Show INSPIRATION IN INI I WORK ORK Of CHURCH Clyde Van Der Delivers I Sermon at Westminster Church Clyde E E. E van der dor of oC Chicago who has hos been traveling for the past three years throughout hout this continent in the tho Interest of oC Christian Endeavors occupied tho the pulpit for tor Rev He Dr C. C C. C yesterday Ills subject Was v The Tho Inspiration Point of or Our Church Work and Church Life LICe This mountain top of ot fellowship Is III the place we wc can cnn seo see most plainly tho time I worlds world's needs it Is the tho place whore you behold tho time vision of or possibilities which God has opened before us as ns Ills His disciples And AntI I believe bellove my fellow fel fei- low bow Christian worl yorkers workers ers that this Is what Is needed In our do day It Is not enough to be willing to do things for Cor Christ it Is nut not enough to be willing willingto to servo 0 upon some committees that mo may bo be congenial to our tastes When Ananias came to touch the time scales from the eyes of ot Paul you ou re remember remember re- re member he lie said The God Goll o of our fathers has chosen thee that thou know Ills will and see seo time the Just One and hear the words of Ills mouth for tor thou shall be Ills witness unto all men maca Seeing anti and hearing and knowing come comae before doIng doIng do- do Ing big fellowship always precedes service sort sen ice In the tho divine plan Elijah was chosen to abide by the dry brook and amid those marvelous visions which ColI followed fol fol- I lowed bowed wed were the Inevitable results I desire to call all your attention to three timings things connected with this his life of ot fellowship In tho the first place ploce I 1 would that we e ml might ht know what It Il means to Him to Him to Jesus Christ In Iii Inthe Inthe the 1 It Is written The Time Lord pleasure In Ills His people The Hebrew w word woid Ls is It H m means to pasture The Tho Lord pastures 1 with Ills people yet vet et He lie does not t withdraw I behind th the curtains of ot time the celestial palace and L make lunko for Cor Himself banquets of ot splendor In th time the first tint chapter of ot the thi Son Song of Solomon the is asking where th time the h heavenly t a bridegroom and lh th thy y hear If It thou l not not thou fairest among women go 10 I thy mill h WU way by bythe bythe bythe the footsteps of at the hit lock flock That Is 18 where you will wilt find Him THin that's where lie He that's where the Master blaster gets Ills joy joyS by the time of ot time the lock flock the tho Lord pas pastures pasture lure with IU Ills His people peo peo- pie How much It must have meant to Jesus during his earthly life lire to lo have the companionship at or those chosen choson ones He ITO was wa a t true man just justas JustI as human as yoU vou are lIe He longed for tor I lie He was hungry for tor lov love Those chosen ones did not understand niJ I Hint When hon Ho most needed sympathy I they had none nonO to give but bitt He lie know I they loved Him They had hall forsaken all else elso to become His disciples 8 they had chosen rather to be Ills 1118 friend I Ah what cheer It brought to Ills His hen heart rt Would you bring Him Jo joy Jov would you OU cheer Ills his heart hearl Let hUm Him know that He lie can trust you that there thero Is hI I nothing In nil all the world dear ilear enough to oc me between you OU and amid him Him Wo Vo have been hlen ordained i In the time life liCe of ot fellowship hlll And then I 1 wish we might t understand land something of or what this fellowship will bring to us In Iii I time the first place th there le Is security we shall be safe as long as we abide with him Peace follows closely upon the tho heels of security When hen we wo have havo opened tho ho door t to- to toone one tho thio other r Is upon tho time doorstep and each has imas a philosophy nfl all Its Us own Many Ian of or us its know little of crt Its experience because we vc have huv not mastered Its lH philosophy Here HerC It lEi is Ephesians the time second chapter chap chap- ter tor the fourteenth verse Ho lie is our JUl peace pence Is IN Himself ant and we cannot have liae It without having hu Him We e e struggle for tOI penco we strive for tor or peace i we toll toil antI wo we fail tall There Is I only ono Oft wa way 1 Fix ix your hearts upon Jesus and as silently as the sun lifts the hit water at or the time sea lIe Ho will lift you 1 0 away from the tho world In the tho spirit of life lire and thou though h your life will wl be lie filled with lolls bibs for Cor Him through them all you IOU will 1 lie t resting as calmly almly as asa asa a u child on Its mothers mother's r l In tile the third place there thelO I 10 Is zeal eal Do I you Ol remember the time two disciples on the time I way to Tho Time had hoel died down In their heart but when the stronger drew trow near arid and BpI appeared ap Bp- ap- ap to them tho n to stir lIr themselves n tin as the they would In Jn the tho I vo when the tho drafts are arc turned on tin nail and In iii n II utile while thc they worn were nil all aglow antI And what made mode time the difference difference differ differ- ence It was vas time the sight t of Ills His t face rt no l it was 8 the music of ills His voice oice lc It wits tho time mighty Impulse of oC being with Him It Is IJ tho timo burning heart that makes eager lips hips nail ami there Is only one ono place where you will over had find it Jt and that thatIs Is In the time presence In tIme the fellowship of oC Jesus Christ and there Is la trans trans- formation The TIme goal oal o of life and mind is a worthy worth ambition the thc human heart could not Feel Teel feel a 0 nobler aim cannot be conceived |