The Savannah morning news., 1904-12-19
THE GREAT POWER
OF OUR THOUGHT
SUBJECT OF FIRST SERMON
PREACHED AT TRINITY CHURCH
BY ITS NEW PASTOR.

Rev. Guyton Fisher Pleased Large
Characterization Is Might
and We Cannot Flee From It-For
salvation 1t Is Necessary That All
Our Thoughts Be Brought Into
Captivity to Christ-Figure OF n
Rnce Closed the Sermon.
Before a congregation that crowded
Trinity Methodist Church yesterday
morning Rev. Guyton Fisher, the new
pastor, preached his opening sermon.
The text was taken from II Cor. x;5:
Bringing into captivity every thought
to the obedience TO Christ" Among
other things Rev. Mr.. Fisher said
The will stands absolutely power
less before the power of thought.
There is an open window in the soul
which God has opened. which no man
can shut. and which God will not shut,
and through this easement thought
comes pouring, sometimes like the fury
of the tempest, sometimes like the
breath of a song.
Men flee from thought into multi
tude of men, but every face becomes a
thought and every laugh a book of
remembrance. Man seeks the desert
to hide from his mind, but the wilder
ness blossoms with thought, and the
little hills clap their hands and laugh
at his misery. The darkness will not
shut the enemy out; the twlnkling
stars tell the story of Macbeth's guilt,
and the pale moon marches before him
her train of accusing witnesses. The
night wind groans with the means of
the dead and the shadows like ghosts
are walking the earth.
Thought to BE Used.
Thought is to be used, not ami
hilated, for humiliation would leave
men stranded upon a barren isle OF
intensity. Thought is to be made cap
tive as men make captive the winds
TO bear their sails to harbors wide.
Thought is the marble stair we walk
to the mansions of glory. the wings
with which man cleaves the skies of
mystery to enter destiny divine. And
oh, the wisdom of this plan! The null
titude of thoughts that we cannot keep
out by this very multiplicity and in
tensity become the sinful strongholds
greatest enemy, casting down magma
lions and every high thing that ex-
alteth itself.
1T is not only the wisdom, but the
power of God. Here we see it is di-
Vinitys plan. 1t were easier to an
initiate thought than to make it cap
tive 1t is easier to kill a bad man
than to make him a good citizen. 1t
is easier for God to blot out thought
than to make it obedient. But God
says He will take the harder task be-
cause it is more glorious. Here we
see that Gods ways are not our ways.
Thought in Science.
Il am glad for the energy science
has displayed of late years and when
ever they have found anything or done
anything, l rejoice with them that re-
joice But | do hate to hear them
csckling all the time. when they have
neither laid an egg nor Matched
chicken. The only science that bene-
fits mankind is the science that walks
by the side of Christ.
Music is good, but the devil has
stolen some of the prettiest, sweetest
Instruments. and TO my certain knowl-
edge he has most Of the best singers.
The devil has stolen also many of the
sweetest tunes.
-Eloouence is noble. but the elo-
quence that does not lift men to Christ
IS sweetness wasted on the desert
air. Learning is not to be despised.
Learning made captive to Christ is the
rEostless hope. Invention must be
for Christ and the glory of His Cause.
Figure of the Engine.
-And now the race is on. As the
stations fly past the operators tele-
graph back to the sky The Gospel en-
CINE is gaining ground And the an
gels. methinks. are leaning over the
battlements of heaven to see the en-
g1nes as they rock and roll along the
track. And sometimes wickedness runs
riot, and revolutions make the earth
CORY with blood. The hearts of men
become black with hate. and those who
watch cry out that there is going to
be a wreck.
''Oh. we are going at a fearful rate,
but Christ is coming close. He is i'm
the right, thank Cod and gaining,
gaining, Some day he will come so
close that Jesus will step aboard the
engine, put Satan in chains. and run
the engine into rest. We have been
going too fast. God will put his old
engine on the main line, and with
Christ on board. Wen run a free ex-
cursion into glory"