The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-06-18 00:00:00

JOY IN THE CITY.

A sermon preached on the occasion of the visit of
the Bath •nd Wm( of England Society. and Southern Countles
Amodation, for tbe encouragement of agriculture, art, mews-
factures, and commerce, to Dorchester, lu the ConSruPl4oool
Church. Soutb-street, on Sunday evening, the tth `NM, 1872.
by the 1t.,. Tumult baava.

" Aud there was great joy in that city."—Acte I id., P.
Them words describe at least the external upon of things
ansingat us during the pmt •erit. So lar as outward circum-
stances could contribute to such • result, there has bean no
lack of joy to the inhabitant. themmelves, or to them who
have been amontnet us So wooersl has this feeling been, that
even if one had felt disposed to be otherwise than cheerful,
the gay and animal...A character of the town would have made
It eonse•hat diflicult to have been so. Nor would it be the
exercise of. healthy piety for any of is. to speak in terms of
rebuke and °mows 1.4 what he. taken place &monde! us It
hes boos • the. of recreation to many, and especially to the
hard-working end kidourial portion of the community, ar;
as I should more correctly my in this instance, the Ad ricuiturol
portion of the community, to whom such holiday times do not
Can. WO Often, although, unfortunately, they too frequently
111111 their real lutennon, and convert thorn lot,l 0oC•4100. Of
&diming grthillaittoe, rather than times of Innocent sod
healthful ~creation; while to others it has been • Ulna Of
Mikanl enjoyment when opportunity has been afforded for
surveying the product, of human MIS, sod ingenuity ; a Mill
and an Ingenuity in which all of is. have no interest more or
lest direct. We ought not to forget, of comma, that for very
Many of our domestic and other comfort., we are indebted to
the men, sod such a. they, who have given to the totem DA
busy and Interesting appearspoe ; and. if, se alas I is siege
the case. we have had to deplore the prawns of evil meld the
I good, which la simply raying, we are thing in • hones. wend,
mill, on the whole, ChrisUth men, such times most merit
our cordial eympathy nod approval. There is • piety and.
religion which reforms to aoltnowledge the good of whatever is
I not directly religious in its character sod aim, sad which can
! only adord to speak of such times la terms of harsh and unwise
I denunciation—. piety Ms, whit. ma And time Imply for the
direct end obtrueive odium of religion. Ido not thulium to
say that such • piety of which there has been no lack in the
world, however much it may have lacked • healthy and
vigorous one, ha. don, more to retard and Injure true religion
than the mint worldly and pernicious of aniusenieeda.
Chrunan ma must mogulse the world in which we bye, nth
the nature which God baa giveu to 0,, and otitis there is
much even of what seems innocent. which must yet be re-
nounoed by Christian people, there le also much which though
appsrantly unrelated to Christian intermta or but very remotely
if at all helpful to them, yet Mtig command Our sympathy and
approval. For example, there in little epparently in • skilful
piece tif machinery. • bother it have respect to the tweaking
of etones, or the turning up of the 1011, which has thy very
ct bearing on • man's religioue character; and yet them
thole, in their plow, are quite no useful and as mucb to be
cononthded no religious performaocee or dutithand to examine
the unit may be as commendable no to attend the other. So
far, Ulm afore, as tha past week tie contented, sea Christian
thinner I can only speak in words of approval and rfinpatny,
and feel that such time, are helpful, not only as periods of
legitimate and healthful recreation, especially to our industrial
population, but also se furnishing opportunities for acquiring
useful and valuabie laformatiou by which Use humblest of us
may KWh. Now, on rellecting on all that the lute men during
the ;mot week, and in surveying the works of art sod Indult'',
mid the occupations of Mom who are more directly engaged
in them, the question very naturally premota itself to one,
how does Christianity eland related to these tithe.? lies she
any word of approval or oommendation for them, or dos she
stand apart In sad sad sullen septet, looking on such ocean as
adverse to her interest. and InfurloUS to her votaries! Now I
venture to think that this is a very Itladall, and • very pracUod
queen.; and if I can rightly sad wisely answer it, It will
format useful • sermon ea I can well preach to you. For It
will simply be • sermon on the every day work, and toll,
and industries of this ids, In which aN of us more or less
eeeelts.

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I. Let UN In the outset
aietherefore, that Christianity, or
the religion of Jesus Cm dieUnctly and peremptorily
refuses to be divorced from Ibusiness of this workeiday
world. It refuse. and ham slimy, refuted to call anyiblug
common or unclean, even though It be not directly religlous
in Its character or bearing. The meanest COOC•111 of humut
Ilk, ito humblett occupation or pureedt, la, in the eye of
Christianity, both good and approbstie, and it is only the sue
engaging in it which can degrade and pollute It. Weld, we
may..r that one of the diglective blembegs which Christianity
he. bestowed on the world Ls this ennobling conception of
earthly thins and artily duties. The lima ham not yet been
fully learned. Thee.... many occupations which are looked
upon by thees nee who prcien the religion of .10103 as
Lod degrading; and yet mob pennies are very 'slat" re
proit ky such 'ebony', however much they may deepen the
labourers. For thio 1 need not my there is no warrant In the
Chriatian religion liU It COWL, tO 111•11, whatever he his
occupation, unless tam ne one which in directly at variance
with the good of men, 0. ..ippond to what le right and true,
sod 110.7. to law, lone your employment, make the beat and
meet of It, end In all that you do, mek to Isomer God, and
time your fellow seen. The la the menage of Obrietissilty to
all men, whets...sr be their labour, or prolesion. It will be
seen at mos, therefore, that for • man to be rskigeous it Is not
nineteen that be amid docoutiect htmeaU from the Weems
of Die, or lie ordinary ilium SW man who thinks be will be
more religious to preaching mamma@ or reading books,
than in buying sod telling, or In dime-barging commonest
dulls of life, terribly mistakes what true religion cocaine Is,
via., in God in the ken poeible way in the poitloo to
which our lot happeus to be can. In that the man who ía
diligently attending to his farm, and the esnant to his work.
, and the handlaidtman to Ids tell, and the trainman to Ids
customen, and, if the spirit of devout and honest ardor D Ii
them ill, each and all of than is doing God'ttervies, and
honouring his name, as truly as if they were eugagleg in the
Melee of employment, or were directly fulfilling the behests
of Deity Keel,. For this hot, I my, we an indebted to the
, Chrlatian rthoon, and when this fact is fully recognind and
understood, human labour ami material interests, will occupy
a much higher place In men's thought, than they do now.
Already ray much hoe been done towards the attainment of
this end. This Ls the age of eidelhilema It was • splendid
and • truly Cluinian oenontlou of the lamented Prince
Consort, the Internatioesl Exhibition, which gave an Impetus
to material iodustrie< and to the ennobling of human labour
and skill, ea the Ohs of o.yd, the Influence of which la still
ding felt, and which Ls certain to extend rather than to
diminish. and thus to prove • continual drillser, until
CtirisUanity Itself ham truly leavened the world in all ID
=tidal Minden. and aims with Its own trandortning and
regeeerating emery/.

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But while Christianity ref ones to be divorced from the
material pursuits and indostriee of life, sod loins ea the duty
and pthability of our moving God In the midst of them, It
does not stop there. It does sot our a and pernanion or
ennuis...co simply; It non • hearty empathy and sonar-
yet.t. Nan may my*, you may engage in them panda
'without Injury ; it am mys, you may thane In them with
advantage. Ite utterance is, "Do not NT; every good gilt,
and every perfect gift, is from above, and corneth down from
the Father of lights, with whom is no nriabinema, neither
shadow of turning.. It cabin nil meal and Intellectual, as
well se moral sod spiritual gifts, in its own, as (led's, and It
holds their poesemen remonelble for the right use of then.
There are other gllftwhick God luse bestowed on Hls creatures
betides a/Ably to Oak in We name, and for His mean; to
composes sermons or to pried. them ;ciothse.r_tekgous boon or
to read them; there are notterlal , Ingenuity,
genius to coastruct nieces of art or ussfulome ; sod them
talents or gifts are so much of God es the others, sad for the
due use of them He holds His creatureereepoonble; The man
who can Invent • machine, which .ball expedite human labour
or *Ole it (although nom ban been foolith enough, in by gone
dam to refuse such rifts as against their interests) dithosoun
6.1, nod labs to li,lli his duty towards Him, if he withholds
the gift (rum Hie creatures How many, by • wentea reek.
leanness sod lodiffenon to the claim. of their Creator as the
•uthor of their splendid endowmente, have denied to the world
the use of gifts sad powers which would have scathed their
fellow., not only with the fruits at art and poesy, but with the
materia Won'ts of life itself. It is high Use. that meta were
recognl.lng this fact, and that Lb* pulpit wen mon fully
proclaiming It. Then can be little doubt that our
does not bea enough on the everyday duties and coact's' schin3
life. The result is that men get either discouraged with their
bonnets and duties, or become bonne to religion, u If it were
Inimical to thew earthly intorena, sod amply frowned upon
them as angering in that which she despises and hats& Let
us tell men that religion dose nothing of the kind; that It
simply interferes with men In the bunnies, end duties of lilt
when these are done with • spirit, Lod from • motive which
simply meths its own selfish and unholy elm,; which is opposed
to the good of other., when it Mew to" let live," or when It
disregards God in the midst of them. But when them duties
az. ,inonpennd in from God; when we accept the position which
Providence he. nOrned to ok wheterer it may be, whether
of no elevated or an isdni.sr character ; and when we seek In
It to do our duty ••• to tint, and for luso, then minion loon
down upon w with Mirroring COC utendanoa, and samurai us
that in God'. eight our life la aa worthy nod se honourable as
if es were engaged In the moot holy susd religion of work. Bo
far, therefore, se we stand rented to the industries of Ille,
religion is favourable and not hoetlio to us; may, Is in full
sympathy with us, and lends us her beartiget encouragement.
, 31 This lens on out into another thought, which it may be
useful for to just to noUo• for • moment, which is this, that
Christianity 'neer, the leglUMate and innocent participant.
In human enjoyment mad pleasure. Her upset is not net. of
austerity, although many of her votaries have made it appear
es, to the terrible injury of religion Itself. It forbid. in human
enjoyment that only which I. degrading and hsulful, whether
to the physical or apiritual nature of man. In this respect thin
her nocuous nod her interdicts are both military and beeelkolml
for man. And it is worthyof intim, that those nations white
are ern under the control of anthem , are the meg
thstinguiebed alikaOor their phyaidel n.a'lunlqOalitim.
Chriatisoity lornishes the hen type both of the 'Apical and
Ictefloctuel man. And, aa • reflex influence, It contributes to
the good of the lower crostini no well. Tha benevolent senti-
ment of Christianity is not without Ila due effect on the lower
creatures, who, in the higher and Morn humane treatment to
to which they are subjected, have perticipated, nod will yet
pertlcipate more Inlay in the common rood. The whole nes-
nen which Ina suffered to the genera ruin 01 sin, twill ales
peeticlpste in Use general redemption from It. three. "The
creature itself ales shall be delivered from the
corrupt... H.q. liberty of tin chitd=ir of
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In Os. otho . refs., of ltir put week Cannot
egil, to be of Interest to nil who cherish no Intereat not only in
th.WoS- al maa, but in that of the lower creatures
won; Ties splendid animas whichone mi., sot oozy toothe:
to the con, sad Wenn, and skin misaligned by thaw owns,,but showed to lain • bight even the lower mostthen
owe or being rased when properly cared for, and
no doubt what is likely to he the outcome of the
ultimate civilisation, which shall end the lowerhitZeigen
occupying their rightful petition, and particloaUng In Igui,
lawful sc„eet....shich too often meantime ere denied, to then.
Lod if this tetlaction Is forced upao On.. in undoubtelly it
that many of the lower ULUNDIe an more euximily thought at,
and sand for than mug human things ocu
..co the pd.e
winnere of the Dorchester lithibltioo, down nth to tbenZ
an probably' mole thoughtllan Lb* 'emte o who
them, and as accident or mishap to the one would be vastly
more vexing than to the other; yet this an inn lodla
how much we liana to rim In the appreciation or each other,
1 and what Moyle to be dans both by education' aed Cluiselnalty
I to elands seen out of the aim= panties whhehalesl be tee
frequentlw holds Wto that Wen asd holy
wake God Intendesedi heenolv tumble Ide los la
ao sok relintehle bon Chi. *emir, hia
r• y,C.at in an me MillimeN *mum nod ft*.
Emu of UM, we have kie tell teleplay and Ippon'
of Cheatimilty. Lit 114 Idle ere old, morales
this fact, and endeavour tbelidajlit trlaitY to Mon it to the
mi ap
Young. By afteclatiss the ) d .dally with the
Mud nod molten cher/m.lg el Cilitififildire ler It he. each as
frishosmil um est or all mei of
enjoyment wts,s'eye sur dein kept kr the
escanst einem Bortillh Wet VII hi * Wow If
they *edit Nsp sois sosuke
Pg. allems. Mk *..m*.IIS, gi Mid

of al this la bigamy ga pun, henna It Ls of God, altd It seeks
to being out its Dobkin spelt, and cameral* it for the serrlos
of raso, md the glory of God ;thee In w' with on, with poetry
with mon : all are of God. and the only to be
when they aze none to minister, as alas I they too frequently
are, to masa& genie...lion, and thus to degrade the whole
being ; but an nth. highest MN WO when they seek to culture,
mid call out the pure and noble DonUmenta of the soul. There
is nothing in God's world which may not to ahead, and which
rou not been ahead; the mune to panne is not to da
It, or shot ourselves out from it; but to pen it, and use it or
God mean. n to he used; and by our persistent example to
create and loner • odder and hlyhrr sty le of life. ft I. the
duty of the Christian church nth to speak in unmeasoorci terms
of repots* no the too often hoe done, of the legotomao
md Inoome4 phosgene, of life, but to show how fsr God means
them to be used, and how for ouch Yee ~f them can contribute
to our good sad his glory. The Christian church has not done
all that the might is.e done in this respect She has not
ftanfulthed in her teaching between the lawful
s▪
od unlawful ims of human pleasure., and the has not seal-
acidly roolognised the sphere of Innonnt and healthful
recreation Adel. God undouthAly hae laced within our reach.
"It is not," oar an iniantial though an anthynious writer
In Our day, that men love pleasure te, wall, but that they
do not love it well enough, Ilona,: Is • delicate plant and
cannot be cultivated without much study and practice. Any
IIiCOMB of it le followed by • reaction of disgust and by • dimi-
nution in the power of entertaining It. If you wont lino.'
conUnom the welter, "I. the mined enjoyment of it, y.ou
men candela, ascertain how large • dose of it will be safe to
take ite a time and then you must drill younelf by
• constant di;ecipline neVer to exceed that dose."
So far, therefore, as those thing° may he prized and sought
after eye oceentunity, end m fa as the people joy in thorn,
(us are they acting yin harmony with the spirit of
Chet... Welt,. The oOrlt of trade, of commerce, of art, and of
Industry, le the spirit of Chrietianity, " Diligent in hosions,
finest in gnat, envies the Lord," nel iii, only when theme
thaws are sought for their own eakee, and when no higher
motive thasessee their poweemors, that they work hurtfully
and nomtrouely. The trued prosperity of community Is
not that nth* nimthe from I trade or °outman ; or
from the enjoyment of en or luxury ; there may he all them,
and yet anything but real prosperity. The highest prosperity
must be sought sisewhme, and from very different sourth ;
and, Indeed, It is only when that higher prosperity is had, that
this lower ow he rightly understood or tool. The true
thermion, which we must net, is that which oor
tat epneka of, whit eprings from the presence and power of
Cheidlenit, too eanununity. You can hardly undernand the
terrible anamlty which must Wall tbla. or NV other 000,"
=unity where the only loth/ROM at work end felt an material
oath I als hos to admit that theme an too often the only
influethen 'vb.* are cared for, and which are chiefly felt, but
to the extent thus such la the case, to that &TWOS Is the com-
munity lejured nod degraded.
I. Without the arena; and power of Otaistianity the
material istotthile of • c ommunity or of a nation engender
decay, and thee prove hurtful rather than helpful. It ha. ever
been so, and so It will ever be. Nation., whether ancient oe
modern, which have yielded themselves up to the Deductive
legume= of ethanol pronerity, have imply yielded them-
melees up to decay and ruin, welch ha, nooor or loiter over-
taken them It Deeds the healthful and restraining influence,
of Cheislienty to noble aooy people to enjoy aright the
hawelass of proeperhy. The dispodUon amid such arekon
enema is to gratify the appeUte, to give horn to the nature,
and to eaU in the aide of net, luxury, and thence, to help the
other. of OWNS with* won become enfeebled and ultimately
paralysed, le continue their lothelgeoce. linensl prosperity,
without the oonserving Influence. of Christianity, must prove
• three and sot • hiemeng. The poverty ova union as of so
lisdivideal, le ofteattmee Its only thawed ciontramid ;Mamas.
and God eserallully sends such times to all goner feet they
should be overtaken sod utterly destroyed by Men coly evils
:tedv=iglita • lohnet end ncloroos ealklewlsi is good for a
ag en IMlvtdeal sad Obrletlanity alias aso
WON, 11 Simi is WHEW for real Joy in • city, therefore,
Maga TY all irmeirdAl prosperity and 'Merril's, Oarle-
arilieloSilits =at a mitt. bald.., bemuse It it the
only power an really ailed them evils with which every
city is .ere er the *tenth. There ere en* which thoemarily
grow op, nod la the ranked forma too, where human beings
are coeg.led, and that sot only among the poor and the
mos, these of Amy perhaps) but with the rich
nod the es welL There are passions which nothing can
subdue bat the power of Chrithanity, and it ham ef candy
subdued the., It Is the only peincipie which can beget and
theism theitlty and purity of id. Apart from Chnetianity
al the fells, In nothing is a community more comerried than
In the heath sad purity of the morale of its people. When
the ilk an OW goes. An impure OISII Or IVOIESS Is not to be
trund In any duly or position In life, neer whole nature
=• 't deterioration, until all morn principle is
killed Gen In the.. Now what is there that can prevent
such • dionier bat Chnethnity I Take away it. Whimen from
the yong el • sonseissity, and what would booth," of them
union the basest weeks of human In, nod moral thee to all
around them? For the sake of such, and for the sake of all,
we are bound to take the eutoreesso interest In the growth nod
power of Obristlenity, and not to abandon ourmolves to the
mere point of material prosperity. May this thought quicken
our mide who eine God In the hour of prayer, while we
cordially sympstlim with the material loduslirios of life, and
while we nil a Cluietithity which is not anion but for non,
In all the Makin, Ind Interests of life, and while we endeavour
to teed, the deentne of Christ la this brood and catholic sense.,
yet let us me to It that we give to (untruth the large* rod all
otheameding playa, and that we wan men arson the mere
pursuit a mosey or any earthly good: the thing I am sure of
tin If we use our opportunitem anent, and if
we pernatenUy pursue this cane, sad ask to
illustrate it minim for that is the main point after all, we
thall not leek God's bissakawr be Impotent SMOOII our fellow.;
on the scatrary, owe shell • Centre or power sod nauseam,
whisk ear lineerest adveneries will be locoed in the long run
to scissowledgs. Shoo in roped, of all the material interests
of • commosiolty, as well as I.n pant, of its tweak what we
ought to emit Mier sad to In the power of genuine
Christimdty. The het Is for I have Little !nth In the
action el say am who is sot controlled by Minims principle,
I dont know whin SO lied sud, • man In his dealing. and
tranmetkos ,• es he seeks not to live for God, but for himself,
and as he wlli very likely scruple but little to live of other
people in order the better to live for hiethelf. I would no moo
not know each • man no know him. lam aware that in order
to have perked meant, In our dealings with so-called Chris-
tians we mat have same better mounts than the mere fact
that they cell themealvis Clutenam; but while there are very
moo damprous sad aatrustworiby progress of religion (and
of all am pooh undoubtedly are the mod delineate, the
greaten meal en the men who trade on religion); yet this I
will my, sod dare all coatradictwo, that the genuine Chris.
{Jan is of all um the man sod ben in every matter and
traniactien of Hie, end of each • man hie wordless good..
hie booL Gin tee a cannaunty or even • cooperate= of such
men, sad you will me • society such as no material interests
can fuidom and where Skin it. hest and noble* aspens is
witnemed. Ales I our communities are far 'cough from suck
a Ills. UM, however is only a reason for our ninth to attain
to it, and without distributing the blame amongst those
who protest to have done nth work, but hare lamentably
failed in the doing at It., • fact which Is chargeable not on any
one then* but on all churches, let us seek-to gird up the
Inns of our minds, as Calaiso men, and give ourselves afresh
to the awe of evangelising and Christlaulsing the comutnity
be when**, Nee. . .

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Two limp ado meded amongst us, and are always needed—
& limping of =igloo moon= the religious, and on awakening
of it amend those who hare it not. Both objects might well
mpg* She ateention of all the churches of this town lump=
tin ol dimedlnation. Let Us. preachers preach • truer and
011ffiellaelty; let them preach a remotable Christianity,
* Chihiuihihe that Is sdsptml to the mental and moral wants
of ems • wUI not with It. mysteries mad creeds,
Meld ihe SONOMA intellect. 01.111)0t understand, sad which
may these think they out who never try, and who are loudest
is their semilemeadon of than who honestly try but cannot •
bog let se pro= a Christianity which comae bond to to.
wade, and wows, and cordial, of men, and which odors
them midden sad =id ; and se suck • impel la the gospel al
Jew Ohlebt, let us pees= It with that human intend and
effiegilik, 'not With that cold and Killen disregard of min
wham we deem Ito rejectors and adversaries, sod then we shall
with= nee= such se shall gladden our Merle and bless
humanity. Let this be the Plaint we rebid& and let this be
the work we oink to do, and we may root moored that what-
ever be the joy that comes of material intereem Out shall be
hand* lees then that Joy that omen of thlrlnsal and Chris-
tian latende. Let gibe be the Joy we seek to foster, sod if we
es= we shall certainly get it, sad shall be able to chronicle of
the peed& " there ma great joy in that city."
& TIM bat thought on which I wish to sey • word is, tbat
atom CIA help • community to give a right direc-
Itr m
eit,ada to reale • right nee of all Its matesiel inters=
mad doe Apart from the guiding visit of religion, moteeial
=alto lad suceem must degenerate Into the lowest and
cd ends; it most demmerate into pure =fishnets
aod semmalld, sod thus become a cone and not • baring.
The added of all spectacles is to me a man or • community
of ems whe are euemedul In their trade, or predate= and
who me that moo= deeply to inloiske to their own perso-
eal sad gratileatioss. And this mint, ever be the spirit
of sum= EMU It la Mortised by the =bit ei religion, and
then when meet= is made to thole= to the weeeral good, to
the well-beleg of men sod to the glory of filed, the riebert
barge, redo upon It, and the of It Method the
happiest and wended of nom There are melt spirita to be
found, but their foomem, like awed viol* makes them all the
more nimble end compieuthe Mame they =par. And such
roes are the beet typsi of the Cluistian therader, and pea-
bably the bug= benefactors of their race. Then can be
Ogle danger weeding material pursuits or even planning,
when men szsjo,sru.d by a Christian spirit. Then can be
WU decguUl saga pursuit' proving lajulicou to the spiritual
LII. • mail who goo to his butanes or even to his amuse-
:mob sad plemereklerith the feeling thatllloey or. ,to be
punned Is a Chelellea spirit and for Christian end., can derive
only met gem Men =sewer far apart they may nem to
U. from Ills sad pet...polity. Then are men Who
nonege maielesiea truer Christi= spirit amid what might
Nadal & old destrustire atmosphere than others can
who seem le he seirrogoded by nothing but religious and
meal inagenem A, ma my his Mot =lid the mod worldly
atiagaimee, and he any hi. devil amid the mod spiritual sad
nedieems. It is ass, we heed our minds to It, sods. we deter-
mine ha Clod% gasmen wins our itle shall be, teat our list.l
leahleagd sad destermlued. Thus to be governed by religion
is to ihn • right direction to all our =Ow= sod earthly
pollutes, aid to enable us to make the right um of them. If
we could hot remember, a thing most difficult to do, that they
me all to he Mid subordinate to our highest Intend., and are
Si be sought aflor, NA as they am Wad to eonnibut• to
(Moe remelts • If we could make money In Lille spirit, and
Lind 111. thisdlirit ii we could look at all earthlz.g:hod in
tight, and mik, 511 mlnUs.. to
find " sermene Is itoosis, books In the running brooks, sod
good In everything , abould we employ the things of
earth from the Olalnali to the highest In that
mild which God lateaded, and by which we should thrive the
barged phi. I end not my how uniosnatly far off we
all are, a= all mem, trom such a "Bit and such an Lunn.
mint ; but we may be Rare of lt, that this ls the rigid way in
which to me this world, and to derive from It all the good
which It COONala, and which shall be help( ul to us In our
from this to • better life. day we so view Mg May
re= all tkiegs subordinate to this highest remit, sod may
we Mehra to les all Wogs through the didoe medium, sod
use those for the divine eoda Lit this be the spirit In which
= drive lo =lade religion ,• Id us thew to men that we do
oot dada midge= things, that we do not look epee earthly
quid." m ladmident with the Midi= character or III.;
but that we believe that all of them may be undertaken In •
Christina Orli and with the highest Christian results. This
Is the 'nut whisk we Christian QM hive to teach to others.
We nay he is. that there is much theconceptith sad error
on theme Mettere ; the worldling unpriodoei Is that to be
raids" we mod die= ourselves.. moch as possible
cd all Inter= In human slain, min& but as little
&I thrills amid its doUre, and devote comely= Imply
to =diem =woke= It is fur toi to correct this error;
to dew era that our religion la admirably adapted ter
this world ,• QM Is this tile It lode the largest and the nod=
sphere far he development and enrol= and thee it to the only
poem which con may help to to live se we ought to live, or
to enjoy the world os it oueht to be sajoyed. It Is ours to
tenni this the Quidiao noay aa eagerly sad ea oarnedly
engage is the world's work as others ; his. zealous in the
donaarge at (to deg= ; ea eager In Its buying mod selling, sod
"sh in amino In gala; and that all the dilanoes—lui
iijohdlhinnin, I amit.--ie that In the ode of the Christian
hi Ahhh di kw (10d, kw His glory, with a tem of the awful
reggsmaffiiffily resting epee Ma to rectos! or every gilt, and
Lemalty, sod power a= ho the in which be makes of all his
(his;pi= g 0 =nod •men moo ; let them feel
th▪
at =dim is to be • help and not • kiodro..
their meld, wed= that It mob= them and helm them
{hemming from this, sod to Impart
; let this spirit, which Is the spirit
or the gra eigesd mws.ol to 12, and then we Mould
Marge ▪ la oar memmilleg which as yet we have
Ms ant Midi 1111 on with the lariat joy
sad
We
gasiA Mirk
Yggwould not pail upon the tam,
end wither GM la , 0N4011121 it ; but
„mobwoold bout Ks mitialactioe and relish
until Ids =elf sieeffil gad. Thin is lb' billthst Pi we can
..eh; the joy which.,, from the pumas or lib and the
Moymme al ale, is pervaded with the Midi 01 the gospel ot
I aide.. We Ilk. kr which le within our reach, and which
we con all seek to Inter, and when we hare attained it we can
truly say, °Thu. was mat joy In that city."