The White Pine news. [volume] (Ely, Nev.) 1906-1910, 1908-04-07
SUNDAY SERMONS
DELIVERED IN ELY
CITY AND IN ELY

? have collected epitaphs for man.
. years and have several hundred
They are mostly laudatory, some sar
: castle and many odd. 1t Is ques
ton whether more than very few
, are true and accurate. This vers'
that | have taken for my text ma.
: well be called an epitaph for it Il
, handed down as the ultimate esti
! mate of one of the kings of Israel
| 1t was written by man inspired b,
God and may well be considered a.
the estimate put by God Himself or
the man Jeroboam. Ii seems he had
been exiled from his own countr,
and on the death of Solomon came
back to dispute with Rehoboam the
rulership of the IL tribes. Jeroboan
obtained dominion over 10 tribes and
when Rehoboam would have fought
with him was ordered by God TO
disband his armies and leave Jero-
boam In possession. Then, We
read as If IL were a natural sequence,
He made Israel to sim" His sin
was to erect craven images in the
north and he compelled people to
worship them and not go down to
Jerusalem. fearing this annual trip
to Jerusalem, in the country OF Re-
hoboam, might ALLEVIATE his people to
the other king. This act was GER
tainly one of ingratitude and folly
but it was one of worldly policy. 1t
showed impiety in trying to exc out
| Gods promise and aid with worldly
wisdom.
There are many Jeroboams in the
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gospel method and to walk by sight
and not by faith rather than by
| faith and not by sight" They see no
harm in breaking the divine precepts
and so they proceed to break them.
They see no advantage to be gained
by keeping certain ones and SO they
do not keep them. In their superb
cial reading and study of the Bible
they think they see contradictions
and errors and wrong and so put
themselves above Moses and the
prophets, above Christ and His Apos-
ties. They set up false gods of
worldly aims and ambitions for the
One True God. They bow before ma
terial things rather than the Lord
God of Baboath. And worse yet. not
content with SHINING themselves, they
follow the example of Jeroboam and
make others sin. Severe will be the
punishment of those who wilfully
sin. but for those who make even
one of the little ones 10 sin X were
better for him had mill stone been
hung about his neck and him drown
ed in the depths of the sea.
At Ely City Mr. Hunting preached
ON Sunday afternoon from the sec
ond petition of the Lords Prayer,
"Hallowed be Thy Name" He said:
To many perhaps this petition
seems the least real of all seven pc
titions in this prayer. Yet Christ
made a place for IL in this model
prayer and further put 1t the first,
of all. The desire which II expresses
should be the first one uttered in
right prayer to God. In all probable
ity il would be the last thing we
would ordinarily place in prayer.
1t expresses unselfishness. Holy be
Thy Name, Thou art all, ! am moth
ing. II is necessary that we be re-
minded To pray unselfishlessly or our
prayer may take the form used by
tht Doi Suihihb pau ihi I'll VI oiNf
thou wilt give me bread to eat and
clothes to put on then shall the Lord
be my Cod God knows we have
need of all these things and so we
should Seek first the Kingdom of
God and all these things shall be
added unto us II our prayers are
of the earth and for daily needs we
shall find them often unanswered
| through the greater wisdom of God
and then might come hatred towards
God and we might become like the
Breton peasants who fog their i'm
ages If their crops or draughts of
/ fishes are not up to their expecta-
/ tions.
/ The right principle of prayer is to
I become and not TO get. Love of God
and desire to be like Christ must al
ways be first. We read that st.
Theresa had a vision and saw an
angel who had a curtain in one hand
and shell of water in the other and
explained his mission as being to
hide heaven with the curtain and
quench hell with the water in order
that men might come to- love God for
himself alone.
Z Ills 4Ndlilt lS hOu do We hiO"
Him. His Name differentiates Him
from all other beings as mans
name differentiates him from all
other men. Our understanding OF
God in all His attributes is our Name
for Him.
Men dishallow, If we might use the
word, Gods name by setting NJ
other gods-their hearts lusts, theiI
hatred and fear, their own beliefs
deifyins the cords and tassels of theii
phylacteries until they lose sight oil
righteousness and justice and mercy
and cruelty anew the Son of God.
Gods name Is hallowed by humil
ity, noble thoughts, living pure, hon
est and contented lives in the place
where God has put us. 1t has beer
glorified in the past in the ways He
has ordained and in the future 1t viii
be glorified by you and me right,
living
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