The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-11-25
NEW TEMPORARY ABODE
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH WILL
HAVE ONE NEXT SUNDAY.
An Entertaining Sermon by Rev. VI. l..
byterian and other Churches.

Before the sermon yesterday morning OF
the First Presbyterian Church congresa-
ton in the High Schoo assembly hall the
Rev. NJ. l.. Haines announced that 1t was
expected that the new temporary church
building on North Alabama street, near
Fifteenth street. would be ready for oc-
cupancy next Sunday morning. Prepare
tions will be made to make the change TO
the new location one OF special interest,
and the Rev. DIR. w. p. Kane, president of
Wabash College, will preach the dedicatory
sermon.
The sermon delivered by the Rev. Haines
yesterday morning was Upon 1.-The Minis
try of Love-" from the words of Paul in
the epistle to the Thessalonians, "Remem-
bering your labor of love-" In part he
said:
During the last six weeks a great many
persons in the United States nave been
deeply concerned about that Christian
woman over in Macedonia, who was cap
tured by brigands, carried somewhere in
to the mountains and is now held for ran
som. 1t reminds us that even in these
modern days they that go as missionaries
do not embark on any fair weather voy-
age. Whether in Macedonia or in China or
In Africa or in the islands of the Pacific
not a few OF the missionaries enter upon a
service that involves perils and possible
ma - NOHi- Out THESE ulIIlCulllcS dlu
dangers do not in the twentieth century,
any more than they did in the first cen
fury, stop the followers of Christ from
going on in their divinely commissioned
work and carrying the glad tidings to all
peoples.
Certainly that land of Macedonia,
Dnghted by the rule of the Moslems, is
In crying need of a pure gospel. The par
ticular section Of Macedonia in which the
captive missionary carried on her work is
the province Of Salonica. called after it's
leading city Of the same name. That city
has a peculiar interest to the Christian
traveller because of its association with
the missionary work OF the Apostle Paul.
1t was the second city in Europe in which
a Christian church was planted by him,
for Salonica is the Thessalonica of the
first century.
Nineteen hundred years ago the Chris
tian converts in that city had addressed
TO them from CoTinth st. Pauls first
epistle to the Thessalonians, In which he
gave glad recognition of their work of
faith and labor of love and patience of
hope. The lives of those Christian be-
levers in that ancient city were more beau
tiful than the buildings or statuary in it,
because they exhibited these primary vir-
tues in action. Paul saw their labor of
love. That was a great thing to see, and
yet the greatest thing was not the labor,
but the love in labor. Any deed however
lowly that is fragrant with a spirit of true
love to God or TO man is of the highest
worth, for love is God.
This 1 moreover hold and dare affirm.
Where'er my rhyme may go;
Whatever things be sweet and fair,
Love makes them So
'"The deepest need in home life and social
life is not intellect or riches or culture,
but love, genuine, patient, tender, strong
and unfailing. Among the most cherished
memories the American people have of the
last of our martyred Presidents is that
when the curtain was drawn aside for d
time we were given a glimpse of the I'M
failing devotion of ministering love which
that man, with the responsibilities of a
great nation upon him, always found time
to give to his invalid wife. That spirit
glorifies home life as no display OF pomp
and pride can do. This disposition is the
bottom secret of the power by which most
of all this world Is to be redeemed from
it's ills ard wrongs. The social millennium
will come, not primarily through legisla-
ton or industrial schemes; it will come in
so far as the Christian spirit of unselfsh
love enters into our daily speech and con-
duct.
Your labor of love- that is what the
apostle saw, and love, if it is genuine. is
labor and toll. The language of true love
is action. Its delight is service. 1t seeks
above all not to be ministered into, but to
minister and journey on its way to heaven
by the road of the loving heart"