The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-08-26
PREACHED ON FEAST
OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW
REV. HUNTING'S SERMON YES.
TERDAY MORNING ON A VERY
INTERESTING SUBJECT.

Because Saturday was the feast of
St. Bartholomew and as the Episco-
pal mission in Ely is named for this
saint, the Rev. Mr.. Hunting spoke on
this subject yesterday morning This
apostle is the only one of the twelve
of which absolutely nothing is known
| except his name, which is found in
four lists of the twelve men who fol-
lowed Christ as apostles.
Tradition tells u.s. he said, that
st. Bartholomew was man of noble
birth and the gospel appointed
for the feast day and which tells of
the question of the apostles asked
of our Lord, Who shall be greatest
in the kingdom of heaven?' was in
spired by the presence of this apOs-
tie of noble birth and whom they
were afraid might have more i'm
portant place in the kingdom of
heaven than they.
"In age of superstition men had
each a patron saint who helped them
in every way and to whom they
prayed, and whose aid they invoked
in every need. But as Christianity
has taught us that none have yet en-
tered into the kingdom of heaven,
but that all who have gone before us
await the great day of the Lord when
all shall stand to be judged; SO there
can be none to act as intercessor
and mediator between God and man
except Christ. Today we name per-
sons, buildings, organizations and
cities after saints, not for the help
hoy oiy in ut world
but for the aid consideration of
their example will give us here.
''In the collect for this feast day
we pray thai we may believe and
preach the truth that He believed. A
sincere belief in the word of God
compels the believer to proclaim it
to the world. st. Paul recounts the
troubles that came to him because of
his preaching and how they would
cease if he but ceased to preach
Christ, and further that this would
be absolutely impossible for him. All
men should preach their belief in the
truth by a confession of that faith
and truth before men. Christ said
that all that were not with him were
against him. And st. James pleads
that those to whom he is writing may
be either hot or cold. Lukewarm
Christians are not wanted. Indeed,
there can be no such. One must be
for or against Christ and his reli-
gion. We must preach our belief
in deed as well as in word We can
not say one thing and do another
without soon bringing down upon our
heads the denunciation of hypocrite.
1--WE pray further in this collect
that we may have grace to love the
word which he believed. One may
have faith and not love. We are told
that the devils believe there is one
God and tremble. We believe there
is one God and love him. Faith in
God, acknowledgment of his exist
ence, in one who lives an evil life, has
tendency of repulsion. Faith in
God in one who tries to do right has
tendency to draw closer to Him.
Love of truth attracts, fear of truth
repulses.
"a further petition is that we may
both preach and receive the same
Church is composed of pastors and
focks; clergy and laity; sewers and
the field; builders and the building;
ambassadors and those to whom
sent; and the preachers and the re-
ceivers of the truth. This is the one
collect that prays for these classes
separately. Both classes shall believe
the truth, love the truth and live the
truth. Both are bound by the same
standard of holiness, animated by the
same hope, guided by the same
spirit. But one is called to preach
and the other to receive. The preach
err must preach the truth, be instant
in season and out of season, preach
Christ and Him crucified to the ex-
clusion of other topics of thought.
Present day questions are not IN
place in the pulpit when souls are
hungering for the truth that will save
and lift them up. The people who
hear are to receive the word as we
are told by st. James, with meak-
ness as the engrafted word, which Is
able to save their souls. To recog-
nize the authority, the utility, the
need of the gospel. Gospel comes to
them through men but it is from
God. One must not be critical OF the
logic. rhetoric, voice or manner of the
preacher, but remember the words OF
St. Paul to the Thessalonians, When
We received the word of God which
We heard of us, We received it not as
the word of men, but as 1t is in the
truth, the word of God.