Richmond daily register. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1917-1978, 1920-09-20
CITY WELCOMES new
METHODIST PASTOR
Union Service of Churches Held
Sunday Eve To Extend Cor
dial Greetings to DR.. Sadler

| In accordance with beautiful ant
time-honored custom here, churches
of Richmond united in their Sunday
evening service at the Methodist
| church to welcome the new pastor
Rev. w. o Sadler The spirit of CO.
operation and feeling of unity be-
tween the four denominations were
manifested in the splendid body of
people who taxed the capacity of the
church to its utmost
DIR. r. l.. Telford, of the First Pres
byterian church, presided, and after
the reading of the 133rd Psalm, DR..
o. o. Green, of the First Baptist
church, gave the invocation
In behalf of the community, Dr.. H.
w. Carpenter, of the First Christian
church, in his characteristic way well
coined the new minister to Richmond.
He spoke of his coming to open his
pastorate here at most significant
time in the worlds history, indeed in
a prophetic hour, when our nation
was beginning to find herself after
the terrific world war, a time when
the churches themselves were taking
on new life, because the teachings
of Jesus Christ were bearing fruit as
never before. He touched briefly on
the new civic improvements here
fn
anud as he pictured the years to come
in which DR.. Sadler would be in the
city, he prophesied great things, and
the hope that the bonds which bind
the churches. together in te spirit OF
brotherhood would be strengthened as
the years pass. Dr.. Carpenter said
he was doubly glad to welcome the
new pastor, as they had been college
mates, and at one time each had
served his own church in the same
city.
In response, Dr.. Sadler said his
heart had already been strangely
warmed even before the house warm
ing had been given him, and he spoke
felingly of the beautiful spirit of un-
ity that existed between the pastors
of the city. He spoke of Martin Lu-
thcr, who received the inspiration for
his great denunciations and the ref
from an obscure and hum
BILE man who, hundreds of years be-
fore, had translated the New Testa-
ment into German; how John Wesley,
the founder of Methodism, had de- |
rived his inspiration from Luther, and
that John Knox and Alexander Camp /
bell both had been benefited by other
great men, each contributing to the
other, until as other men who moved
down the ages, doing a monumental
work, belonged mot to one sect, but
TO the whole world, and today thou
sands of people are uniting in broth |
love, regardless of creed.
After the offering was taken, which |
was to be given to the work of the
Associated Charities, DR.. Sadler !
preached the evening sermon. He
read the 18th chapter of Matthew, !
saying that Raphael had given to the
world of art the most beautiful of !
all his pictures when he put upon
canvas the whole scene as depicted in
the 18th chapter of Matthew. The |
scene of the TRANSPORTATION on the
top of the mountain, showing the |
Master in conversation with the two
prophets and Peter, then in striking
contrast, the great artist painted the |
scene at the foot of the mountain, the
broken hearted parents, the afflicted
child in their midst, the helpless dis
ciples standing by who, because of /
their lack of faith, were unable to |
heal the child; in the background |
were the weeping relatives the whole i
picture showing the ravages of sin; |
5hen in bold relief was seen the figure
Of the Christ who restored the boy
TO his parents and healed him of his
sin. The speaker said it was con-
,eded by many to be the masterpiece
D fthe great artist, as in one picture
ne was able to portray the human
misery of the world cased by sin and
1isobedience and the power of the
Gospel of Jesus Christ to save from
sin and misery.
The pastor dwelt at length on the
.aith that is necessary to accomplish
,hings in the material world as well
as in the spiritual, and concluded by
saying that day by day we are meet
ng sin and misery and sorrow on
every side, and we ofttimes receive
10 help from human sources because
} funbelief, but that Jesus Christ
alone is the One who can save us
rom our sins, and His gospel is the
power of God unto salvation to every Ii