The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1904-12-20
A. R. P. MISSION MOVEMENT.
Rev. w. B. Lindsay, of Memphis,
Tenn. Addresses Congregation
Of Thompson Street
Church.

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dav in the interest OF all Associate
! Reformed Presbyterian mission
movement which looks to the pur-
chase OF church lot and the erection
OF church building in the city OF
Memphis. An A. R. P. mission was
established two years ago in Mem
phis and has subsequently grown IN
strength until it now has over forty
actual communicate members and
many more who are affiliated with
the mission BY constant attendance.
\ movement has been Instituted to
canvass the churches of the synod
for the sum of ten thousand dollars
with which to buy a lot and erect q
church, the nucleus OF which will be
this little mission already established.
It was for this purpose that Mr..
Lindsay visited the Newberry con-
gregation.
At the morning service on Sunday
Mr.. Lindsay preached an able and
eloouent sermon. taking as his text,
John ia, "And the Word was made
flesh and dwelt among u.s." The
speaker said that Moses expressed a
desire universal to all mankind when
he prayed, "Show me thy glory, On
God" Every man has the same de-
sire which prompted Moses to utter
his nraver. The heather, in the pur-
snit Of this desire to see God, worship
the sun and moon and stars, do hon.
ace to the elements. They erect al
ters in the grove or by the riverside
or before the great rock. They ren-
der homage to certain beasts or TO
objects fashioned with their own
hands-all because Of a desire to
see God face to face -, Enlightened
minds turn away in disgust from
idols of wood and stone, and yet IN
Our own m. IS is the same desire Tor
the visibility of Our creator; but the
concentrated light of all the heavenly
bodies in space would not so coTa-
pletelv destroy the beholder as the
olorv Of that eternal presence before
which even the seraphim cover their
faces and cry. Holy, Holy, Holy.
And vet our creator does not mock
us He has not placed in the breast
Of mankind longing destined to re-
main unsatished forever. Jesus Christ
is the answer to the desire and to the
petition to know God. The Woro
was made flesh and dwelt among us
and we beheld His glory.
Mr.. Lindsay continued and o"ell
at length upon the great slgnlhcance
~ the term "word" as applied in the
text 70 the Savior. Christ revealed
the thought that was in the. mind OF
the Eternal. He was GODS thought
for is, the Word made flesh. BY Him
we realize something of the helght
and depth and breadth OF the love OF
God The statement that the WORD
was made flesh simply means that
God became man, that there was
union without transformation, that
two natures dwelt in one body, two
distinct natures and one person tor
ever 1t is the enexplicable mystery
and can only be received and accept
ed through faith.
The speaker, in continuing, said
that mystery surrounded humanity III
4, the walks of daily life and that
faith was the motive power and main
snrine Of all action. He said there
we're three practical lessons to be de-
rived from the text. The great doc
trine it expressed revealed Christ and
made God very near to mani
Christ had never tabernacled IN the
aesh the world would have known
Jehovah as a far-off God, great re-
lentless sovereign. judge mysterious
and terrible and cruel. being be-
yond the reach OF vision-but Uoo
was brought near to man by Christ
II Christ revealed God. then HIS
followers should hold up Christ that
men might see God. 1t was an OLD
truth. Mr.. Lindsay said, that the