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THE UNION PRESS-COURIER.
Thursday, July 27th, 1939.
THE SOWER |
A Weekly Department of Religious
and Secular Thought Contributed
by REV. JAMES A. TURNER,
Pastor, A. Church, Patton, Pa
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YOU YOURSELF—PLUS.
It seems to be hard for some people
to realize why regular attendance at
Church 1s essensial to the process of
building a Godlike personalily—even
though they well appreciate the fac!
that in order to build and maintain a
sound, effective and attractive body
they must eat wisely and regularly.
A great American teacher, who is
also a great Christian thinker and lea-
der—Professor William E. Hocking of
Harvard—has written what is called
“the principle of alternation” in life.
He finds the secret of renewal in mind
and strength and the source of energy
for carrying on in life to lie in an al-
ternation of mental employments.
And another great Amercan preach-
that: “The two great
s are WORK
are like the two
a machine. The
er reminds us
complimentary
and WORSHIP. These
3 rasting strokes of
be compared to work; {
the back stroke corresponds to wor-
s@p. Forward and back, forward and
k s the | rod of an engine
ss, Forward and back, forward and
back, a life in sound balance moves. In
ship the mind finds rest, poise, re-
newal; in work the renewed energy |
finds employment. Every life needs
two elements—work and worship.
Jesus is the perfect example of this |
principle of alternation. The busier he |
was, the more he worshipped. After a |
long, demanding day in the midst ot |
crowds, he would withdraw to the hills |
and spend the night in prayer. Before |
important actions he would spend |
much time in prayer. Before Calvary
came Gethsemane. The inner fortifi-
cation of these periods of prayer is
beautifully shown in Sidney Lanier’s
poem. The first stanza begins:
‘Into the woods my Master went
Clean forspent, forspent.’
The second verse describes the ef-
fect that the prayer in the garden had |
upon Jesus:
‘Out of the woods my Master went
And He was well content.’ {
The two extremes to be avoided in|
living are a life that is all outthrust in |
action and has no renewal in spirit!
and, on the other hand, a life that nev-
er spends itself in vigerous activity. |
The first is like a bow that is always |
strained and to taunt; the second is
like a loose bow that is never drawn
tightly for use.
Worship is an unfailing and indis-
pensable means for real recreating rest
for mind and spirit. Just as it is a
blessed rest for tired eyes to lift them
up from confining work and let them
look afar upon new and beautiful land-
seanes: so it is a renewing experience
10 lift the mind from confming tasks
and let it look out upon the reality of
God. That is what Jesus did. That is
what multitudes of his disciples have
done. That is what we can all do.
This renewing power of worship is
well described in the experience of a
ehurchgoer. ‘Every time we go to a
worshipping church, there are certain
great fundamental, and essential facts
of human existence that are brought
to us anew. It is characteristic of our
minds that they need recurrent im-
pucssions continuously to hold a fact.
We may easily become so occupied
with our calling and our personal af-
fairs that we forget what life is all
about. Each time we truly worship we
shall be reminded that we are build-
ing for eternity, and the secondary
things will retire in their places.
If we have, by c:sappointment or
irritation, lost our hold on our confi-
dence in the good intentions of God,
an hour of genuine worship will re-
store our faith. If we have seen or
suffered injustice and wrong so that
the whole world appears to be going
downgrade, an hour of uplifting wor-
ship will renew our hope. If selfishness
envy, or littleness have soured us, we
gannot sincerely contemplate the love
of God shining in the face of Jesus
without coming cleser to the renewing
af lave.
The great result of fellowship with
©od is the creation of PLUS people
—that is ,people raised to their highest
pawers, people who draw upon more
than their individual wisdom or their
strength, people who are reinforced
by the source of all wisdom and all
strength, which is God. A seed dropped
upon the earth is a seed PLUS. It is
a seed plus the infinite resources of
sky and earth, which enable it to real-
ize to the full the possibilities which
are locked up within it.
It is not unreasonable that to real-
ize the possibilities for personal de-
velopment which lie in contact with
God should demand continued atten-
tion and effort. No mastery in any field
of endeavor ever comes by accident.
Consider an orchestra. We are thrilled
by hearing an orchestra render a great
piece of music, yet we rarely stop to
realize the hours of effort which have
gone into that mastery of music. In the
New York Philharmonic orchestra, for
instance, there are five rehearsals a
week ,each two and a half hours in
length, to prepare for three or four
concerts of less than two hours’ dura-
tion. Although the men average more
than twenty years as orchestra play-
ers and know both music and their in-
struments, every work on every pro-
gram is usually rehearsed at least for
once. This careful preparation puzzled
an electrician who had worked on
Carnegie hall for three decades. He
paused for a moment and listened to a
rehearsal of Beethoven’s fifth sym-
phony. Then he turned to an official of
the orchestra and said:
“For thirty years I've listened
to
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those fellows practicing that
phony. Don’t they know it, yet?’
sym-
No, they didn't know it, YET.” Con- |
y on | and labor—are absent. Put your church |
trast with that the frequent neglect of
{ cultivation of the spiritual life. People
| seem to think that religion will
take
care of itself with hardly any invest-
ment of time and care. They bring the
scattered fragments of a fatigued mind
at the end of the day to a few minutes
of mechanical prayer.
So many people give to the church
only the tattered remains of attention
and energy that have been largely
spent elsewhere. When this happens,
the church relationship becomes formal
and indifferent.
Julia Ward Howe once described a
party ‘where everyone seemed to have
| ent,
bes many a church. The body at pres-
but the self—the alert interest,
the investment of sympathy and time
on your program as a ‘must'—a thing
that comes first, that deserves and re-
ceives, not remainders, but first, fresh
offerings of love, time, and service. If
twenty persons in your church would
do this, it would be a freshly real and |
powerful fellowship.” |
PATTON METHODIST
EPISCOPAL CHURCH |
James A. Turner, Pastor.
Church school at 9 A. M. Preaching |
at 10 A. M. and 7:30 P. M.. Mid-week |
Bible Class, Wednesday at 7:30.
Gipsy Smith tells a story of a young |
them
stand
ity,
|
then,
| cher
|
refuse to pay anything to
church for what they get from it, and | year. Every church has such people on
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. They join the Church for the | obligation to themselves.—all the while
ing it gives them in the commun- | they criticise the preacher for not hav-
the | ing called on them every week of the
when they die, expect the prea- | its roll, and they are always the trou-
to come around and preach their | ble makers in the church. God have
| funeral sermon without any further | mercy on their miserable souls!
hundreds of fascinating exhibits. And they find that |
They had an only child to whom they |
were devoted. One night at supper
time a thud was heard on the floor of |
the room above. No harm, however,
was done and the next morning Mr.
Smith chaffingly questioned the little
fellow about the noise he had heard,
who, when asked WHY he tumbled out
of bed,. replied, “Cos I went to sleep
too near where I got in.”
Yes, how many people in the Church
have gone to sleep on their job of be-
ing a Christian and a good church-
member just after they got in,—and
| have fallen out, never come any more,
never pray, pay, or life any burdens,
never think of anyone but themselves |
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and their selfish interests,—and then
blame the preacher, the church and
left themselves at home.’ That descri- | couple with whom he once stayed. | God because things don’t go right with
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