The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-11-11
OPENING SERMON BY
REV. Ed. ANDREWS AT
ST. PETERS CHURCH
a LARGE CONGREGATIONS HEAP
EXCELLENT DISCOURSE FROM
PSALMS f2A
SERVICES SUNDAY kIGH1
New Rector VIII Begin the Ros~
lar Evening Services and early
Morning Celebration Of the Lerfs
supper.

Rev. Edward Andrews. Of South Car
DINA, the new rector Of St Peters
church preached his Arst sermon %
the practitioners Sunday morning Al
SIeVen o'clock and held services al
1880 o'clock Sunday evening The Ger
vices wiz be conducted regularly ~.
cry Sunday evening and the early CO
ebrat.On Of the Lords supper Wtll
be observed every Sunday Ia The
month except the first Sunday al
which time the celebration win take
place at the eleven o'clock service.
Mr.. Andrews SPOKE form the second
verse Of the 126th Psalm: "As the
mountains are around about Jerusa,
lem, % The Lord 10 round about his
people" Fro mthis text the speaker
spoke In part:
The background OF every landscape
ara the mountains which send down
through life through their streams to
the plains and valleys in the fore
ground. AS in every landscape there
must be the background and the fore
ground, 20 In evefy human life there
must be the backgrounds and tbs fore
grounds.
"The backgrounds Of life are the
deals, and the motives the hopes and
aspirations which nourish and give
meaning to the fairgrounds, which are
the little things we do every day, the
thoughts we think, and the things our
hands ind to do each day
I'VE shall consider three of the
great backgrounds Of life and their
corresponding fairgrounds. First, the
background OF character. A man
must show his being behind his &C
ton. Every action must be true ex'
preston OF what the man is In his
character. Your smile is nothing I'M
less know that you are kind. Your
prayers are nothing unless In your
heart you have faith. Herein Is the
value Of sincerity, for sincerity IL
simply the true relationship between
character and action.
Character without actions is like
the lips without the trumpet, whose
whispers die upon themselves and do
not stir the world. Action without
character is like the trumpet hung up |
in the wind which whistles through 1t
and means nothing.
Secondly, consider the background
Of purpose. Every symetrical human
life which has a value must be ruled
by purpose which ID TRULY expressed
by and interpreted through every &C
ton of that life. The purpose OF the
lawyer IL to conquer at the bar, and
though he Ia not every moment OF his
life thinking of this great purpose, still
every action Of the mans life IL rul-
ed by this purpose and Is an express
sion Of the purpose.
80 every life must have some great
ruling purpose and as the mountains
send down their streams to water the
plains, 90 the ruling purpose must
send down It's ideals and aspirations
10 spur the life to action and the full
illment of its manifold details.
Thirdly, the background Of prayer.
The most perfect Of all prayer IL that
Of Christ He prayed that the cup
might pass from Him. In the front
was the human desire to escape death,
behind the constant wish that the Fa-
hers will be done.
80 with every prayer. In the front
is the individual wish OF him who
prays, behind is the stronger desire
hat Gods will be done. Such must
be- every true prayer.
Let Christ, therefore, the great
backgt ound builder. build in your life
The background OF character, purpose
and prayer, and how much deeper and
wider life will be-"