The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1900-07-02

appointed by the bishop 20 the charge OF
the church work at Gray's harbor.
In order to prevent the service from
being unduly long, the usual morning
prayer was said yesterday at 10 O'Clock
and the ordination service commenced
promptly at II. when the preacher Rev.
II. ~. Gowen assembled the pulpit and de-
livered the sermon from the text; PIN.
iv., 3. 81 beseech thee also, true yoke
fellow"
Address to the Candidates.
After showing the significance OF the
apostles metaphor applied 10 the
Christian minister the preacher went on
10 describe the threefold object Of on
ordination sermon. first. to set forth the
office and duty Of deacons; secondly, the
necessity OF the order in the Church Of
God and. thirdly. to show how the neo-
pie should esteem them for their works
sake Each OF these points was taken
up and dealt with I'm detail and then.
while the candidates for ordination stood
In the presence OF the people. the follow
ms personal address was made 70 them
by the preacher:
My Brothers. you are about. in this
special sense, to becme yoke-tellows OF
Christ. ! will not disguise from you the
solcmnify OF the step Won are taking
From other professions YOU may with
draw without dshonor or the sense Of
defeat II is otherwise IN this. And this
because II IL not merely your profession,
but your vocation 'Ye have not chosen
me SAYS Christ but have chosen you
And beyond the words spoken to YOU to-
day by the bishoo you must hear His
voice as OF old Follow me- and beyond
the hands laid upon your head In bless
INK you must feel His hands stretched
out az OF old on Olivet.
Not an Easy Task.
Nor would | disguise the Difficulty CT
the work work which has ITS attest
symbol I'm the OK laboring IN tie furrow.
Dpborne at first by a fine enthusiasm.
sooner or later YOU will md a large rart
OF the ministerial lie 70 consist Of what
men popularity call drudgery Then win
come the temptation 20 see. reliaf by AL
lowing heart 0ai cy"s to wauGe- Eut
then 8, Is that you must learn that rest
comes not by put'tng m the yoke. but
ly wearing II better. M from your work
ont In your work Take my .5oke rpon
YOU and icSci Of Me ar1 re shan and
lest
You sill Feel, 80. ;he loneliness OF
your work that vnp are scpartci from
many things right and ntting for other
men. Religious by profession, you will
find your own spiritual life IN danger of
being neglected. As Pope Eugenius wrote
20 81 bernard. Always engaged In re-.
ligious acts, yet seldom religious IIy-
pocrisy lies nearer 10 our lives than to
those Of others. and II H. worse II We
are what the world calls successful;
worse -tiil II successful unto death
Your diaconaie viii be time OF learn
Ing and experience. not free from mis-
takes. Yet II Is better to make mistakes
than not TO risk them And even men
viii tolerate your mistakes better than
your assumed infRliibility. Let no man
despise thy youth means not that men
are 10 think ~ us a. older or wiser than
We sre but that We are 10 be- the tctt
81 men that Il IL impossible to dcsplse.
II viii. moreover be time Of response
bilitv You will. by virtue OF your teach.
ing office. have certain rule over the
coHsciences ~ men. Exercise that tuie
humbiN, lovingly. but couraReously
Speak the truth even when most love "a
lie Avoid al low standards and slack
ness Of NE hold up the measure Of the
stature % the fuliutss 81 Christ
Compensation aud joy
Thus realized. your ministry can rot
be blessing to ourselves and Others.
There Vii De no ifu1sery Nhsn you .ceI
yourselves in every ministerial act. deal
INK With Immortal souls who will bear
Tor all eternity ne seal u Your ministry:
no loneliness when you realize yourselves
one Nth aU me prophets. apostles and
martyrs who fnNaW th. Faithful and
True nothing stale. far or uuprontabl.
when 'sl know yourselves dealing with
mon Ia their deepest sorrows and their
ss.f'd iaN-. dealing nth Goa Himself lu
HIS most sacred kotk
TaHa VIII YOU par, haae go ourselves
good degree and much ho'dness. and
SD 'olr me- lons SOFA may have. Ike fn,
first deacon. So st~.n.n rho Illuminated
70 'he ogsn heaven ana RE vision 2
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