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

a good audience assembled In this
Church, and was addressed by the
Pastor, Rev. J. W. Taggart, on the S4th
verse Of the I04Th Psalm. Want of
space prevents the insertion of Il fuller
extract.
my meditation OF Him shall be sweet
will be glad IN the Lord"
The speaker began by referring to
the return OF Napoleon from Elba TO
France. But we celebrate not the re-
turn of an sxiled monarch. Our King
is Jesus. The following points were
discussed:
/. Let US be thankful for the abun-
daut harvests OF the season.
.. We should be thankful for our con-
stftutiOual liberty.
8. We should be thankful for the
riches OF divine grace, manifested to US
ia the sweet enjoyments OF the ieligion
OF Jesus.
Unlike all other riches, these are
eternal. Though they take hold on this
world, they dow onward through ever
lasting ages. Here they secure the
presence of God and the pleasures Of
hope; they protect the soul trom n thou
sand dangers-carry 1t in safety
through many a long and gloomy
storm-iuspire unconquerablef foTttEude
under trials-give peace and comp0sure
in the darkest scenes, and NIL the mind
with we'll founded anttcipations Of,fu-
ture happiness But hereafter faith
will be absorbed In vision. and hope
lost in actual enjoyment. The believer
shall fiud mansion prepared for him
in his fathers hOuse-Rn Inheritance
that no power can pluck from his hand,
a kingdom that shall never be moved.
And who can read OF the house not
made with hands, eternal in the
heaveus-the holy city whence sin and
sorrOW shall be forever banished-and
of the seraphic emplOyments of the re-
deemed about the throne, and not burst
forth with the Psalmist, "My medita-
ton of Him shall be sweet Will be
glad in the Lord"
Vast numbers will share these bless
fnEs. A multitude that no man can
number Will stand on Mount ZionY
having palms in their hands, and'tun-
Ing their harps to the praise Of redeem-
ing mercyf And 1t is not from one
favored spot on this wide World-it Is
not IRON one distinguished cOmmuni-
ty, nor single generation-but from
alf-nntions and kindreds under
heaven, that the great congregation
fs made up. There will be found
the Scythian aud the barbarian, the
bond and the free: there will the learn
ed, and the uuIeaTned, the rich and
poor, the high and the low, the mighty
and the feeble, sit down together at the
same banquet OF love Think not that
the precious blood of Jesus Is tnsuth-
cient to wash away the sins of so many.
4 world might wash in that fountain
and be clean. Nor Is It the crimson
stains of Mary MagdaleD. nor the
persecuting spirit OF Saul of Tarsus,
that can resist the efficacy ofthRt blood!
And shall we not be thankful forEuch
grace-such riches of grace, In Christ
Jesus our LordH Ny meditation of
Him shall be sweet; I will be glad in
the Lord. bet everything that hath
breath praise the Lord.
SERMON BT Rev. NR. FISHER.
The sermon by the Rev. D. W. Fisher,
in the First Presbyterian Church yes
terday, was on the subject OF Christian
Union, considered with some special
references to Presbyterianism in this
country The sermOHfTBt discusses
the subject OF Christian union in its
bearint: on the relations between the
various great Protestant denomina
tiuns. Il then passes to the cousidera-
ton of rhe same subject in its appltca-
tion to PresbyteriAns. II discusses the
history, grounds and prospects Of union
among the bodies OF that general faith.
Believing that Il will be Of interest 10
the mass of our readers we will to-
morrow give a more extended synopsis
than our space will permit this morn
ing. -