The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-05-13
GOD WORKS FOR
OUR SALVATION,
We SHOULD ASSIST
DR.. Hunting at st. Bartholomew
breaches from the Text, "We
Are LabOrers Together
With God"

we Are I.aborers Together With
God" was the topic selected by Rev.
q. G. Hunting, rector of st. Bartho-
lomew's Episcopal church, for his ser
non Yesterday morning The text is
from the ninth verse of the third
chapter of the first epistle to the CORN
thians.
Good Times club hall, in which the
congregation holds its services until
the completion of its new church edi-
tiee. was comfortably filed with wor-
shippers. y special feature of the ser
vice the offertory duet. sung by
Miss Miller and Mrs f.. l.. Il. Wallace.
The number WAS Smart's The Lord Is
My Shepherd" and by request it was
repeated at the evening service.
I've are laborers together with
Cod" said DR.. Hunting. some SEN
fences are so constructed that to omit
or add a word would not change their
meaning. In this sentence the full
meaning could not be conveyed with
a word added omitted or changed
The first thought conveyed is that
we are laborers. The labor referred to
is not the mere toll for existence which
is shared by the lower orders of ere
alton. II is not the struggle for fame,
fortune, or the things of this world.
Ii is not the labor that men perform
goadod by ambition =. Men spend their
lives in these lines bM do not find God
The question then arises, what is this
labor?
The labor is the work of Christ in
This world, the work for which He
came The labor is to build mp the
entire kingdom of God in the world
md in mems hearts,
THE preaching of sermons from pull
pits. the churchly services for the
dead. the performance of the other
ritualistic services of the church could
On occasions be eliminated. done away
with and the real work in which We
are co-laborcrs would not suffer.
THE labor referred to in the text
Is that of bringing men to know Christ
in their own hearts. y business man
knows his business and works to build
it mp. He organizes ii and can then
70 iirc \ peculiar thing about this
pic is that the work is not all to be
done by God, but that we are to share
n il.
His part was the creation of the
world. and the sending of His son to
the world to show the inhabitants the
way of life. Christ came to redeem
the world The reason why He works
TO redeem the men of the world is His
love for mankind. and His love for His
SON who was crucifled to redeem the
world of sin.
God not only works for this end.
but man shares this work. our call
/ for this work of redemption comes
1 from gratitude to God for His good
/ ness gratitude for the creation of the
4 world. for our own creation. and to
! Christ for giving His life to show the
/ way and make the attainment of re-
demption possible.
"rhe next idea is that we are not
! lead in it, God Himself is the leader.
/ He gave his greatest gift. His son. to
the work. and in the book left to us.
1 the Bible. He has given us our direc-
lions for this labor. The main idea is
that we are fellow laborers in God.
In this we can find the call, the OPP
/ portunities. and in also we can see
what the reward will be. To aid MS in
this work the book gives us inspira
ton ia more painstalling and conscien-
! tious work.
Christ worked for the uplifting of
men and we are left to continue that
work, as His fellow laborers He went
to receive the same reward, that is
promised to us.