The Washington times., 1901-08-05
VISITING PULPIT ORATORS.
Vacation Time Brings TO Town Pas
tors From Other Cities.
Prcsbyterinn CONGREGATIONS Hear
sermons From Leading. ExPonents
of That Faith-The Rev. DIR. Hor-
toms Sermon on Seeking Salvation


sermons From LendinE ENponents
of That Faith-The Rev. DR.. Hor-
tom. Sermon on Seeking salvation
In accordance with the time-honored
custom of exchanging pulpits during the
summer vacations. the services in great
number of the churches of Washington
yesterday were conducted by clergy from
other cities. This was notably so in the
Presbyterian churches, where the sermons
in nearly every case were preached by
strangers.
At the Church of the Covenant, Connec-
ticut Avenue. n and Eighteenth Streets
northwest, the Rev. Robert p. Kerr, pas
tor of the First Presbyterian Church of
Richmond Va. who conducted the SER
vices last Sabbath. also preached the elo-
quent sermon delivered yesterday morn
ing His subject was Christ and Death.
expounded from the text "our Saviour.
Jesus Christ, who has abolished death" II
Timothy, lilo.
The Rev. T. Holmes Walker, of Bal
timore, conducted the services at Gun
ton Memorial Church, and at the West.
minister Memorial Church the pulpit was
filed by the Rev. Robert Life, of New
York. Sermons were preached at the AS
semblys Church by the Rev. William Nc
Chung, of Tennessee; at the First Church
by the Rev. Charles f. Huss, of Mckees-
port, Pa; at the Eastern Church by Rev.
M B. Lambdin. of st. Adams, w. Va, Ind
at the Central Church by the Rev. Oliver
Johnson, of the Associate Reform Pres
byterian Church of Leslie, S. C.
The Rev. George n. Luccock. pastor of
the Metropolitan Presbyterian Church,
filled the pulpit yesterday in the Fourth
Presbyterian Church, in the absence of
the pastor. the Rev. Joseph t. Kelly. DR..
Luccock took for his text the relationship
of man to- God, found in Luke. xiii. and
enlarged upon the sentiment expressed
there, through the entire life of mankind.
Dr. Iuccock's place at the Metropolitan
Church was filled by the Rev. DR.. Ander-
son. pastor of the Olivet Church, of Co.
lumbus, Ohio, the theme of whose sermon
was derived from the human possessions
of Christians. DR.. Anderson took for his
text First Corinthians. iii:21-29.
At the New York Avenue Church an
impressive discourse was delivered by the
Rev. Francis A. Horton, D. D., the dis
tinguished pastor of Temple Presbyterian
Church. Philadelphia, Pa. DIR. Horton
spoke from the Epistle of St. Paul to the
philippians, ii:12: Work out your own
saliva ton with fear and trembling" He
said in part:
In your thoughts of salvation today. /
warn you to accept no narrow horizon
Such a conception is unworthy of man,
and, l strongly suspect, despised of God.
Death and Judgment, what are their sig
nificance? They have no significance ex-
| cept that which flows from above and
comes up from below.
Avoid any conception of life which
suggests the enjoyment of today and
postpones the turning aside from evil
until tomorrow. Let your conception or
salvation horizon be OF that thing
called life. Salvation implies previous
/ liability and tendency to ruin.
There is so little OF the egg that in
cubation will not fail to give up the per-
feet bird. There is so little to the colt
that development will not fail TO pro-
duce the perfect horse. In the boy there
are so many facts involved. SO much in
him. so much in his environment. that he
still has the fatal power to sweep all
/ aside and work out his own salvation
or his own damnation, as he chooses. TO
him, then, comes the instruction with
force, work out your own salvation
l Look up to the Deity as your next OF kin,
and seek your companionship there.
Some steps We may take together in
working out salvation. We may join the
church together, we may commune i'll
prayer. But at the foot of the mountain
we find a line drawn, and no one goes
up save that he goes alone.
THE working out Of salvation is
solitary work. Man goes to trial with
sore lack and needs, and amid the as
saults of his angry passion, and the as
sociations OF his own evil deeds. But
above the clouds God keeps watch over
iG c
one who has tried TO be u man knows 1t
is no fancy picture
Work out a scheme of salvation for to-
] day, so TO redeem life for tomorrow and
/ for evermore, and to do away with all
thought Of death and Judgment. Fear
! and trembling are twins. When dread
| catches A glimpse of the eternal felicity,
desire comes to the aid. We are i'm
| pressed with sense OF our own incon-
! stancy. We reach the goal to find the
crown is withdrawn and in place of it
the fools cap with jingling bells.
| The desire to shine is perfectly good
and proper. God has shown US every
where through nature that 1t Is good
| But in mankind such desire should be
! applied to character building. Money
fame-these are nothing. Work out your
| own salvation and aim to build up your
| may. and whatever embellishments of
| honor come from it are a just cause of
pride.
! will heed is to be couched in the language
| OF the teXt-to be aided in working out
i your own salvation. And the pay pro-
ceeds as the work goes on; and the pay
| will cease when you rest from work. The
world is full OF cases OF arrested devel-
| opment-
| Life success IS not the receipt Of
honors, the holding Of prominent position.
! II lies in the working out of character.
| God will see that proper men find their
place II a man does not come up to this
| standard of development he will fail, no
| matter what influence places him in high
| position
| Relative values all through life NIL
| mems minds. The value that should fill
4 mine is that | would be all that God gave
! me to be- and let me have Gods help all
along my way. The man who made the
Goerggessen watch is the man to keep it
| in order So God, having made us, can
| care for us best. So let us leave 1T all
| in his hands.
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