The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1872-11-29

Id stste, may be unconscious of God
ct presence, hsve no sense of His Low
n and no taste for the spiritual foo
re which He provides,
E. Does the mother cease to love he
a child, because it is unconscious an
II unthankful Never. Nor does Go
n cease to love US, though we fall ia
below proper conception and sI
n probation OF His love.
Is Oh that men would praise the Lor
ID Tor his Oodaess-for the goodnes
N that is inherent and everlasting il
p Him; for his long forbeariag, never
Of arying, ,teDderly- compassionate, ,say
Is ing goodness
Our grateful sense OF Gods good
j. ness may be quickened also by
= III. MEDITATION ON Cons BLEssINGs
It "Oh that men would praise tn
e Lord for HIS wonderfu
works to the children OF men!" Fo
= lowing the teaching of the Psslmisl
b we may divide our blessings into tw,
e classes.
The Blessings of prosperity. Chic
: among these, or, rather, the life an
i soul of them all, is the religion o
3 Jesus, the Christ
: To its influence and power we ar
4 mainly indebted for our national snC
. personal prosperity, for civil liberty
for public peace, and all the blessings
which freedom and peace secure tc
US.
4 When the angels heralding ChrisG's
coming. sang peace on earth, good
will towards men, their song had in
it prophecy Of an age to come in
which royal despotism should dissp
pear before the grander roy atty of a
tree people, governing themselves.-
In it was prophecy of time when
the representatives Of great rival ma
tions, contending over serious causes
of strife, should leave their swords
rusting at home, and meet on neutral
ground, and, with manly good sense
and gentle courtesy. srbitrate their
differences snd SO prevent war,
and bind their peoples together
again in lasting peace and friendship,
founded on the principles Of honor and
justice.
The miracles which attended the
Introduction of Christianity we're
foresbadowings, symbol-prophecies OF
the blessings which would become
permanent N human society.
When Jesus miraeulOusly furnish
ed a supply of bread tor hungry
thousands, he toretold in that act the
coming OF a high Christian civiIizs
tion under the benign Influence Of
which useful employment and fair
remuneration, and a reasonable COM
petence might be obtained by all men.
That high civilization is ours to day
not fully developed, not brought to
perfection, yet so tar established that
in respect OF temporal blessings for
the masses of the people, we are i'm
r easurably more blessed than were
the people OF any .ountry when our
Lord fed the poor by miracle.
When Jesus opened the eyes Of
the blind, and the ears OF the deaf
when he made the dumb to speak and
the lame to walk; when he bade fevers
depart, and gave vigor to the impotent
and paralytic; and when from the
hem of his mantle went forth virtue
that healed the bowed and shattered
woman who for many long years had
suffered many things Of many physi
clans, and wasi nothing bettered but
rather grew worse, his acts were
prophetic. They pointed to coming
time when the laws OF life and health
should be studied, and understood,
and obeyed; when the art OF healing
should become a science; and when
for the incurably unfortunate, should
he provided munifcently-endowed
hospitals, and ssylums, and institu-
tions OF learning, so admirably con-
Quoted that their unfortunate inmates
might be slmost regarded as the most
favored children OF society.
When Jesus cast out demons, and
restored maniscs to their right mind,
and banished the devils from men to {
swine, be heralded the dawn of an
age, in which men should
be delivered from superstition and a
brutality, and be so strengthened in g
will and exalted in intellect that de-
noniac possession would be no longer q q
possible
When Jesus associated With pure and d
loble women, and accepted the wor-
hip, an3 forgave the sins of the fall b
en-, his scts were prophecies OF time -
yben woman should be emaneipated
rom the bondage of ages, and made q
,ousl partaker with man in the bless a
ngs Of civil, social, and religious T
reedom.
When Jesus said Of little children, u
Suffer them to come unto me, and Z
orbid them not, for of such is the :
yinpdom of God,' and took them up r
n his arms and blessed them, his
words and acts were a glowing proph :
,cy of an age in which Christian edu (
,ation should be freely provided for :
he children OF all classes, and Church
md State, in their respective spheres. }.
hould make his example an abiding
aw. and vie with each other in their J
ostering care of childhood. u
When Jesus walked upon the sea, z
md when he stiIled the tempest with c
. word, he foresbadowed a time when
nan should tame the forces of nature, 4
md harness them, and drive them at
will over land and sea; when the
waters OF the deep and the winds and
ightnings OF heaven should learn ODE G
Hence to man, and become his SER i
rants, not only in worldly enterprise, I
put in carrying the Gospel of Jesus I
Christ to the ends OF the earth. {
And when upon the first disciples {
descended the pentecostal gilt OF g
,ongues, and men out of every nation a
,nder heaven heard the word of life 9
n their own tongue wherein they were '
oorn, the amazing miracle was proph
scy of a surely coming era in which
he Bible should be translated into all
languages, and seminaries OF learning
should send forth educated missiona-
ries into all lands, and the Press, con-
,ecratsd to Christ, should multiply j
copies OF Gods word by myriad mil, c
ions, and mingling with the universal 6
nurmur of human voices should be i
beard the enhancing music OF the ad- 2
vent anthem, "Glory to God IN the : =
Peace on earth, good viii
towards mtn!"
Brethren, let US give thanks that we (
live in the bright dawn OF that aoming
Day. so long foretold, and so YEARLY I
waited for by despairing world; Inc |;
Iieht has not yet fully come. but 1t :
INCREASES. The shadows are fleeing :
away The Sun of Righteousness Is
rising with healing in his wingsi (;
The bene6cence that seemed 6tful,
unnatural and temporary !
IN the miracle -period,i is becoming nor .
mai and permanent in the order of
Christian civilization. The miracle
power and mirscle-glory OF Christ
are reappearing in Christianity; not
as of old, in apparent conflict with
Nature, but in regular and systematic
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