The Portland daily press., 1871-05-30
t'iKsf PAkl.n e>Rey lhod,as Brown of

tiHsf Pakisn e>ReY Thodas RroYu Of
Deter, n, HI, Sunday preached t@o abba ard
eloquent sermons at the First Parish church
notwithstanding the Indictment weather, the
attendance was large. $3.50 n
In the morning the sui ject was '"The Cos
pei of Christ the Assurance of Divine PrOvi-
dence' text Psalms, 8th Chap. 4th verse;
What is man that thou art mindful Of him?
and the son of man that thou visitest him.
Nature and philosophy are unsatisfactory in
the SOULS longing. Intellectual speculatiOns
fail. Christs life aud example are the souls
hope and encouragement. He is the rest for
the weary and contrite heart. The illustra-
lions of the thoughts of the discourse were
beautifully given throughout. In commence
ing he alluded to his own experience while on
vessel in mid Oce2n a few years since, en-
route across the sea-alone amid darkness,
beneath the fatholniess and worli-starred
Heavens, suggesting the solitude of the soul
and its longing for God. In conclusion he re-
cited a touching incident of a mother dashed to
plank, bearing upon her bosom her little
child. The astOnished sailors as they went to
her rescue caught these word. from her feeble
lips: i.-.+- st.
"Jesus, lover ofmy soul!
Hide me, y, my Saviour, hide,
Till the storm OF lite is past,
Sac into the haven guie
% U, receive my soul ut last?'
Hers was calm and trustful faith in God
and her Saviour, which nature and philosophy
could never bring, surrounded as she was with
peril and danger. Such is the Christians ref
uge. $500 ,-,....,,.
In the evening, the subject was "Christ the
Manifestation OF God" Text, John, 14th;
Chapt. 9th verse. she that hath seen me hath
seen the Father" sa uv4 r p
The venerable old savage 10 the far North.
whom Sir John franklin met, aud was ignor
ant of God, having, he said, never seen him or
never should although he mad travelled far and
wide, was like many another since Of larger
wisdom and more pretentious philosophy. The
old man could not believe in any thing he could
not see. He nevertheless believed in the wind
coming he knew not whence, and going he
knew not whether, buffetting his rude hut and
creating the solid glacier and in summer re-
changing it to the run ming river. Every man
believes much that he cannot see, such as the
fragrance of the flowers and the mighty power
of gravitation, binding worlds and systems Of.
worlds together. We believe in the existence
Of the soul aud the life never yet seen in our
physical forms. These and other unseen re.
alities really exist. Should one rise from the
dead and bear witness OF the invisible things of
holiness and Heaven they could rot believe.
Chriscs answer to Phillip given in our text is
one of the grandest and most impressive proofs
of Gods existence. Christ or his life and
teachings is the image of God uplifting the
entire race. He withstood all temptation and
obloquy, amid the sinful and degraded, main
tanning his majestic royalty. The earth and
Heavens are not only evidences of Gods exis-
tence and Fatherly love, but Christ, the An
nOinted one, thei meek, lowly, undefied,, .un-
approaced, inappropriate Son of God is our
proof and consolation.
Christ to the believing soul is thus not the
person but the very image of the invisible
and Eternal God. The evening selections by
the choir, and Kotzschmar (organist) were es.
peclally beautiful and appropriate. Rev. Mr..
Brown is fine reader as we'll as able preacher.
He is to presch the annual sermon at the New
Hampshire Unitarian Convention at Lancas-
ter july 10Th sEf4 50 1888 "a