The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-01-21
LATEST FAIR HAVEN NEVIS
REV DR. SNEATH PREACHtS
 STRONG SERMON

Circular Given Out at East Pearl Street
 M. E. Church Calling Attention to se- @es.-~e-
 ries of Union EvangelisticaI Services
 Annual Entertainment and Dance
 of East Rock Council, F. B. L., Thurs
 day-Ladies' Aid Society of Grand
 Avenue Baptist Church to Give Sup
 er-FuneraI of Frederick A. Farr
 Largely Attended.
 Rev. Dr. Sheath of the Grand Ave- nue Congregational church and Rev. Charles c. Smith of the Grand avenue Baptist church preached in exchange yesterday morning. At the Baptist church there was large congregation considering the unfavorable weather, and pr. Sheath preached very strong evangelical sermon from the text Wilt thou not revive us again, that they people may rejoice in thee?' Dr. Sheath said that with all due de- ference to the views of Prof. Kent of Yale university who recently express ed himself to the effect that the time is near at hand when the Sunday morning service will be devoted to Biblical study instead of the preaching service, he believed that there was another need; that it was not all edu- cation and religion that was needed, but it was education and eXhortation and inspiration and teaching
 Men and women of to-day know enough to make a decision for God said Dr. Sheath. 'fBut there is need for a mighty impulsion in the direction of leading them to Christ. There is work to do in impressng on the feel ings of man just the same as upon the intellect.
 Then there Is need for the transmits sion of spiritual power" said the preacher. While I believe that the church has made progress in forty years, yet there has been large amount of latent spiritual power in the church unused. In this age where there is so much materialistic teaching, there is need for the church to be giy- ing out from it's spiritual power The duty is to give out, and then the more we receive. There ought to be more sacrifice for others. Then there is the injunction to go and to preach the pospel
 How shall the church transmit this spiritual power? There is the home missions, the foreign missions, the Sun day school, the preaching of the word and the prayer meeting. But there is the need for more of the evangelistical agency. There is great need for prayer to-day--a greater need in the church than for many years, One great English writer has said: "The forgotten secret of this age is prayer. Jesus was a man of prayer and the early Christian church was born in prayer
 "Then there should be recognition of the need of a more evangelical minis try. There are time when the evan gellstlc sermon must be preached The need of personal work is also appar cnt and essential And the pastor can never succeed without the personal in fuence of the church. There IS the opportunity everywhere for personal work, You can find in almost every street q broken heart that needs com fort-needing the consolation and the comfort of Jesus Christ, Many of the churches in New Haven are longing for quickening and an awakening and some are working for 1t. It is for us all to aeplh
 In several of the churches yesterday mention was made of the stricken ls- land of Jamaica, and the suffering in habitants were remembered in the prayers,
 In the East Pearl street M. b church yesterday there was circulated printed circulars calling attention to the ser vices of union evangelical services, to be held this week by the twelve Metho- dist churches of the city. It is referred to as the first effort of the kind att tempted by the denomination in this |