The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1916-01-04
vEsPER SERVICES
sUNDAl AFTERNOON
LARGE CROWD ATTENDS Nh"
ORDER SERVICE AT PRES
ByTERfiN CHURCH
Pastor ID. Is. He'll Talked for fNat
IL Fifteen Minutes ON the
Christian Ministry.

duced by the First PRESBYTERIAN
church Sunday seems to fill place
in the Sabbath days program here
tofore unprovided for. A good CON
gferation assembled at four-thirty,
the hour fixed for these new order
services. and were held in rapt at
tcntlon during the forty-five minutes
nj the service. The entire program
yes pleasing and we'll rendered, and
so arranged as to make one feel
better for having gone.
The service was very different
from anything heretofore known IN
WaNahachic and yet il was so IN
spiring that we feel sure that all
who were present determined TO at
tend the next one. One of the most
impressive parts of the service was
the professional by the choir; com
ing I'm from two entrances singing
Holy. Holy, Holy" Another very
effective part of the service was the
solo by Mrs. Grow.
II was very gratifying to see the
evidence OF Christian good viii eX-
isting among members of the other
church choirs taking part in the
music.
In the printed program it was
stated that the pastor wouiu deliver
fifteen minute sermon and per-
laps some wondered if that would
be complied with. The big clock
hanging on the wall of the church
marked the time exactly fifteen min
rtes from the time the pastor stated
the text TO the closing words OF his
message He spoke on the subJest
of THE Dynamic of the Christian
Ministry" The text was found in
| Tim. LIS. Now the end of the
charge is love out OF pure heart,
and of a good conscience, and OF
faith unfeigned,'
He said the dynamic of the chris
tian ministery is love. The three
epistles of Paul that we caEi the pas
toral epistles are of exceptional
interest and importance. The rea-
son for this is obviously three fold.
First. because OF the personal tone
of the letters. The other writings
CT the Apostle are Of general kind,
addressed to the people collect
lively but the pastoral epistles are
personal letters as indicated by the
Thou my SON of First Timothy.
The second reason why these pas
toral epistles are Of exceptional in
terest is that they represent the
cream OF the mature thought of the
master mind of the great evangelist,
being among the last recorded writ
ings of the apostle.
The third reason of the exception
al interest in these epistles is be-
cause of the subject matter with
which thy have to do: dealing with
the relation between kingdom as eX
pressed in these words, THAT thou
highest know how thou oughtest
to behave myself in the house of
God
This text is the key verse TO First
Timothy and is more than that, the
key verse to life of every ministering
servant whose service counts for
aught in its relation 10 the kingdom
OF God.
There are threec thoughts sug-
gested at this time by this text.
T. The earmarks of christian
man is unselfishness, hence the
service he performs for the church
ard for Christ is not inspired by any
hope of reward nor is the dynamic
OF il personal gain but as the Master
SO the servant. it must be a labor of
love-
! wish il were possible for me TO
glve the world this one message,
that a christian man cannot be a
selfish man. When the good Master
laid down in no uncertain terms the
conditions of christian discipleship
the first item in it was this. III any
man will come after me, let him
deny himself"
There is piece of foolish human
philosophy that 50 many OF us have
chased Off after and is so erroneous
and misleading in itself and that is,
SELF preservation is the first law
OF nature" This is absolutely un-
true and the man who permits him-
self 10 DE deluded by any such blind
fclly will ultimately find that ii is
not true that self preservation is
the first law OF nature but self pres
ovation is the first law of destruc-
fian Tho laws az ,afura ara tho