The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-12-03
THE CHURCHES
NEW YEAR DAY
Rev. G. c. Hunting Delivers Sermon
Appropriate to the Occasion
Sunday...LessOns From Advent

Sunday was the First Sunday in
Advent, according to the Episcopal
calendar, and Rev. G. G.. Hunting of
st. Bartholomew Episcopal church
chose the topic, Advent" for his
theme at the regular morning SER
vice at Good Time hall.
Till we an come in the unity of
the faith, and of the knowledge OF
the Son of God, unto perfect man,
unto the measure of the stature of
the fullness of Christ from Ephes-
ians, fourth chapter and 18th verse,
was the text from. which the sermon
was preached
anyone observing our services to-
day." said the Rev. Mr.. Hunting,
will see that we are beginning some
thing Everything is starting fresh.
and if he looked along the services
of the other Sundays he would see
it is a new year We are commencing.
This is the church's New Year
day. One would see that the whole
year is filled and shaped by the life
of one Person. 1t is the story of Him
who was born at Bethlehem and as
cended from the Mount of Olives.
lie would see represented, that pres
ence and power which all Christian
life is trying to realize-the presence
and power of the Incarnation, the
truth that all life is lived in the
presence of, is represented by, and
may be filled and inspired by the
life of the Son of Man, who in a
hundred ways lived for all men; in
Whose experiences all human expert
ence find their solution.
The men of whom lie was the
representative and chief have their
advents, also. 1t is easy to think this
of those who have gathered the rich
ness of the world unto themselves,
Moses. Charlemagne, Luther, Shakes
peare, Lincoln God prepared
the world for their coming and sent
them when the world was ready. But
it is hard to think this of common
people like ourselves. 1t seems as if
our lives might just as well have
been dropped anywhere and anytime,
5000 years ago, or now; Oh the
banks of the Nile, or in Nevada.
But the Bible is strong and
glorious call to men to grid up the
loins of their mind and believe that
God has place for them, and has
put them in their place. L insists on
two truths-that God cares separate
ly for every man and that every man
has his own individual character.
Personal divine care and personal hui
man character bend into the convic-
ton that God could not send souls
at random into the world, but for
each place must be followed in
Time and filled with all that can
bring that soul to its best.
Before birth, God knew us. He
had plan and pattern of each be-
iEe in his mind. Knowing us, he
made ready place for us, shaped a
place for lis in the ages and when
it was ready, laid our new life in it.
Now, what influence shall it have
upon man, when he knows his life
was contemplated and the world
made ready for il? Shall it not give
him a deep reverence for his own
life? Will /, not make him accept
the duties and responsibilities of a
being for whom God has made the
earth and the ages ready? Shall il
not make him docile. teaching him
not to look at his own self will, but
to the God who chose his place foi
him, who shall show him, living in
just that place, what he ought to be
Standing at the beginning of the
Christian year, remembering how
Christ came to redeem us all unto
Himself let us pray for ourselves and
one another that the perfect man
hood we see stretching down that
church year may be complete in each
of us; that We may be led as our Lord
was led through every stage OF
growth, till we, too, enter into the
glory of God and leave the spirit oil
our life behind us to be live bless
ing when we are what is called
dead"