The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-01-31
REGRET And RETROspECTION
Pastor Expresses a Real Reticence in
Leaving Kenosha and Reviews
Briefly the Things He Has Tried to
Impress Upon His Hearers.

"The good wishes and warm affec-
tion of the pastor and his wife will al
ways remain with this church. 1t is
their first love and there can never
be another just like it. May God bless
all its work and all its people"
This official bood-bye, expressed in
the pages Of the 'eWeek by Week. is
typical Of the kindly gratitude and al
truism which characterized Rev. Z. r.
Faville's last service as pastor of the
First Congregational Church in Keno
sha held at Guild Hall on Sunday af- \
ternoon at 400 O'Clock. Despite the
unfavorable weather a large congrega-
tion was present to hear the minister IS
farewell sermon and listen thoughtfully
but regretfully to his parting words
of love and wisdom. Special music by
the choir made the devotions dOubly
impressive and inspiring.
Rev Faville's last message to the
local Congregationalists was plea for
the patternesque life: The theme was
introduced in the Junior Sermon,
"Life's Blue Prints, in which the
speaker urged the younger Christians
of the Church to find a pattern for
their lives and follow it as assiduously
as the architect follows his blue-prints
IN constructing lesser things Of stone
or marble. The idea thus suggested
was admirably elaborated in the main
address of the afternoon, appropriated
ly called "Our Gospel.
The pastor took as his text for his
farewell sermon Paul s words to his
dearest friend as recorded in his second
letter to Timothy, Chapter l, verse 13:
9 Hold the pattern of sound words which
thou has heard form me, in faith and
love which is in Christ jesus
My parting thoughts shape them
selves in these words, said Rev Favil-
lie, "and hope that they are sound
If they are not sound then indeed have
I labored in vain My ministry has
been one of words. / believe in them.
The fine things of life come through
words. They are not the thing, but
the pattern, the ideal, which must pre-
cede the thing. Education comes
through them. Art is fostered by them
and love finds its most effective expires
sion in them. Through them, too men
have received our gospel the gospel
we have shared together in these five
years-not a theology, but Kingdom
of God as broad as the universe and
as deep as individual passions and hui
man intellect.
Furthermore he continued, ''hold
the pattern of sound words which thou
hast heard from me in faith-not an
irrational running after ancient or mod
ern fallacies, not blindness, but ra-
tional, open-eyed confidence in Man and
aI-absorbing trust in God. That is not
exactly the Faith of our Fathers but
1t is the only faith of fathers to which
we would want to be true-a faith
that comprehends and interprets all
that is good in modern as well as in
ancient and medieval life.
Finally, he concluded, "hold the
sound pattern of words which thou
has heard from me in love- The fault
Of the historic church was mainly for
getfulness of this injunction They
had faith but no love-the love that
tolerates the views of other men and
is expressed not in wars, rituals, creeds,
personal righteousness, or holiness, but
rather in an all-compelling goodwill,
banding men in a society of reeoncilia-
ti,- fellowship as wide as the world
anu strong as the power Of love it.
self. / beieve-we beheve--in the
victory of love, that will yet purge mod
ern society and leave it in creed and
in deed tile kingdom of God on earth
The sermon was in every way a fit
ing finale, to Rev. Faville's ministry
in Kenosha, inasmuch as it embodied
the strong conviction, liberal outlook,
and federation of modern things, which
have signalized all of the preacher s
work in this city and made him one
Of the most effective and best-beloved
pastors that have ever served the First
Congregational Church.
The musical program for the after
noon, which was rendered under the
direction of Warren L. Stone, included
the following numbers:
Solo--"O Star of the Even (Wag-