Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1852-1859, 1859-06-20

o'clock, at the Disciples Church IN thlS city, by
Prof Loos, of Bethany College.
His text read as follows:
aI should in e eros, q Jesus 191
the world."-Ga VIZ, II.
We have selected this passage to day, as the
thought which it contains so nobly uttered by
Paul has ever been, and will ever be, n leading
one for confidence and joy, for strength and
victory, 10 every true christian heart 1t Is
bright torch in our hand, illuminating the path
of our studies and CONCENTRATIONS in the great
work of christian doctrine and christian history.
It intcrprets to us the evangclic voices OF the
prophets; reveals to our wasting spirits tho
glorious mysteries Of our Saviour's earthly MS
tory; the apostolic life and labors; and is oea'
con.light raised on high, sendlng its i'Iu'hina-
ting beams across centuries and milleniums, to
lead US, in every age, to q true understanding
of the advancing history of the Church, in doc
trine and life.
This "glorying in the cross of Christ" saves
us from many destructive errors, that have been
so fatal to the church IN every age. vi some
of these errors we shall speak.
l. 1t saves us from glorying in man. TINS
error of glorying in man,-an error as undylng
as sn,-with meniumS on its brow, yet vigor-
Gus for evil in its Protean life to-day as OF old,
manifests itself on every page of the church'S
history, from its birth to the present hours and
we presume will ever be found thus, till time
and human frailties be no more: 1t would have
made the Nazarene Prophet King, utterly IN
different to his Divine character as the Messiah,
the Lamb of God. 1t made fierce assaults on
the infant church and spread wide desolation
over it, under the very eye Of the apostles, and
with the most SpecOus pretenScS. one glorled
in Paul, another in Peter, another in Apoilos.-
This was glorying utterly perUerte1, ana de-
structive of the blessed mission OF Christ, OF
the truths of the Gospel in the church and OF
the spiritual lives of the blinded victims oil this
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tion and divine power, Paul rebukes it! Let
no man glory in mani" is his cry,-even be they
the hottest and the baSt. Christ alone is all
and in all Homage to him, gorying in him,
as the great Saviour, leaves us no homage nor
glorying for men.
been in the church, and to the truth! 1t makes
man wilCully trample under foot the best con-
victions 1t is the prolific formation of Stritcs,
of ugly hearted cvil-impelled factions. 1t lights
up and feeds the flames that are to consume the
pure and the good. 1t makes man hlindly and
slayishly receive the INFESTED opinions ot their
idols, to the rejection Of the highest and most
salutary truths. 1t often fastcns these chains OF
slavery on succeeding generations; and above
all, turns man away from Christ.
But will not our d6nouncing this error save
us from it? No, neverl 1t is the mysterious
fatal wtchery of these conan'o" errors, that tney
who are loudest in dcnouncng them, are often
the first to fall deepest into them. So the
Apostle speaks of those boasting of, and promi-
sing liberty, that are themselves all the while
the meanest slaves of the vileSt passions. Tho
Quaker fierccly denouncing the vanity and OBJ
soletenesS of all external forms, is for genera
tIons VIGOROUSLY and servilcly in bondage to the
very cut and color of his garments, the shape
And so of probably of all classes. Mis-
taking the deRuacidti0R Of an error for freedom
from it, is really one of the most everyday facts
and follics OF human life. Let no ore forget
this. Nothing will e[iectually save us from this
sad error, but to say with PauI,-to feel and
fully realize it, and let it fill all our life,-"God
forbid that should glory save in the cross Of
Jesus Christ, by which the world is crucilied
unto me and unto the world"
The spirit of the passage before saves us
from another most dcbaSed form of iiioatrouS
glorying,-that Of Slorying in party, in our.
Selres. Alas how very human, and, therefore,
how very common, each of these, the two con-
sttutirg but one! Scctarinnism, selfish party
bigotry, is one of the rifcst vices all over Chris
tendon. Its micn, form, and life so ugly
and repulsve, its hearts fru so foul-and often
so terrible and dreadful in their dcStructivcneSs
that We shall no longer pause at this revolving
shape OF sin, but leave it to that just condcm.
nation of all the good, and ola holy God, which
has ever been denounced upon it. And let
every man beware lest here, too, he mistake
dcnunciation of error for freedom from it u
| How many thousands arc daily most vOciferous-
who, all the while, are the most abject, fallen
slaves to Blind hateful, party vanity, and party
zeal.
1t saves us also from the error and sin of
glorying in doctrines. This is very common
aud very ready error. tits to be found boldly
ON the surface, everywhere throughout the
whole history of the church. 1t is indeed ono
Of the most common OF the unfortunate ahcrrn
tons of the human mind. Men very early, in
the first year of the church, began to grow in
very devoted love with favorite doctrines, mis-
taking thus, altogether, the true object proposed
in religion, of our faith and our love- our
trust, JOY, and glorying. 1t is substituting tho
means for the final object to be reached By them;
giving to the creature the glory due to the crca-
tor This tendency, is one of its widest out
growths, shot into revolving desolating mn.mri-
ty in ancient Grosticism. It is pcrpetually man.
ifesting itself everywhere. 1t makes men
single out some dogma as the object of
their blind, Grant, idolatrous alteration, as
the goddess of their pride. smitlen apostatc
glorvingS We truly call it idOluhY and
dpostasY, for mems hearts by it stray away
! from Him as the only true object of glory
ing 1t makes the heart vain, intole,ant, and
impious. How often do we see men rudcly,
v"garly, aud almost impiously, carry on a