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IN CITY
CHURCHES
Sundays Notable
Sermons in
Brief.
REV. GEO. c.
ADAMS DISCOURSE
Rev. Mr. Pearson's Strong Pre-.
ssntnent-Services at
Y. "A. c. A.

Rev. George c. Adams addressed the
usual large congregation at Central
Union Church yesterday morning upon
The Peace of God" taking for his
text Philippians Al The following is
an extract from his sermon
This promise is not for the base
man, nor for the one who does not in
tend to pay his debts The honest
man is the one who suffers most; his
conscience is keen, and reproaches him
with obligations not met, and pledges
not yet fulfilled. There is the one who
needs the peace of God The rascal
needs war in his own soul until he
forms new purpose and begins bet
ter life; then will be time enough for
him to talk of peace. But Sir Walter
Scott suffered when he undertook to
pay off large debt. Mark Twain
has made some great blunders but he
made none when he made it the effort
of his life to pay the debt of s200000
that had come to him through the fail
ure of his publishers. These men need
peace in their great struggles This
peace is not sentimental, it is not quiet
nor restfulness alone that is meant; II
has ethical qualities, and can only be
found when proper ethical relations
exist. In 1861 the United States longed
for peace; it could have been had at
once by disgracefuI compromise and
surrender of principles. 1t took four
years of bloody war to make that peace
which now exists, but the union is one
as it never was before and we all say
amen to the Presidents exclamation,
Thank God we are all together
again. This peace viii stay; 1t is
founded on eternal right.
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it has not only strong ethical qualities.
but divine love. 1t is best seen in
Jesus Christ. No one was ever so be-
reft and prosecuted as He; none ever
suffered so from loss of friends; be
litera. ny trod the winepress alone But
the calm, majestic peace that marked
all his life was the veritable peace of
God; nothing disturbed it; no one sur
prised him; he was never oVerWneirneu.
This peace paSseth all understand
ing. il is 40 more to be had by logic
than is sleep; all the logic in the world
never induces sleep; the keenest under-
standing does not make peace; II Is
only to b.. had through perfect SUP
mission. IT is interesting TO see how
Cod grants the prayer for peace. Eli
iah triumphant over the $50 prophets
of BaaI ran away at Jezebefs threat;
we find him crouching under juniper
tree full of the thought that ne is the
only faithful servant OF COD ieit; MS
egotism is so great that he cannon near
the voice of God; he has found ne Is
not At to live and 50 prays TO De
,ra,sIatad Cod sent the wind, the
aar,houake and the fire over him. ana
in the awful hush that follows the
tornado he hears the still small voice,
and learns that God mas sun 'sooo
faithful ones. He is peacetul ditel
that. but the tornado had to come mo l,
his life before he could become 81. 80
when the tornado enters our NE 1t
may be Gods answer " ou'
l.Then the promise is that this peace
90 CD ehali keep the hearts ana
thoughts in Jesus Christ; the aIect,ols
and the reasoning powers me 80
meaning is that it IS 10 1T une 49,
man for the battle or lie. he 80
or fencer who is calm mas ma ~, ~
odvantape over his adversary ne
CHRISTIAN who has this fnestimapie gllI
hos preparation for all his WORK thal
nothing else can ever give. ~
praxye,, aud benediction on the CnIls
tians Of PhiIippi means the pest NJ. -
for a Christian career or usei ui"e''
METHODIST EPISCOPAL SERVICES
pev G. T. Pearson. pastor of the Meth
odist Episcopai Church, spoke Iast 80
ing on .Tbe Truth in Jesus. we give q
hriaf outline of his address: truth Is
oonforrpitv to fact There could De ~
l,,o1gladqa If truth could not be preul.
cataa of things. Truth as predlcateu u
knowIadee is the conformity Oh ou.
tnowIadet. with the reality of the opJett
,noun The truth in Jesus Is pei lee',
that Is in aim is no fallacy' uecep'i -
narvarseness He is the truth Tue
commemorative of the character Vi 80
Tha truth In Jesus is shown In ms pei Son
80 IN his teachings. His teachings a
Ia,fo,,s They affect the entire haeule
- - They reveal the reality that uii,
da-ias all human relation, both laahN alN
ga codward His system of truth cum
Tr;sas few great principles that cIu ,is
g. ahou+ his person on the cross. li,s
svstern Is the reality as coHlpaleu 49,
= I",,,fsh which was emblemauc' tne
..sb.1ow of good things to come
IT,, 100 nv Moses but grace and tru.h
came by Jesus Christ oohl. o-nosad
ma ganism Christianity was tru'h Tprc
to faIsercod The heather my
not oD1v was not true but was ho'
sunnoeed to be true. Jesus lnaus III 80
now wav of establishing ana propast;
= ra,;e,;on--not by conformity to us ms 81
t.tons b,,t nv faith-to believe anu
o.r-eaahIa +o the truth. Jesus reVealTu
tbs truth and nothing but the truth ~
u horad ,,nder no mistakes. TheIe nav
49, fo,,nd NO errors and no reVisiol ~
49,, .,,star, has been found necessai .
Tha ruth is always up to date anu ap
nncable to human needs. MS