Is
Come unto me all we that are weary and
heavy laden, and l will give you rest
This invitation becomes all the more beau
tiful when we remember that II Is backed
by the most charming personality that has
ever figured in history, One who has ever
proved himself the refuge and strength
of mankind and a. very present help IN
time of trouble. When Jesus Christ was
upon earth He was most sensitive to all
impressions of desire and or woe, sin and
want all around about Him. Whenever He
healed the sick or raised the dead He gave
expression to those acts of divine power
to the broad and catholic sympathy Oh
which He was possessor.
A DIVINE INVITATION.
"'Come unto Me-, is the invitation. 1t Is
divine, it is pervasive and penetrating in
its high and holy cadences. backed by the
emphasis OF infinite love. But you notice
also that it's fitting climax is found in the
promise, and I will give you rest How
wonderful that is when we think Of 1t.
Rest, where in the world is rest? Do you
find it even in our own land. one of the
most favored lands in all the earth? Rest.
Did we hear correctly the word of the
Master, Come unto Me and will give you
rest? When we view the gulf between
masses and classes and classes and masses;
when we see the cleaver of competition fall
ing across the choicest timber OF cost with
sinister and deadly blow, careless of the
direction in which the chips may fall;
when we are hearing now and then the
clash OF arms throughout the length and
breadth of the world; when the criminal
classes are day by day and night by night
making their dread warfare upon the
rights of men; when labor ceases not day
nor night and In beautiful periods of
rhetoric and oratory We hear IL spoken of
as the dignity of labor, but this labor
ceases not day nor night; from the garrett
where the rude window pane is begrimed
with dirt or, being gone. it's place is sub
sttuted by the ubiquitous rag, TO the
palace the boulevard, all is unrest.
England and France are watching each
other. They have not raked the Goals of
their international animosity into the pit
of oblivion; they have their stokers on
guard and their firemen ready TO pull the
drafts wide open when occasion shall de-
mand; for there must be movement; idle
ness means exposure and death. Russia
is already at Herat, the gateway to India.
and We know not when she Will step over
Al. it, - -
full clash of arms in South Africa. The
great navies of great nations patrol all
seas, watching with precision and careful
ness every national movement and coerctng
apology where apology Is demanded. The
Sultan moves out of Crete on moving day
scowling ominously and calling upon Allah
for vengeance. Spain gives up her priceless
islands in two great seas. but holds under
the folds of her dress the cleaning dagger,
ready to fash again when the sun shall
shine once more in prosperity upon the
palaces and splendid buildings OF Madrid
and of Barcelona. We are busy proving
our title to the islands that we have torn
from the hand of Spain and from despotic
Rome, and We see Aguinaldo fading before
Otis, and for aught We know he has al
ready found his refuge in Japan. AS the
shadows lengthen across this century,
cataclysms multiply, but underneath all
the rolling waves, underneath the bursting
OF the cruelest storm, underneath the COM
motion and unrest there is power divine
changes under the flow of the tide. Why,
over all the wide worlds deep unrest, over
all the evidences of sorrow and distress
and commotion, over all the battle scenes,
over all the strifes of classes we hear
the voice divine saying, Come unto Me all
We that labor and are heavy laden and
will give you rest / declare to you. be-
loved. that whence er men have lent an
| obedient ear to that invitation they have
| found rest; they have never found ii in
| the great council chambers Of Legislative
assemblies: they have never found IL IN
educational halls; they have never found
| IL in the midst of battle scenes settling In
| ternational difficulties: they have never
| found IL in the midst of want and wne and
| misery with which the human family has
| been afflicted 10 these many thousands
of years; but when the voice of Jesus has
been heard: when SHINING men and women
have heard that voice and have fallen
upon their knees before Him, acknowledg-
| ing Him as their Redeemer. their Lord and
their master, behold the peace of God that
passeth all understanding has come into
| their souls and they have found rest.
THE ADMONITION.
but listen secondly to the admoniton
| L said the assurance in the beginning. sim
/ ply by miscall OF words. First was tht
| invitation, second the admonition. Take
/ my yoke upon you and learn of me. for
am meek and lowly in heart. and you shall
find rest unto your souls, for my yoke /:
easy and my burden is light
| DIR. Lee declared that the meek have in
! herited the earth, according TO Christ:
] promise, pointing 10 the missionaries IL
| Europe, Africa and the isles OF the sea. Fl,