Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1859-03-03 00:00:00

always found amo
the Israelites in

the prop6nsitif
the shape of

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toe lesson or this morning. The same people who
exclaimed to Moses at the bottom of Sinai : " All that
the Lord bath Said, we will do, speak thou with us and
we will hear," the very people indulging in the
demands f their sensuality were not able to bear Moses'
absence, and showed so little ,forbearances towards the
feelings of the great legislator, that they formed a golden
calf, saying : " These are thy Gods, Israel, who brought
thee out of the laud of Egypt." And into the footsteps
of our ancestors, who were not able to bear and forbear,
aro walking all these men,, who adore and worship like a
golden calf the inclinations of their hearts. Riches are
blessings from heaven, and rich people are very often the
greatest blessing of mankind; but as soon as riches are

arm of a golden calf; they do harden
our hearts, and make us callous towards the feelings of
forbearance, and the slightest reverse of fortune finds
us unprepared .to bear the strokes of fate
,with
fortitude and manliness. Science .and knowledge are
heavenly gifts, to enlighten our intellects and to develope
the vast dominions of our spirit. But as soon' as they
are employed in the. service of vainness and conceitedness,
we worship only a golden
.ealf, and become daily more
presumptuous and self-opinionated. And, indeed, my
brethern, it is not a prejudice' on our side, if we declare
here loud and openly that the learned professions of life
are principally deficient in practising that spirit of
leniency, that virtue of " hearing and forbearing," which
we recommend so warmly in this day's discourse. The
spirit of controversy, the critical fire of opposition, pro-
ceeding very often from the impure source of jealousy and
gal a•ahnc.cv •arn L'renf • 1_

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by such an-intolerance of opinions and ideas, by such an
abusing way to rectify the views of others, that we must
cases of this kind, the beautiful words of Moses
directed to Joshua, on hearing the people shout-
ueeing them dancing around the golden calf :

apply t
which :

"ft is not the voice of the

) cry victory, nor the voice

ice of those who piakc

tuons noise, I hear. And 'the same want in
lid, forbearing we find in our families and in
life. Here a sister has severed herself
from the arms of her brother—there a brother has
withdrawn himself: from the sweet embraces of his sister ;
here a son does not give way to the peculiarity of his
aged father ;,:there a daughter does not study the parti=
cular nature of her aged mother ; here a child defies
boldly the good intentions of its parent and there the
hearts of the parents decrease more and more in affec-
- ~nd love for that unhappy child. And why not
Because hatred, dispute, quarrel,
~,terstanding, like a small spark, are growing
its, 'by our irreconcilable nature, to such a flame of

bearing

forbear

the g
Moses
do no

t we worship disharmony and disunion as
;alf of our hearts, exclaiming, " This man,
ving example of bearing and forbearing, we
what has become of him." And at length,

abmission to the principlE

"-Virtue is not a magic tree till,

p of itself in ono ni
'not

ht when w

; but it is a delicate plant.-that groweti
needing much temptation to culti•
tggle to guard it, much time to mature

individual goes spotless through life, per

traps, tu consequence of its own exertion, or on aCcOun
the quiet turns and directions of its mind; the other
olcano, and whose edu

raging

lopinent

3 laud;

tual be
indulgc

,on his mental dove
long sei.ool of trial

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Therefore we

f our f

t to t

yet we have n

,"g (town with ii;olitem
the failinrrs of nnr

neighbour

cl ever be adaand that the true punt%
7 the,. Companion or

neatness,

ncrciful with the poor sini;;;,-a—r;
by the real desire to 'emu. prehen
-4014 and to bchohl, thorn without
thout the feelings of bearing and

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k;:letß'r oarown all
_lies then practice tlu
Let us, in doing so, follow the words of
iheod saysand
—g‘ e'nFec)rrgiveness and forlx
generous points of virtu
I attain to.
ioielivterds have don(
but ft coward
forbear, it is not never
ufficient to prevepnit:.str:e7nciliation.
thy heart,
t(tperfocriat es
the man, who has
ion of the sea-worm,
bitt which straightwayand genuine pearl.
rumor are we to "bear
in which we have to "bear
ut to us in our to-day's text,
asked our-God and Father
ry, and the Lord answered him. "I
shall make ail niy goodness pass before thee, and I shall
proclaim the-naMc of the Lord before thee, and shall be
gracious to idiom I will be gracious, and show mercy on
whom I will shoW mercy." Therefore, God's glory and
majesty consists in His goodness, that He is gracious and
merciful, bearing and forbearing towards his children,

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