The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1907-11-15
FIRST SERMON
:. OF..DR. MACK
LARGE CONDENSATION HEARS
PASTOR OF FIRST cUM5ER.
LAND CHURCH.
We ARE GODS FELLOW WORKERS
Text of an Able And Eloquent
Address.-.Makes Splendid
Impression.

To one of the largest audiences thai
has filled the church in some time
Rev. George Mack yesterday preached
his initial sermon to the congregation
of the First Cumberland Presbyterian
church DR.. Mack made a decidedly
favorable impression upon his hearers
who quickly recognized in him a
preacher of force and eloquence. He
is a strong and fluent talker and i'm
pressed those who heard him as be-
ing student. His text yesterday
morning was taken from First Co
! rinthians, third chapter and ninth
verse, For We are Gods fellow-work-
ers." DR.. Mack said in part:
This is a message from Paul to
the Christians of the first century,
and we as heirs of the same gospel
receive the same message. Paul says
that those who have espoused the
cause of Christ have thereby put them
selves in line with the great purpose
of God and become partners with Him
in the mighty work in which he is
engaged through the centuries.
I'VE think of God often as Sow
ereigns; He is likewise 1.-The Great
Worker of the world. Through long
eras He has formed the system of
worlds which We behold on a starry
night, and by astronomy we learn
that more worlds are in the making
as even our own earth is subject to
change and growth. But the physical
creation reaching its Highest in the
body of man, the line of development |
passes to the mental the seat Of the
moral and spiritual Then the work
to be done is to grow a soul-a soul
fit for fellowship with God in life to
come How is it to be done?
God chose to make his own charac-
ter the example and the standard and
through long process of revelation
% all peoples but especially because
If their capabilities, to thee Hebrews
lie showed to man that character of
goodness and depended upon the at
ractive power of 1t to draw him up
yard. At last in the fullness of time
lie gave the perfect revelation in
,hrist. And now the soul of man In
lis struggles upward has clear
force drawing him upward )
nd onward. God, the tireless Worker,
as wrought 1t out through the ages. /,
low full of love for man, how patient
| the long process.
TO his aid God calls man to be a -
artner In growing the perfect soul, n
co-worker In this great enterprise. a
ur work is to show men God as He
revealed in Christ.W are to bring
zen to Christ by bringing Christ to II
en-. BY word, by action, by daily q
fe we introduce him to others. And
e may know that when once they "
Itch a true vision of him they are Il
avn irresistibly to him. Augustine Il
i'd Our hearts are made for Thee, fl
God, and are restless until they find 81
at rest in Thee" II Christ is lifted w
, He will draw all men to Himself hi
SO we who have heard Gods call Nc
ID answered 1t, may know that He,
e great Worker, has not called us fo
ease, idleness and comfort. He has II,
lied us not to favorite place In his 70
TEEN, but to service. We are saved in
serve. The church Is not a hospital,
sleeping car or home for incura-
rs. 1t Is a great workshop, where
ID is the Great Foreman. Then to ri
s,work In this great industrial plant
ing with God and our fellows"
DR.. Mack 9Siss preached to a large bl,
aggregation last night. co
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