The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1907-10-07
IT IS GIVEN TO YOU To
KNOW THE MEANING
REV. G. c. HUNTING'S SERMON
LAST EVENING AT GOOD
TIME HALL.

The Rev. G. C. Hunting preached
last evening in Good Time hall on the
Call to Men to be Christians, and took
for his text the following words from
I Samuel $40: And the Lord
came. and stood, and called as at
other times, Samuel, Samuel. Then
Samuel answered, speak, Lord, for
thy servant heareth.'
One of the most evident particu-
lars in which Christianity differs
from any of the so-called religions of
the past or present, and one of its
greatest reasons for acceptance by
men, one of the foundation stones of
ii belief is the fact that God speaks
consciously to human souls. In the
Old Testament dispensation God
chose certain men to whom he re-
vealed his will that they might i'm
part it to others. What was seldom
/ and exceptional then is now the uni
versal rule But while God without
question speaks to all mankind, yet
scripture expressly states that the
voice will not be heard by all. As
i a discordant note in music is dis
cerned only by an ear attuned, so the
word of God to men is heard only by
a heart attuned to sympathy with the
Divine will. We read. He that hath
ears to hear, let him hear and 1T
/ is given to you to know the mean
ing. This fact presents practical
difficulty in applying our Christianity
/ for the whole universe is full OF
voices of God; and because so self
evident are often hard to prove to
unbelievers to be veritable manifest
atiops of Gods love and care. An
unbelieving mind will refuse arbi-
trarily to recognize in the natural law
of the world the workings of divine
mind and hand; or to recognize in
conscience the speaking of the Holy
Spirit of God to men; or to see in
evolution the marks of divine crea-
ton and progression. In the text Is
an example of what is meant. Samuel
had heard a voice and thought 1T thai
of his Master Eli; but when properly
instructed by Eli he recognized
whence the call came, and answered
speak, Lord" Such recognition Of
the source of the call to men to live
better is towards a true conception o.
life.
The phrase of the Psalmist 'tC
wait upon God" means, not to serve
as servant. but to abide time will
patience. 1t is like trying to recall
a forgotten name or fact, we ust
every endeayor to remember ant
cannot, and put the subject ava!
from us for the fact to flash in a
it almost invariably does when W,
least expect it. SO we must empt.
our mind of all things worldly ant
contrary to the right and wait for thu
flash of Gods call which will ever
more surely come.
Having heard the call of God t,
life and duty we must put ourselve
into a receptive mood and spirit
God s message to men and Gods cal
is to right living, and high thinking
1t is call to true belief, to accep
as the standard of faith not the muir
muring of the hour, but the truth
that are writ large in the book o
life and in the scriptures of men
To pin our faith not on things tina
must surely decay and pass but o
the eternal verities that have Away
been and shall be.
1t is a call to live not for the pass
ing hour and the pleasing of tn
, chance acquaintance but to live a
. passing through part of an eternit
wherein we must ever be and eve
work, as pleasing the great Maste
under whose eye we have ever work
ed, and in whose sight shall be spen
in labor all the ages that are to come
, Men live not for few years only
but for all time. The days here o
earth are but an episode in the Ion
span of an eternal existence. The
we should live a calm, reposeful an
strong life and not the life of tn
moth of today that leaves scant i'm
| preston and tomorrow is destroyed
Having heard this call that come
let us enter into the holy lige, be
lieving that it is call from the grea
God to a wonderful creature to lv
| a great life. In ages past a Higl
Priest of God entered in the Holy O
t Holes at Jerusalem believing, an,
came forth with a blessing for him
self and others. Into that same Hol
of Holes entered Uriah, King of Is
, rael scoffing. and came forth a leper
Into that same Holy of Holes entere,
, proud Pompey of Rome Indifferent
, and came forth having found moth
ing.
In these several ways it is possible
for men to enter into the holy cal
to life and duty that comes from God
See you to it how you enter.