Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1920-02-05
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH


Not being able to hold public services
in the church next Sunday, the pastor
would like to remind his people that we
can still meet. by faith around one com
mon mercy seat. Though we cannot
meet in Gods house, it is still His day.
Let US keep it holy day.
The following order Of service and
sermon are given in the hope that they
may prove helpful in Sundays devo-
tons:
Hymn "Blest Be the Tie that
Binds -
Prayer O, God of peace, whose
chosen reward has in it the gift of
peace, fill our hearts with peace; so that
all that is discordant may utterly van
ish and all that makes for peace be
sweet 20 US forevermore Give us
grace to trust Thee when Thou dost
say, MY peace give Unto you" For
Thy names sake Amen.
Scripture reading Hebrews 12:l-7
Sermon "The Souls Discipline.
Sonship and discipline go together
To be a child of God in this life. 80 in
tricate, so beset and SO full OF change,
must mean discipline, if the beauty anu
harmony of life are to be kept No
child IN any home becomes worthy
without the exercise Of the viii and
wisdom of the father. We expect this
at our hearthside, but when we find il
at Gods also. we wonder Let us get
this law deeply written on our hearts
that there IS no sonship possible with
out ehastisement Hebrews 1881. The
easy path to heaven is not Gods way.
Those who live for what they like. will
grope for the gateway Of life in vain.
A tender hand dspenses 1.-THE
Father of our spirits How glorious
A child endures and profits by discipline
according to its faith in the one who
administers il. II the father has shown
an undisciplined will, selfish nature,
a brutal trait, then the discipline will
be utterly lost. But in our spiritual
realm there is none of this. ure wis-
dom, perfect love are here. tow glad
ly we submit to Him
An infinite purpose direct it The
discipline OF the home, directed as it is
by, at the best, but imperfect know
ledge and insight, is good, but how
much better is Gods, which Directs ua
into His fellowship. The aim through
all is "His holiness, one OF The great
and simple words of our spiritual life.
1t means our separation from The world
and dedication to God. dedication in
which we become like him.
An inevitable tribulation pertains to
1t Not joyous but greviou5 is the GER
titude of soul-life in discipline. How
ever we may expect the gracious fruit.
and tender y we may resign ourselves.
yet grevious is the word We don't
like Christening and nothing will make
il easy. AS God comes Christening is
TRANSPORTED into rest and sweetness.
And only God can do that.
A holy hope may sustain Us in it,
Nevertheless afterwards, thank heaven
there is an afterward That keeps the
toiIer going in every field. lie cult
Yates with infinite patience his rough
acre, watching against the unfriendly
in the living hope Of the afterwards. To
US the fruit will be righteousness. The
hunger and thirst of the earnest soul
is after this fruit and without it there
is no peace. The fruitage is certain TO
'to them that have been exercised
thereby" Verse eleven). If discipline
sours us, makes Us unbelieving, scep-
teal and morose, we shall miss the
fruit. But If It trains US to hope, TO
patience and higher desire, we shall
find it as surely as we feel the warmth
Of the sunshine or the blast of the east
wind. We are licked into grand shape
by the buFerings Of life.
| Doxology.