The Portland daily press., 1873-07-14

Small, selected for his text Isaiah ii, 2:-A Anu
it shall come to pass in the last days that the
mountain of the Lords house shall be estab-
lsheb in the top of the mountains, and shall
be exalted above the hills; and all nations shall
flow unto il" The preacher began by remark
ing that the text just read was one of the pic
lures that might be aimed at and expected by
the Christian, To become the topmost noun
tain is certainly great thing, but is not faith
sufficient? Several hindrances were then point
ed out that would lead one to think that such
result was impossible. The common worldli-
ness OF the masses gives no time for divine
things. Think of all the great schemes of the
day and see what the church has to contend
with. The great light of this mountain will be
used to show the supremacy of it over all
others. Divine authority is sufficient assurance
that this shall all come to pass. Because the
poorest, helpless Hebrew boy is so insignificant
is it any reason that he will not become ruler?
The royal leadership is 10 be considered.
man that can control corporations, carry cleo
tions, &c. lives short time, gains property
and then lies down to sleep and never wakes;
but this leader never Slnmbers. Whatever ad-
vancement this truth makes it retains, it never
goes backward. The fact of Gods ability to.
establish this word should be sufficient of it
self to convince any one Advance is being
made towards this mountain, and He furnishes
means just as fast as his people can use them.
Many men would be injured by their wealth if
they had not some way for using it except for
their own qualification. There will be wealth
enough come into our fashionable churches
this summer on pleasant Sabbaths in the shape
of dress to establish the whole church upon the
tOpmoSt mountain.
STATE STREET CHURCH.
Rev. Edward Y. Hincks, the pastor, preached
in the morning, taking his text from the Peni-
tential Psalm-"Against thee, thee only, have
1 snned" AS the world views matters this
will seem a strange thing for David to say. He
had stolen Uriah's wife, and when he came TO
a view of his sin, it was this exclamation that
came from his lips. Another had been injured
but it was a sin against God. There is great
truth wrapped in these penitential words Iof
David, which is intended for the whole. world.
Our sins are all against God, and we should
cry with David, against thee, thee only, have
snned" We who live on this planet, are on
Almighty-God over all and blessed forever
What is that still small voice that speaks with
in us "do rightY' Listen to it. God is
speaking to us, do right" If you disobey
that voice, you disobey the Eternal. You have
sinned against God. When we pray Father
forgive as we forgive others, we acknowledge
that we have sinned against God
The preacher enforced these views in an elo-
quent manner, and invited his hearers to come
to the Lord Who has said, Though your
sins be as scarlet they shall be white as snow,
though they be like crimson, they shall be as
wool.
In the evening, Rev VIM. Pond, son of Rev.
twenty years, made an appeal for aid in found
ing Theological Seminary in that State.
NEW JERUSALEM CHURCH.
Yesterday morning Rev. w. B. Hayden
preached an able and logical discourse upon the
fHtrn hna his md fl.n
Rev. Xxx, 6.
The twofold sense in which it is common for
expressions in Scripture to be used, was refer
red to, natural symbol being frequently en-
ployed to describe, by figure, the corresponding
spiritual idea. Two kinds of deaths are spob-
en- of; first, physical, and second, moral, or
death of body and death of soul. AS a conse-
quence, there are two forms of resurrection, or
rising, from those respective deaths. First, the
resurrection of regeneration; in which the man
who is dead in treSpasseS and SIM is, by re-
pentance, faith, and life of obedience to the
gospel, raised up to life in Christ Jesus, by the
working of His spirit. Many passages were
cited in which this kind of resurrection is spok-
en- of and described This is the first resurrec-
ton, because it being before men pass out of
the mortal body, but eliminates in elevation
into heaven. The other, is the general death
and resurrection happening to all, the evil as
we'll as the good. Some have supposed that
physical death was introduced into the World by
Scripture confirmed by the disclosures of sci
ence, leads to the belief that moral death is
what was introduced by sin, but that physi-
cal death always existed as a law of organized
beings from the first The resurrection which
comes to all, happens by the rising forth of the
spiritual body out of the material body, imme-
diately on the decease of the latter. AS the
stalk of new grain rises Immediately from the
ground as the shell of the old kernel decays, SO
the living form OF man rises forth into the
nrld
into the ground. The natural body is sown, the
spiritual BODY is raised. Our Lord declares that
in His day, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob had al
ready had their resurrection, having been raised
up and living. So, of the multitudes which
John saw, they had already passed their res
direction This resurrection changes no ones
moral character But the good and the evil are
in the same state they were in before the
change in relation to the body occurred. The
second death is the continuance in evil after
the outward body is laid aside. The choice is
freely made; God forces no man, either in this
world or in the other, either to goodness or to
wickedness. The lake of fire is the fire of I'M
subdued lust. The great lesson of the whole is
pentance, faith, godly life, all belong to this
world.
HIGH STREET CHURCH
was well filled, and many strangers attended.
Rev. Mr. Fem preached an eloquent and forci-
BILE sermon from John vi. So.
''The words that speak unto you. thew are
spirlt.and they are life. TOO much is thought of
outside appearance. The religion of Christ is
of the heart. Christ must enter into us and fill
u.s. No person desiring ease or idleness had
better listen to the gospel, for the religion of
the gospel is restless religion Its breaches al
ways change The change of evil to good; the
over-turning of all wrong There is nothing so
powerful as the spirit Of God speaking through
human lips. The language of the gospel is not
SO much language of words as communion
OF spirit. 1t has above all other beliefs a SUBJ
tie influence that make itself felt, that con-
vinces without the aid of were earthly reason
ing, How far has this religion penetrated? 1
lately walked through the midst of crowd in
one OF the worst streets of the city. and asked
the gospel had penetrated this place. He said
mot even to the skim and he smoke tbe
truth. But it is not so much the surface as tho
depth that the gospel has not reached.
FIRST PARISH.
The morning service we were unable. to oh
tain. In the evening there was an IMPRESSIVE
vesper service and Rev. DR.. Hill delivered an
excellent sermon based on the text:-"He that
findeth his life shall lose it; and he that losetb
his life for my sake shall find it, Self-sacri-
flee and attention to the every day duties of
christian life was the leading thought in the
discourse
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
The pastor delivered discourse from ID Thess.
III. "For the mystery of iniquity doth al
ready work" The subject was introduced bv
explaining the terms iniquity and mystery, and
noticing the manner in which they are here
used. He then spoke of iniquity as working
force, giving some characteristics of its meth.
DDS of work; such as its power, its coustancv.
&c. He then dwelt upon the mystery of ini-
guilty, and showed that it was mysterious in re-
gard to its origin, the varied forms, its nantes
tation, its immediate and remote consequences.
the manner in which it blinded those who IT,
dulged it. These several points were severally
illstrated. The preacher then referred to the
provision made for our deliveranee from the do
minion of inquity. 1t was found in Jesus,
who came, to save his people from their sins''
He also deduced from the subject an argument
for a personal faith ia Jesus as a Saviour, and
also an argument for making Jesus and His
salvation known to all men as the antidote of
evil.
CATHEDRAL OE THE CONCEPTION.
Bishop Bacon delivered very able discourse
at the Cathedral yesterday, his text being
Marks viii, l to inclusive. Compassion, he
said, was one of the divine traits of Christ.
The poor we've always exalted and praised by
Him, while the rich were despised He did
this in compassion for the poor, He came into
the world poor. He labored in the workshop of
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