Los Angeles herald., 1906-06-04
EASTLAKE CHAPEL
IS DEDICATED
EDlFICE OCCUPIED FREE OF
ALL DEBT
Church Is Monument to Efforts Of
H. c. Sieler-ReN Robert Me-
Intyre breaches on Lords
Prayer"

As a monument TO the Christian zeal
and work of H. c. sigler was the dedi-
cation of the Eastlake Methodist chapel,
corner Hancock and Darwin streets.
yesterday afternoon. Mr.. Sigler himself
organized a Sunday school in the local
ity and later donated the lot on which
the chapel was built, and then donated
the furnishings, making a gift in all of
S2500. In line with the work of Mr.. Sig
ler Rev. c. j. Miller. pastor of Grace
Methodist church, offered his services
to the mission, which were gratefully
accepted. Rev. Mr.. Miller will supply
until conference, when a pastor will
be appoin ted.
The mission building was erected at a
cost of 5000, of which the City Mission
union donated $3.50. At the services
yesterday $3.50 was raised, dedicating
the chapel out of debt.
Rev. S. A. Thomson, the presiding
elder of the Pasadena district. was
present and presided at the service.
DR.. Thomson has been very active in
assisting with the church work in the
mission. Rev. w. NJ Sterling offered
prayer.
breaches Dedcatory Sermon
Rev. Robert Mcintyre, pastor of the
First Methodist church. preached the
dedicatory sermon. He took for his
text Matthew SO. He said in part:
"The words of my text are generally
called a part of the Lords prayer. but
the title is a misnomer. 1t is not the
Lords prayer. There is something ex-
pressed in those words that he could
not pray. We ought to stop calling 1t
the Lords prayer. There is Lords
TNra h. tt,
chapter of John, and if you want to look
into the center of the soul of our Lord
you must turn to John and not to
Matthew.
There is wonderful prayer in
these two words, Our Father The
whole Bible is in these words.
Daniel Webster said that the great
est thought that crossed his brain was
that of his responsibility to his Maker.
Our responsibilities differ. My re-
sponsibility would be different with my
son than it would be with some other
PERSONS child. Until I know my rela.
tions with God, l cannot know my own
responsibilities.
Prayer Never Extinguished
"The text breaks into two parts
prayer and privilege. In the Sermon
on the Mount the Lord tells the people
how to pray. Nowhere has he COM
manded us to pray. 1t is taken for
granted that we should pray to our
God. Prayer has been suppressed tenn
porarily by the devil, but it has never
been extinguished.
Prayers are uttered by those in ex-
treme danger, as was eXemplified in
the recent San Francisco disaster. And
so it is on the sea. The most blasphe-
nous will pray longer and louder than
a minister.
II want you to know that prayer is
the only thing that makes us true men
and women. There is only one part of
the nature of man that the brute does
not possess, and that is prayer. The
animal never shows any attitude of
prayer, but he is possessed of the sem
sibilities of man, only not so in so fine
a degree. The animal has a moral
nature. That the horse and dog have
something within them that shows
guilt when wrong and joy when right
is always evident"
The service was closed with the dedi-
cation and the singing of the Doxology,
following which benediction was given
by Rev. DR., Mcintyre.