The age-herald., 1900-10-22
MANS WORK NEVER
 WELL FINISHED Even St. Paul Knew This of
 Himself THE GOOD SERVANTS OF GOD "Anot the Things That Thou REst Beard ot Me Among Many Wit nesses, the Same Commit
 Thou to Faithful Men"
THE GOOD SERVANTS OF GOD

Rev. John q. Murray preached an elo- quent and beautiful sermon at the Church of the Advent yesterday morning. His text was: And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also" II Timothy, chapter ?, verse ?.
 '- My subject last Sunday morning." said MT Murray, was. Serve God in Youth. Let us this morning consider the proposi- tion that obedience to this behest is made easy or difficult in proportion to the de- gree in which God is served by those who are the teachers and examplars of youth.
 Gathered here in our Fathers housed family bearing his name-I desire now sim ply to deliver you family message May God the Father, by the witness of His Holy Spirit, make it to all of us a message of light unto salvation. through the gift of His love, in the person of Jesus Christ, His son.
 Let us notice first, in affirmation of our proposition, that St. Paul recognizes it's validity by constituting his letters to Tim othy virtually communications from a father to a son.
 When Paul. in company with Barna- bas, made his first missionary journey among the Genties he found in Lystra the young man Timothy living with his mother Eunice and grandmother Lois Lois was a Jewess, but Eunce, her daugh- ter, had married Gentile and of this union Timothy was the offspring Under the preaching of Paul and Barnabas Timo- thy and his household were converted to Christianity, and his conversion was the beginning of warm friendship between him and Paul.
 When Paul took his departure from Lystra he left Timothy strong in the Chris tian faith. When he returned to Lystra a second time so prominent had Timothy become in the work of the church thal Paul decided to make him an associate in his travels. In order that he might not be stumbling block to the Jews he crcum- cised him. ordained him by the laying on of hands and adopted him as his own son in the faith, loved him as a son and wrote to him as a son-'and the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also
 'The Second Epistle to Timothy was writ ten at the period of that fathers perse- cution when he was a prisoner at Rome, feeling that the second imprisonment could only end in death Of this epistle I recom- mend not only a careful perusal but a prayerful study to every father who, with unfinished labors, would also leave valu- able legacy to his son, for it was written at that time when all work finished or un- finished must cease; that time my brother, that seems to you and me a perfectly nat ural period in the lives of other men, but the coming of which in our own lives seems as far away from our trembling hand and feeble step as when in boyhood's days, at eventide, we sought our mothers knee, weary with the frolic of the glad some day.
 During all the days we have sojourned here there has been approaching us trav- eler who never rests; ceaselessly comes he on, journeying night and day, and when he meets us it is to place before us the last milestone of our mortal career Upon his appearing we with him from earth pass away.
 "Oh, the darkness of it! Oh, the cer- tainty of it! Oh, the pathos of it!
 When that presence approaches, you and l. my brother, will find ourselves occupying the position of Paul when he wrote his Second Episte to Timothy
 And now note further that whenever this period does come we shall yet feel that there is so much left undone that we must find some one among our survivors upon whom can lay our unfinished task, for as mans work, if measured by his purpose and plans, is never completed when death ccmes.
 Moses bestowed upon Joshua in the name of Jehova the spirit of wisdom, that he might complete the journey he began; Da- vid called Solomon and told him that God said unto him thou shalt not build a house for my name, but Solomon, the son, he shall build my house and my courts Ell jah cast his mantle upon Elisha and with it his spirit.
 Paul had fought a good fight, he had finished his course, he had kept the faith, the time of his departure was at hand And yet even he could not say Tt is fin- ished.' Nay. he exhorts Timothy, T charge thee, therefore, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, preach the word: be instant in season and out of season, watch in all things, endure affiictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy min istry' In other words, carry on the work which I have begun and in thy turn com init 1t to others for its further accomplish ment.'
 q say, through all the centuries there has never been a fully satisfied human life; a life in which every design was &C., complished, every plan matured every work begun completed and perfected. The only perfect and perfected life the cen turies have ever known, was that of Him in whom the human nature was but the medium of bringing us in saving contact with the Divine. The declaration, It is finished,' of work done on earth has never passed the lips of any but Him in whom from eternity hath dwelt the power and perfection of the Godhead body. And even He. in that declaration, gave work for the world to do to the end of time!''
 MT. Murray went on to say that the knowledge that we may not complete the plans of lifes morning before the coming of the death night, should not be allow ed to hinder us doing the very best we can while it Is yet day. On the contrary the fact that others must do what we leave undone, and that almost invariably, those