The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1872-11-05 00:00:00

TEI3 RZSIONATION OF TU3 V 10413 OF

WEST FOR DINO TON.

Last Sunday the Rev. C. J. Bird, 8.A., officiated for
the last time in the services at Christ Cherish. As is
well known, the rev. gentlentea, following in the Mops
taken by several other ministers of the &tablimbed
Church, who have felt that it W 64 inoonsistent with
their prioeiplea longer to remain in sauna:Won with the
Church afros tbe recent judgment in the Bennett oem,
has resigned be living of West Fordingtoe, aud broken
the ties width bound him to the Ifotabliahment. The
Bev. 0.3. Bird was instituted on the 273t1a February,
1861, so that let a period of nearly twelve years he ham
laboured at Christ Church, during which tante he has
been mach beloved and respected by the congregation
worshipping then, and his loss will ho mourned by all
who have attended his ministry. Oo Sunday
there was. erowded church, it having become secondly
known that it was the last Woe the rev. geotlentan
would preach. The prember took as his text Rev. IL, 2.,
"1 know thy works, and thy lahour, and thy ;lithium,
and bee thou meet not beer them which are .via: and
Mon haat tried Mein which my they are apostles, and
are not, and hut found them litre." He saki—
These are the words of Oct Holy Lord and Master
Jesus MAO. He praline the Church Is Ephesus
bagasse they maid not beer them which its evil: they
were Intolerant of mil. Yes I brethren, intelmeaoe of
evil is the mind of God sad is the ehariteter of Jeans.
Truth cannot tokrate a lie—light cannot tolerate dark.
assa—purity 44111104 tolerate AlM—holiness °scoot
tolerate sin. God is "of purer eyes than to behold
evil "—Jesus was "holy, undefiled, and separate from
sinoen." Compueetly "1.1 every one that nameth
the name of Christ depart from iniquity." From the
very Int hour that evil cone amongst mankind In
Paradise. God's Holy Spirit has been resisting,
reproving. opposing and indging, counterman( and
remedying that evil—putting an irresionoileable enmity
betweeu the seed of the wanes sad the end of the
serpent, betweee the children of God and the children
of the wicked omit "Thou coati not bear them withal'
are evil." Nol it le not simply that it wee improper,
It was : inaposeiMe that the holy should
bear eviL " How mach evil r dais any ask, "bow bad?"
I answer that the Holy Spirit of Jesus will not let RIS
people bear any evil whatever, or any evil men ag all.
Desist an evil doetrins, cw belt ma evil Me; belts ripe
and fall-biown horsey, or be it the *iridium of the net
of bitterness; be it a great public @sandal, or be it only
an act of laisiesiatesey ; yet in 'soh sod every ease the
faithful Chriellea men mast separate himself from
eounimoaricleg, cc being mixed up with the evil; he
mast oppose, judge, medenut It: he cannot kelp thus
doing, become he "naliniCrt bear theca whisk are evil."
na my remarks however may have some order, I will
Ind my
L Whet the faithful Cbrietian can "bear ;" and what
he "cannot bear."
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11. Wia-Fla the lather owe he cannot bear it.
In. Hew he milt skew that be maned bear it.
First them as to what tie fsitAfel believer ewe tear mad
what h canace. He tor "bear the iafirmities of the
weak bestir..;" differemees of lodgment; difßoultioe ;
emulsion of massioaoe the disillusions of dame
iagabers ; thAeastoranoe sad idowsess to learn of babes
In Christ. , be can boar the bardmis of his
breams, in falls, temptations, ant elm,
when he seas theft repentiouri amicable—he has
syalby aad love to give sue sot seesaw or reproach.
rtgabitaait beer, though It to bear, the molds&
the injustice, the wrongs shown to him by his
brsthres In Christ. He man bear It for he is
not judged of roan's judgment, and his rejoicing
I. thla, the testintooy of his consoienos. Thus
we see what a Chriitiao oao bear. He aan bear
the indrialties, he ass bear the reproarthes, he eau bear
the faults' and falla whist' are repeated of. But ha
cannot bear "Evil doers," or "Evll worbors" or Evil
teacher.; he oanuot bear them in the sand; mush ism
eon he hear them in the Church of God. "Dew*
from mei ye evil dos:" he would my of the wiokod of
tho world. Bat if may saw JAM is called a troika.
"be" an evil door or an "idolater," he " eannot bear"
him. " Abhor that which la evil"—" Do not I hate
them 0 Lord which hat* The.? and am not I grieved
with them that rise up againat Them r "Ye that love the
Lord see that ye hate eviL" And this will chow as sty.
IL Why the faithful Coristian cannot boar evil.
Why? Botsause of the wrong, diatonour, and grief leaf
it owes to God and Hie Basiour, aid Wows of th•
sorrow mad raia which it curses io Ais fellow Irma. Evil
disobeys and dishonours the Lord: Ii instils the Holy
God: It offends His, who "is Love." Love indeed
" beareth ill thing.;" but there is one thing ex opted
which it " osnoot bear" bociause it wrongs a losing God,
I and that Is " evil". Bell warders love; and not only
i doss it wound and dishonour God and Jeans, but it
mosso &riotous, sorrow, judgement., and God's wroth
to tai upoa our poor fello• men. And in these respects
*4 Maslowe are even MOOS grievous and intoler-
abbe than *oil doers. If "that righteous man (Lot)
dwelling among (the Sodomites), in web, Lad bearing
vexed his righteous soul from day to day
"with their unlawful deeds ;" surely a righteous man
dwelling Sanaa mob timobars of evil as alas I we have in
our obaroh now, may well vex Ais soul in sada' sad
homing their wicked &merinos "Gem" he "beat" to
hear His doer Lord ao dishonoured and his poor fellow
sippers eta delude' to their ruin by false dootrine I Can
be sit quietly by sod look on, while preolou• mule are
hoodwinked and roarclored, sad while the might and
gram of His glorions High Priest above are profanely
usurped and olalealid by foolish men who pretend to
oiler ateridoes sad to forgive Mos. "Can his boar it r
The question to him often is what eon ho do to help
It? and this brine me to consider.
111. How the faithful believe. skew that lie come
beer Gum maid are evd. He osonot bear; but he doom
sot therefore permeate. Tears Is this omelet betwess
{Mimi:it of the workl sad the spirit which lint God
ever ragtag. The world which lieth la the wished Oa'
" maw. bear' thus Ahab on holy in Joss ; oad Oa