Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-09-26
INSTALLED.
Rev. Stoltz Regularly in Charge of
First Presbyterian Church.
ABLE SERMON BY DR.. HIHlTI
Three of Four Former Pastors of
Church in Attendance at Yesterdays
Services-A Large Congregation
Was Present.

[From Mondays Dailyl
/ A large and interested audience at
tended the installation services yes
terday morning at the First Presbyter-
ian church, at which Rev. F. F..
Stoltz, late of Streator, ILL.,, was for
mally installed as pastor. The SER
vices were under the direction of for
mer pastors and brother ministers and
the spirit of earnestness and loyalty
to the interests and work of the
chruch, betokens an era of great USE
fulness under the leadership of their
new pastor. Three of the four former
pastors were present DR.. F. w.
Hinitt, now presluent of Parsons col
| lege at Fairfield, preached the SER
mon and in very eloquent and ear
nest address counseled the church to
receive PauPs message to the church
at Corinth, as found in / Cor. 1: IL,
| to themselves. To cast aside the de-
mands of this materialistic age, and to
set up the Cross of Calvary as their
guiding star and look to it as the pan
acea of all evils.
Rev. j. M. McElroy, the first pastor
of the church, delivered the charge to
the new pastor and in a few earnest
words at all times to preach the Cos
pei for 1T is the power of God unto
salvation, and only in doing this
would he follow the example of the
Good Shepard
| DR.. II. B. knight, who was Rev. Nc
Elroy's successor, next delivered the
charge to the people. He reminded
them of their very prosperous condi-
ton at the present time and urged
them to make the most of it by giving
loyal support to their pastor and hav-
ing as their one aim the salvation of
souls
The members of the East End Pres
byterian church, both pastor and peo-
pie. united with those of the First
Presbyterian church. and members of
the congregation in the installation
services. BY II o'clock the auditor
ium was comfortably filed and the or.
der of services opened with an organ
voluntary by Miss Hughes of Oska-
loosa. AS the last notes of the volun-
tary died away the congregation arose
from whom all blessings flow" after
which II. limit in brief PRAYER
evoked divine blessing upon the as
|
SHIPPED.
Opened With Scripture.
After the opening hymn, Rev. D. A..
| Murray of the East End Presbyterian
church read the scripture as found in
! / Corinthians, the first chapter, and
offered the opening prayer. asking
divine blessing upon our nation in
its great bereavement upon the
church in its work and especially up
on him who has been called to be a
leader and teacher among them.
DR.. nInitt.
Mrs. Nellie Brown Hughes next
sang the very appropriate solo EMIT
lied, Homeland The sermon of the
morning was preached by DR.. Hinitt,
from the text found in l Cor 1: IL,
Paul. called to be an apostle of Jesus
Christ through the will of God and
Sothenes, our brother, unto
the church of God which is at Corinth,
to them that are sanctified in Christ
Jesus, called to be saints. with all that
in every place call upon the name of
Jesus Christ. our Lord, but theirs and
ours, who in brief said:
In the scriptures the statement is
made that all things move in cycles.
OF the constitution of the world it is
now said by some that it shall be an
unlimited number of cycles, each one
reproducing the one previous.
AS this has been true to great eX-
tent in the world of thought. politics,
and art so it's seems to be true in the
case of the church of God, and the
church of Corinth may be taken as a
f1r Of hn oh Of cd
An Unknown Man.
Paul came to Corinth, the very cen.
ter of the commerce of his times, an
unknown man. he found himself in a
city materialistic to the core, city
where wealth was exalted and phil
osophy was almost worshipped. To a
city less capable of understanding q
spiritual message than ever before,
Paul came to declare that mans chief
aim should be to .glorify God. That
God though unseen is eternal.
So the message comes in the same
way to the church today. Never has
there been a time when wealth was
piled up in so great abundance, when
the commercial and territorial enter.
prises of man had grown to such mag
nitude as at the present time, and
when most men seem to be content to
grapple with the material questions OF
the day. Amidst these influences the
mission of the church should be to in.
duce men to turn their eyes from the
things that are low and groveling and
, look up to the cross of Christ and obey
his summons as he calls them to his
service.
Another Set of Conditions.
Paul in Corinth is in the presence oil
, another set of conditions and to fulfill
, his mission he declares trutN that is
to set men free from the shadow of ig
norance and poverty. He finds him
self in the midst of a society of aristo
Gratis, rich men, and learned philos
ophers who look down upon the pleb
ian, the man in poverty and ignorance
Among those, who, if there BE any
salvation, think it is for the high, the
rich, and those of influence, and who
consider that they owe nothing t.
their less fortunate neighbors. Bu
Paul's message came to the church
of Corinth as it comes to the churcl