The Lakeland evening telegram. (Lakeland, Fla.) 1911-1922, 1917-06-18
At The Cumberland
Presbyterian Church

other young peoples class was or
ganized, with Reverend Callahan as
teacher. This promises to be a splen-
did class, as the initial meeting was
marked with an unusual degree of en-
thusiasm. The teacher, officers and
class as a whole extend an invitation
to any young people of the city, not
already allied with some good Sun
day school class, to cast their lot
here, assuring them of a hearty well
come and a cordial handclasp.
At the morning service the pastor
spoke on the subject, 1.-THE Grace of
the Lord Jesus, using as a Scrip
ture text Cor. 1910, But by the
grace of God l am what | am: and
his grace which has bestowed upon
me was not in vain: but | labored
more abundantly than they all: yet
not !, but the grace of God which was
with me-" He stressed the first two
clauses of the verse. saying in part:
The riches OF grace can never be
told. God made for every man and
woman happy world, and the fault
OF our not being completely happy is
not in His plan. but in the Individual.
He does not intend that we be any
thing but happy, and if we are DOS
sessed with aches and pains it is thro
no fault of His but because of our
own mistakes. All our blessings
come through the grace of God. for
by Him are we saved from impurities
and temptations.
He offers grace and salvation to
all men everywhere. We should
strive to get our children converted
and then live before them lives so
filled with the richness of Gods grace
that they will not err from their
path of right-living. We should point
out to them the beauties of this grace,
calling their attention to good men
and women, impressing upon their
tender, young minds that these ex.
emplary lives are made so only
through Gods goodness and grace.
BY the extreme tender mercies of
Jesus Christ and God the Father there
mas been made way OF escape from
temptation. 1t is most blessed
thought that by the grace of God we
are endowed with resistance to the
mainly would be sadly conglomerat
ed. Another comforting thought is
the fact that this power is bestowed
upon al men everywhere. God gives
as freely Of His grace to one as He
does to another. 1t is with the in.
dlvidual as to how he appropriates
this gift. The great question is
Have we received the grace of Cod
III Vain". Just as an earthly par
ent bestows upon each child in the
family the same watchcare and sol.
1citude. Installing into them high
ideals and principles of right-livine
only in later life to see some depart
from the home training and seem
lngly disregard it, while others val.
ue it SO that no opportunity to bene
fit thereby is lost; so our Heavenly
Father endows each of us with His
grace as literally as he sends the
rain and the sunshine but upon
some of His creatures this blessing
Is poured out in vain, while others
accept it as means of benefitting
all around them and adding pleas
ure to their own lives.
Where would you and I be TODAY
II 1t were not for the Grace of God
what would be our lot? Without
HIS grace we should be deprived of
all the great promises He has given
us, and only by this gift are we liy. |
ing and enjoying the blessings and
pleasures of today
On account of the inclement !
weather there was no evening ser.
vice.