The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, May 25, 1905, Image 7

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THE TULTIT. A BRILLIANT SUNDAY SERMON BY " REV. DR. NEHEMIAH BOYNTON. Subject: The Meaning of Christian Service Brooklyn, N. Y.?A large audience greeted the Rev. Dr. Neheiniah Boynton. the pastor-elect of the Clinton Avenue Congregationalist Church, Sunday morning, to hear his first sermon in his new pulpit. The subject of the sermon was: "Christian Service." The text was from Mark x:43-44: "Whosoever would become great among you. shall be your minister; and whosoever - - - ~ * ? ?11 u* ?? would be nrst among you, suuu ue &tivant of all." Dr. Boynton said: * Jesus never questioned the proposition that it was a fine thing to be great. He had no small jealousies to nurse. But He continually emphasized the declaration that it was a finer thing to be first, and, to His thinking, greatness and primacy were not synonymous terms. In our clumsy English it is not easy to indicate the distinction in the text between the "minister," who aspires to be great, and the "servant of all," who becomes first; it is the difference between the mere waiter, who serves with one eye on your need, the other ~ on your tip, and the bodyguard, who has committed himself unreservedly to i your interests and who is happy alike in life or death if only, like the Japanese, he can have the honor of serving the Emperor. So Christian service is the first thing in the world; it is greater than the great thing. The outstanding characteristic of our age has been and is the realization that the universe is one; it is God's world, it is Christ's world; that the spirit is one; it is God's spirit, it is Christ's spirit; that the Christian service means nothing less or more than taking Christ's spirit out to Christ's world and installing it. All that is in YOlVeU 1U ILUS LLll?*ii LJr VUUtC^lliuu ns do not yet comprehend, for "the new age stands, as yet, half built against the sky," but it is easy enough to see that the struggle of the day in presence of the mighty and impressive changes which are transforming modern life is to match the growing world . and the widening universe, with a genuine. circumferential Christian spirit, putting the noblest Christian science In play "far as the course is found." Beyond this, it is equally evident that ^ the supreme challenge to the church is to accept and to appropriate, faithfully and fearlessly, all revelations and revisions, which the many sided truth of the unity of God's universe illumines and installs, for the church will have lost her mission and her influence when she is content to be a camp follower trailing along in the r?ar of the advancing legions of the Lord of Hosts.: The peril of small conceptions of the ! superiority of Christian service is many times most imminent where His presence is least suspected. A brave and aspiring spirit will pray most ear* nestly for deliverance from this pestilence that walketh in darkness and i destruction that wasteth at noonday. I One's spiritual ability is bounded by his horizon and his service is intimately related to his sight. The" soul which has settled into the comfortable conceit that the faith has once for all been delivered to the saints, that spiritual ministry for to-day is but a repro duction of the type and method of yesterday, may indeed be contented with its conclusion, but its ability to minister effectively to the present day kingdom of God is shorn of adequacy, little conceptions make little Chris " tians: large conceptions make large Christians. Dr. Peabody is voicing a ringing truth when he declares that a great heresy of modern Christendom is in" residence in the belief that life is a ship composed of watertight compartments, in one of which we work, in another study, in another play and in another worship. The great inclusion of life, the permeating power of the divine spirit, the wideness of God's mercy, the depth of His love, the breadth of His interest, the inevitableness of His will, the absoluteness of His law, these furnish a perspec* tive for an attentive spirit, in the vision of which the meager and petty are overlooked and the promised "woni drous things of Thy law" gleam and glisten like the flash of the harbor light against the blackness of the night! Christian service needs the snap and stimulus of the great idea of the unity of God's world to get it in possession of its comprehensive chance, so that while we feel a kindling sympathy with the wide visioned martyr, praying as the flames licked his feet, "Lord, open Thoi> the King of England's eyes," it is in order for us to pray for ourselves the heroic petition, "Con* sider and hear me, O Lord, my God; lighten mine eyes." t If, however, the time of Christian service is related to small conceptions, the prerogative of Christian service is certainly to introduce the same to great and masterful ones, and to teach it to find its choicer fellowship as it does its mightier inspirations here. Pilate's question, "What is truth?" is perQD Ht xo-uaj". IS II U Iliac cuumu^ assembling and formulation of facts? There it is a cold, inert, useless thing. Is it a glowing faith, a vital, personal, absolute experience? There it is warm * with a divine fire and instinct with a j glowing anticipation. Henry Drummond marked that day with a red letter when he ceased to 1 ignore truth as mere propositional wisdom and began to realize it as perceptive wisdom. He declares that he had almost finished his college course before he had any other conception of Christ than that He was a theological conscience in the interests of the Trinity. But the day came when the eyes ot his understanding were opened, and ( he came to know Christ. Not as ab' stract but as concrete truth. Not as related to life philosophically by a ^ series of dreary propositions, but as f* implanted in his own life vitality by a personal friendship, which deepened with every trial, widened with every experience and heightened with every aspiration. Then he wa6 recognizing truth as a spirit that Drummond began those tireless, fearless, splendid ser' vices which made more than one discriminating observer declare him the towering and outstanding Christian of his generation. v Nor will the Christian service which Incarnates the truth be long beyond the quickening influences of sympathy. No j** man liveth unto himself and when the man tries to he always makes a sorry job of his life. "I want to have something to do with the material world," exclaimed Hawthorne, when by the loner and brilliant cultivation of his imagination he began to feel his isolation from humanity. "There is nothing so% horrible," he wrote to Longfellow, "in* this world as to have no share in its joys and sorrows." The reason why the fingers of much that is called Christian service are all thumbs is because while much is given, little is shared! Sympathy always has something to divide, not mereJy something to do. The boy Fichte had a struggle in conscience between his school books and his fairy stories. It was a great day for him! Any boy's first struggle is! But the man in the boy won the fight and in order to establish himself beyond the possibility of a lapse, he threw his book of fairy stories into the brook. His father, a precise, unimaginnf,-,./, si + ; fni cnul cuti* tho hp.TIl UltUl* r, UUUiUl CVUi? OU ?? iMV tiful book floating away and proceeded to thrasli his conquering boy for his wanton destruction. That is about all many fathers appear to know how to do effectively! What a wonder he did not spoil his boy! What a boon a bit of appreciation, of sympathy would have been to the suffering* but victorious lad. He needed bread and his obtuse father gave him a stone! The father could do what he thought was his duty, but he had nothing to share with his boy. He was a monumental parental failure! Large Christian service is always in quest of the joint of sympathy; it makes its alliance with what is, helping it to what it ought to be. and avoids the folly of inverting the divine order! This type of helpfulness may be meager in its ability to do, but is forever finding to its unspeakable joy that it has a boundless store to divide! Sharing sympathy is an infinitely more royal privilege than donating cast off clothing, or stale food, for "if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, but hath not love it profiteth me nothing!" Sympathy as an elective of Christian service forever pushes a soul on toward democracy. Surely one may confess with Lowell that while his tastes are with the aristocrats, his convictions are with the people and yet, like Lowell, he forever more and more pushed into the very heart of humanity and glory in the push, too! The preacher who confessed to a friend that he loved to preach dnd who was met by the stinging, searching question, "Do you love the men to whom you preach as well as you love to preach?" felt the thrust of the sword between the joints of his harness, which sent him to his study to fall upon his knees and passionately pray that he might be delivered from his temptation to love his sermons better than he did souls, preaching better than persons. The appeal of humanity must outstrip that* of homiletics. Christian service to-day must be immersed in the democratic spirit; its mission is to humanity?humanity as represented by Ellis Island, also by Clinton avenue: by Greater New York, also by the lumber camps of Michigan. Every man is a son of God. Every woman is a daughter of God. Go, find your man, and by the shining truth in your soul, by the sympathy in your honrf- hr thf* linmanitv in VOUr out stretched hand, make him believe that you seek not his, but him. This?this alone?is Christian service! Christian service after this fashion becomes at once an interpreter. It makes a Gibraltar out of a disadvantageous position; it transforms an ordinary, commonplace ability into a shining angel of privilege and achievement. Everything counts; all things work together. Because the world is one and the kingdom one , nothing is lost nothing trivial, nothing inconsequential! It makes a man grow tall and strong and confident to really believe the constant assurance of Christian service, that .AH men ignored in me This was I worth to God Whose wheel the pitcher shaped. It is to such service, broad, true, sympathetic, humanitarian, Christian, that we commit ourselves to-day; it is in such service that we expect to find our privilege and joy, and from such service that we hope to demonstrate the reasonableness of our united en! deavor. Mute Testimonies. j A little daughter of the tenements, whose mother was done at last with the work and worry that had 'killed her, was left at fourteen years of age with four younger ones to mother and nurse." And, faithful to her trust, she scrubbed and washed and cooked and mended, until the slender shoulders bent and the thin face grew white, and almost before anyone noticed much the little broken life lay waiting for release. "I haven't been able to do anything," she whispered to her favorite girl friend, who lived just around the corner. "I couldn't go to school because of the work, or to Sunday-school because it took all father could spare I to keeD the others in clothes. When | the minister came to see me, he said I'd soon see J&sus, but I'm afraid I haven't done anything good, and I don't know anything to say to Him." "And you needn't try to say anything," said the other, "not a single word," kissing the pitiful little face. "When you see Him look at you, you just show j Him your hands." Jait as We Are. We have read of an artist who saw in the streets of Rome a beggar so utterly abject and forlorn that he hired him to sit for his picture, as a typical beggar. The next day he came to him, quite transformed. He had hired the clothes of a companion, in which to have his portrait taken. The artist did not recognize him; and on learning that he was the beggar he had hired, he said: "No! I hired a beggar, and him just as he was, or not at all." Christ, for a different reason, founded on the very constitution of our nature, wants us just as we are, without any I effort at self-transformation, that the new creation may be "to the praise of the glory of His grace." (The Sabbath Essential. At a service held by the department of religion at the World's Fair on a Sunday in September a Chicago Jewish rabbi made this statement: "The Sabbath is, and has been, the workingman's aalvation. We may differ on the manner of its observance, but its essential importance and its Divine mission in the universal scheme of things cannot be ignored." \ HAD. BOMB IN POCKET. Assassin in Warsaw Stumbles Causing Deadly Explosion of Missile Which He Carried. i A workman who was trying to avoid the observation of two detectives on i Miodowa street in Warsaw, Russian Poland, Friday, at noon, stumbled 0& the curb of the sidewalk and a bomb which he was carrying in his pockets exploded, killing the workman ana both detectives and wounding twentythree persons. It is believed the bomb was intended for Governor General Maximovitch who was expected to r?acs thA snot on his Wftv from the cathedral, where he was attending the service in honor of the czar's birthday. The bodies of the victims were literally blown to pieces. A cafe near the scene of the explosion was en? tirely demolished, all the windows in the neighborhood were smashed and a lamp post was torn out of Cie ground. The man who was carrying the bomb has been identified as a Polish shoemaker named Dobrowski, a member of the violent section of the socialists. Many arrests have been made since the explosion and the police are busy making house to house searches. This Is the sixth occurrence of similar character in Warsaw since the January disturbances. The editors of ' Polish papers in Warsaw have decided , to publish, if the censor will permit j it, strong articles denouncing such at- i tacks. i It is stated Governor General Max- { imovitch recently received an anonymous letter threatening that as he j had allowed men, women and children j to be shot down on May day, so he < would be killed with his wife and children, the writer adding that even remaining within the castle would not save them from that fate. The governor general had recently i v Deen tnreaienea wun a uouiu acutun., particularly since the May day dis-" turbances. The police accordingly exercise the greatest vigilance whenever he leaves the castle. After the officials had entered the cathedral, the detectives observed a poorly dressed man loitering on Miodowa street. When the man saw the detectives he ran towards the entrance of a confectioners store when he either tripped or threw the bomb backwards at the detectives. The explosion occurred only a minute before the people commenced to pour out of the cathedral. Three minutes later the governor general would have passed the spot. OYAMA BEGINS ADVANCE. Strike at Russian Right is Planned by Jap General. According to advices fror^ Manchuria the present truce is' expected to be broken by the Japanese. They are showing every evidence of preparation to assume {he offensive, constantly shifting positions and pressing the Russian left, where the cavalry forces are daily exchanging shots. The demonstration on the Russian left, However, is prooaDiy oniy a ieinc to cover the real stroke at the right. This is thought more probable because of the care with which the Japanese are screening the movements on their left, using Chinese bandits freely for this purpose. The attempts of the Russian scouts to pierce the curtain have not been successful. A dispatch received in St. Petersburg from Gen. Linevitch says: "A small detachment of the enemy May 16 occupied Yando pass in front of the armies. The Japanese also attempted to occupy Shahotse, but were repulsed and retired southward. The same day the Japanese approached Honsukhu, about six miles south of Taul, but were forced to retire." MATCH COMPANY PAYS UP. i I Alabama * Compromises License . Contention for Sum of $2,500. The suits which Alabama had 1 brought against the Diamond Match company for $20,000 for doing business in the state without having paid the fee, were compromised at Montgomery Friday by the payment to the state of $2,500. TO ARBITRATE ROAD'S VALUE. Seaboard's Tax Returns Will Be Submitted to Board. Comptroller General W. A. Wright or Georgia has assessed the valuation of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad company's property in the state at a total of $1L136,000, or nearly $4,000,000, more than the company's retitrn fnr UHSi. vuiu *?v?The Seaboard has reduced its returns this year, as compared with l&M, by $2,540,000, claiming that it was paying taxes on too high a valuation. The matter will now go before an arbitration board. BLOOD FLOWS IN MACEDONIA. J Sixty Killed In Fight Between Turk* and Insurgents. An encounter between Graeco-Maco* donian bands and a strong Turkish detachment is reported to have occurred in the district of Langidina, in Macedonia. Eleven insurgents and fortynine Turks are reported to have been killed. PATIENT. Physician (looking into his anteroom. where a number of his patients are waiting)?Who has been waiting the longest? Tailor (who has called to present his bill)?I have, doctor; I delivered the clothes to you three years ago? Glasgow Evening Times. 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J., Feb. 17, 1900; ""he amount of rice produced in Siam has increased enormously. ITCHING SCALP HUMOR Lady Suffered Tortures Until Cnred by Cuticura?'Scratched Day and Night. "My scalp was covered with little pimples and I suffered tortures from the itching. I was scratching all day and night, and I could get no rest. I washed my head with hot water and Cuticun. Soap and then applied the Cuticura Ointment as a dressing. One box of the ointment and one cake of Cuticura Soap cured me. Now my head is entirely clear and my hair is growing splendidly. I have used Cuticura Soap ever since, and shall never be without it. (Signed) Ada C. Smith, 309 Grand St., Jersey City, N. J." Russia in Europe alone has an area of 2,000,000 square miles. The Little Huckleberry that grows alongside our hills and mountains contains an active principle that has a happy effect on the bowels. 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