Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1905-09-09
BEAUTY OF SERVICE
OUR REGULAR SUNDAY SERMON
A Scholarly Discourse by Rev. Albert
Jones Lord.

n
morning I'm exchange with the assistant
pastor. the Rev. willard T. Harmon.
Mr.. Lord had n good audience. and
preached an excellent sermon HIS
subject was THE Sacrament OF Ser
vice" The text was from Isaiah xli.6:
'Tbey helped every one bis neighDor'
and every one said 20 his brother. BE
Of Good courage" Mr.. Lord said:
We have been passing rapidly in the
last half century from an individual
istic to a social type OF civilization.
paups words were never more true i
than today. when he said. None OF us /
liveth TO himself. and no man dieth 10
himself" All the forces and factors |
pertaining to human life-mechanical.
social and religi0us-have been moving
20 such a degree toward each other
that the twentieth century can say that
the one word which will serve her best
for n watchword Is Together. tOgeth-
err"
In the industrial world the concen-
/ tratiOn Of forces is most manifest DR.
| Josiah Strong calls To mind how that
| fifty years ago it was the age Of home
spun. Families could meet oil the
needs OF their households. spinning.
weaving and the making OF garments.
The fields about the home supplied the
inmates with the necessities Of life.
Then ~ was that the main force was
the brawny arm. But to-day manufac-
ture has forsakcn the home FOR the
mill and the factory and steam and
/ electricity are the regnant forces. ID
/ vision OF labor has taken the place OF
the single hand. Then one man made
many things; now many men make one
thing.
But rs industrially so socially are
we becoming more intimately related.
~ tHf
munities. many but small I'm numbcr
and limited iu advantages. YET complete
J in themselves. Citizens seldom went
beyond the borders OF their respective
towns But gradually those communi-
ties have been grouped into towns. and
: the towns developed into cities ana the
cities into greater cities. Whereas our
fathers were Independent Or all the
1 world we are more or less dependent
on the whole world. This made Robert
? Louis stevenson exclaim. 1T is really
disheartening how we depend on othcl
people in this life"
This complex life has given rise Go q
great many social and fratcrnal or
, carnations. Men have banded them
' selves together for mutual helptulncss
9 Fathers. working by the week an'
for small wages. having little cnes de
Z pending upon them. have seriou
j
/, ness may be lying In wait for then
= and short hours may be their LOT
= when the head OF the family is sic
= and unable 10 work. the income cease.
T hut expenses increase. To meet
these possibilities the various benev'
IS lent societies and fraternal orgariz.
n tons have come into existence.
ID Ii is every mans duty TO consider 10
only the present demands OF the fan
Fs.Hr -..fF ia
crime for a father 10 spend his none
freehapded at Tic bar. or in hospitah'
at the club, or sQuander it in sport
- when he has not. either in the savin;
bank or in insurance. made secure II
- future welfare OF his family 1t
20 every mans duty 10 endow the futu
with as good a livelihood for his tal
ily rs Lies in his power.
IT. We heartily sympathize with frate
NJ mites and societies in their sick ben
% fits and care of widows and fatherle
children. They have a mission in So
ETY.. But. however commendable ia
may be. they must not take the pla
OF the two divine iusttutions-t
,ex home and the church. There IS but O
place where God has set up the alt
-, OF domestic affection. where c0nju-
- rela tions are sanctifed 10y the presen
III OF children. and that is the home; a
80 | there IS DNL one INSTITUTION Wulcn I
in Son Of God ordained while upon ear
and thar is the Christian church +,
ternal organizations should be supp
Of I mcnts. but never attempt 10 be subs
tutes for the home or the church
But we cannot say that because
IS becoming more highly organized
nc can be lived more easily. On the oil
hand. we are inclined 10 say that
closer mems relations are the grea
the friction and the more difficult
have every event work good 70 evl
person. This kind OF life. 1 repeat
80, far better but more diticult 10 live
Ma all its relations The tone OF III
AIS or five bank organ is much bet
II richer. more sympathetic and harmt
Gus than the tone OF n cabinet org
OF In the one there are few cOmbina tic
a Il while in the other there are hundrJ
ess An amateur can play the Oee but O
90 the master Organist can play the OF
- satisfactorily. SO IN. these times
highly developed social and reMg.
AZ life il is difficult to live q full, roun
the Christian life. a company CT PEE
spread over large area can get al
up / comfortably well. but crowded ire
-ves small Enclosure they viii suffer
the | barrassment. They all have elbo
lief and where IL is ideal to march thrO
= 10 life. touching elbow to elbow, it is
or1 so comfortable when men are cram
-. and their elbows touch one anOt
and tt'araso-o :. ,,,ostior, ~ alhoDxS
Pos mis- lesds ms nsturallv tn the n
ton. How can life be lived SO as to
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