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Show CHURCH WAS CROWDED TO LIMIT . GREAT AUDIENCE AT PRESBYTERIAN PRESBY-TERIAN SERVICES. Special Musical Program a Much Appreciated Ap-preciated Feature Sermon Second in Series. The services In the First Presbyterian Presby-terian church were a very great success suc-cess last evening. The pews were all crowded, ono hundred and twenty-Mvo chairs wero placed wherever there could be any space found for them, and the vestibule was filled with people peo-ple standing, after some had been turned away. Mrs. Wade was at her best, and fully sustained the best hopes or her audience. Seven difficult harp solos were triven. and nil of a hiirh rii mot, jj not do, as in self denial, neither 1 it measured by what we do, in seir cm-turc, cm-turc, but is measured by the amount of Chrlst-liko service, strength ami good which we Impart to our day and place. Thero is an open-hearted ant cheerful posltlvoness about tho present-day typo of Christian ideal that speaks volumes for the real strength of tho Christ life. Herein la tti great helpfulness of the present church. It lies in its new and settled conviction that a church member am Christian shall be measured by no less a standard than that of a positive, overcoming, community uplifting hie In short a life that produces result. The rpFiiltn which accrue from tbn Htandard of Christianity as all ol?e u measured by its fruits. It render it impossible to make the church a rl-a! for self and evil for it I the life and rot the membership which is of value, and it places the individual Christian in an environment of demands that compel his continued growth. of harp music. Miss Mitchell sang Roma's "Resignation" with much leel-ing. leel-ing. Rev. Carver spoils briefly In part, as follows: The theme of the evening is one or direct conflict with tho two strongest trends of human nature, 6elf hate and self love. If it seems strange to any one that hatred for self should be accounted ac-counted one of life's BtrongeBt trends w have but to point to the many centuries cen-turies when the hermit and monk were well known se one of the most powerful factors of human lire. The well known fact of tho great rule or tho famous Chartreuse Monastery Is an excellent illustration of this. Saint Bruno the founder made silence ono of th laws of his order. He believed that the tongue was to bo used only in the service of God and not for tne everyday conversation among men. This aptly illustrates the fundamental idea of self-denial when carried to an extreme. Speech is the means of all knowledge, and the vital factor In education edu-cation and civilization and to retus Its many blessings because it is of-tlmes of-tlmes the Instrument of sin was folly itfclf. But nevertheless, th old idea of the hermit Is still visible in its ol-fect ol-fect upon the governing ideas of today to-day Many of the standards of character char-acter and religion are of a purely negative ne-gative order. It la what one refrains from that with many a one determines Christian worth. On tho other hand, the peoples of Greece have given to the world an entirely different test or worth. With them culture was tho great purpose and aim and all of their ideals centered to a -degree In selt levo." Thoygave to the world a new-standard new-standard when they made worth to consist in what you are in yourself rather than what jou refrain from doing. do-ing. It must be confessed that when Jesus Christ came he more nearly conformed con-formed to the Idea of culture than to the Idea of restraint as being the vital factor fn tho formation of life. He clearly considered all of our endowments endow-ments as God given and for a purpose as His great parables upon the "talents" "tal-ents" and "pounds" clearly teach. And yet for many years the negative virtues vir-tues rather than the positive ones have ruled his church. In proof of this you have only to recall how many of the "negative ' Christians you have met who have In speaking of their Christian work spoken spok-en chiefly of that which they had given giv-en up for Christ, as If !t were enough to measure th Christian ideal by that which it Is not and does not do, nnd never think at all of that which it fhould b of added service and work tor the one near or far who really needs help. The life of Jesus Christ is a very great example of a llfo being Judged by results. He was not satisfied with those who believed in self-denial as an extreme, nor with those who wero devoted, de-voted, to a world of selt culture. Uotn 1 Pharisee and Sadducee found serious fault with him. His was pre-eminently a life to bo Judged by Its positive results. Now each of those trends fall in that f they forget the very' first social and religious responsibility taught lu the Bible; namely, tho fact that wo. are our brothers' keepers and cannot, as servants of Ood, neglect this Important Import-ant responsibility by cither extreme denial or culture. 1 Therefore, we today have a new I and more virile trend nf Christian Hie ! which Is not mcasurca by wnat wo iio.or |