The Beaumont enterprise. [volume] (Beaumont, Tex.) 1904-current, 1904-10-03
MORNING SERMON
BY REV. CODBFY
1.-THE INSTITUTIONAL EHURCH"
SELECTED AS THE SUBJECT
OF DISCOURSE.
TEXT TAKEN FROM MARK XVI: IS
go We Into All the World and
Preach the Gospel to Every
Creature" "And the Common
People Heard Him Gladly"

the First Methodist church Sunday
morning and listened with evident in
terest to a sermon delivered by the
pastor on the subject: "The Institu-
tional Church." after which the Sac
rament of the Lords Supper was adj
ministered to n host of participants.
Mr.. Cooley read for his text the
fifteenth verse of the sixteenth chap
ter of Mark: go Ye Into All the
World and Preach the gospel to
Every Creature" Also Mark 1927.
And the Common People Heard Him
Gladly"
The sermon is in substance is as
follows:
Jesus did not exactly follow the Gus
tomary method of teaching and did
not confine himstlf to the place in
which the teaching was accustomed
to be done. He attended the SER
vices Of the sanctuary on the Sab
bath and taught those who heard him
to regard he authority of the law and
the prophets and to reverence the
house of His Father. and on one oc-
casion he went into the temple and
drove out the money changers and
turned over their tables, declaring
in the language of the Scripture:
at i written that my house shall be
called house of prayer, but ye have
made il den of thieves" There
lore any disregard for the temple and
its sanctity has no sanction from the
Savior of men. The church is right
therefore, in dedicating a sanctuary
for the worship only, and keeping out
money changers and every dcsccra-
ton from the place
But there are demands uDon the
church that make necessary that
provision shall he made to meet new
and present conditions. and if we are
to heal the sick, raise the dead,
cleanse the leper and cast out devils
we must be able to provide the con-
ditions that make this possible. The
common people heard Jesus gladly be-
cause Jesus met the wants of the
common people when they found they
mad friend to whom they could
prlng their sick, and whose words
brought cheer to their hearts they
Hooked to hear him and everywhere
ne leit not only spiritual. hut tenn
poral blessings behind him. No won
drr that they published il every
"here when they were healed. The
appreciation Of benefits received
made them friends who could be re-
Iled upon To speak many words OF
concentration Of the kind teacher
who had done such lasting good.
ne church has perhaps missed this
lesson by making spiritual applica-
non oi the lesson of a physical
leallng which Christ accomplished.
"hon d should have learned the value
'l ms method and brought more ma
oIlal AID tn provide for the needs Of
N' lhdlg"nt and sick. but the church
u waxing NJ TO a sense Of its re-
-h'nSibilily and its opportunities. In
'' lasl haf century the inventions
nave been 50 MANY and varied and
DO pro-rns. " civilization so rand.
'HH me effect 50 Far reaching as ~
~" lhc whole nation into = condi-
On NJ unrest. There are needs
WHICH are not met. and reformer7
'I' everywhere with a remedy for
.- .-s Of The country. peOnle have
'Ii ne farm Tor the E-0rlshop in the
.'F. and have exchanged a little
i'hifF store FOR a clorkshin fn the
Ifo -h0ln man n nur nation
DO 'or1 altered bv this rpndi-
and until af,Dut fueufv-f7vn
a-- ar0 fhe riiv church continued
follow THE methods that had ob-
''''l in The rJrutrr FOR wears. T-hrv
fH' that They u-nrn letting the
-T --a~ from them and that
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