Sermon Preached in the Holy Trinity Cathedral By Dean Trivett at Choral Eucharist Texr:—"Come ye Mark 6, 31 yourselves apart into a desert place ana rest awhile.
desert p ONSIDER the background of this text from St. Mark's Gospel.
The disciples had just returned from the tour of preaching and healing on which they had been sent by Jesus.
They were tired and they were overwrought.
They were id great need of quiet rest, Rest, not only from physical exertion, but rest for) fellowship with their Master.
Fellowship which never failed to soothe and refresh their souls.
And Jesus was quick to see thely need.
"Come apart," he says, "Come away from the thronging crowds that press and question, and beseech you, so that there is scarcely time so much as to cat .... Come apart with me /into a 4 desert place and rest awhile."
Now I believe that this incident may be seen as a parable of all life. "The disciples had been sent out on duly into the surrounding villages, and when their tour of preaching and healing, their duty, was finished, they come back to report and to rest. Back for a fresh commission, and for strength to undertake it. And we too have been sent out on duty; we too have our commission. We do not see life in its true meaning and perspective, unless we see it as a divine appointment. We go out into the world in our everyday life ab) his command, just as really as did the disciples to whom our text refers 1900 years ago. Whether that work be with our head or with our hands, in office, shop, or factory, it is the "work God has given us to do. We are his servants entrusted with talents. Not only clergymen are Ambassadors for Christ, and have a divine commission; all are under his appointment.—all mussy witness for him.
"The Lord's Supper one enters here. It has been set apart and hallowed for the worship of God. And surely there has been an added hallowing by the earnest devotion of the many thousands who have worshipped here, and now from beyond the veil, come bark to join in our services. All day long the Cathedral stands open, and-I would premise that God never fails the earnest seeker here. He waits to reveal himself when you come shutting ow the world, and its cares, for a few minutes. If you do not know this experience will you not come and make trial of it?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.