The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-08-12
GREATEST THTNGIN WORLD
A Brilliant Sunday Sermon By Rev.
Daniel MacL aurin.
The Distinguished Divine Delivers a Sermon
Which Is as Scholarly and Reada.
bic as Any Of Recent Years.

New York CITY.-Dr. Donald D. Mac.
Laurin, of Rochester. preached Sunday
morning in st. Johns NJ i. Church to a
large audience. His sermon was the first
In series on ''The Greatest Thing in the
World" DIR. MacLaurin said:
have most earnestly sought to bring
you on successive Sundays the best min
istry l have yet been able to give you,
that your lives may be broadened and
deepened and lifted up into higher realms
Of spiritual achievement; and | could find
no theme of greater value, as saw it, than
that which is suggested by the chapter
which | read to you, the thirteenth chap.
te~ of Paul's first epistle of the church al
Corinth. And so for eight weeks, we shall
have our texts from this chapter; and this
morning you will find our text in the first
verse of the first chapter of First Corin.
thians: at | speak with the tongues OF
men and angels, but have not love, ] am
become sounding brass or changing
cymbal."
Nor must we not think that we shall be.
come tired of this wonderful theme. Did
YOU ever know any one to become weary of
a diamond? Among the gems OF the Lord
God is found this. chapter, and though i
do not profess to be a skillful lapidary to
bring out its flashing facets, | think. with
the aid of the divine spirit, we shall find
in each service something fresh and helpful
and new.
This chapter has been in all ages of the
church especially admired; would that it
had received in all the ages of Christian
history that more practical and valuable
pprp;or,aa h., ""'um wouiu ha.e a., pesn tx
petienueu pei nn oy a paaeiiee o. lts prihci%Ries %
tnn s.Ii;o a" ..T. VI .s Irecep.s. ter' %
force OF the spirit" and the great thinker
is right. AS I have pondered it foe several
years with ever growing interest, ! have
oo,,iJ no,.ou kn,.e' ..;tt, itoi ''I iaeuisy
cou coud bavo srrn maue ewnn, wr,.'eh en- H.. never
~ nvsn nsne so iron, snp DIa,m or near.
ven % had 50 given him % tbe T ;nsn;rn,on eSs r. hgs "a
thrauab te Pan, ' serv.nt of End St neaVehn, th,
snnS snos ~ roa,, a''' se''a"' vi "ou' 10 'he
sons " ihen, i; .
os Chn;s,;ssr io'.s lynn VI Peah IN h?nUr
mated bv tba Anostias pas, N,han ma.e rini r,r
nn on tie w;nal Of ;rsn;r,tnn ar Men ntn thss
very be;abts Of Sbr;st; pnlaoman aa'o e ;he
tba Forty,f,b Psnl y e,ogufnce og b e,,;nie lfe
oni0d onn dotbs'nifn Ky SAM IL may De nttingy
frennentiS vonr snealr o wi, a. anu no. ~
- ~ .has sSuI speaher WIN 80 9eslsnaIe
b,s ~ tha for,,, "offay of morning. sels,cs. IL
tnn nf ,oatr,,. % Ptety has .ne ihsP,Mla, M
finest ndetrv And s q WI, ,e oo,id rs,d 9i 'e
n,es. .h po1.iy. and you coulu reau IL m
;tS ine ; ureeK you Wo9ld eaten ne fuliness OF
do in .bo host Enai;sh ,.or,;on ioi YOU ] "
a nrofanot;o9 n ~ t,et ;t l.. seeIIs .e.l
z Z. proIaha,tioh ,n 10 attempt lts exposition'
~ sem; ;,htii ufe Hiue Ipse OF uisseso
srt .s my nsntsrmse snns,, 20 .ahe shese Prineipies
pa appavs;s Sn in % tbo nrnare ioo rne & mscesSary
ioesss0e t that - vn % ,,o,,id ba W. Iii suspei
ve Mnt - o"a attot m ttL,a th De uGWaruiy WERE
Tho mo' ;t; " a..enR' the eAposi:lon.
in which ~ ;s f,,rnd bo,"htans ~ ;tn tne oot gooh
Won 6nd = ;n tSa Sanu aetsns;ehs ISL ts emec.'
mon. ou nnu ~ LILY, nn ny mus. VI iensehy argu-
"
;n@ eowsrs so"e,nds ands pa,li arees % anu sPring,
niast of desart a of p1oohS ~, n.L nn ac tac
"a ero arsmeut i ;s tn,t n Sanu H r;ebt etnfr sue
,;J.sS ~ III .uiifui.i si anu IiSnt III tne
ist T. y .o.,, or al " ii ioI.h ms suoe song
roced :cbnoi % oh;id i,hd .me song ba 'ne sWeee
tba;r hard norl amd tha ,aha, inHst ny tha;r u.
canvas nary ~ Tott hntto anT N, stt paDei oi .nelr
tSe Son. o bSes,er Sar IKE .ne very souna OF
Wou St,oot nra,en nr ,;a iIori IN, In 'he pit VI
eas;i,. ;rnon;n on -. pah,vhy uay' we ian
n'a; Ina aaI snii 'ne ieePenihg nush tnae
usI ns thn, nave raad iae on .he Iorhsniah cnurch
;noc;ns eou . iniS o.iap.eI, aho we cali
in tbn n;nos os o tbose Shr;st;a paoutbbeu tbe,
u;ftS er unr at'er anotner 'neir iaVorlte
bv tbe areat toapcho, ps,ioEs E STep, pp., amaS Ss
sSo,,. .ne se"t oeaeh.I. TOT Iaui nere
Chr;st;on ,nI; lie 'o'1 VIZ IA one @ esseh'la, vi
tbnt soft snnt; uiu you you Iay IAose,
saw beIonas 70 wnnen ana, n% oh;idran ''iEn nn
II =
6E"u lan, arvu 20 say b ,na' 'ns Is Inc spirit oi
nnoatIa ans iaInssase daa' Is preeiseIy wnat tne
ni;c;ti,, tbn ahaoit ne Ihrns hoss ,;s Gs
pp,;thny,t inu , ap1pIu.e WoL.hILessneSs Oh ne
love ~ ,i io'e io1Ee az tne enegniins Oh ~,
syo aUne AZ ene emu oi u, rove niIng the wnoie
sbo'e ,bo pe.weeh. Lo'e at the enu Is ny
r"J ,aihe as iose az the peginilhg. ~ ~
.;.t pranuer' nooier, ulVlner., bue
ha S,'ho"s tn .he iirst ,o'e the oiher couiu never
swell, oe t,,e he @ p,ossom anu tne ir9itags Pc pe,
aorar nsnn tue d tIIo'age, roo ana the SEED ana tne
ussr tbs srst anu la Tue Tree, 1no uness you nave
the he i irse .I tIIse-,oIe ior uou-lh your heart,
Ssne iove .nat snail engage our attentlon on
erus eynors ,noriimHs ne M,nl pe stranger 70 your
or W, h,em h anu ange,s, oIo nave not ioVe: l
snr peeo'he sounuing : prass OF q cla7glhs
ii,on;utL; ii,tninaL, IL mpulu seem as II an tne
or ~ Ina. .n vmnaen mure e'pluems spcakkes,
VI at Ieast were eioqusht hearers' ana IeI
s, ne say that eIoquent hearers are as essen
Shr;st; 1,r q; eioquen' speecn: Inc tqnntniaLI
Ghtistians ~ were distingulsheu 1or their g1ts
IN ;n 'p,s Ilrec.lon' anu SO the apostle, khoI'
mss ms y, knoWtng mem rlgnt wen, Ior n.
80 'heir iather IN tne gospei, ne supposes
thtst' thst capapie Oh speaking IN every tongue
Tha, 1'la. rose from tne hps OF men or angels,
t;.., INA. were they 10 nave ail ana were des'
tltute OF love they were nothing but sound.
~ ~ prass OF changing cympais. HOW hard
.hts lis nlusI nave oeen on those people whc
.nerIshrd eioquence as more easy to i'm;
lyme tnan 70 describe; for they placed
Iett store oy tbeir gift OF tongues ana
snelr eloquenee OF speech. And do YOU
snow we are oIten placing the emphrsii
their wrong pace. we are often guiy
u y that characteristic loiiy. ihese Corinj
wbans SJ,ans were oi.en pulling tne empnasn