Arizona republican., 1904-02-08
THE NEW BAPTIST CHURCH
The First Services Were Held Yester-
 day Morning.

There was great congregation yesterday morning at the Baptist church service, which was held fer the first time in the handsome new Sunday school room corner of Mon roe street and Third avenue.
 There were a number of new schol- ars in the Sunday school
 At the second services there were six Baptist ministers present, Chap lain Scott, Messrs. Elliott, Horning, Latter and Horn.
 Chaplain Scott and Rev. J. A. FL liott took part in the service.
 Dr. Halsey's sermon was from First Timothy 3:16:
 But if I tarry long, that thou mayest know how thou oughtest to behave myself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the pillar and the ground of truth"
 Paul has been telling his son Tim othy how to be a bishop, now he would tell him. or as the revised yer sion has it, all men,-how to behave in church. If all people, including ministers, deacons, singers, and sex tons, would behave as well as they knew how in church, more good would be accomplished. There is need of thoughtfulness i'll this direction.
 The world wants truth, though it is often unconscious of it's need and sometimes in it's mad fever dashes the cup of truth from the hand which would present it to it's lips.
 But it is tired of the base, of the false, the untrue" and longs for something which is human; which is real. It is opposed to grating, and what Carter Harrison calls four flushing, and gaming and stealing and debauchery.
 And in the life and death struggle between these giant demons and hu manity the church stands forth as the only champion of the truth and the church is made up of the local churches.
 The local church is the foundation of everything, of mission work. res cue work. temperance work, every thing which tends to uplift and to save.
 Most of the money given for hospi- | tals and schools is given by the church. The .money given for a local church is mission money. You give for this church, you have share in it and will receive spiritual dividends, but your share has no merchandise value. You cannot sell or give, or bequeath it. It might be we'll if many I persons would endow the work of the ] church as did a Dutch Reformed\ eld- CT in New York state. He had been ! in the habit of giving S7O to the church each year, and in his will pro- vision was made for the church to continue to receive that amount after he was gone.
 The individual has no personal in terest in the property of the church. It is invested as a foundation on which is to be buolt the future so- | briety, morality, christianity of the community. Think of what the churches have done for America, of what the churches of Phoenix are doing for Phoenix today, Little enough, but too much to do with out it.
 It is a comfort to most people to have their friends receive Christian burial. One day last week the pastor
 was sent for to attend three funerals.
 Citizens feel safer where they see ! churches.
 It is no credit to any city to have poor school buildings and poor church
 buildings.
 Through the church and by the church the truth is upheld and con- l served. Historically the truth rests on the church-on the confession" of | it's members. Peter confessed: Thou are Christ and on this rock Christ ! promised to build his church. "Other foundation can no man lay l than that is laid, which is Jesus Christ"
 l This pillar stands, and will stand
 Against it during the centuries have
 dashed the waves of ignorance and
 uIibelief.
 ' One advantage of attending a
 theological seminary is that a student
 may learn that all of the modern 'isms
 and sciences are reincarnations of old
 errors which have exploded and re-
 exploded generations ago. Thess E raging waves of the sea have only succeeded. in foaming out their own
 shame.
 But we are thinking especially to-
 day it may be of bricks and mortar
 and boards and glass. Let us recall.
 for their suggestiveness the words of | Ruskin:
 Nothing is ever done beautifully which is done in rivalship, nor nobly 1 " iiiNii lOllc III Inanimate objects may remind us. i There are places and possessions
 which are unspeakably dear. "All ! places wherein men have lived and died are holy places"
 May this church be the birthplac ce i of many souis-dear to many because they were born there. We ought to build to the Lord beautiful temple. | but rather to remember it as> the sa-
 cred place where saints loved to meet
 and souls were born into the king dom, as a real and living part of that l church which is the pillar and ground 1 of the truth.
 | Pilate refused to recognize truth
 when brought face to face with Him
 who is the truth. May we not be so | careless, so sin-crazed. 1 What think ye of Christ?' Will
 you cruelty him or enthrone him? | The morning music included the l hymns, 70 Day of Rest and Glad ness" Love Divine. all Love Ex- 1 celling,' and "I Love Thy Kingdom. 1 Lord; a piano prelude, Triumph l Heller-bV Miss HalspV. an antharo