Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1860-04-28


to provide for long tomorrow. We fear we
cannot overcome our selfishness, our sininlness,
our fretfulness, or our peevishncss, aud so we
scarcely try. We fear it is no use to begin now,
and we will wait for a more suitable opportu-
nity--in age, in sickness, in retirement, in
change of circumstances. Such are our opposi-
tions to the divine lessons oftrust in God. How
shall we bring them to bear2 We must employ
our mental mill, and thus prepare it, The Lord
lives, and is as near to us as He ever was to
men of old. All power is His in heaven and
on earth, and he loves us infinitely All things
are really in His hands and under His control,
and only apparently in those OF Ills creatures.
He who conquered all the powers of darkness
can surely conquer the few who infest US
He to whom the combined power of sin could
really do no harm, but who bruised the whole
serpents head, can surely bruisc it in us. Come,
now, and let us reason together. He says,
though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be
as white rs snow; though they be red like
crimson, they shall be as WOOL" When the ra-
tonal faculty is thus employed, the good pnr-
poses Whlch the teacnihsS va ''s 49, "
spire are adapted 10 our s'ales' "hu VIZ ie'u
upon them. Our spiritual mill does its appro-
pirate work. In iact every verse IN 'le l'o's
Word affords it full employ, when we submit
the hallowed teaching to its operation For
we are not to learn the ie''er ony' We '""s,
uncover the musk OF the corn oi He'Ne"' "nu
enter into It's spirit anu ms Ne.ef ""S " nv
delusive iailacy thah 'ii'' wiiioh n"' 80
to trust i'll mysterious reiSloh, or .hc "otu
not understood. "When any one heareth the
Word of the Kingdom and nnderstandeth II
not, then cometh the wicked one, ana catcheth
away that which was sown In ms heart. lhis
is he which received seeu " .he way sio'
Mat. xiii. 10. The Word not understood is ike
corn unground or bread, anmastlcated, undl-
gested II affords no nourishment. the iigh'
of heaven cannot illuminate one VINO makes no
attempt to open his eyes. More hght, more
light @open thou mine eyes" should De the
prayer of every mind. 'Then, soon wouia the
time come, "whcn the knowledge OF the Lord
would cover the earth, as the water.coyers the
sea-"
To know and understand the truth, that we
may love and practice it; this is the spirit IN
which to read and hear the Word. The WIS
dom we understand enters into the mind, the
wisdom we love enters into the heart "The
entrance of thy words gveth light, it glveth
understanding unto the simple RS cAiA' ~
| The entrance of thy words giyeth light The
| words which remain in the memory, and do not
enter the intellect, leave us, and have lett the
world, Enlightened and nneaifed'
| The grand use OF the rational aeuits, 'hen'
as a spiritual mill is evident. May we never
surrender it, or barter it away. But the mn
had two stones, an upper and nelner iniii-
stone.
Stones represent truths of doctrine especial
| " in relation to the frmness they afford as
| foundation, and defensive wall TO our lf'l'n.
| In this sense stones are constantly employed
| in the Word. "Thereiore, tnus salth she Loiu'
Behold lay in Zion for a foundation stohc'
tried stone precious stone, a sure founda-
| ton he that believeth shall not make haste''
lisa. xviii. l6. No doubt the louhua'ion
stone means the foundation truth, that Jesus
| was Jehovah Himself, as our savior anu ne
deemer He that beieyeth on this snail not
hasten from one refuge to another, IN the day
of danger. His soul shall be satisfied with the
nresence. and with the loving projections OF
| God with MS. He who belieyth shall not make
haste.
Tba lord Jesus finished His Sermon on the
M,nnt with the same use of the correspondence
ors,one nTherefore. whosoeyer heareth these
.a vnos of mine. and doeth them, will liken
him unto n wise man, which built his house
,non rock and the rain descended, and the
saods came and the wind blew, and beat upon
that house and it fell not, for it was founded
mon a rock Mat vii. "a, 25. The rock is
ar;aantly the trnth everywhere present in the
rona,s words This truth is arrived at, by
e;ths,I and dilioent investigation. Hence, in
,Lo Il 10 written. uWhosoever cometh to me,
aa hoorotb NV savings. and doeth them,
Ill, .ho,, vop to whom he is like; he is like n
"A, L,,;,. bo,sa and dieeed deep. and
,..s.ha eorndot;on nnon n rock. How i'm
no,.ant u ia IN die deem. and not to make n
r,, ovo,,;not;on only of divine truth. The
-,a,,... ;o,vo,s lie the deepest. The more inte-
81. 40 ;nvost;oate the brighter will be our
., .a 40 surer will, he our foundation.
M. M ..,.s that Cod had really come to save
men was the stone which the builders rejected,
but which became the head of the corner luke
xx. l7.) When the Gentiles had received the
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