The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1882-06-20 00:00:00

THE ENV. J. WOOD_AT GLOUCESTER.

STREET CHAPEL.

Very numerous attendances on Sunday lest, at this
handsome chapel, welcomed the appearanne of the Rev. J.
Wool, from Reeding, ao the socepted pastor of the church,
and preacher in the stops pulpit. summer to that width
wee filled for so many years, @Mending hack into dim sod
Sabatini ages. in St. Nichols...street All but the most
ignorant have beard the history of Bra opium. ladepen•
dency, the principle which its supporters clam wee betel
on in the times of the apostles—that the chuteh.s bed the
principal part to do In selecting or adoptiog their urini.ters;
th, subject had been remedy lectured on exithoetively at
tilooeseter-etreet chapel, and we gath an ample report Is
this Telegrees. As to the pert the St Richwine chorch, 4
which the Gloocester-strest one Is the survivor, if It be
seesesary torsos I that, it will no doubt be don. at some
of the meetings which will be held for reonenitien of the
Rev. J. Wood. Fle appears to be of about ord ile ass,
and his calmness wherewith • VIM large ommend of
language, we may say of eloquenos. is tempered. may show
that be has alm mimed the emit 'sweet with which one
Goosed, the bill. In the coarse of the 'venial' eery ice, be
asked the coneree•tioe all "to say Amen after the
Prayers, that there might be • more real impression of
the prayers being offered by ass for the whole.
This request was partially, and it struck as
as timidly, teamed. for LarierCate—the bee adon—
Ooniregattoseliste) are very of &anything which means
to verge on a4m. Perhaps . Wood may have more
sower In settles the Ames suite at theme of the hymns.
In the evening he chess hie text from—John sit, 1010 Ilk
the media senteacia evokes to being—" Sir, we would see
Jesus." We eon ,rstebeets of the discourse.
The preacher oorourrocied t
MI dear freed'. I think there teens thing that we are
all VIT, desirous of —that laths& to all our works. Inherits,
oratinse, and en I them with lieu. Claret, Christ I. the
object of the Obristiarislove, and Es is the ohj et, 1 bops,
of our onion together as pastor and as pimple. I chose
these words simply to guarantee. if that he vestige, that
we bind onreelves for 066 simple thing, to reach Obeid,
to love Christ, to seek* Ms the end and object of our
=I am aware that the "preaching of Imes Christ"
led, bee of ten been made to beer a ye. y mock
marrower signification than It was ever Intended for,
Everything in this Bible from the beginning to the end of
It that is f.ithfully expounded and dwelt nem. r •real, the
Spirit or Christ, how c that be dote het Or then by
expounding the reethise of the Scripture.? To do to I. to
preach Christ, and I hope it wilt not be necessary for yeu
to beer the name of Jesus =satiated of tea, and a c dthia
elms cif text. sel.cted, before you CAD I eel that the g epel
Is eremobed ; it we sb.ste by the revelation of 04 that is
the preaching of Christ
• word if expositing' about thi=le who ebbed to
see leer, before we cormiutore to the few words
which I have chosen for the tent. And I should like to
Orem that the Greeks mamboed here are simply and
c7lllGreeks. In the New Testentent men are frequently
Grealan . being Hellenisml Jewish people, who keg
goat to live in Grecian let de end nip ke the Greets.
tongue; but wherever they are e•lled Greeks, we know
them to be the historic monk. Many of thron. Ike the
Ethiopian eunuch, bad embrimed the Jewish church, and
had wen* opts Jerusalem to prey In the Temple warts, of
which the Court of the Gentiles was reserved for them
mid of them Greeks were present (and I think the .601.4
the sorrow" lion of the history would 164 us to that
conclusion) at the entry of Our Lord into Jer wantons, •itis
she ensigns of royalty about HIM, and the Manama
resounding—if they saw hb expoisma tb• home and
sellers from the opth alert of the Gentile., the only piece
reserved for the Greeks, sr ease under.uind how they came
to see such • One as Ha It was not the mere physical
bodily sight they wanted, if they had merely desire that
there .64 no otiosolon to go In solemn d potation to
Philip for OIIT Lord might have been mien One 'brooch
the Teronle C .orte, and was frequeotly in that
4 the Gentiles; it was a very special h,t,r,iewe
they treated, as we learn from the aro. maity
of
the rimmed, from the words of Phi, p and
Andrew, aad the mysterious bearing of Our Lid
at the tote. What they wanted was no doubt t mid"
with Our Lard, and convene on rdliriou. subjeca, and
who knows hat they ewe the hearers of • soieion
from their own land, and observing the ohetinaer f the
Jews, might 'hey sot hthe sought for such • sere nod
'rasher's Christ? After referring to a m-eiege from *
Syrian meg, who le said by Zombies to have promised
Ohret a royal receptine, very different from whet be
r. miring in Galilee, the preasher said there ersa a w yid
of pent-up emotion in the breast of Our Saviour; for at
the moment the tosses re of the Greeks was bons to Wen,
a conatiou.neses was awakened of his sovereignty over the
G mill. world. It wee at the very foot of the Cross, the
Lord winc it elmoa with His bodily eye., thAt them
buret fo. th n 0.5 world, end be • xclalmed—" And I. if 1
be lifted up, will draw all men unto me We regard
them men as earnest engurem, thouine withers, rad true
disciples of their iihtatrioo. countrymen Secretes sod
Piro% whom utterances were one lone pray.'" light Gad
tenth, one long solemn rieh that they might sea be
(see of lee's. And .060 Be yielded to the desire if thew
Greek., 'a no doubt Ned d, tb-y heard wee-se us et or.oge.
.1" No. I. the Son of Mon glorified." "Except a ems of
what fell hate the ertnel and die, is arid-lb sloe, '
Fancy what an effect this must have bad on the must
f Greeks: these men seenstomed to deify the been.ifel,
to be taught that LIMN comes from death. Deep-owed
ormenti meat had no doubt by night them to His feet 'at
they came t hlm with long age and a.pirations which be
aim. could sithafy. The Myths light hal been herniae
through the dark ages of the world, and, in spite of the
Jewish sacerdotalisto, the rays of thst light had pene-
trated the dab night of corruption; evidences are net
wanting that His religion would burst through the narrow
hoods of Judaism. At His birth the wee men from the
East came to worship Him: astrologen they were it is
true, but tied took hold even if that, and nlsd+ them
witnesses to his truth' • star snide' 'him to his birth.
place. All else in the heathen world was utter hopeless-
ness. A life of them rat childhood was lived by H ni, bat
how was it imegined that the Re. of Sharon was wino"
to in their midst! The same Jesus Is the Holy One of
God: His cheract•r steeds erect wader the riot, the ...NI
test, of athellthos in the sight of God. "Which of you
o melmoeth Ks of sia we. ills own Nast before a world
of unbelievers. When He spits on the ground the cley is
St anointing for the opening of blind eyes; lehrn hnmea
nature comes into contact with Him it throws rrfloed.
the maladies of the body depart at His touch, the very
wounds of the spirit are cured. He egoist the fens by
Denham of Galilee. 110 told t'mta of the lost p iros of
mon,y, of the Good Samaritan. of the Prodigal ern,
he gave Jairos beck his daughter ant towhees th, ir
eons, He dried the tears of the sorrowful ; &oleo the
Haberman wee transformed into Peter the spectle, the
hungry blamed Him for food, the perishing for shelter.
Surely the words of Job are f olffiled in Him -"The
b'essing of him that was reedy to perish cams op m me ;
and I mused the widow's heart to sing for /01.--The
continued in a lengthy and eloquent ditetonnri
eer
dwelling on the perfections and attribotes of the L re
Jesuit, urging those who had not done so. to look to
Him as the sin-bearer, and again He may to n.
Stared ee before the apostle., His face shirdog t,e
son. His raiment white as the Witt, and se the e•• t••
fat form risen before us, it shall draw us into tt
and change ne with Its owe Heelers, as when rim r,
upon the MO and does your eyes, all menial imaltli
sein to be teeming with His glory. When we find OW'
selves below our sthedard, we often make rowroliers
efforts to rase onnelves ; bat let 00 go and behold t!.
Lord. You do not make the rosebud expand by tear.
ing Opel' Ito petals, hot you fill it with summer.
So it is tone—"l shell yet praise Him ler the health of
His counteasoce." Where there is Hi. conatenwit,
these is life; there *liar.. And now, my toothy' s. tern
you lomeng eyes to Meth% get to the foot if the c ws.
For the lord is near by your side; 11. I. Male, to tvo
than my voice; He Behold I stood at the door
and knock.' ets .srps,kbitten Israel, gam upon that
remedy. May God grant us all mercy that we mar
Sad grace Whelp In Mel Inne of need. Amen.
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