Los Angeles herald., 1907-01-14
MAYORS BROTHER
BECOMES PASTOR
INSTALLED AS HEAD OF KNOX
CHURCH
DR.. w. S. Young Resigns to Take Man.
agement Of HolIenbeck Home,
and breaches His Fare.
we'll Sermon

Notable in the events of the Knox
Presbyterian church on Thirtieth
street near Grand avenue was the fare
well sermon preached by Rev. DIR. w. s.
Young, who resigned the pastorate, and
the installation of Rev. e. J. Harper,
brother of the mayor, as the new pas
tor, yesterday.
Rev. DR.. Young organized the church
ten years ago and he and his devoted
wife have been instrumental in bringing
it up to a high standard of religious
fellowship and financial achievements.
DR.. Young has accepted the position of
the management of the Hollenbeck
home.
At the morning services Rev. DR..
Young preached his farewell sermon to
large congregation, taking the same
text from which he preached at the
beginning of his work ten years ago.
The words Of the text are: Fear not,
little flock. for 1t is your Fathers good
pleasure to give you the kingdom"
Luke 1882. He said in part:
To-day we erect no memorial stone.
The memorials of this work are in
lives helped, characters strengthened
and souls saved. Such things are the
evidences of Gods work.
I'm accordance with the time of ouI
text Christ had been preaching one
year with success and then opposition
was developing. The disciples felt II
so much success, why not more? Men
are ever impatient of Gods apparent
indifference to the time element in his
plans and the means seem inadequate
to the end sought. We think that great
means are necessary for great ends.
God does not think differently, but his
and our ideas of what is great differ
sometimes. He walls the ocean with
grains of sand and lifts billions of tons
Of water by the leverage of the suns
rays. He sends Moses with a rod and
Elisha with a handful Of salt and the
Savior of the world as a babe in the
manger. The text tells us these facts:
First, God is sovereign. The little
flock of his disciples seem smaller and
feebler when compared to the great
world kingdoms around them. It was
not strange that the disciples should
thus think. We only know differently
after centuries of Christian training.
Sovereignty does not mean arbitrari-
ness, but 1t means as the king is father,
so all his love, care and favor are for
his child.
Second, he has kingdom. This is
the same kingdom that is so often re-
ferred to as to be sought first and is
ITO be a citizen of Britain, France or
the United Staets is great, but to be a
citizen of the Lords heavenly kingdom
Is the greatest of all.
"The third fact is, God gives this
kingdom to his little flock. 1t is a lit
the flock, not feeble one. We do not
win or merit 1t. He gives it to us.
This is true of Individual expert
ence. We are saved not by prayer,
-, tniI hut y
ing Gods gifts. This is all that we
can do.
"By grace we are saved through
faith. 1t is the gift Of God. So with
the church as a whole. So we attain to
the heights of Christian experience by
his grace to us and by his Holy Spirit.
We use his means and it is ordained
that we live, but the means of life are
by eating and drinking. So Christian
work goes forward but by the use of
the means he has given"
In the afternoon an impressive SER
vice was held in the installation of Rev.
Mr.. Harper to the pastorate of the
church. Rev. d. McCunn, moderator
of the presbytery, presided. Other
clergymen seated on the platform were
Revs. Hugh X. Walker, II. A. Newell,
w. s. Young and ], d. Habbick.
The service opened by choir and con-
RreSdIlOndl singing, IOilOWeu Dy prayer
by Rev. J. b. Habbick Rev. II. A.
Newell, pastor of the Hollywood Pres
byterian church, read q passage of
Scripture, which was followed by the
singing of solo by William Kirk. jr.
Rev. Hugh X. Walker pastor of the
Emmanuel Presbyterian church, preach
ed the installation sermon. He COM
pared some of the ancient churches
with those of the present day. His
ideas were strongly antagonistic to
cathedral churches and too much
ritualistic work instead of preaching
the gospel. He conveyed the point that
the greatest work of God was con-
Quoted in the humble attitude of Chris
tian fellowship in much less preten-
tious buildings than the cathedrals, and
yet placed large responsibility in the
personnel of the ministers with the help
of the press and other agencies.
Rev. Mr.. McCunn, the moderator, in
stalled the pastor with a few well
chosen words, following which Rev. III.
A. Newell and Rev. W. S. Young de-
livered the charges to the pastor and
the congregation respectively.
DIR. Young organized the church ten
years ago with forty members, nine of
whom are still in the church. There
have been 1886 members received into
the church, ninety-nine by confession
Of faith. The present membership is
1T5. Thirteen members have died dur
ing the church history To benevo-
lences has been given 1856 and for its
own support $14,044. The church prop
erty is valued at $4,000.