Imperial Valley press., 1914-01-05
Sunday Sermons
In Local Pulpits

Some very strong and helpful SER
mons were delivered from local pull
pits at both morning and evening SER
vices Sunday. In Intervening beauti-
full song services was the general rule.
Attendance was generally good.
At the First Methodist Episcopal
Church Rev. A. l.. Baker took for his
morning theme "The Pentecostal
Christian" the text from the second
chapter of Acts, "And when the day
of Pentecost was fully come, they
were all with one accord in one place"
In bringing out the salient points of
his subject DR.. Baker said that a
pressure of vitality alienates the
masses and also sends hungry minded
people off on tangents SO that they
take up with all kinds of freak be-
liefs. The pastor brought out that
the world is listening at the church
doors and asking if the church has
something that she has not--she does
not care about the church unless the
church has that something and vitality
of some spiritual mystery. Men and
women of the world do not want from
the church that which they can get
from the world-the glitter, hustle,
display, rivalry and superficial enter
tainment they can get in the world
they want something different and
that something is religion"
The evening subject was, Gam I
My Brothers Keeper" The pastor
spoke on what the church owes to the
community life, "the warmest kind
of spiritual worship-there should be
flow and glow of the heart which
makes God real. The church owes the
community the beauty and strength
and fragrance of vital goodness in
every day life" Concluding DR..
Baker said, "The church also owes
to the community matchless influ-
ence of family religion-having the
passion which Jesus had for the soults,
with deep sympathy with SHINING,
suffering men and faith in their
recoverability, the church may be full
filling her mission"
The musical offering was excep-
tionally fine, especially solos by Mrs.
c. H. Merrill.
January will be an ingathering
month at the Methodist Church. Dur
ing the first two weeks preparations
will be made for the work by instruct
ing workers, and during the last two
weeks revival services will be held
every night by the pastor. Monday
night the pastor will meet with his
official board and plan the work and
Tuesday night the young folks will
gather for instructions for the cam
paign. The several classes will meet
during the week at luncheon for a
general discussion.
Christian Church
"Obedient to the Highest Calf was
taken by Rev. w. G. Conley as his
subject for the morning at the State
Street Christian Church. The theme
was from Paul's reply when ques-
toned about the vision he saw. Paul
said, 81 was not disobedient to the
heavenly vision" Points dwelt upon
by Rev. Conley were that as this was
the beginning of the new year, and
we all had our visions, it was very
necessary to do first things first-do
things really worth while and then we
would not have time to do unimpor-
tant things. If you have strong vi
sion go ahead and follow it-be obe-
dent to the vision-don't let the vi
sion be crowded out. The theme for
the evening service was, GLOW to See
the Blue Sky in 1914"
The musical offering at the morn
ing service was excellent, solo, zone
Sweetly Solemn Thought" by Mrs.
Swing, and sacred trio by Mrs.