The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-11
DR. RoSSER SPEAKS
SELMA DIVINE ADDRESSES BAPT-
 IsT YOUNG PEOPLE.
DeIivers strong Sermon To City Union On subject of "seFvice..-Use To
 Which Lives Are Put The

An address. eloquent forceful, and
 inspiring, was that delivered by Dr.
 J. l.. Rosser. pastor of the First Bapt-
 ist Church of Selma, last night at the
 regular monthly meeting of the City
 Baptist Young Peoples Union, held at
 the First Baptist Church. this city.
 The City Union of the Baptist Young
 People is composed of members of the
 local Unions of six Baptist churches
 of Montgomery, and at the meeting last
 night. every Baptist church in the
 city was represented. and many friends
 of the young people from other denom-
 nations.
 Service" was the theme chosen by
 Dr. Rosser. and from the standpoint
 of the worlds great need of the Chris-
 tian service of its young people. he
 based his argument, not disregarding
 that to the intelligent mind of the
 Christian young people of the age the
 great need Is known and realized.
 ''To him Nwhose perspective is true."
 said Dr. Rosser, the shadows that still
 lie upon the world are deep and dark.
 Those old, eternal shadows which. likc
 bands woven from the very tissue of
 midnight. still lengthen themselves
 across the God kissed, sunlit, plains
 of life. The golden rule of love has
 not yet descended to earth. Utopia is
 still a dream, castle in the air, vis-
 ion among the clouds. Paradise has not
 yet settled upon the home, the church. the city, the world. The world lies before us still with It's woes unrelieved, it's sorrows uncontrolled. and it's deep est needs unsupplied.
 Tn the physical realru." he continued, there are maladies of body. begging for the healer's art. In the social and political Kingdom, Right forever on . l. UalA a throne Tn the intellectual sphere there
 are clouds of ignorance crying for the scholars light. Tn individual lives. there are hearts weeping for sympa- thy to touch. The rich bloom of earth
 has been blighted, and It's fairest fresco defaced" is6
 The question which confronts the young people of this time. conceived by pr. Rosser to be the greatest and their lives shali be put. The Choose ye this day whom ye will serve" comes sweeping across the centuries, charged with all the original force of the com
 mand, and presents an actual challenge to the young people of the age. Upon many phases of the aimless life. the selfish life and the life which incar- mates the vital spirit of reliigon. the life of service. he dweit. specially em' phasizing the beauty and the nobility T bid you God speed" he said. q commend you to God for His guidance and to His power, and to you l com mend the great mass of young life that continually ebbs and flows through the streets of your city. a large par of which is merely driftwood upon the ever moving current of time, to lodge God alone knows where.
 "Ee 1t your part. my young friends your duty and your responsibility, tc see that much of 1t, through your agency, shall lodge on the golden shores of the church of the living God'
 Beautiful music was a part of the program, with Mrs. Stuart Washburi and Junius Pierce so1oists and Prof T. c. Galloway at the organ. B. F. Davidson, president of the City | Baptist Young Peoples Union, presided Fat the meeting and introduced tht speaker. An informal reception wal held after the service in honor of pr l Rosser. The next regular meeting of the Un | ion will be held at the West End Bap | tist Church on the night of the secon' | Friday of February.
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