The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1913-12-09
WARWICK BIDS
FAR|NIELL TO
CONGREGATION
WILL LEAVE FOR NEW CHARGE
IN MACON FRIDAY
AFTERNOON.
HIS CHURCH WAS CROWDED
Members of All Denominations-an
OF None-Crowded to Shake Hi-
Hand and Bid Him Godsoeed--vva -,
Most Beloved Pastor.

III bidding farewell to the conore.
SatlCn ar the First Methodist church
sunday Rev. 10y Warwick spoke feel
ihsiy or MS love tor the people OF
Brunswick and Of the great sorrcw he
ielt In going away.
me change in the pastorate here"
ne said, is an illustration or the old
saying, man proposes but God dis
poses. Somehow | felt this year that
there was doubt CT my return to First
church, but in the providence of God
! am to labor elsewhere and another
Is to serve you" Mr.. Warwick thank
ed the stewards for their loyal suppart
the oiilcers and teachers or the Sun
day school, the workers in the league
missionary societies and circles an,
the members of the choir for tbei,
lalEi-.luinebs He congratulated ,he
church on the excellent showing II
mad made and said he beileved that
rlrst church would continue to grow
and one day become what it should ba
one of the strongest churches in
the conference.
mo people, he said, had ever treay-
ed nm mere kindly and he loved NJ
otner people more than these.
Mr.. Warwick spoke also of how
lie mad learned to love the people o.
the ether churches in Brunswick Far
thelr uniform Christian courtesy an
hlhdness to him and his fcmily.
heV. Y. A. Jackson, the new pasto,.
or First church, was highly commend
ed by Mr.. Warwick as a man of Go1
"hCm the people should welcome anj
rally to IN the new conference year
lie said Mr.. jackson came TO Them
from the Americus district and ha5
served as pastor OF Grace cnurch Ii
savannah, First church. CordoIe. First
church Valdosta and in Waynesboro
ne is a man who stands we'll In me
conference.
Centenary church, to which Mr..
warwick goes, is one of the largest
congregations in Macon, and has so
the speaker said, the largest Sunday
school enrolment in the conference
and one of the best church buildings.
especially for modern Sunday school
work.
lie regretted to leave Brunswick.
tut was delighted to go to Centenary
and was thankful that 50 good a man
as MI. Jackson was to take his place.
hev. w. H. Chapman ana the con
gre2ation of the Presbyterian church
wofshipped last evening with the peo-
pie Of the First Methodist.
MI Warwick spoke on Those Ques
tions about the Christian Life" What
Goes 1T mean to be a Christian? What
Is the effect of true Christian life on
the community? What sort of a Chris.
tan are you striving to be?
To be Christian" he told his
hearers, is to be religious all the
tlfne, everywhere and in all things
Inc man who is not gsligious every
where and in everything is religious
nowhere and in nothing
A life like this will be like a CITY
set on hill; it will be the salt of the
earth and the light OF the world.
The people OF God can do all they
should do, all the Lord commands
them to do. The trouble with us is
our look Of zeal and faith and courage
In doing right and fighting sin"
Mr.. Warwick appealed to his hear
efs to live such lives that their own
hei8hbors would believe in them, their
own conscience would commend them
2hd above all to live so thar the great
Judge of the quick and dead would
approve.