The Portland daily press., 1873-09-08


assumed our fallen nature, on the mothers
side. He tempted like as we are" He
had an 'outer man" like unto ours. But his
elmer man. was Divine. He triumphed over
the powers of darkness He subdued and
sanctfied His outer man. He was perfect He
was sinless. Ii is outer man was the humanity.
His inner man was the divinity.
CONGRESS STREET NJ E. CHURCH.
Rev. c. B. Pitblado, Text, Matt 23:27.-
Jesus was anxious about humanity. Something
awful has happened to man. Deaths fingers
are at his heart strings. His reason is wrapped
in night-folds. His conscience is slave. His
heart is in an uproar Yet there is hope for
man. The manger and the cross proclaim this
hope. There is way TO open the dungeon
door, There is a we'll in the desert. The con-
quered may become the conquered. If there
was ever one soul saved, all souls may be saw
ed. Plenty of room in heaven for all. All
may eater the gate, through which Manassah
and Paul entered Heaven is getting filled
with those who are washed IN the blood of the
Lamb. The mad-house may become man
sion. Map can refused to be saved. Many are
refusing. They slight Heavens love, and des-
pise Calvary. There is nothing manly in resist
ing such wooing, Gods mercy has built a
bridge between earth and heaven, for you to
walk on. Do it. Do not fight against Cod
He can overthrow you with His artillery, but
He woos you with unbounded love. Give your
neart anQ nanQ TO Jesus tnaG life may De bless
ed and that death may be time for heavens
bells to ring, and that the judgment may be
your coronation hour. The Jesus OF Calvary
will ere long he the throned judge.
FREE sMREET BAPTIST.
Rev. DR.. Small in the morning drew his sub
ject from Titus and enlarged upon the duty and
glory of honoring Christ. We honor Him by
keeping his commandments. Not only in the
great duties of life must we be watchful and
faithful, but in all the little details we must be
equally faithful We must honor him with our
time, our talents, our wealth, our entire service
Everything must be cast upon Gods altar. The
sermon abounded in illustrations and was forc-
bly, and eloquently delivered.
CATHEDRAL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION
Bishop Bacon delivered very able sermon
at this Cathedral yesterday. Before entering
upon his sermon the Bishop gave some expla-
nation concerning the progress of the Orphan
Asylum His text was Matt. vi, 24-33. "No
man can serve two masters, for either he will
hate the one and love the other" The church
hOnorS the saints for the love of God. Tie
Bishop referred to the preparation the church
is making for the Fair this fall, is behalf of
the Orphan Asylum. The building will hold
about 400 people, but it will give an opportu-
nifty to those who desire to see the Orphans
Home. City Hall is engaged or it would be
held there.
Sermon in the morning by the Pastor, Rev
e. Y. Hincks, from Romans xii. and 5: ''For
as we have many members in one body, and all
members have not the same office, so we, being
many, are one body in Christ, and every one
members one of another
This text was addressed to church members
Members of the church at Rome or in Portland
should be reminded of duty; and when duty is
made clear the sensitive conscience is glad, be-
cause it thereby discovers the true way; but
the dull dead conscience is made uncomforta-
BILE because it is not ready to obey its own die
tates Every religious man or woman ought to
belong to the church. The church ON earth can
be a living, active church only by each individ-
ual member being an active, working Christian,
for the church is simply partnership of Chris
tans But the Christian has something mora
than his individual responsibility in the church,
he should give the organization, to which he is
bound by the strongest oath, the benefit of his
own religious vitality. If a boats crew sets
out over stormy sea to rescue a sinking ship,
and if one of that boats crew sinks back lazy
upon his oar he is recreaut, not simply to him
self, but to his fellow-oarsmen and to the pas
sengers of the sinking ship; SO the church
member who neglects duty is false, not simply
to God and to himself, bu to his fellow church
members whom b els under high obligations to
help by his own Christian vitality.
The preacher pointed out in detail some of
the prominent duties of church members which
are too frequently neglected, among which are
the duties of systematic benevolenee in the
church and the attendance upon the ordinances
of the church, prayer meetings, and other es-
tablished means OF grace.
ST. LUKE's CATHEDRAL.
Bishop Medley preached in the morning from
Luke x 81. ''And he said, he that showed
mercy on him. T en- said Jesus unto him, go,
and do thou likewise His subject was the
parable of the good Samaritan. The law of
love is not repealed. We cannot obtain justif-
cation by that law. Our Lord is the good Sa
maritan He reveals Himself through His
church The servant of the church is the
steward of his neighbor. We are selfish in
gathering all good to ourselves. Let rs give to
others the same good we draw to ourselves.
Chrst's love is exhibited toward us spiritually.
In like manner we must exhibit towards others
spiritually our love for them. His application
was for us as individuals and a church to do
faithfully our duty to others and We shall be
obeying the law of love. "Inasmuch as We did
it to one of the least of these my brethren. ye
did it to me.
PARK STREET CHURCH.
Rev. c. M. Buck in the morning preached
from the text: ''The spirit of man is the
lamp of Jehovah. More than anything which
thou watchest watch thy heart; for from it
goes forth life." The doctrine laid down
that man is himself the source of his own
| righteousness and it was shown at some length
| that that statement does not exclude the divine
authorship of all good but affirms it rather;
| for it is only another way of saying that the
spirit of man is the lamp of jehovah" We
''work out our own salvation" only because
"God work eth within u.s." Our aim should be,
not to be saved, but to save ourselves. This IS
a bold and heterodox doctrine only in the sup
position that man is by nature without God
and in rebellion against Him. On that suppo-
sition it is indeed true that imam is nought, is
less than naught.' But happily this abortve
being, imam without God, }" exists only in the
theological imagination. If man was by ma
| ture without God he would be lower than the
brute, lower than the grass of the field indeed.
| he would be without existence. For it would
| be absurd to maintain that physically man puts
forth the divine energizing, but thai morally he
is God-forsaken and an alien in the universe.
| If it be true that lin Him we live and move
| and have our being, much more is it true that
| in Fin we think, in Him we love, in III i'm
we strive towards perfection beyond our pres
| ent reach. According to either OF the two
| leading theories concerning the origin of man
| those of Genesis and of geology--man is formed
| primarily "of the dust of the ground but it is
! the breath of God breathed into him that
makes him Giving soul" The doctrine of
| evolution goes even farther than that of Gene
|
| and his abiding presence in all creatures in
| Guiding man; it shows that if God were to rest
one day in seven, on the first rest-day chaos
| would come again.
The statement then that man is the source of
his own righteousness is an express declaration
| OF the divine indweling and invoking; but it
denies the paramount significance of external
aids to righteousness, of OCCASIONS ceremonies
| and institutions These are helps to quicken
the flow from the interior source; but they be-
| come hindrances when they serve chiefly to
perpetuate the delusion that the lamp of Je-
hovah is set up outside, is supplied with oil by
assiduous contrvance Of the elders in Israel
mant Xii their proper significance and helpful
ness is derived from revelations made in the
inner sanctuary, where the spirit of man is
itself the land of Jehovah,
PLYMOUTH CHURCH.
The sermon by Rev. Moseley II. Williams
! was from Phil. ii: u, 10: "Work out your own
salvation" Business success is worth effort;
scholarship is worth effort; but salvation only
is worthy of all mans endeavors. The dis