The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1884-09-30 00:00:00

THE REV. TALBOT °REAVES AT 87. MARY' 8.

The Rev. Talbot Greece. still holds a warm corner
lath, heart, of ht. old parishio.iers, and the announoe-
meat that be was to preacts at rit. Nlary's on Wedoee.
.lay evening was hailed will, deight by many. The
object of the service was to deft,, the oast of the
recent improvements at the perish echoola There
WM/ II large o ingregation an I the serus•,n WM one of
the most impreasive we have ossr.l the rev. gentle-
man deliver, lie tied( for ta it I's ilia ligivii, 3
•liioriona things are spoken iif t ice 0 Zino." After •
few prefatory remark. the praither s al Is there not • .cgion force here. Do wespeak about
Zion, and are her praises in our lip.? There is a vast
amount of foolish conv4raation even amongst Go Is
people, and it were well if we spoke more of the
glories of God's king loin. G Or illy earthly citizen,
are ready enough to boat f the glories of their c ty,
and 'hail we, who aro etc,: as I trust ..f au an 'an
city, shall we have nothing goof to say of Zion? Let
us then avoid much . f 01.1. which to say the Is ori
of it, unprofitable, and -iota y ura. leas mire
cuadog the KI Pri• a id Z m,. U ...ill, re tra clot., the
passage differetitly. rat y hy it oh oil be trauolate
thus—" Glorious things We spoke., to thee, 0 city of
G .d," se if it referee' to the prociato atiou of the
glories of the Gospel to the chivalt on earth, and Cho
songs if the redeemed and the spirit, ot the ju-t
made perfect around the rnrolie. Ani Opine
things are iudeel spoken In the ihurch on earth—
there iv the glorious tiding. that G sl so love,, the
world that he gave His only begotten son, that who-
soever believeth on Him should not perish but have
•verlaiiting life," there is the gracious invitation t
poor sinners to c m, MO Je.ue, and the_gloriotts and
sustaining promiees to God', to pie. Those are the
real glories of the Church. and I w ,u 1 I to God men
in thaw deys ill Mete uoderataudi coneist,
the excellency of the glory of the Coristian church.
Not la ritual, however correct in itself, not in
ceremonies, not even in the Holy Sacraments,
ordained ea they are by Quiet himself, but in the
preaching of the blared an I everasting Gospel. The
architecture of the church may be perfect, the music
etijuieite, and t be ceremonial g ,rgeous and moat pleasing
t th- eye. All will fail to satiety the spiritual toinil,
which h•s li.tenal with delight and sa•idaction t the
" gl iri 0i thi ig4 tba.. au, spoken of Zioa.” There is
yet • third re.oleriog f theist wor,le, a render t.g
which is given by that very able expositor and Hebrew
soh dar, Bishop H ,reay, and it I. his translation that
I will take as the heals of what I have to say. His
translati in 14—" The glories of the wilderness are in
the heavenly Ziira." It is a wonderful thing to
wander through the re amid galleries of some great
national Meeenel with its noble ',estuaries and
eaitiiiiite picture., its c ,stly jewel, and marvellous
works of art. As you wander through the rooms you
are almost ready to say—All the glories of the earth
are hare, but they are but a few perishable things uf
• day compared with all thee) enduring glories, theee
masterpieces of the grace of l; id which are being culls
day by day from the wilderuee4 sod gathered in the
heavenly Zion. I don't wonder that the gate, of the
city are of pearl, that the found itious are garnished
with precious stones, and the very streets of the
purest gold. when I remember all the gl 'rile of the
wilderness are there. Just think if • few of the
glories of the wildernees. Of coon.' the era ',diet
glories of the wilderness In which Israel wendered 40
years were the manifestatio x of G -al to Ills people.
Where are thee gimes now. No longer in the
wilderness? The blessed and true God en or with
Hie people Ia the wildernes, of this life. It would be
a wilderness indeed if our God were not with us. It
is • blessed truth that here Jethl manifests himself to
Hie people although the vi.ible manifeetations of Ilis
glory are gone. No ribekina now rotate over the
:Sanctuary of God, no fiery cloudy pillar guide, the
march of believers through the detest. No,
our G id bee gone up with a shoot ; Hue not here;
IA risen. There we shall see him in the Heavenly
Ziii, no lunges in type and in emblem, no longer
through a glass darkly, but face to face.
That will be the literal bodily vial in. I
cannot tall you how it shall be, or
how it shall be possible that the glorified man, Ohdet I
JOST" 'ball be visible, not ormadonally but perpetually,

to the whole body a His redeemed. But so far, I
ray. we els ill be With him, and we shall see him taco
to face. No doubt it will be chlsfly an intellecousl
dei M. The eyes of odr un•leretending will have been
ealight,nol that we may know what I. tbst hope 0.
our calling. Now we ouly know in pact; how very
,little lite most advanced believers kuow of the glories
• of the Lord Jeans; how imperfect our keowledge ol
he toe. of ; h ovr very in.0df6,,,,t an in-
,nderiuste our views of Ste gloried of our Master. A
eaiio of ol I spent 20 rote in the study of the glory
4 Coriat, &oil when he bat d me he gait toe kites"
0, Mug. Among the glories of the wilderness ar , toe
graciouis supplies t hot seer, provi tot forth. emote of the
PolPle, the heavenly matins, end the water from the rock
that followed them all the days of their lifo—altogether
types of Christ doe Bread of Life. But where are
thew. Miraculouil oupplles now Not to the wildernees,
but, it is true, again that hers by faith the believers
(colon Christ in their hearts with thanksgiving, sod
it is true shut here they &noir of the emitteu Caret,
who is • pereunial string of the Ilio4 Gbust t
oslievert. Rot the visible supplies we n.i longer here.
They must have been very sweet to Isobel, aud I can
almost fancy the people must bare bad a hied of
feeling at regret at the Wee of entering C itsau
because they were to have it.., longer, apl they mho
have hesitated to arum the J Aden, become they would
say—"Toonorrow the manna will come ; we shall no
longer stoop down and driuk of the brook in the way.
which bar refroated an them 40 youth" Too.. glorio
,on no longer In the wilderness, Cerist is no I•inger
here. Eveu in the Lod', supoer we oommemorate
Him aa the absent Lord, and of llis returning a. the
present Lord. It is very noteworthy toe won l which
is used by the Alsoistle• Id• the second c 'ming of the
Lord Jou. Cuba is literelly the presence, ad if lb •
orgasm-xi of Christ were exclusively contiued to the
glori period of the second coming. What a bleaseo
oomfort it is thet all that we bare ever experience I'ii
eartti, ali Ott sustenance and strength flout feeding oh
Cured, 41 the sweet refresionsta, all the burning
thirst aomaged whkla you have ever known on earth,
as you have stooped down to drink of the river to
God's peace as it floured by on: side—all Shia atilt
more than this, yes, • huudred timed more that this I
shall be oars in the heavenly Jerusalem, for there
the Lamb which is in the midst of the Throw @hail •
feed his people, shall lead than to living Montane of
waters, and shall wipe away all tem. trUCt their eye..
But amid the gloried of the wildonedis which are boos
gathered in the beeveuly Zip, we humid forget th
people who me prepared old trained to the snider.
hems ; those who bare lived and loved and Resew
and suffered from the tame of A Mut to Chiba, and
from Utrillt to toe and ate all spothered were. Toe
glorious company of the ap istio, the goodly fellow-
gulp of the prophets, and the noble army of in atyrs.
all there. From age to age, from eaat 'rot, Iwo,
north to south, all the holy and humble melt of
heart are gathered there, a'l who have beau
CW1.11,1[1014 of nip by the El • rood Spirit, and
led to Jesuit, the sunken' Seri me and sub•titute,
and by faitti have laid bold of iris salvoliou —Ad thews-
ere there ; not merely Israel after the Mash, ou,
doutiles al o are gathered into ZWY, tegenerated io
the Courch of Christ and made fell iw citizens with
the :isn't& and household of Get What • wouderiul
variety of character is bere promoted, and all renewoi
iu the blood of the mune S mom. \Vhat a thought it
is that h has gathered into itself all that treat
company of regenerated ones. list what a wonderful
hook the birtheresteter of Zion will be 1 What hausee
of magma mil be there ;won of them mem of parts,
distioguisbed for learuiug, and talent and earthly
genius. Not many such, for we ere loll" Not 03 •131'
wiae, not many ;earned after the doh are oohed,
but rill souse ouch. All sod not dolte sod idiot* also
are Obrietioss. No, the Church of the living Got
GM point to • use of the brighteet epecimeit of
intellect and mighty pilaus as its children. Lief.-
are Soul and Solomon tbere, es well a+
poor Peter with bus fishing nets. nude
are there men 01 powdr, wealth, Mild ibflOgs.4.,
great statesmen, mighty goterads, princes, and gr.,
MOO f the e•rth, wishy gram have tail reedit, •i,
rank, and power at the feet of the King of Ki.g.;
men of piety, bright epecimend Os gm; , hurt., en
ebbing lira., the workinan•hip of Chalet. Surely,
thm, those are tie glories of the wilderured. lbs
grace of G 4 will turn mom from de:kneed to light, soil
from the power of Satan 'auto God ; it can rhos men
from the lowest drip .11141,114.45,0 u and corrupts. is,
to the highest di gra,. of holiness These are the true
glories of tlio wli Idioms. The Ethiopian 'hail have
changed his skiii, and the leopard his s, toe ;
here many • ethnic Idade se soy Ethiopian
I. made white in the blood of the losinb. This is
what r 0,100020 the earth from it• gloom
and its misery. Tbia earth of ours has Cot•
tribute t brighter glories for beaveu than heaven
itself can produce; and wheat events are truce.;
to their causes, and when it is seen where
the mastar-piecee of God's grace hav• ban
faehioowl, I doubt not mealy a lowly church
and many a humble school will be seen to
have been the hirtbidsos of glorious immortal souls,
which shall be through., it all e malty for the praise
and glory of G of. fi Can prootioe au such
glary as the greet multitude which no man can
number of those whi •re redeemed from amongst
men, aid the Lori shall rehrarse when he couutetb
up hie peop'.., ai I whelk Ile uniketh up hie jewels,
He shall ..y T,ia,f air) the glories of the wild.r•
Des.," Andiu lie not Hinton toe gl ivy if the wilder.
hese? We see it when He took mirth! flo.h, we see
it wheu lie became the Inca:Late Otte pottected
through suffering, Heaven's btlitat particular etae. the
chief smoug ten thousand laud the alt' gstlter Mealy
our, the central figure around which all the giuries of
the erilderuees are to be gathered. It is delightful to
think Heaven is culling all these glories !row the i
earth. It must be so wheu we think those who are
near and dear to us are being gathered in, all spoils
if /hn eril.isrness for the enrichment mod *duo.
meet of the heavenly Zion. Surrly it doee
tend to make H in.., real, and present
to our hearts, when we think n it icily that we shall
in heaven mingle with all the saints of G with all
the great and holy who hail bee. redeemed and saved,
but that we shall have firmly clasped to our hearts
those we have known and loved here; that the past it
shall meet those who have Inien given hint I. hid
tu,t•olmlahhieoryieebaleitant.t.to.
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jet, hniblealiamen7:;l:l4llwilalh,'. 11..e.'ediPtbl:etfhtoo.er;
f e'tl.urgmesst and alters-
vice Mr. Boyl 'n Smith,
" Lost Chord" with splendid effect.