The age-herald., 1901-01-21
ELOQUENT SERMON
 BY MIR. MURRAY F For We Are Laborers Together
 With God" AT CHURCH OF THE ADVENT Let Us Not Have Envy, Strife and Di- vision, But Cooperative and Co., ordinate Labor-No Success
 Unaided by Gcd or Man.
AT CHURCH OF THE ADVENT

At the Church of the Advent yesterday Rev. John G. Murray preached an eloquent sermon, his text being: For We are labor CTS together with God" I Cor. S:9
 Tn this third chapter of his first letter to the Corinthians" said MT. Murray, "St. Paul deprecates the pernciousness of their numerous dissentions, and portrays the un- desirable nature of the evil results that must necessarily follow unless they discon- tinue these dissensions and abandon their strife.
 Tn contrast herewith he then pictures the beauty of unity of action and argues the reasonableness and naturalness of this unity in accordance with the character of their Christian profession and in harmony with the exercise of common wisdom.
 Preference to the sin of 'envying and strife and division,' as herein condemned by the apostle, will be but incidental in our discussion this morning. I invite your di- rect attention to the consideration of the excellence and necessity of that course of Christian conduct, which, as its reward, makes all things ours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas or the world, or life, or death, or things present, things to come, makes all ours; makes us Christ s,
 
 ceeding with this consideration pass with the mere mention of the fact that, accord ing to the law of God Christian conduct is inseparable from active, honest labor In the declaration by the priest and the reception of that declaration by the peo- pie, of the commandment of the law, Six days shalt thou labour,' the emphasis is generally laid on the numeral six I see no objection to this, provided equal stress be laid upon the word of activity, labour,' but I must insist upon due prominence being given this latter word. And my po- stion is founded upon the word the law and the example of God Himself. Six days shalt thou labour' was his word to man in the covenant made outside the statute of the law. Six days shalt thou work was His commandment to man in the statute of the law. My father work eth hitherto and I work ! : must work the works of Him that sent me- were the declaration and example of Him who came from God upon earth to promulgate and establish the principles of the gospel. Six days shalt thou labour If Christian thou wouldst be, but l pause to say, and pass to the consideration of the proposition that we are to labor together If we would ac- compish results worthy of our labor.
 '"rhe church of God was established and is by Him perpetuated for the accomplish mentment of single purpose That pur- pose is the importation of a saving knowl- edge of God to man. This church is one Those who are its members constitute and comprise it. They must be one in accord and effect if the mission of the church Is to be accomplished. Cooperation and CO., ordinate action upon the part of all en- gagged in the accomplishment of a common purpose has been the revealed divine will from the beginning.
 ' Tn the beginning by the agency of the eternal son, God created the heaven and the earth and moved them to life and action by the breath of His Holy Spirit And what was then, by His own action indicated to be the will of the creator by the well defined cooperative and co-ordi- persons of the Gadhead has even since found expression and been emphasized as that will, in the experience of the created
 The Tower of Babel.
 Sacred history records the action and experience of a community whose people were of one mind and one language and speech A common purpose seized that one mind to build a atty and Q tower whose top would reach unto heaven, in defiance of the God whose seat was the throne of feat the common purpose of that determin- ed mind, the Lord found 1t necessary not only to come down to see that city and that tower, but also to visit such confusion of tongue and consequent misapprehension of individual motive upon the builders that cooperative and coordinate action were no longer possible, and the people were com pelled to abandon the prosecution of their work, and in the bewilderment of the mis- apprehension and misunderstanding that prevailed, were scattered over the face of