Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-26
IOWAN breaches IN
DR.. LOCKE'S PULPIT
Rev. Ebert L. Miller Says There Is
Very Often Great Deal of Benev-
olence and Little Charity
in This World

For the first time during his ministry
Rev. Charles Edward Locke, pastor OF
| the First Methodist church, was unable
to preach yesterday on account of ILL
ness. Rev. Ebert L. Miller of the
Upper Iowa conference preached at the
morning service, taking for his text
Corinthians 1:13, Though 1 speak with
the tongues of men and of angels and
have not charity 1 am become as
sounding brass or tinkling cymbal."
He said in part:
Christ taught that true charity con-
sists in being as well as in doing; prin-
ciple as well as action, and that an act
cannot be charitable unless it's princl-
pie be true. In our world there is
very often a great deal of benevolence
and little charity. Though l speak
with the tongues of men and of angles
and have not charity, l am become as
sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal'
THE word charity is very general
word. If 1 visit the sick and the needy
and relieve the unfortunate l may be
said to be charitable man. But is not
love to the charity what the magnetic
force is to the needle-to the powerful
force? Where does friendship fail?
While. love abides there is no danger
for friendship. But when we begin to
live selfishly for ourselves and not for
our friends, then friendship is in peril
Home with Love Safe
80 with the home. Where love is in
the home it is absolutely safe, but
when love is gone the home is in peril
on all sides. My young friends, you
need not to have a home costing $780,
900 to have love in it. recently saw
home that cost $4,000 in cold cash
and they have been in a quarrel ever
since. Where love is everything is
safe. Christ is God translated into
symbols which the human life can
touch, and without Christ the life is
like sounding brass and tinkling Gym
balls.
Bear in mind that every true Chris
tian according to the New Testament
standard is an ordained minister of the
Lord Jesus Christ, sent out not only
to live his own life, but is sent to a
field of work.
"The ordained priest-every true
Christian-has an original and indie
pendent field of service. The pebble is
controlled by the same law that con-
trolls the planets and the same Master
that called George Washington, Martin
Luther and John Wesley calls to you
and to me.
"There is no field just like that of
yours or mine. There are no two peb-
bles alike on the seashore, no two
flowers alike and no two faces alike in
all the world and so there is an indi-
Vidual work for each one and If we do
not do it it will not be done.
World Full of Opportunities
an the field for everyone there is
as great a work as it is possible to
do. There were no such places as those
filled by Martin Luther until he came.
There was no place like that filled by
Abraham Lincoln until he came. and
so there is a place for us. What did
these great men do? Simply their best.
and if you and I do our best we are
doing as much as they did.
"This world is full of opportunities.
Life is full of inspiration. This Is an
inspiratonal world if we only take it
that way We get strength by using
what we have. Use what little voice
YOU have in prayer and you will get
more.
"Religion is that kind of an article
that the more you give the more you
have.
"There are brutality and baseness in
this world, but life is not worthless,
because Christ went through it. So
with his power we are to live through
It: we are to live above our environ
ments.
"rhere is not only @ world of oppor-
tunity. but Christians as divinely or
dained must change the face of the
world, having been first changed them
selves"