The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-07-17
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Christian responsibility. And as you look
out to-day on the opening life before you,
more than ever l feel the burden of that
responsibility presses upon you. And that
which weighs in my heart and shapes nv
utterances to you at this hour, is the ear
nest wish to strengthen your confident faith
in the fellowship of Christ, and inspire you
with completcr trust in His power and
readiness to help you in every crisis of
need. And hold fast to this, first of ALL
that whatever your chosen line of life-work
may be, within the generous limits of loyal
Christian interest, you, too, stand con-
sciously within the terms of that great
commission, good for all time, and, as valid
and precious to you, as to the Twelve long
o; $50 yc, teach, preach, serve. Lo!
| am with you, even to the end" In one
form or another of loyal service, whatever
your calling, hold that commission and
promise for yours. And grid yourselves in
the strength of it. Put on the panoply
OF Christs fellowship. Beyond all that
you have thought or believed, Christ has
provided for our completeness in Him;
touched even with the sense of our infrm-
ity, and divinely suppementing all our
need. This is the very gospel for us in all
our insufficiencies 1t is not that Gods
gifts of faculty are not priced and honorcd
it is not that we d sesteem the aids of cul-
annie accentance of these in cbris,,s sor.
vice. welcoming ali develonmonts of liberal
cuItnre and tho orlorgemapts ~ n vol or-
dered training Onlv this 7 ,vouId ornnho-
size to.dav ne Won mass from nur hands
with all Nv cap oivn Won ,bat ynur com.
nle,;on in ali sufB,;oncy fn, ,Lo b;ahos,
ends of life must come FROM tho sunnIo-
mon,;ng of Cbr;s,,s groco from ,ho ;nsn;
r.t;on Tie givos IN tbn soyl ,ha, lios onan.
in LOVING f,;th To the innnlsne NJ His GRACE
Your comnleteness il in Christ. Re snre
tbot Uo hos othor and bichor woys for frr-
n;sh;ng ond strang,hor;n1 yor En- III ,varl,
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Jow,nart and schoI,rIv cnl,mro.N',noro III.
root anJ nnnct,aI tn ,.our v.o,,"nat,,r,,
and r"nro iha,, ,'at,,ra, Z tho 5;Y;no f,IlnaSa
of b;s o;v;na"moro immediate s,nnIios .n5
mower for No IL in lnving s;,n,I;o;,,, nf
f,;,,, ,va Iaon -, Hin ~, tho hn,tn af ,n
mood uoro ara ,rinas of IIis ,,roy;dinr
nnd ,ho frooJ,n, 90 80, -, LIE
;ng va 70 ali boigbts Of du,if'I acbinvo up
And crave for YOU. beyond all else in
this final hour, this gift of faith of Christ's
fellowship to complete you for all that lies
before you. For, aside from this revea-
ton of the helping Christ, we seem to be
but as souls gone astray, seeking our lost
selves, and bewailing the man we might
have been We fall so consciously short of
our manifest intent-beneath our POSSIBLE
tiles we are such remnants of grand ca
pability hints of only what we were meant
to be. Something of the grand design of
us-somcthing of what we were planned to
be, appear in the broken things we are.
Such powers gone waste and wild-such
blight of capacty-such shortening of gen.
erous capabilities-such wrench and wrong
of sin in us--sin personal-sin ancestral,
flooding our presence with an evil past,
cramped and INSTRUCTED Alas for the
failures we are. Is there any redemption
Can we any way retrieve our lost selves,
and win back something of what we might