The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1910-07-28
THE PULPIT.
AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY
DR.. w. G. M'cREAoY.
Theme: Christ's Supremacy.

VI st. Peters Church. the Rev. Dr.
William George McCready, successor
b the Rev. DR. Lindsay Parker. began
lis pulpit duties Sunday morning. He
vas greeted by large audience. DR..
hcCready preached straight, simple,
yet forceful gospel sermon and made
a fine impression. His subject was
"Christs Supremacy" He took his
text from !. Corinthians 2:1-5:
And !, brethren. when I came to
you, came not with eXcellency OF
speech or of wisdom. declaring unto
you the testimony of God.
For ! determined not TO know
anything among you. save Jesus
Christ, and Him crucifed
And | was with you in weakness,
and in fear, and in much trembling
"And Ny speech and Ny preaching
was not with enticing words OF mans
wisdom, but in demonstration Of the
spirit and OF power;
THAT your faith should not stand
in the wisdom OF men, but In the pow
er of God"
DR.. McCready said It was a Gus
tom among the Romans to 60 up once
a year to Rome. and to renew the
oath which they took as soldiers OF
the empire, to Caesar So we come
to-day to take our sacramentum, and
TO proclaim afresh our declaration OF
a purpose to believe, and to follow
Jesus Christ
In correspondence with that idea,
and also i'm curresDoudence with the
practice which have preserved
through the years of my ministry, |
always preach my first sermon from
this text, because / feel that one of
the things which the congregation de-
sires is that the man who stands in
the pulpit and who offers the spiritual
sacrifice of Gods table, shall, without
any ambiguity. make declaration of
his faith in Jesus Christ. that in this
age, this disturbed age, this age of
religious distraction. men want some
harbor of safety. men want some an
chor of hone. men want some secu-
rity. that in the evening of life, when
the body is weary. they may lay their
heads on that hope. And so, as year
succeeds year OF my ministry ! feel
constrained TO reiterate these state
ments of my faith, first of all, with
the simplicity of the scheme of re-
demption. with the simplicity of the
great work of Jesus Christ
Men to-day care nothing about the
technicalities of ones creed. Mems
y
cruicfed; that in Him-not in some
theory or speculation about Him, but
in Him-men may find their hope and
security. What matters it to me that
men in their speculation shall discov-
er in the confines of this book of God
the doctrine of election? That they
find there that God fixed the number
TO be saved or to be lost? What mat
ters II IL men find that those that are
of the elect of God can never fall
away? What matters it IL in these
speculations men find that | have a
warrant Of Jesus Christ. who calls me
personally to come unto Him, not
calls me in some aggregation, but
calls me personally to come unto Him
and be at rest.
Here friends, here is a warrant for
my hope. I find warrant also in the
conversation between Christ and Me
odemus, who comes to Him by night
TO ask Him certain question, and the
answer is that God so loved the
world that He sent His only begotten
Son. that whOsoever believes in Him
shall not perish, but shall have ever
lasting life"
Let men speculate in the cool. damp
prison Of Calyinism, and ! shall put
the sunshine of "whosoever" opposite
1t, to say, it matters not how dis
tracted men are, shall point them to
these placid words of Jesus Christ,
and so take Him and find peace in
Him
feel in coming here this morning
that II is great privilege to stand in
this pulpit II requires but little in
formation about this church to find
how matters have gone in the parish,
how men and women have gone home
to God so thoroughly equipped and
provided for that blessed heritage
which God has promised. II has been
privilege for you men and women to
live in this blessed atmosphere, It is a
great privilege To feel that mystic
union. that spiritual relationship be-
tween those on earth and those in
that Paradise where Christ shall set
up His kingdom, and His children will
be with Him. And I want 10 main.
tain the prestige OF this pulpit. You
say that Is a difficult thing TO do. II
Is not difficult II I obtain the prayers
and sympathy Of those who worship
here. Christs process is heavenly
process, and so the process OF reiu
venation Is a heavenly process
cannot explain to you the coming To-
gether OF the people OF a congrega
tion. ] cannot explain TO you how IN
the taking OF this blessed sacramen
OF the body and blood OF Jesus Christ
God invested the blessed reciplen
with heavenly grace. cannot ex
plain to you when you are asking
special blessing on the rector who 4
ministeTlng to you day after day
That is spirlt-it may seem old
fashioned. but that Is a spirit Of aban
Con which | possess when II comes /
The things pertaining 10 God. Moth
ing is paradoxical. nothing Is incom
prehensible TO me in the scheme O
God take the Bible from lid TO liz
take the miracles set forth In III
Bible without question. | accept thei
in the fulness Of my heart. becaus
God Is not God unless He puts int
these works His own power. His ow
spirit His own love.
/ have seen men sent from th
transcendent heightsof splendid maj
hood down 70 the dismal depths I
degradation. / have seen fa'
marred with the marks OF sin. and II
body heavy with the weight of si
And have seen this same individu
rejuvenated with the spirit of Go
It Is transmutation OF the elements
the individual. Il Is bringing Il
whole man into play. according
Gods direction.
1 believe that to-day the churC