The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-25

Rev. r. NJ. Brown of the st. PaurS
Episcopal church spoke yesterday
morning from the text, "He that hath
my commandments and keepeth them
I will manifest Myself to them" He
said
Some one has said, 1T takes all
sorts of people to make world.
Whether this is true of the world or
not, 1t certainly is true of the par
ish. 1t takes all sorts of people to
make a parish. Or, rather, we usual
ly find all sorts of people in a parish.
In the parish we find people who walk
by faith, we find people who walk
by love and people who walk by law.
Each of these classes of parishioners
has reached the religious status II now
enjoys by a different method and that
perhaps q method w2ich would have
been perfectly unintelligible to the
others.
"The words of this text seem to be
particularly addressed to those peo-
pie who incline toward the law. They
have few feelings or sentiments which
can be stirred by religious enthusiasm.
What they want Is a plain, straight
forward statement of hard facts.
They want n clean-cut. cold-blooded
way to gain the pleasure and bless
ings of God. What does this text say
to such people? Keep My command
ments, and / will make Myself known.
Now this Is either true or II Is not
true. God promises to make Himself
known to any one who keeps His
commandments. He makes no ex-
ceptions; all have the chance to try.
"a practical application to the text
Is therefore In order. He that keep
eth my commandments. What Is the
first one? / am the Lord thy God;
thou shalt have none other Gods but
me. The question Is, have you kept
that? Are you free from the wor-
ship of worldly idols? The worship
of the world and the worship OF
wealth is very prevalent. We must
worship God only.
Thou shalt not take the name OF
the Lord thy God in vain. We are
apt to think we do not break that
commandment, but sometimes even
in Gods holy temple, while the wor-
ship Is going on, while we should be
engaged in thanksgiving and praise
and prayer, we are meditating on the
and dispositions OF neigh
bors in other pews; or we are con-
the worldly prospects for
the coming week, and even while our
mouths are uttering words of praise
our minds are full of idle thoughts.
Thou shalt not bear false witness
against thy neighbor. Do we never
become jealous? Others succeed where
we fail; some acquire social position,
wealth. fame, those things which we
have struggled for and never gained,
or only partially gained. You notice
their imperfections and discuss their
defects. You shrug your shoulders
and merely pronounce their name, or
we may tell something IL we wish,
when we very well know that the
very insinuation will do more than
any fact we may bring up.
"Thou shalt do no murder forblds
all unfraternal anger, and all neglect
or refusal to forgive those by whom
we have been injured; thou shalt not
commit adultery forbids every un-
thought; thou shalt not steal
stands in the way of all injustice and
fairness of all overreaching of our
of all unfraternal deal
ing.
"And so the commandments run.
Not in the letter of the law, but in
the spirit must His commandments be
obeyed. Let those or us who live by
law cease our questionings and put
the word of God to the simplest prac-
tical test
The fourth quarterly meeting and
sacrament of the. Lords supper oc-
Cured at the Epworth NJ. f. church
Rev: w. NICK. Brackney,
the district superintendent, was pres
ent, officiating at the sacrament SER
vice in the morning and preached in
the evening.
10:30, an unusually large audience Wis
tied the tables.
Rev. w. Nc X. Brackney of Della
ware Methodist district superintendent
was the speaker Of the evening at Wes-
ley M. Il. church Sunday. Rev.
Brackney chose as his theme. "Be
filled with the spirit" and through
1t made an eloquent appeal for
Christian life ard activity. He be-
lleves that the perfect and harmon
ious life can only be obtained by
with the Spirit of God, and
urged upon his people the necessity
divine inspiration In accomplish
Ing the successful journey along
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