The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1913-01-13
FORMAL OPENING
At FIRST N. {.
INTERESTING SERMONS DE-
LIvEREp YESTERDAY BY BIS
HOP Luccock ENLARGED
BUILDING THAT WILL SEAT ii.
900 FILLED AT BOTH SERVICES.

From the text from the psalms,
Thou hast set my feet In larger room,
Bishop Luccock of Helena. Mont, who
is the head OF the M. E. church in
this district, delivered a powerful
sermon yesterday morning, the occa-
sion being the formal opening Of the.
rempdeIed and enlarged First Metho-.
dist church on the southside. which
now has a comfortable seating
capacity OF 1000.
The house was filled, many strang-
ers being present "a full description
Of the new and beautiful edifice has
already appeared in this paper and
all present admired 1t and complt-
rnented the congregation on having.
completed the work and on having
one of the finest houses OF worship
in the state.
Among the divines In addition to
the bishop and DR.. J. M. Wall
ters, the pastor OF the congregation,
the following were present and oc-s
cupied seats on the pulpit with the
distinguished visitor DIR. Robertson
of the Wesley college, Grand Forks;
superintendent Danford of the Bis-.
marck district of the NJ. e. church;
DR. Mcnamara of the Fargo district.
There was a very pleasing song sery-
Ice rendered by the choir which was
very much appreciated and DR. Wall
ters spoke in a most feeling man
ner of the death Of Mrs. Porter, sis
ter of Stewart Wilson, who had done
so much to complete the church, and
announced the funeral for Tuesday
afternoon in the church. Each of the
visiting clergymen took part in the
opening services, Rev. Mr.. Macna-
mara introduced the bishop.
Bishop Luccock said that he would
take for his text a verse from the
psalms which he thought was APP
propriate, and hen he read, Thou
hast set my feet in large room.
He said that there were just two ways
OF increasing the size of a room, one
was by taking off the roof and the
other by building out the sides. He
said that mans place in nature is
a large one. NO mathematician can
give the bee any idea as to how to
attend to its business. nor can
science teach the sparrow how to do
its work better. No one can tell the
beaver how to build better, the birds
to fly, or the flowers to make a bet
ter bloom and unless man has high
er inspiration and aspiration he cam
not be thought to be better than the
birds and the beasts.
Jesus said to come up higher. In
other words take off the roof so that
how L pity a man or woman VINO
has no window in the top" said he.
"It was the window in the top OF the
ark that enabled Noah to keep his
faith, for if 1t had been in the side
he would have seen nothing for days
but bleek and weary waters,
I'VE ARE sometimes asked where
does the sky begin. Do you know
that the sky comes down to the
hIn1blest of Gods creatures? Really
we are living in the sky all the time.
But there is another sky line which
no man has seen with the naked
eye, and God only knows of it. IT IS
the sky line between heaven and
earth and we can only realize 1t
through the eyes of faith. Gods
presence il everywhere. God gets
the humblest person and the lowest
valley
The bishop then told of standing
before Niagara Falls and of feeling
and seeing the majesty of the AL
mighty. Far up on the great cliffs,
right among the raging waters" said
he, was little flower growing
right out of the rock among seething
waters, but It was safe, and it was
typical of the ENERGY of God for the
smallest of His creatures. There is
the knowledge Of sight and some men
think there Is nothing beyond sight.
Then there is, the knowledge of rea
son. Then there is the knowledge
OF response or the knowledge we get
from the belief of God. This is the
response that comes from heaven to
earth. The highest organ of intelli-
gence is that response in a being
which enables him to analyze and re-
ceive the knowledge that is presented
to him 1t was thia that enabled the