The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1914-02-19
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st. Paul's Episcopal church, Quin-
quagesima, February %, 1914. 11:45
Sunday school. Ash Wednesday, Feb
ruary 25th, is the first day of Lent,
which lasts until Easter day, April
18th. The question is often asked,
What Is Lent, and what is it good
for?" May | suggest a few thoughts
in answer. During these forty days
between Ash Wednesday and Easter
the Christian church would call men
and women to the special thought of
our Lords forty days Of temptation in
the wilderness. The world is too much
with us. The round of worldly bust
ness and pleasure is pursued almost to
the complete exclusion Of spiritual cul-
ti~vation. The season of Lent Is an
opportunity to recover the proper bal
ance by a very special effort. 1t Is an
opportunity for rest and quiet thought.
Il is not meant to be a season of dull
hess and m%onotony made weary by
acts of ~self-denial which have no mean
ing In themselves, and which bring no
virtue into life. Rather 1t should be a
season wherein, by certain rearrange'
ments and denials, the life of the soul
may be more diligently cultivated
Thus it Is an opportunity for spiritual
r~efreshment. Finally by providing
rest from the ceaseless preoccupation
of worldly matters, and by supplying
new strength for the soul, Lent Is an
opportunity for spiritual growth
Let us reduce life to it's first principles
Which Is our chief concern-the body
or the soul? gold or character? pleas
ure or duty? bread or God? Man is g
strange combination. He can rise OF
fall. He can yield to temptation OF
resist and overcome it. He "a be ar
animal or a sanity man. He can be
child of Satan or a son of God. He
stands at the parting of the ways. AnG
Lent Is the testing time to determine
whittier he tends, and to turn his
steps to the right. Besides the Sunday
services which will be held on the frs
and third Sundays of the month there
will be an evening service in st. Paul's
Episcopal church OF every Wednesda,
during Lent at 1880, at which services
will be given a course of addresses o.
meditations on the Lords Prayer. AL
are cordially invited to use this mean!
of accepting the opportunity Offered
to us by another Lenten season.
The signers of the Call for the Pro
phetic Conference at the Moody Bible
Institute Of Chicago, February 24-27
are sending out a request for praye'
in the churches of the country on thu
Sunday preceding. The response II
the Call has been unprecedented and
great gathering Is expected. Thu
teachers represent most of the relig
ious denominations and will discuss
such themes as "The Signs of thu
Times" 1.-THE Doctrine of the Las
Things" Foreign Missions" EVAN
gelism," "Messianic Prophesy," "Pres
ent Day Apostasy," "The Second Com
ing of Christ as a Working Power II
the Church and Community" an,
Personal Holiness"
Thursday, February rs has bee
designated as a day for prayer 70
missions. All the mission circles 9
the various churches in the city ar
invited to a union meeting at tn
Baptist church at three o'clock on tina
day. Good music and an ~interestin
program will be furnished.
Next Sunday morning at the Pre-
byterian church the subject Of the Sc
mon will be. christian Ideals"
the evening the pastor win speak frol
the theme: christians In a corruI
arc mr. Saints In Caesars Household