The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-02-04 00:00:00

iL 'HETHMEON ON THE *Alija:CT COW**
. . ACCIIWT•

'OW Thursdey visaing the Bey. C. H. Eirt!figeen
preekiserha sermon atahe Tabermiele, NeleMlitalk. nAi
of the funds to be distributed among the bereaved
families of the miners, who met their deaths by, the
recent calamitous aeolitdnt at the 'Weld *fagot vit.
Despite the imfatiottrable weather, the Oise of "Kr.
Surgeon's labours was nearly ; and the reverend
geutletuan's discourse produced, as nay be ill4gitled, a
profound sensation.

Mr. Spurgeon, after a short serviesi,deffivered the
teat of his sernion,,via, the I.4th chap*, Johe.,exld
14th same; "If a man die, ;Mall he live n?" Yea,
in Providence, had been calling their fide to .the
aubject of death, which they were &NSW trying-to
shirk. Each of 1211, mid the preaelier, thinks himself
Immortal •• or if we admit to ourselves Mid we Wiwi die,
we yet seek refuge in the belief that it will not be for a
season. The men of sixty looks forward to year. 01
health and eativity; while even the patriarch who has
numbered eighty plans thinks as he leans uponlde staff,
'that there have been men' who hero lived beyond a
hundred, and asks why may not he be one of mob ?
If we cannel kilt Death we resolve to bury him alive,
and to shut his grisly form from our eyes: But God, in
Providence, is continually thrusting death in our way.
God has spoken to the workers under ground, who are
be aceestomed to be. near death, and not to see him
'thee they grow forgetful of his companionship. By
:smiting down the crowd of atrong num, God in His 1
isifinite wisdom and mercy hes led many thousands
. tis think of the grave and eternity. They were many
Oho died; one was not sallioient. It God had not
spoke in thundering accents, we shouldisaire said it
was • common accident. The rod would havafailed of
at. effect if there had not been to many twigs. The
twit he had chosen seamed to him to be appropriate, but
lie could not tell how it might affect matey present.
Let the,,, take the question in that teat, Mid try to
answer it toripturnfiy. If • man die shall. he Hie
' again? No; yea. •Hs shall not live again as regards
himself, and as regards his relationship to others; he
shall nut live again to repeat his good deeds or his
, evil courses; be shall not live again to make glad his
•hpusehold. Sinner, thou mayst empty the cup el
' drunkenness in this life, but thou shalt never live this
['RIM again. Let the draught be sweet, for it is thy last.
riThins shoat hever live again to go on in thy sine, he
Amy what they may. ••Onsui thou mayM insult ,high
Heaves', but not twme. Thou ehalt not live• main, fo
forget the (lid wholtalik deviated thee with blessings
'litany their are to irking I igeself terdd the rev. *Mitts.
rem) Who hive ionnetisiele moire than onsimen mercies
he thank Godlier having roseivied - Loom His hands.
They have his gram; through the amventatithis word;
and those who mine thither Sunday after Sandal heard
one who, however he might fall in power, tid net want
the will to pour the everltsting Watli into their
hearts. They had 'their lest warning-new: There
I would be no other preacher, 'Whin this life vies twist, to
drop the earnest word of monition. It one their at
time; now or never—now 9r never! Lost in thee, lost
in eternityl Wouldst thou choose to be damned, then
damned thou art. Again thou shalt not live, Again to
harden thy heart, eget° to pass thy time in iniquity.
When yoq are on your deathbed, you may think that
yea would employ the lost time better, were it your. to
mend once inure. -When you have been oast into tho
pit, your pride which has led you there will
,persuade
Itii<tihtahtz ;Lereanydoliitstopulinvisehaganint. on etartnoh, you
It iswowT,l
!iiiie sinner eannot return, for his coarse would be the
-mune. The flames of hell have no purifying influence.
ilheniew;4be twilisivot evil—two lives of unbelief
iffUd red of
Tit If a man die, shall he Bye
_main? 6. ' Aittl` be with the child' d'tillig'sis
'with the !MIME bititie 'once fbught, it Wind tot,.
repeated; the ship crtioV-anfoly brought to harbour is
anchored *ere. As fee Mom poor but, faithful garnish§
tithe Lord who held prayer-ineetings in that dreadful
Ee
, when they were awaiting the choke-dame/which was
'nd their sufferings, it was cruel to wish them alive
1 in. What i brinig bliek. to tittle the victor who
lit Ors the brOwn 1 Whit I bring haektestorm slid tem-
-5.. the mariner WilOda vessel lies in peigeful 'eafety'l
i nk God that the wishesand the rime ',of those
y love canoot bring them iind when a man
shall
diee he all not lire fll'" . CI MeV he
'Would ' tak his •treererii • ' “ Villif "ll*C AIM to
.fike . seeond thought uoder -this beadvf, Pa -others,
the man who has died shell mallet iglidgeiill there
ilrgrO, oos• *MOW. *AO poor ,riniibiti 1100' had
nitegiefited, to teaelt.their ehildinu the. yrepi, 0 right-
,opfutees.the time as. gene for eyer. • If there were any
•,,
~
_=ailiiitd lAe was hopeful that this• vies not so, for he had
ii`tliat for smile ead a half fret* Weet Hartley
1110011-' IMP not a tingle Phblialmage.—but if there
• where who •tomPred *he* fellows to tin, they would
fit, 4. ..emer bee, in toi, , peuttheir evil tesediint. ,It is not
,geeeem,a,, o . , , -Mr. Spnrgeon, tO do intuit in
oWr' to'• tee • • &punishment • ,TIM Way!Oligm
Tditlen Is a r - • one. Itonly .seigniresi
tif duty, velusealtco de the right,tiung indifference-40,
the truth. Sinner, this is , the last life of negligenee
Alma !halt ever live. Thy profane scoffing' and bias-
jaa ndes .hall net he. reuttered. In some cities,
~ erred the preacher, there are men who are clung—
a of corruption ; rather than place • youth in contact
'With (sham, it would be better •to cent him into
King hhibuchadneams'a hrr7 furnetm-- There were
men, too, who boasted the name of infidel lecke?
rho etreve to teach people not to DOT.'
, em lobo& herd, If they mean to subvert above 'II
' e.'• They hive little time to do it M. Well may
'they Wort II night and tay, for the 'hears are few.
, Hushed shall, be• their high words, cold their proud
.hot.. Me revoking, friend lesolmined Mr Spurgeon,
;damming, Binay be belied, an iniaginacykdividual).
jeer, jeke, Point yetii scornful :finger, len persecute
as yb* ,Maj• the Iffethedliks. ' •ft Is 'fiiitYlelit time.
And as with the Moffat,, so with ftwe mart. Thiel
Is ha tithe to pray, the time to draw • kali to wen-
,4;(,, , to cenvert them f rum feleelmetto„ truth.'
Alm minister's duties can only be once. pe meek, and -
rerapt that they be done to the best of iideeingth
n him. Ile often thought that, could he fie &Wired
'the blood of all those 101010 came to him for knowledge
at the way to eternal light, it would be as mach as lie
!bald dare to ask of God. If the watchman warn them
<got, they shall perish, and God shall require their blood
at the watchman s hand. If there could be sorrow•
emcmg the spirits' who throng around the heavenly
'throne, it would be, he thought, beminte they had not
-dew enough for their brethern in this world. Let the
;names of those men who died is the pit at West
,Ilartley, and who were of that religions body known as
;rtinitive Methodists, clothe with perpetual honour the
'title of Primitive Methodism. It was a part of their
'belief that a men might presets the Gospel of Jesus
-Christ without having been at collage. Them whisesead •
'of more each menus Loudon. They bed I re 4•0411. had
we; and he (Mr. Spurgeon) Malattalitted. • e ii
•44011 the
ministers who had preached. for the sp of
converting the poor benighted heathen eohl, lid twenty
;had been of melt serviee as Riehard Weaver: What
teaching had he? Non.; but he spoke iiio troth froinff
his heart--roughly, sad, it reighthe. with ,the greater
Woe.. These rent the men whom GO used to destroy'
jiihb IteMe, With the second pert of his tuliject be
mild deal briefly.. If a man die, ehidl he live again?
I.Pes. He done not die like a dog. He shall five again
In another and a better, or a more terrible land. fie
Abell live agiimin the resurrection of the body. when
all shall rise from the grave and stand before the jadg-:
went seg. 1014 "00 Wl4igh has been dispersed and
mingled ,with other *titers shall be traced by the eye of
God and roamed to its plane. All shall live again in
the flesh; and more than this, they shall live agate, in
wealor woe, in, blister pain, in heaveu or hell. Their
sins and their conscience shall live again too. • Let all
ponder upon that. Who would dare to sit nii for one
hour thatenight, and thiak of his past sins? None.'
Wfiii would dare meet his conscience alone? None.'
.The ameke of time obscured the way; but it would be
‘ blewh aside by the 'blast of death, and show a God in'
arms, from whose wrath 'lt would le too late te fly.
And what was true of the sinner was true of the saint.
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Wife, thy husband who perished by the fatal damp
shall live again, and thou shalt sit beside Him, at the
foot of the eternal throne. Thy children who perished
in the mine shell elso meet thee above. Death, thou
, , t but transphuit the dower, not kill it: Thou takest ;
• ;from. frosts ,and. blighting ,wisida; And
.settest It in:,
Vh and light. where it shell bloom for ever.•l
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tr. 0 aitplitiot . . sermon by say mg
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preach en any. hatsiudi an.oceepien, ein*9lide4:•With an'
elegant-appeal twhis haegem lop. egatelbuthena. -This
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