Litchfield enquirer., 1870-04-28
DEAN GoULBoURN ON SAINTS

Dean Goulbourn writes on this. subject
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 "We have been endeavoring to correct
 the popular notion of saints as men exempt from our infirniities, and altogether exalted above our sphere But this notion, has another tendency, besides that which has been already discussed. It leads not only to what we may call an over-valuation of those saints who have long since passed away, but to an under valuation of those who may now be If we had eyes to sec them) fighting the battle of life by our side. And against this error, also, the Word of God protests, teaching us, in another pas- sage, that the world is not worthy of Gods saints. Every man and woman who lives by Christian principle (that is. by fath), who sustaius the life of his immortal spirit by prayer, and sacraments, aud the Word of Cop, and resists evil watchfnlly and steadftstiy, is saint. He may have his infrmities. his backsliliugs, his pc. riobs of lukewarmness. his failipgs of tenn. per, his moral cowardice: so had the Scriptural saints. And our close com- merce with him in life, forciug upon us, as it does, his weakness and pr-iudices, while his communion with God, transacte,l in the depths of biS owu spirit. is of course screened from us, flinders for the present our fully approaching him. We see very clearly that he is 'a man aubject to like passions as we are; but we fail to see that he is Enjlh. Perchance we sdall see this too, byund-by, when he is taken from us. Sanctity in our friends and neighbors is like a star. We take no notice of'the star while the sun is pouring his rays over the Armament, anu the full stir of life is around us. But let the night draw her curtain over the sky; and tue star in all it's beauty steals out to view. So, while our friends are mixed up with us in the hurry and commerce of life, we seem unable to dis entangle from their infrmities the saint Illness which is in them. But they die; and something cannes to light about their inward life which hitherto had escaped every eye but Gods, and we begin to dis cover that the commonest things they did were governed by Christian principle, and referred to God in prayer, and perhaps that we have been for years walking side by side with angels unawares. Death has now thrown his pail over them; they are no longer in the hubOub of life, or the strife of tongues; and the stars of their sanC- tity begins to twinkle brightly to our eyes. Oh! lest remorse for having appreciated Cops saints so little, should strike Q chill to our hearts, when they are taken from us, let us now be on the watch for any tokens of good in one another, and hail such to- kens with afectionate reverence. Let not infrmities, however patent, blind our eyes to the grace which there may be in 's brother. Let us hope for good in him, believe in it, joyfully welcome it. And let us not fail to bless God for every example of faith and love given by His people, whetber still in state of warfare, or departed to their rest, "beseeching Him to give us grace so to follow their good tnat with them we may be par. takers of His heavenly kingdom" a 9=l
 The Pursuit of Holiness: A Sequel to Thoughts on Personal Religion" intended to carry the reader somewhat further onward in the Spiritual State. By EDWARD MEYR1cK GoULBu1N, D. D. Pott & Amery: New York. 1869. &
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