The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-11-12 00:00:00

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To begin with vs ars powerless to thla maker, sod
kali sot smilvasee • step MU we feel sod &knowledge It.
Spiritnal sad fkangedieel libilighso is the work of God's
Spirit os issa's spirit by Om °sepal. " Salvador; is of
li. Lord." Waves of spirituel hie ebb sad flaw. Ws
mask seinsaand this Spirla, sod yst vs eaa do notkiag
without Hiss. "Th. wind blo wok where it listen."
God will lave our Ohuroh know, before Ile blesses her,
that Met blaming is sltogethsr trout Himself. "Not by
power, we by might bit; by toy Spirit. kith the Lord
of Hein.* Now Gicloos's loess k wet with the dew while
the ask es with& it lies is dry, so d sow damp lath.
seek asd dry id the asks, for the Spirit is hee sad
sovereign in His Marston& • humble Mark will ho
• blemod Climb; let out wants sod was. drive is Ss
our boos.; saint • thing so not musing low
'sough to is biased. Hams, too, prayer for the
Spirit's outpoerkig most Roderic' all out .Hod.; la oar
owe atter helplessness we I■ll4 gram the almighty
hood; let hist lay hold of Illy streagtit" mast hare
forth revoke "I will not let Thee gib cusps non
hien tan" Bat whoa practisel steps tea we eke to
advents Spiritaal sod livaogslisal Beelike in oar
Moroi? We tea &U sing. that 111. medal. Whether
• UMW mon or • Utile lem—whistker advasteissi, or
smtios&q, or nerogradsag—lt ks.rtoAly be too
to satisfy those who woad mos out Jerusalem • preen
Is the earth. No doubt the Woof Sumigalkel Bellgioa
kos this many het and eanied the iressid mash for-
ward gime ChM motor, bask ; but Instead of still
Mae some sow to pease sr eves oblo, sad Um vemoll
Is bah @treaded. Oh I for • mighty flood of spiritual
biatiosos that wield bear out @treaded Ohorsit right oat
into •ma of usefulness I And how oast we hops to
obtain it? The quogeloo wookl bo more &Skit had
we not Um light slob, past to guide is. We ass look
bask sod Wen out ths Tapia rime of Spiritual sad
ituagslisal Rellgios in out Commit. It wee Ike
work of • few who could °cunt arm their lagers the
names of Mos; who went priMilag Okriell I. Muir
day. What was the mark of tisk susses@ I Uvs sea
mostialn it, we may try it sink and hops Mr like

--17lisssins to as that their sumer lay eery mash In
their teal, felt, marked soparatios from the world,
In ito atessemeins esemialeasa, as 4 forma of rollglos.
They west forth into Jima without the map,
His repreaoli," more %boa we do. Onim the
Ilvangellied body despised the world and emitemsed
alike its Omani and its frown.; but now ere sot the
Miele. of worldly Sashimi apes asl Is not oar spiritual
Us enteo up with qatmitionable asausemests and eon-
falsities? The Ise. desperation lamarealy
end tho profaned pie& of God are so mined op wir
the some of meg that roe eaeace Mourn she one from
the other. And do set wordly mos Jahr that our
religion is only a Aides. We are are tolerated sl the
expense of , and we loam no solemn
icspreadon abl:lb="dus Hon applaud the Lolly
r'uradmitiona and labours of Rituslista and Romaitime
ds muse we fail to show Mora the true spirit of sell.
distal. If we would put forth reel power, we weed to
look to ourselves In tIM matter :•••••Il 1 WOWS' and
wasteful of tin..? An I worldly, asseriedlag my*f
with ass wbo damask by any poribility, prods am?
An. I seen wbere my Master would not be welders.?
Do 110,. assasestents whir* as afford ate no comfort
to rant on, and whirl 1 should Bever indulge la if I
thought tbat Mist would some wish I an is then.?
Am La. showy, es vOiskle, as frivolous, so men sad
womea al ties acrid? Lad thee, are we emboss I Has
*l. 1.,. of monsy Wow the shoe of Um lore of Oheth
Is as ire% thought aot how we may hamar God, bet
how we may amessulabe wealth? Lei an be eery care
-
fig bow we 'stir Me world, (or gets or pleasure, seder
preemie of Wag mimiesarlea There eammit he a
%Ore aspreinisiag plem thee worldly society for a Man
who be.s spark 01l rodeos la him to "atm, sib. wishes
_4O keep It still banded. HIS were vary warm and
onlih,, he woeld sot rooters Ibis; but them who
ha.. :mat religion to lom are moat reedy to timid Is
Into danger. When Cluimitio permits here families
springing Up, daughters to be married off, and mood to
be started la Me, tho tompatioa to worldly oosformlty
Ii strong ; It ills one at times with • kind of despair to
as how Mose who protein to reward spinal religies a.
oll4otportsat raboodiasto it to almost sysrything In
how edneelional amomplishmento lied elss of pur-
suits and frieadeldpe and alileasse as. disouseed and
lead whbont thh ossis esberiag into Mises Whoilfolm
ifs.. This to as groat room it* Spirituel and
Bagio• insists to 111614 prepoo, tad vilty

Ciudad= familia or. soselently melees away tato the '
werldliams mooed them ; ul.pkr habius, more pelf-
osperation from the world, would do I
mash to restore to the limingeilesi body tlieir °ldea
power Is the lend.
IL Aida, it mese to use that their snoops' lsy yry
mush ia their allsoassuoing seal, their all subduing '
tramil for geolo. Read tbe sermons of Wesley sod
Wleldeld, mid what is the.. In tees.! Perhaps they
seem sciermly worthy to base servisod, ea/ yet throe
serstome wraith. marnis I Aod why &mass these
mac woes soulcsoluse and soal•winsiers ; their inmost
oigl was love to souls, and they threw thommlves into
their samosa It wee timi Medal eyes, sad glowing
nouggillosinne, Roe Pleadlog teas, tam bursting 11046—
those thialp owed not be misted. And these are what
wo waist if Inagelisal religion is to sdvsaos—Ool doss
not give ronversioas to oloquenos but to heart ; troth
/rem the heart gess to the haat This is God's Natio.
as. and wraps of war. Re to pissed to Übe the
parsing's, longings, and sympathies of Christian man
far mon thou polished seatermes or ewes orthodox
statements. God mad us men who will weep their eyes
out over sinners, who will monis, with God for owl-
mrsioas ,• sod then it is not Ritualism or ItttiollaiiMll
either that WWI withstand ma Thom who do • work
for Christ are those who seller 'great bossiness mid
sone/mai sorrow of heart" for sinners. How would •
dem or two Of importneate ploodefs and lovers of
souls shake this land from eod to food t But '' iniquity
abounds, and the love of the many waxes gild." There
was • Unto perhaps when you would have don. any•
I tiling to brings man to Christ; but you are not so
• ready to speak for Janos now as you one. wore. Does
that tear tremble in your eye now. as it ones did, for
I lost souls, perishing without Christ? Alm I upon how
I many of us has • freesia' inda.-nos *permed I And Ulla
I Is tree of us ministers. We have grown prof•Arional
in our mirviese, sad for the meet pat we preads lit.
I automatons, which are wound up for a wawa to run
I down when the dimounie is over. Trig,, of ochreous,
, fonds. of speerslotion, or Bowan of oratory, floodgate
lieo may who should be win to win souls.
We west more intense earnestness ; not of excited
• notate feeling, but el God's lode/6111'1(.40h. The
• Cherish is spiritually 'a barren woman without it,
wheat with it, she bermes " • Joyful mother of
• etildrea." As soon es Ries bravailed, oho brought forth
har Andrea

lIL 8ut.... mere looking baek to tree gleans of
other days, who wrought each wooden in oar March,
we may sees greet surd of their memo in their more
simple ead entire madame la the gospel. They had
a Greed. They meld ety, "1 believe sad therefore
mist" sad if we are to Memos Spirited nod Eras.
nengtou. we most not u• is.. who believe loistop
or ou ,or everything, by turps: we list held
Ged'sail with as iron gram. There la a Prot..-
Mathes still worth ooabeodtag for, Mere are distiodive
doctrines of gram still worth proclaiming, and • rand
worth dylag for. There is each a thing as Bpiriteal
Evangelied Beligioa, am distinguished from Ritualism,
or RationaUsa, or lesplkm, sad Id us make known
that we believe in It. Them are not days to be
frightened it ales of sederianism and bigotry: if ire
would prevail, we mast belied ia oar beans what we
profilist° believe, and predate openly and inlootil
what we beer to be the trath. Let us not be
ashamed to say, "This le truth," and let men drew
the intense, that the opposite is falsehood. Ld us
display oar Manor, and let it be that which the Chord
curled of old; sinful the old primitive standard,
the 'll.dt:torte= steadard of th• woo of Grid.
"Aa Noses lifted eipehe serpent in the wilderness, even
so sown the fica of tam be lifted up." As I mad
the lives of tree good eoldiers of Grist who won the
early victoria of the gospel in our dumb, nothing so
strikes is. as their 'maw sonlideates In the atonement !
se the great eouqueeing troth whisk was "to subdue
the people under them." We imams place too much
vellums es the simple Gospel; our weakness is that
we are so difilleat, cod co apt to look eleerbere for
strength. Teo often we prima the Gospel as if we
were afraid. What I are we God's ausemagers, aid
shall we rend to the sous of men to ask diem what
massage they would Uke bed? Beeson men of the
world despise the Gomel, ead philosophers, " falsely
so called,* tell as that mimeo Yam overthrown It, wad
bemuse Medium is popular, we need to be all the
more reeelate, and to say to me.—" Though it be
platitads to yea, and you dealers it to be matemplible,
you shall have it or nothing des from um for 'lt is the
power mad the wisdom at Got'* us still oon•
tioni4 God helping as, presidia, " the foolishness of
the Gospel," sad deliver again sod again the old
truth that "God eras in Grist, reoonailing the world
unto Riammlf, sot impugn their treepasees nato awn,"
that "by grace are ye eavei through faith, and that
not of yoareelms ;It le the gUt of Gad.' 54,atiouta
by free Wear through the expiatory sacrifice of JIMA
oar Lord. Th. very plague and bane of the Evangelloal
body loon, Month Is going down to Egypt for help.
lassoed a simply areeriag all the Merest/one and solid
tatious of Ritualism with • fuller, freer, bolder preset'
lag of Me Gospel, there has hem • too general attempt
to take more true one led out of the Ilitudidi book,
to ke.p pads with them, sad *op; everything that
seems Innoeeat In their spleen. Wore mode, more
ornate services, mare March decorations, shorter
eerenomould altogether afar Larger number of imitations
than we are well aware eiL There km been • leaning
on Male things, instead of a simple and firm reliance
on that great Bplrllual power which we have and they
have not How foolish as well as faithless is this
The bird that wished to outstrip us would not attempt
to rats by our skis, but would use its own swift wings.
We have the strong wing, of a meat eagle, and shall
we, Instead of mounting up with them, ran a weary
foot ram with these men who have am' We may
court mad foster a tads for them ornate and gothic
servioni, but remember we eau EMIR 11110•91111114 y Mb-
pet* with ilduallets la ministering to the Mete. Hear
that as satire iseeeptemee of the Gospel, • reel knowhdp
of lt,•ware soallelenes in it, is more rare than we think.
" The Imamate of our worth» are net earnal, bat they
me Wiry." imagelieslreUgloa is perfretly soiritu4
It thrash' *drag bermes the sinner and his Saviour,
and that reedved late our own hearts and put before
other, will tell. We do not watt anything besides the
Gospel; this is the remedy we believe Is; let others
Moose sweet mune, or pietas*, or vestraeate. or
Imam ritse—as for na. It le to tit Peemehing of Obeid
cradled that we look far the saving of touts and of
our Church too. There 1,,. great rage for Coal/reams,
aid all sons of pleas sad new es-wheats are dimmed ;
I see no need of my new instrument. Is not the
Gospel enough we All need now is snore
Spiritual
aI inflames amenipanying it The preaching
Adds MOTU one heart tidily male not to be alined
I, tell apes • thorned to-morrow. With God's Spirit
oar t itietrumindelitiee will sales to win the
world for (Built; without Him tie thousand tames as
much apparent force would lit only so much weakness.
Therefore, I would say, to admen% Spirited and
Evangeline! Religion In the Chard of Sagiand—
" Proud the word; be Indent in season and oat of
seams, for the taste will mem when num will not
endure anted doetrine." Oh I let as nee no other barp,
mad let out lagers never leave It. steiap—tbe harp
whose strings tilted* to the name of Jams only; and
let is not fear that it will not be the sweetest music la
mess sari; spiritual life will awaken at the seas&
sad spiritual 111, ma never be rand down by elides of
formalism. The seed whose hidden life balers to stir
within soon busts, sad throws aside its dark, bard.
NM which eaa ember it ao more. When the beeserilf
has owe spread Ito volt wings tithe air aad the sue-
thin,, so power of me ma ever melon them in the
slurries agar. And them wise are Galled forth leto
the glerioes liberty of the children of God will not
Moon* seerameaterieas or formalists, thee word more.
There are some who mesa to think that Spiritual and
inagelied Religion ma best be adverted within the
Mardi of Baglani by withdrawlag from her in • solemn
protein agars erne. I manot em it so. Should we
a•t rolkor imitate our Lord? Hs teethe In the
temple, Sad H. eimand it. That temple was as
corrupt as ever oar Olen* mu be, and His farseeing
eye ear bow vita would all attempts at reformation
prove, yet He roar la it aid domed dadaist* but
trier. We mead see the fitters. Our aorta may
yet be oroweed with 1141011111 L At say rate, lee us teed
In the temple, and let ii deans, it. Tbe result may
be with is as It wee with our Nester ; we may be ead
out of the temple, sad den the Lord will give it to
others ; bell., us not mart detest by anticipating it
And lei it not be said of no that, beiag armed with the
Gospel of Grist, and " serrying the bow of the Spirit,"
we tamed bask la the day el beetle.