The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1909-04-05
Mr. plNkHAM's LAST SERMON
large Audience in Attendance at Bap-
fist Church.

large Audience in Attendance at Bap-
fist Church.
The farewell sermon OF Rev. Her
mon S. Pinkham on The Making of
Manhood drew nearly 500 people to
he Baptist church last night. Every
available pew was occupied and the
overflow satin chairs about the pulpit
platform The chorus which has as
sisted all the week in the services was
out in full force last night and made
The music great inspiration. The
solo, Christ Arose" rendered by Miss
Mary Walbridge, was a beautiful and
fitting prelude to the sermon.
From | Kings 81 the preacher
showed that as in the erection of Sol
omons Temple there was neither
hammer, nor axe, nor any tool of iron
heard in the house while it was build
ing" so In the making of manhood
here is no din of workmanship but
in silence materials of character are
being gathered for that moral struc-
ture which determines destiny.
Three things enter into the making
Of manhood Thought, love, temptat-
ion. Every man is storing up reser-
yoirs of thought, evil or good. When
the crisis comes and the dam of res
tarint gives way, the quality of his
action proclaims the quality of his
previous thought "As a man think
eth in his heart, so is he
Love also enters into the making of
manhood A man becomes like what
he loves If he loves the noble, the
heroic, the true, he will become noble,
heroic and true. In the companion
ship of the Christ that son of thunder,
who would call down fire from God up
on all who did not follow his company
in serving the Master, became the
Apostle of Love" Love also leads
to action for the object of its devot-
ion. If men love Christ they will
serve him. The speakers two Illus
trations were the climax of his splen-
did dramatic illumination of his sub
jects.
The first was from Quo Vadis,"
where Ursus, the giant who loves
Ligia as his queen, is about to die in
the amphitheatre as his Lord died
without resistance. But the sight of
I4igia dashed to the horns of the infur-
lated bull rouses the giant to do for
one he loved as father loves his
daughter what he would not do to
save himself He grapples the beast
and at last the great neck cracks and
even the bloodthirsty Romans send
up cheers for love conquering brutal
ity.
The second illustration was David
Livingstone for loves sake plunging
back into the neart of the Dark Con-
tinent and dying in prayer to God for
the land for which he had given his
last full measure of devotion.
Temptation also makes manhood
Even God cannot make strong men
without temptation. 1t is the only ex-
PLANTATION why evil was ever allowed
to enter this fair world But God
would not put man in the throes of
temptation without providing a way of
escape. Jesus was not perfected
apart from temptation and through
him every man may come offvictor.
He calls upon men to invoke his aid;
and he will answer every call. Evan
geline had been seeking her lover.
Gabriel was also seeking Evangeline.
One night she and her oarsman were
encamped on the shore and Gabriel
and his men passed by while she slept.
Awake, Evangeline. thy lover is pass
ing and calling for theel Awake, ere
he is gonel But Evangeline sleeps on
she awakes too late. He is gone. Oh,
man., thy lover is passing. He is