Daily Kennebec journal., 1908-11-09
FORMER CONGRESSMAN
Occupys Pulpit Of Universalist Church
AS Sunday Morning Service.

isev. Luther F. Mckinney of Br!Gg,
ton. former congressman from the lst
NJ " Hampshire district. and reprcsen-
tativc from the town OF BridgtOn IN
the last Maine Legislature. occupied
the pulpit of the Universalist church
Sunday morning. "Parson' Mckinney.
as he is farniliarly called by his friends,
is an eloquent and magnetic speaker
and his discourse was thoroughly en-
loved bv his hearers. There is a pos
siblity that he may be called to the
vacant pastorate of the Universalist
Society.
HIS text was chosen from two serar-
ate passages in the 18th chapter O
M"rk. Say ye that the Lord hath
need of him" and Nothing but
leaves" He SAID in part:
ii that we possess we owe to
power higher than ourselves. Anything
W. have that is needed for upholdinG
the cause of birth we should let go as
readily rs did the man whose colt was
loo,ed wnen he was Informed that The
L,rd had need of him.
| In all things we find the need of
| re. iprocty Do unto Others as we Wouit
| have thtl1 do unto us. None OF US car
81 nd alone The spirit of reciprocity Is
TIE unfolding Of all that is good IN thf
| wr''ld TO-DAY Earth is the great store
| hoi Use which satisfies the needs OF man
EHt she yyll rot give forth forever
| without some return. We must SOW tn
Sad and cultivate the soil in orGe'
| tint the rarlh ilav produce crops. Bu%
| if we give nothing back the soil grad
| u;.l1v becomes impoverished. We Sha
plnw anG .",. In vain if we have no
| l,rn iue 10 IT, sol which has sival
u4 the fi,'i'
sod has always been inpartlnS tt
rln of his infinite knowledge. We
boast sometimes Of the wisdom of man
Ft we have no wisdom except what
G., d has taught us. Whatever we have
Of knowledge has come to us as Coo
HI; s spoken to our souls and !Inpart-
ed knowledge to us
God was just as perfect when the
morning stars first sang together as He
is now Man must work with Gcd ir
order to do his work we'll. 1t was Hois
pi,roose to make a perfect world. He is
dong it as fast as He can 500 ;
world is changing all the time physical
ly The world * always being made
1t will 60 on being made until its pur-
peso is strvod. the bringing of the hui
man race to perfection.
Man gets his growth through work
irg with God and giving back some
thing for that which he receives Tht
races OF South America are behind IN
tho march of progress because the
leaders have no desire to bring the
people to a higher moral and intel
lectual condition. God viii not make
those people neral. Man must do that
M nation has ever become great eX-
cent rs it has recognized God ano
walked with God in the development
of its rational life.
We wonder why the church in which
wc are interested does not prosper why
it does not grow in power. we do MOI
tbjnl5 af the words: 1.-The Lord haiti
need of him" Christ found ''nothins
BIT leaves" on the fig tree The lessor
f;oni this. to some difficult parable, OF
Cl,~ist cursing the fig tree is that noth'
il q is worth preserving that IS MOI
| +. iping somebody or something.
Goo wants a perfect world. We are
pG TT of His scheme to make it so. You
ecc ch ona of you. to be more personal
are part of Gods scheme to make i
So. Are you doing your part. or are No'
az undl:tiful scholar in the grea
school God has opened before us. ARE
v.a doing cur duty towards building VI
the church and the Kingdom of Jesu