The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1904-10-05
A SERMON FOR SUNDAY
AN ELOQUENT D ScouRsE. BY THE
REV. W. S. RAlNSFoRD: o. o.
sphjeet; The Love of God--The CnrIseian
Church is Placed in Trust by God
With the Gospel-Let Us Try Co Givo
1T TO tho World.

1T 10 tho World.
BRooKLYN, N. Y. - The Rev. w. s.
Rainsford, d. d., rector Sof st. Georges p.
q. Church, Manhattan, preached at st,
in this borough, at the evening service Sun
day. His subject was '"Phe Love Of God"
and he said:
People are .saying to-day that the church
the thoughts of men-that it has not as in
fuential pace in our nation or in society
as it used to have. ] speak, of course, of
the who.e Christian church, and one thing
is sure and that is that the church cannot
hold her own by simply asserting, however
loudly or porsistehtly, the greatness of her
deeds in the past. Whatever success or
shortcomings there NAV have been in an
cient times, one thing rs certain, and that
Is that we live in an age when men almost
violently are seeking the truth: when the
kecncst sort of light is turned in all dircc-
tlons In search of the truth. When those
who have got anything to do can do it;
when those who have got anything to say
worth saying can say it, and when those
who have got anything to be can be it, but
there is no mercy for the sham. When, in
the future, they come to criticiso our time
it will evidently be criticised as an age OF
truth, and it's spirit will be spoken OF "a
the spirit of truth; it will be criticised
1rom all other ages as time when men
made great sacrifices for the truth and
when great goTy was gained in discover
ing and obeying the truth. There Is no
thgs. hgL"'''' among '"'''i'''' whatsoever ABOUT
From this it follows that if we Chris.
tians have not got something real to give
TO The word, to society, TO the United
States, al. this time we are really going to
lose our ho.d and position; and ,the ques-
tlon that we want TO ask ourselves. indi-
yidually and collectively, is this. What
have got to give to the word! What is
1T the church has got to give to the world?
! am inclined to think, il l were allowed
to sec you, ono by one, and ask you to put
down what it is on paper: What you as an
individual and as a Christian have got to
give to the world and the church as q
community? There might be great deal OF
uncertainty. That this question is one that
deserves y very Gear answer there is no
doubt, and everybody ought to knew what
chat answer should be. There is no man
ner of doubt what the church has got to
give. TO tho word; what the individuaI
Christian has got to give to the world.
want to talk about that tonight.
We, the Christian Church, are placed in
trust by God with the gospel. That is
what we have got to give to the world. If
we are Christians we believe the world
use the word gospel IN very siipslod way
Ii we are Christians we believe that not
only can not the world do without the Gos-
pei, but that business and politics and the
United States democracy in this Western
Hemisphere cannot do without the gospel.
A great many people believe that but
when we ask them to put it into practice.
not only by going to church, not by putting
n triite III the plate, not by repeating Il
creed or two, but to go OacH to their work
and see If they cannot take the gospel
with them there. They any, "Busincss is
one thing, and religion is another" Men
that talk that way nave got to step aside;
sliey aie 10 ne.p e'IheT 10 the cn"rch or the
people that tend to make the whole ching
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