Bryan daily eagle and pilot. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1909-1918, 1911-02-28
THE SPIRIT Of LENT
The Rector of st. Andrews Addresses
PaotoraI Letter to His People,
Which Contains Admoni-.
tions Profitable to All
Christians.

The Lenten services at st. Andrews
Episcopal church will be as follows:
Ash Wednesday, March l, holy COM
munion 1905. m. Mathis, litany IL
a. m. Evensong and penitential office
s p. m. Week days, holy communion
Wednesdays and Fridays 1880 a. m.
Litany and penitential office on above
days s p. m. Mathis daily 8 a. m.
Evensong daily 4:S0 p. m.
Special subjects and services will
be rendered in above hours of wor-
ship and all are invited to attend.
Lent.
The Lenten season, upon which we
are about to enter, throws emphasis
upon the aesthetic side of Christian
ity, now as always unwelcome to the
world fasting, abstinence, the stern
denial of self, the sacrifice of the body
for the good of the soul. To the world
ly-minded this whole conception is a
matter OF amazement; but not so to
the Christian mindful of His Masters
words: IF any man will come after
Me, let him deny himself, and take up
his cross and follow Me-"
Let us start right this year. In a
few short hours the church will begin
again her march toward Calvary. We
hear the voice of Christ: Bear Ne
company; share with Me the pain, the
sacrifice, the travail of SOUL" Shall
we not press forward in the journey
with these words of petition in our
hearts and on our lips: by Thine
agony and bloody sweat; by Thy cross
and passion; by Thy precious death
and burial; by Thy glorious resurrec-
ton and ascension; and by the coming
of the Holy Ghost, Good Lord, deliver
u.s."
While Lent is not primarily sea-
son of missionary effort, in one re-
spect it ought to be such in every
parish. Lent is a revival" time
of renewal. We must therefore be So
licitous, not for ourselves alone, but
also and even for all the baptized, es-
pecially for the lapsed, who, after hav-
ing tasted of the heavenly gift, have
dropped from their vocation and gone
back to the ways of the world. There
are many such, alas! in our own par
ish; perhaps there is one whom We
might bring again; and perhaps TO us
| God is saying: Thou shalt not see
My face, except thy brother be with
thee"
There are three notable duties OF a
Christian as commanded by Christ in
the Sermon on the Mount-prayer,
/ fasting and almsgiving.
The forty days fast is the time
when mother church calls her chill
dren to a religious and spiritual feast
at the expense of material and
worldly fast. Since the church is so
! liberal with us during the rest of the
year in the matter of pleasures, pot
/ forbidding anything innocent or die
tating the manner of our social life,
we ought the more to be willing glad
ly to keep the sacred forty days with
our Master away from the world. We
all need so much more faith, more de-
votion, more knowledge of Christ and
our holy religion, more self-conquest,
more holiness. The Lenten days fur
nish us the time and the means to ac-
complish these. All parties, card
clubs, socials or suppers, dances, the
aters are forbidden to communicates;
and our children should be trained
right also Make a rule or schedule
of what you intend to do this Lent
and then hold fast to it to the end
that you may have the deep and abid-
I ing joy of a glorious Easter. "Oncc
more the solemn season calls. Once
more may we answer with all the ear
hestness of honest souls"
W. w. DAUP, Rector.