The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1868-11-30
GLeantelliQ1e'urer.
THANKSGIVING SERMONS.
Baptlat Church.
REV. J. RowLEY, PASTOR.

REV J. ROWLEY, PASTOR.
IeIt-"And II he offer It for ThankseIy.
Ing, then ne shall oner with the sacrifice Of
Thanksgiving, unleavened cakes mingled
Win OIL ana unlenVened waters RnnoiIlted
with oil, and cakes mingled with oil, OF 1lnC
Hour frted."-Lev. 4: IL
The lessons, which are the first we
learn, and the last we forget, are those
which appeal to an elementary princi-
pie OF our nature, and as such have LEFT
their traces on all ages, and have made
themselves manifest under all circum-
stances. a sense of dependence upon
superior strength and superior wisdom,
must also develope a feeling of obliRa-
ton and gratitude, and It seems natural
for the heart to leap forward to dis.
charge its Indebtedness. This attempt
mankind will not fail to make, al
though the means may be very inap-
propriately selected and very injudI-
ciously applied. The earliest history
OF our race furnishes proof for both
these positions. We find faint traces
OF offerings before Adams election
from Eden, and we infer the necessity
OF Divine guidance in the manner Of
bringing the offering, and the condI-
lions OF it, for when the two sons of
Adam came to bring their first offer.
ings to Jehovah-the Offering of the
elder was rejected and the Offering OF
the younger accepted, yet neither the
acceptance nor the rejection depended
upon favor extended or denied to the
.oherer, but depended rather upon the
appropriateness of the offering.
1t therefore seems appropriate this
morning, TO enquire for the old land.
MARKS, that we may eliminate the true
elements OF an acceptable Thanksgiv-
ing, from the mass of corrupt and cor
rupting tendencies which have too fire..
quenly Influenced men in bringing
their thank. offering, whether an annu-
al ors daily one,1 There are three
ing spoken of in the text. lst. 1t was
to be bread. End. 1t was to be unledu.
etled. Srd, It was to be amounted,
When the Saviour was on the earth,
much of His instruction was conveyed
in the language of metaphors; and
when he would institute permanent
symbol of His death, a perfect epItome
element, which Is found in every
country, which the poor have and the
rich cannot dispense with, and He
made that the eloquent seal of truths
SO sublime that angels cannot grasp
them, of blessings SO vast that eternity
cannot exhaust them, and of a gospel
so glorious, that the poorest and the
richest have 1t alike; and it was the
same, simple, beautiful substance, that
Jehovah would accept at the hands of
the willing Israelites, as II there were
so close a connection, between bread
and life, that he would thus point him
backward TO the mama
of the wilderness, and remotely for.
ward to the true bread, which would
come down from Heaven. Sotin our
Offering there must, be an intimatec con-
nection between the offering and the
life-yes there must be heart in tit
must be the heart, the seat of life, and
our offerings cannot be accepted unless
flowing from this source. Again,
1t must be uniedUened. The primary
meaning of the word, translated leaven,
Is sour, pungent, bitter; tropically
spoken of tho mind, vehemeuce,f pas
sion, violence, malice, and substantive.
~ is translated, violent man, an CD.
pressor. 1t is a well known emblem of
pride, malice, HYPOCRISY. The lesson
then is obvious. Had this been care
fully observed, how much less we
should have heard of the great things
we had done-of the great Babylon we
had built, of our vast superiority in la
lent wealth and influence, but rather
should have referred all TO that dispos.
ing power, which pulleth down one
and setteth up another.
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