The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1879-11-25 00:00:00

LECTURE ON "CONSECRATION."

Under the auspices of the Young Mln's Christine.
Aeweciatloo. th, Its. IL II Aeon. of Wel...nab. delivered
• lecture a: Altiegton Roll, on Towday evening. The
Rey. T. Neat. ,alle.l to the chair at the earnest
request ni the peasident of the Mr Curate.
Mr. Nerve rekticed that they were wet on a perfectly
uneectarian pi•uorni, &net he congratulated Um anode..
lion on havt.oe eetaltl shed a series of mach nieetinne...

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The Its Lscruese peemmed they ex :ward something
betweeu a rermon and a lecture, and that would be the
st erecter of hie address to-night. Hie subject-" Con-
sentetion"-eal not polisher, but he had not come to
plies, or amuse, or to give hut an hour'. pastime, he
came to do 110..4 in the name of the Masao. But the
subject loot (own., pre-tical import mite aiid to mot
ti 'o Ur up their pure urinate by say of remembr au: ."
The nine:tile if tio-cial tounecr•Lion runs thread:toot all
rortldtiou. lie. ever love onfortel with Dilfbie authori. y,
awl ever 11. ba I iti pima, in reit. bus seiaticr. Bat it has
hem, subject to pro.ariveive derelouneent ; t•ke a very
conapicuoue imitation oansecraten-When Noah tint*
out et the 'irk, loAnd • thO 1.1141 V, ant 101 l Ito het •
with entrusted to bus itemandine ..re than liii tinergice,,
what did hot To., first en of the man wto a., tonia en
altar unto God, awl to offer on it the but tif what he had.
Its proceedu to attempt toe work which 04 lied put upon
bon by an art of special conetmation. 8.14 the lecturer
-" Yount teen, if yoli are g to do work for 0015 t,,,
at success by cons...retort, .100% welt CO. •iteee.a."
When Moors warn to lead out the children of ',real
aly,y wen, to otroet:t.t..o to best of what they had
unto the Lord. And thet rule ought to he in forte now,
Ivo uusht tot .Metrate of our aubetance regularly to G el.
When David wish:a to :nal the temple, although he miss
not allowed to do it, be and his people ciinnectateid large
quantities. of their vdluable ihiot• to the service, and we
iieglit to do v., in the spirit it evid when he saiii-'' All
thouu c .me of Tat e, and Tot 013 eon i •ve hi, is
Thee." Bit :he prnic.ple bus tubo more with the
comeerate.• of men than of substance. God has in till
time+ required the consecration of moo, take for instont •
Abraham, who was • consecrated m .e, and Isaac, Jacit,
and J in. ph, Alone anil Air in, wi•r • all consecrated turn.
WWI flee N hick from nit work, he no, a men slow of
„I Is 4 I.e tee, allowed to yleld to his own
timiday, he w.dild never have filled the pl.we among our
etainples thet he And (I el :els, chom a whnle
Poled... Israel, that thiough them h.. Ilis
word to tbe whole world, and oat of them he chase •
special tribe, Lot,to the prieetheol. Thu necoeity of
consocritiou Is entorenl mere paeticularly in the teachingi
of the New Testament, tho Lord Jesus C iriot riquired
dwiplee to give up all, their bosh. aLd nets might well
I:It when the "teeter called. There ere many tomes
who would like :0 le called and considured Cons:lane, hut
they shrink thou the self-denial which cloy? Ill.{ practise
before they can enjoy the foil I.lnsing of the reword.
When Jesus was tirayint -end men ..ro morn emphatic
when praying-Ile mid, "For their sakes I sanctify
myself (sit myrrh apart) that they :deo tiny he sanctified
lathe truth." Yea, and we shall it, Ow it,, of JOllOll
the pattern and the power ul consecrati... If Ile
is our lij,ct we are consecrated, if we are trying to
follow Hun we hare this ...itineration. Paul beseeches
his converts, In the weed... "To yield themselves living
ma-radon" Ho tells Christian men and women that they
individually are temples of (Lel, and the common idea of
a temple is that it is a holy %Mug, • iodic • if woeship, not
to he perverted to base passions, hut a place where He,
'leaning in the devout soul, makes it • holy ground.
Every Christian thou ehould tate to it that in thought, in
spirit, in action, in passion, even in fancy, hole the temple
of God. You must not go and deal with the temple of God
as though it were a human proPertg, to be toyed with at
will. Peter teaches the same thing; he writes of
hell ***** as a royal priesthood, a holy nation, to offer
tip spiritual sacrifices The offering of sacrifices •
d we not depend upon the minister, the whole of God's
people an to offer up spiritual eacrincee He wonted
them to ains at living the bother Christian life-personal
intone, consecration to God-be asked no separation from ,
lawful business; but if they had anything not quite I
laid al give :tap at once, and the sooner the better. The I
instences are very few in which a Christi= man ought to
give up business, under the sunPoettion that it may
minieter to their larger usefulness, or fuller development
of Christian if,. What the world weinta now•a-days is
Christian men of busizims, who will by means of their
business spread the Kingdom of God. He saw • young
man who bat a good opening before him, who enters on
his business, and he as. him day by may with bowed
hneis censecraticig himself and his business to Christ,
and he saw angels waiting to hold him up and take care
of him as he tried to obey the command-" Commit thy
way owe the Lord, trust also in Him, and He shall bring
It to pass." There was asked of then, no abendonment of
healthy lawful pleasure, he could not conceive of a=
trustful Christian man failing to lee glad. But he
them-Let the pleasures be in subjection to piety; don't
be carried away by the intense excitements to many
seek after ; best let th• pleasures be reasonable,
moderate, and healthy. Nor did consecration cut them
off front neociation with their fellow-men; the monk
does not glorify God, but let us associate with our
fellow-men and spread the tauth of God among them.
Only .4 to nosily withdrew yourselves from man ;
but treat all men as brothers fur Christ's sake, who Is the
Elder Brother. In work or play, in thought or action, in
eorthip or in coinmoo Wit, In great events end little
detail.. eve that you do al. tiir Christ. Did you think it
would fa easy to he • Clid•tian I Ah I that has bean
found to Is mistake :if we are to follow Jesus, are we
' g ring to iroc.iate ohMehlriea when 1.0 had go many I Th.
.11 fr.on the furnace ourlfiet by the heat, the
pe▪
rfume often visit. from the flower when it is erniahod,
the 14'111144 bolo the grape when it is bruised. He
▪ la, le toe ,t-.,crate thanes-Ives in the spirit of the
hymn- .