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M. E. CHURcH.-Morning Service, 1890
A. NJ. Evening Service, 7.45 p. NJ. Sabbath
School, 2 PM. Rev. ID. e. RIDewAY, Pastor.
NJ. E. CHAPEL SABBATH SCHOOL, 2P.M.
Rev. w. w. FRANCE, Supt
Tert-Neither will offer unto the Lord INV
God that which cost me nothing.- III Sam. Xxiv.I
David, king of Israeli had transsressed
Gods communicated numbered the people
and punishment speedily followed. But, in
answer to his SuppicatiOn, the hand of the
angel of destruction had been stayed even
while he became visible "by the threshing-
place Of Araunah," just without the city;
and now the penitent yet grateful king, ut
the command of Gods prophet, goes forth to
erect an altar and offer sacrifice on the very
spot where the angel had appeared-to build
monument OH the shore just where the last
wave of the rising tide of pestilence had
DrOken Araunah, with princely generosity,
oilers him not only the ground as site but
oxen and instruments for sacrifice and fuel.
David, rightly apprehending the principle
involved i'll sacrifice, answers in the language
OF our text The offering must be hiS, and
must necesSltate some expenditure in order
to satisfy his grateful heart.
That sacrifice forms an important part of
religious service, and is a favored means of
appeasing wrath and of propitiating God,
seems to be and to have been from the most
ancient times the belief of almost every
known nation. The lowest nation i'm the
allied and enlightened of heather peoples,
the native of Central Africa, the savage of
the Islands of the Sea, as well as the Jupan-
ese, Chinese and llindoos-thus worship their
gods; and the ancient Assyrian and Egyptian
worShipped God in sacrifice.
The universally of such practice, and
one so contrary to the dictates of reason, in
dicate, aside from the revelation of Gods
written Word, that sacrifice has been cstab-
lished by God himself as a duty of man To
his Creator.
But the palmer teachings of God place
this matter above all query. Abel sacrificed
to God ard it was accepted; God ''smeled
the SAVIOUR" of NOahs burnt offering andwas
appeased and entered into covenant with his
servant; Jehovah himself instituted SER
vice of sacrifice, gave most minute directions
in relation to it, and established an order of
priests whose sole duty was to attend to the
offerings and to present them to God. Our
Saviour himself crowned and closed the syS-
TEN when, at once "Priest' and Lamb" he
offered Himself for the sins of world. So
much then for sacrifice in general.
God has declared his proprietary right to
the whole world and "all that therein is"
and as Creator, Preserver, King and God.
demands recognition of his right by the
very act of sacrifice.
A very important question in relation to
the amount to be sacrificed or the cost of the
offering is answered in our text-Offer not
that which costs you naught: .. e., let your
gift be of such amount and character that it
shall affect you and cause some deprivation.
Sacrifice derives its value from two sources.
LIST, 1t is an act of obedience to Gods expli-
cit command. I'd, The involved deprivation
is proof of love to God-greater than for
the object given. The truth then is, that an
offering to God of that which remains after
the qualification of our appetites aud indul-
gence in luXuries is no sacrifice at all. 1t is
no charity of you to the dog that he feeds
upon the crumbs that fall from your table;
no deed of love that from the drops that fall
from your overtiowing glass the bird slakss
his thirst. Our Saviour in his comment on
the gift of the widows mite "This poor
widow hath cast more in than they all, for
all they did cast in of their abundance, but
she did cast in all she had MARK xii-42),
lays it down as a principle that God judges
mans liberalty rather by what is left than
by what is given.
CHRIST CHURcH.-Morning Service, 1890
A. NJ; 3 O'Clock p. NJ. Holy Days. IL o'clock
A. NJ. Sunday School, PM.
Rev. j. l.. McKIM, Pastor.
ST. PAUL's M. E. CHuRCH.-Morning Ser
vice, 1890 A. NJ. Evening Service, las p. NJ.
SSchool, ppm. Rev. j. III. HOLLAND, Pastor
MILFORD PRESBYTERIAN CHURcH.-Morn-
ing Service at 1890 A. NJ. Evening Service,
Z Pm. Sabbath School, 2P.N.