Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1900-04-26

mands that he honestly hears. Out of
the depths Of the black abyss Of hu-
man want and sin and despair and an
guish and rebellion in this place and
over the world rings in my ear cry
for help that by the grace Of God
truly believe cannot be answered by
the church Of Christ on earth until the
members Of that church are willing in
great numbers to give all their money,
and all their time, and all their homes,
and all their luXuries, and all their ac
complishments, and all their artistic
tastes, and all themselves to satisfy
the needs Of the generation as 1t looks
for the heart Of the bleeding Christ in
the members Of the church of Christ
renounce all that he hath, he cannot
be his disciple. Does Christ ask any
member Of Calvary church to renounce
all and 60 down into the tenement dis
trict to live Christ there? Yes, all.
"My beloved, If Christ speaks so to
you today listen and obey. Service!
Self! That is what he wants. And If
what then? Can we sing that hymn
with any Christian honesty of heart
unless we interpret it literally?
''Were the whole realm OF nature mine,
That were Offering far too small;
Love so amazing, SO divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all!''
1t would partly describe the effect Of
this sermon on Calvary church to say,
what was fact, that when Philip end
ed and then kneeled down by the side
of the desk to pray the silence was
painful, and the intense feeling pro-
Ioked by his remarkable statements
was felt in the appearance of the audi
ence as it remained seated after the
benediction. But the final result was
yet to show itself; that result was not
visible in the Sunday audience.
The next day Philip was unexpected
ly summoned out of Milton to the par
ish Of his old college chum. His old
friend was thought to be dying. He
had sent for Philip. Philip, whose af
fection for him was second only to that
which he gave his wife. went at once.
lied when Philip came, and then for
two weeks his life swung back and
forth between this world and the next.
Philip staid on, and so was gone one
Sunday from his pulpit in Milton. Then
the week following, as Alfred gradual
ly came back from the shore Of that
other world, Philip, assured that he
would live, returned home.
During that ten days absence seri-
Gus events had taken place in Calvary
church. Philip reached home on
Wednesday. He at once went to the
house and greeted his wife and the
Brother Man and William, who was
now sitting up in the large room.
He had not been home more than an
hour when the greatest dizziness came
over him. He sat up so much with his
chum that he was entirely worn out.
He went up stairs to lie down on his
couch in his small study. He instantly
fell asleep and dreamed that he was
standing on the platform Of Calvary
church preaching. 1t was the first
Sunday Of month. He thought he
said something the people did not like.
Suddenly a man in the audience raised
revolver and fired at him. At once
from over the house people aimed re-
volvers at him and began to fire. The
noise was terrible, and in the midst of
1t he awoke to feel to his amazement
that his wife was kneeling at the side
of his couch, sobbing with heartache
that was terrible to him. He was in
stantly wide awake and her dear head
clasped in his arms. And when he
prayed her to tell him the matter she
ssobbed out the news to him which her
faithful, loving heart had concealed
from him while he was at the bedside
of his friend. And even when the news
of what the church had done in his
absence had come to him fully through
her broken recital of it he did not real
ise it until she placed in his hands the
letter which the church had voted to
be written, asking him to resign his
pastorate, of Calvary church. Even
then he fingered the envelope in an alb
sent way, and for an instant his eyes
left the bowed form Of his wife and
looked out beyond the sheds over to
the tenements. Then he opened the
letter and read 1t.