Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1922-05-01
Auditorium Crowded
Odd Fellows Service
Methodist Church

Methodist Church
More than 200 members of the
Odd Fellows and allied bodies at
tended divine service Sunday morn
ing at the Pleasant street Methodist
Episcopal church and listened to an
eloquent sermon by Rev. e. A. Pol
lard Jones. the pastor. There was
also large general congregation,
with the result that the spacious
auditorium was crowded to over
flowing, and it was necessary to bring
in settees in order to accommodate
ALL
Headed by Drew's Waterville
band, the bodies marched from Odd
Fellows hall on Common street to
the church, the members Of Canton
Halifax, No. "a, Patriarchs Militant,
in the lead, with their snowy uni
forms and brilliant plumes. Alfred
am Encampment; No. %. Roy w.
Moore, chief patriarch and Samari-
tan Lodge. No. So, William F. Shaw.
noble grand, followed. The ladies of
Dorcas Lodge. No. Al, Daughters of
Rebekah, Mrs. Clara Frost, noble
grand, marched in the procession.
Features of the service were the
anthem, 20 Be Joyful in the Lord"
sung by the choir, and bass solo by
T. Harold Branch, sung as a response
following the prayer.
In accordance with his custom, Mr..
Jones. the pastor, took no text for
mally announced. but based his dis
course upon the Scripture reading. of
the wealthy young man who came TO
the Master and asked what he should
do to inherit eternal life. Having
said that he had kept the law from
his youth up, he was told to sell all
his goods and give to the poor, and
take UP his cross and follow Jesus,
but went away Borrowing for he had
many possessions.
Mr.. Jones began by saying that
there are some characteristics of
youth to which he wished to call the
attention of his hearers. Youth" he
said. lis energetic, youth is ambi-
tious. youth is attractive" He said
that he believed Christ was a young
man and must have made a very
challenging appeal to the young peo-
pie of his day. Despite the portraits
painted by great painters. showing
the Apostles as aged and bearded
men, he said that he believed the
Apostles were young men. Christ
came to the world with new ideas,
and only young men would appre-
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carry them out.
He was an exceedingly worth
while young man. this young man
who came to Jesus and asked Him
this question, What must 1 do to in
herit eternal life?" We may notice
about this young man, two things
He was dissatisfied; but he did not
have the will to do, the courage to
do. What Influenced him to make
this tragic stand?"
The speaker said he felt that the
young man lacked humanitarian i'm
pulses. He said that there ere three
approaches to the character OF Jesus
Christ: First, that He was God: sec
ond, that He was an historical charac-
ter and no more, like Zoroaster Mo-
manned and the rest; third, that He
was all these. being in Himself an in
termingling of God and man. He said
that he could not explain this ming
ling of the human and the divine and
believed 1t inexplicable; but who else
could have inspired artists and poets
as He has done all down through the
ages? The Young mans fault was in
not understanding the dfnity of
Christ
Does it mean anything to YOU
I cannot understand life apart from
God. No man can understand God
apart from Jesus Christ"
1.-THE second reason for YOU E
mans failure was his attitude toward
eternal life. lie felt that eternal life
wa matter of accumulated merit"
The speaker develope this id'-. SHOW
ing how it was held that the Record
ing Angel wrote down the ac'' of mel.
as If in book. the good deeds on the
right hand side and the bad deeds on
the left hand side. and if the good
overba lanced the bad, the soul was as
sured of eternal life. God judges you
not by what YOU do, but by hat YOU
are" he said.
He drew a comparison between the
sun dial and the watch. The sun dial
operates only in bright sunshine.
When the sun is not shining It is use
less. But the watch tells the time by
day or night. The reason for thtr diff
ference is that the SUN dial is run
from without. while the watch is run
from within. First we M be, and
then We can do
Taking up the phare inherit eternal
life" the speaker asked just what It
is that is a reason fo' inheritance. In
general. we inherit propert:', not be-
cause of what we have done. though
this is occasionally true. but because
OF what we are, because of the fact
that we arc members Of the family.
The larger thing is TO see that God
is the Father Of us all. AMI from the
rathcrh d God, tc see I brother
hood of all men.
What shall do TO inherit eternal
life Recognize t'e Father. recognize
the Christ. then you and ! shall come
into relationship with the Father and