The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1909-09-09
THE PULPIT.
A SCHOLARLY SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR.. CORTLAND MYERS.


/ land Myers, j. d., preached MS lare-
| well sermon Sunday night in the Bap-
/ tist Temple, and brought to an end a
. sixteen-year pastorate of that church.
/ DR.. Myers will assume the pastorate
| of the fremont Baptist Temple in
Boston, Mass, in the fall
DR.. Myers said:
I am going to preach to you to-
night from the very text that
preached upon when | preached my
first sermon, nearly sixteen years ago,
I'm this city. (Not the same sermon,
because | have not seen 1t since, and
| only care to remember the state
ment of Scripture as an introduction
for this bit of truth). John 1:6:
There was man sent from God. "
That statement was made concerning
one of the greatest preachers OF Christ
this world ever saw, and one who de-
serves to be pre-eminently the pat
tern for every other man who stands
In the holy place OF a minister Of
Jesus Christ. That statement was
made concerning a man who said that
he must decrease, but Christ must in
crease; that he was not worthy to
unloose the shoe latchets of his Lord,
and who said: "Behold the Lamb of
God who taketh away the sin Of the
world" That statement ought to be
made concerning every ministry, and
| am very sure that 1t can truthfully
be made concerning this ministry. 1
have never had one interrogation
mark thrust against me all these
years in that relation, and so / stand
tonight, at this sacred moment of
/ my life, and in my ministry, to say to
you once more that there was a man
/ sent from God to the life of this
| church. The result of scientific re-
search as to whether other heavenly
bodies are inhabited has been to
prove that this world is the one world
where Almighty God chose to work
out the problem of human destiny
und human life, of the creature made
in His own image and likeness; and
we are turning to-day even on scien-
tific pages toward the Garden of
Eden. where God walked in the cool
of the day with a man as companion
n holiest fellowship. I might have
a beautiful house full of luxury, and
comfort. and artistic taste, but one
great element in the life of the home
IS lacking. What is It?
The great feature of home is not
the furnishings or the comfort; the
great demand is a man to enter the
home, to use it, to live in it and to
be made better by it and to find
there his fountain of JOY and happi-
ness and comfort and rest and peace.
When God made this beautiful world
It did not fulfill His idea until man
came to live in it. The one supreme
element essential was the man, who
was the one factor, the one element
| by which that which God had planned
should be accomplished. Man was
the agency through which the gospel
of Jesus Christ should accomplish its
purpose in the world. That is the
great statement to be made concern
/ ing the man who stands in the king
dom of God as a leader in the minis
try to his fellow men. He must be
first, last and always a man; man
with every mark of the nobility and
loyalty OF manhood about him; a
man who enters into every condition
of the life of his fellow men and
should not consider that this minis
try had found its fulfillment unless
that statement could be made with
absolute truth concerning 1t. I
would not want to feel that any part
of my life had been separated from
any part of your life. All that there
Is of man at his best, a natural, nor
nal, God-marked man, should be at
the centre of this Christian ministry.
Every sermon ought to have running
through its veins the rich, red blood
that runs through the veins of the
minister who breaches 1t. There is
one requisite above all others, II we
are to be victorious. and that is God
felt nobility of Christian manhood
in the ministry of Jesus Christ.
There was a man sent" It is a
great moment In any human life
when we come to the recognition of
our supreme mission; when every
thing else in life comes to be second
airy to that which holds the first
place as the purpose and mission Of
life. Paul, Chrysostum, Savonarola.
Luther, John Knox, all felt the
mighty impulse of the mighty mis-
sions on which they were sent when
following the holy command. Oh,
what splendid achievements would
take place in this part of Gods king
dom If the members of this great
church would walk right up to the
Light in recognition of their divine
mission TO save this lost world. God
is waiting for you. He has waited
LOT SOIlt VI you ndll a SChtui - bu'
He is emphatically waiting for your
young manhood and womanhood to
reckon with the sent" element in
human life. The one holy mission
for every man and woman in the
kingdom of Christ is never less thar
this-and l think you will have tC
bear me out that 1t has always been
without a single exception, the one
supreme purpose OF these years %
my ministry among you-it has beer
nothing less than to fulfill the mis-
sion of Jesus Christ in this worlt
and to seek and to save the lost.
"If any man has not the spirit o.
Christ he Is none of His" The spiri
of Christ pushed its way agains
every broken heart, every battered
life, every bruised soul; against thu
leper, the blind, and the lame; the
spirit OF Christ took hold Of MARY
Magdalene and the Woman OF Sa
maria, and grasped that wonderful
life of Peter and lifted him up int
the kingliness and glory of his man
hood; and that Divine Spirit OF ou
Lord went out in every direction 10
the saving of His fellowmen.
, Now, mark you, II His spirit Is u
be mine and yours, then we mus
in the coming days and years fulhl
His mission "to seek and to saw
that which was lost"-nothing les
than that.
am expecting It of you, woul'
have the disappointment OF an en-