The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-11-29

This congregation worships in the U.
S. District Court room in the Custom
House, while their church is being
built on Market street, Centre Wheel
ing. The Rev. W. B. Morrow, Rector,
has but recently been called to the pas
torate OF this church, and has already
endeared himself not only to the peo-
Pile OF his own charge, but to all who
have been brought into contact with
him.
The following is a synopsis OF the
sermon delivered by him yesterday:
The preacher began by rsmarkiug
that gloom Is no christian temper, and
even priVAtion, or penuEy, or persecu-
ton for the Gospels sake Is not accept
II abIe to God, unless swestened by faith,
cheerfuIness aud thanksgiving. "In
everything give thanks. for this is the
will of God in Christ Jesus concerning
you.v We must live in Gods presence
and lift up our hearts unto the Lord
even in suffering. The three holy
children are said to have stood up in
the midst of the fire and to have called
on all the works of God TO rejoice with
them; on the angels OF the Lord, on sun
and moon, stars of heaven, nights and
days, mountains and bills, seas and
floods, beasts and cattle,-and children
of men-tU praise and bless the Lord
and magnify Him forever. And in the
spirit of these blessed confeSsors-eVen
in this world of so much suffering, in
the midst OF the fiery trial which Is to
try the beloved OF the Lord-have his
children and servants come Into His
House to-day, and taken up the hUfy
song OF Annanias, Azafias and MiSael,
to thank the Lord Tor the abundant
blessings OF the year which He has
crowned with His goodness; and the
voice or nTthanksgiving has been invoked
from the angels OF the Lord and the
spirits and souls of the righteous,
while toyously responded to by the
holy and humble men Of heart, the
priests aud the servants of the Lord, in
his militant, and therefore, suffering
The preacher then drew lesson Of
thaukfnlness from consideration OF
the many blessings and merctes Of
which our present life is made up-nOt
only for the gift of life itself, but for
our I,TeserUdtiot, and all he blessings Of
this tife. And first, that even the very
means OF sustaining this our ma
turaI LIE, consist in things pleas
ant and desirable to our nature.
1t might have been so ordered
that our life should be ordinarily sus-
tanned by the painful remedies and
medicines, extraordinarily used for Its
preservation in sickness and disease.
Bnt in His loving kindness 1t is not so.
on the contrary, life consists In things
pleasant. and it is sustained by bless
inSs. He has pledged to US those or
dinaFy means of sustenance which We
naturally like; "bread shall be given
us: our water shall be sure; "all these
things shall be added to u.s." And Civ
ing us much as this, He bids US be sat
- - Z IA saFaFa
we shave all" when We have so much
that we 'abound" when we have
enough; He promises US food, and raj
ment and lodging; and He bids US
"haying food and rAiment, Herewith
to be content" Such Is His merciful
consideration of US; He does not sePa-
rate us from this world, though he calls
us out oft. Even in the new life,
which Is in Christ Jesus, he blesses all
craatioa-to our use. "Every creature
OF God" says the Apostle, "is goodI
and nothing to be refused, if IL be re-
ceIyed with thanksgiving, for it Is
sanctified with the word OF God. ana
with prayer. He does not bid US re-
nounce the creation, but associates US
with i'the nost beautiful portions Oft
He likens us to the flowers with which
he has carpeted the earth, and to the
birds which-l live solitary under Heaven,
and makes them the types OF a Chrfs-
tian. He denies us Solomon's regal
maEuiticence to unite US TO the lilies OF
the field and the fowls Of the air.
Here. then, surely Is cause for JOY
and thanksgiving, yet more especially
At this. when we have such abundant
cRuse TO enter His temple-gateS with q
new song of praise in our mouths! Amid
the many distractions and causes Tor
perturbation which sttlI exist a mong
US MS a nation, He has abundantIy
blessed the labors OF the husbandmani
our garueFs are full and plenteous with
ALI manner of store, and our presses
burst out with new wine. Is II not
meet and right that the memorial OF his
abundant Kindness should be Showed y
and that men should sing OF MS r1gnt-
eousness2 He has made peace IN our
borders, that we may dwell together as
brethren; there ts no longer any teau-
Ing into captivity amongst us, 1nd no
complaining in our streets. For an
ali. .piIiful and gracious Lord hath
heaied.thoss that were broken tuthearti
binding up the wounds OF the WldoW
and the fatherleSs. Are not the people
happy that are in such eaSe3 Yea,
blessed are the people that have the
Lord for their God.
A1afn what great blessing Is peace.
fnI sIuuberI What a loving gilt Is
that OF innocS Mt sleepl Our father IN
hes van does not suffer his children to
I be worn out with long watches In the
seasons of unhapptness and atnlction,
but He divides our trials into portions
ss Hts breaks our daily bread5 He takes
us out ofthfS world ever and anon, and
viyes rs a hOly-day time, ike children,
IN an unkaoWn and mysterious eouh-
try. giving His Angels charge over Us.
And As our natural life Is the type OF
our spiritual life, we may, not only IN
lneraI, but In a higher sense, o.ess
Him "who saveth our life from des-