The Portland daily press., 1873-09-29
ST. LAWRENCE STREET CHURCH.

| ling to consecrate his service this day unto the
Lord?" The sermon was an ardent appeal to
all to devote their life and energy to the noble
work of upbuilding tine cause of truth and
| Christianity. He entreated all to be enthusiast
| tic in that work, aud referred especially to the
| nobility and grandeur of the works of him who
| gives his whole head, heart aud hand to the en-
| lightenment of his fellow creatures. He also
referred to the permanent results springing
| from such course.
HIGH STREET CHURCH.
Rev. NJ. Fem preached from the text, H.
Kings, 1919: ''What confidence is this in
which thou trustest?' Our ultimate trust is
always in God for the security of our peace.
Bnt under God in oar general life, our stability
Is based upon our own character and the char
acter of those about US. There is no safety
without it. If the men and the institutions of
the time are in any measure unworthy of con-
fidence so far we are in peril, and all our effort
must be directed to rebuild and reinforce such
manhood as adversely may have shaken. The
restessness insecurity and agitation of the finan
cial world was cited and dwelt upon. There is
no remedy but in removing the cause That
cause is the general want of confidence We
ought to look more and more narrowly into the
character of the mass around us, and tone and
elevate that. The men whom we put IN places
of trust, political and financial it must be our
study to watch and trace. Its the high pre-
rogative we exercise to criticise them. We
must not not intermit it, and they must be
made to know that we do not. The religious
public is peculiarly credulous, and likely to be
preyed upon, and so always needing to be
aroused and kept vigilant. We must stop our
extravaganza. The fever of sudden riches, con-
tagious, creeps into our safest trust companies.
The people demand high interest and so they
E. Al IaIv
sinple-minded follow the example despite the
words of such advisers. The Church must set
the tide of business toward a more ideal and
practical morality. If she cannot define the
border line of speculation and extravaganza.
she can decide at least the clear aud gross cases.
She can require high things and by requiring
will obtain. 1t is time to prove to the unwary
and the young how shifting and insecure is
much of the general system on which business
is being done in this country: Paper currency,
promises, extensions, and in the day of trouble
more paper, promises, longer extensions This
is ruin, made misunderstanding in easy
lessons. This is all corrupt and corrupting.
We need to uphold ourselves aAd by our au-
thorty, the sacred supremacy of law. AS
vicious as paper currency always is, il becomes
intensely demoralizing by the easy morality
which it has fostered, and by the impunity
with which the laws which regulate it are vio-
lated The Constitution and the laws are
meant for the day of trial aud for the govern
ment OF those who are too strong for the indi-
vidual; they are our protection against the COM
binations of the rich mighty and confederated.
Are these when organized to be allowed to in
terpret and exceed their charters? Every man
in his capacity and with what voice he has
should demand the maintenance of what little
protection the laws now guarantee, rather than
any highhanded oyerbearing of them, no matter
| how plausible the defence Whatever else no
more irredeemabe currency! 1t is safer to con
| fide in the wisd pm and integrity of the whole
people than in the devices of any panic-stricken
| class
FREE STREET BAPTIST.
The pastor selected his text from Psalms 81;
Is. 81 have been young and now am old yet
have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his
seed begging bread" The preacher began by
showing the dark side of the case, portraying
the sufferings OF martyrs and the trials that
the earlier Christians were called upon to en-
dure. He then showed the opposite side; that
| Christianity is not merely an insurance compa-
| ny against the evils of this world, but an as
| surance against the evils to come. Christianity
leads to economy and industry, but there are
cases of real Christianity attended with the
| most extreme poverty. Christians ESQ called)
are often poor in the worlds goods, because
they are too much engrossed in the things of
| the world. No one was ever poorer than Paul,
| and who was ever richer? What dishonor it
is to take Christ just for worldly advantage.
Protested Christians often 60 begging for some
! enjoyment just as Though there was not sufi-
cIent in Christ. Thy tread the house of God
as they would waysde restaurant, for they
| only go when they have no where else to go.
| The uttef fall of Wall street in one day could
| not shall the foundation of Christian who
| had his. nth fixed in Christ but on the contra
| ~ failures in the affairs of this world often
! drive peXons to look for something more Sc
| cure. Nc true follower of ChrisG is ever reduc-
ed to spiritual beggary.
CHESTNUT STREET CHURCH
Rev. S. i. Jones, the pastor, preached in the
morning st5m the text, ''Ricb towards God''
The great question asked about man is, how
much is be worth; how much gold has he
They do not realize that the more man has in
this world the more he must give an account to
| God for. The value of money is in proportion
| to the amount of good that can be accomplish
ed by it. mans real worth then is to be
measured by the amount of good he does. By
| His free gift Of grace, God gives us capital,
| given at no less price than a Saviour's blood.
| Upon this capital we should improve. There
are many who let their talent lie andru They
| do nothing and bless no living thing. 1t is bet
| ter to grow in grace and to expand the heart
| as to catch every drop of descending grace.
| The preacher alluded in fitting terms to the
| financial troubles,
| CATHEDRAL OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.
Rev. Father Bradley delivered one of his ex-
cellent sermons at the Cathedral yesterday
morning, from Matt %; So. ''Then one of
them, which was a lawyer asked him ques-
ton, tempting him, and saying etc. The sub
ject of the discourse was the law of love; first,
to God second, to humanity. The church fair
in aid of the new Asylum comes off Oct 9th
| FIRST PARISH CHURCH.
Rev. DR.. Hill delivered sermon in the morn
ing from Amos O.; s. "For 10, l will command
and will sift the house of Israel among all
nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet
shall not the least grain fall upon the earth"
| On the usual plan and principles of Divine
| Providence the doctrine of Providence is fire.
| quently assailed in modern days as inconsistent
with faith in the reign of universal and indom-
table law; and some of the assailants in like
manner deny human liberty as if Synonymous
| with caprice. Both assaults are equally unjust.
| The highest freedom leads to the sJrictest con-
| formity to law, to the most implicit obedience
to truth, to righteousness aud to right reason.
| 1t an Grafton is perfect in its grammar, logic,
rhetoric, we do not infer that the orator was
cramped by the rules of those sciences; on the
contrary we point to his work as the highest
| proof that he was master of himself ana of bis
| subject. The subServience of the outward crea-
| ton to lsw is, in like manner the conformity of
| the great power of nature to consistent thought
and perfect expression, and is, therefore, proof
OF the free and complete mastery which the
Great Author has of the forces of nature; and
it is a monstrous inference to infer that He is
not free.
Another monstrous inference from physical
law is that God cares for the whole but not for
the parts The whole is thoroughly compre-
hended only when we comprehend the parts, a
general law is simply the conformity of partic-
ulars to one intellectual idea. Creation is
creation of parts to make WHOLE and each
minutest atom is as distinctly seen and provided
for as the greatest world Nor is this true for
the physical world only.-creative foresight
planned for each individual soul is planning
for the race of men, Moreover, the Divine
Providence brings to perfection what it begins,
what is truly good cannot fall to the ground.
These fundamental postulates of the Jewish
faith are confirmed also by the Son of God, and
| it is an inexpressible comfort IN our hours of
darkness to find His word assuring us that the
life is more than meat, the body more than raj
| ment, that God is not the God of the dead but
of the living, and that all live to Him. Thanks
be to God fol- the unspeakable gift of Faith,
and of the eternal and immortal life which is
| by faith in Jesus Christ.
STATE STREET CHURCH.
In the morning the pastor preached from
| John xii 49, 20. A voice spake from heaven