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lent sermon preached by Rev. A. Cal.
houn Presbyterian at the Court
house last Sunday:
"Wherefore do We spend money fol
| that which is not bread and YOU
labour for that which satisfieth not
hearken diligently unto nae, and cal
we that which is good, and let YOU
soul delight itselfin fairness. Isaiah
55th, I'd.
The remonstrance of this text is
against spending money and labor fol
that which will not and cannot satisfy
| the requirements of mans nature
The text contemplates the sad specta-
Gle of a starving man spending money
| and labor for something to stay the
cravings of hunger, but the appetite is
not satisfied because that for which he
spends money and that for which he
labors does not possess the properties
of bread "Wherefore do you spend
money for that which is not bread
and your labor for that which satisfi-
eth not ?,' The fragrance of the finest
flowers will not satisfy hunger. The
sweetest notes of music which have
ever fallen upon the ear or thrilled the
heart of man will not quench thirst.
The divinest landscape on which the
eye of man ever rested will not clothe
and warm a naked shivering body.
So man thirsting for blissful immortal
| ity cannot be satisfied with anything
short of the "water of life." Hunger
ing for the "bread of life,' no bread
can satisfy him but that (which came
| down from heaven,n and "of which II
man eat he shall live forever
Empty of every spiritual good, SAD
and lonely as he thinks of forfeited
home, where happy hours go and come
on golden wings, no home can satisfy
him now but heaven, no resting place
but the bosom of God. The text does
not demonstrate against spending
money, but against spending it 10,
that a0hich is not bread. If hum
ger is preying upon the life
bread is better than money. If thirst
is parching the lips and crisping
the tongue, water will bring relief
which thousands of gold and silver
cannot. And if body and soul be
dying for want of the bread of life
we can make no sacrifice too great in
order to secure it. Spending money
and labor for bread is the approved
idea of the text. To spend money and
labor thus is our privilege, our duty,
our necessity, but in spending we
must guard against being deceived
and cheated. When we spend money
for anything injurious We spend fol
that which is not bread. When we
spend it for sinful pleasures we spend
for that which is not bread. When
we waste all our energies upon that
which is purely worldly, we spend our
money for that which is not bread.
When we spend money and labor for
the qualification of pride and passion
we spend for that which is not bread.
just here people make their greatest
mistakes. Intent on qualification they
spend money for that which does not
and cannot crafty in proportion to the
expenditure made. Millions are spent
for the fabrics and passions of Mar
settles, Paris, Berlin and London, when
comfort, health, and beauty could all
be consulted at half the expense in
our home market. Half the expendi-
ture of the civilized world is for that
which affords but little substantial
comfort or permanent qualification.
For houses, for dress, for food, for
drink, for pleasure, for lust, how
much is expended, that is more
than thrown away? The remonstrance
of the text is rational and opposite
so far as the temporal wants and graf
ifications of the body are concerned,
but its nationality and appositeness
and real point appear when the SOULS
necessities are brought into view.
There are wants of the soul as pressing
and as essential to true happiness as
any of our bodily wants. Man needs
pardon, Justification, regeneration,
perfect righteousness, immaculate
holiness, peace with God, abiding
hope, unwavering confidence, unfad-
ing joy, an eternal home where shall
be spotless purity, undying love, per-
feet qualification, fellowship with
Christ as his brother and Saviour, and
rest in the bosom of God his Father
These soul wants, these wants of his
moral and spiritual nature, unsup-
piled, he must ever be miserable.
"Wherefore do you spend money for
that which is not bread?" The great
thought of this text is that the Gospel
offers substantial provision to men.
BREAD which is good and will satisfy.
Hence the exhortation, "Hearken
diligently unto me and eat we that
which is good and let your soul delight
itself in fatness.n Two things are
necessary on our part before we can
enjoy the rich and soul-satisfying
blessings of the Gospel. LIST. We
must attentively hear Gods proposal
to us as sinners. "Hearken diligently
unto me.n I'd. We must in faith ac-
cept the proposal God makes to us in
the Gospel. "Eat We that which is
good" We should hear the Gospel
as attentively as we would the read
ing of a will in which we were per-
sonally interested. Want of attentive
hearing and consideration is a principal
reason why the Gospel is by so many
neglected and rejected. But hearing
the Gospel is not enough. That Cos
pei must be believed. The bread Of
life must be received and eaten.
Hearing of bread when we are hungry
will not satisfy the appetite. That
bread must be eaten. So with the
bread of life, it must be eaten, it must
by faith be appropriated to the wants
of the soul before it can nourish anG
give eternal life. Eating the bread Of
life, and exercising faith in Christ
mean precisely the same thing. III
any man eat of this bread he shall live
forever" "He that beLieveth hath
everlasting life." At this point Chris.
| tian experience begins. and that ex.