The Richmond palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1855-1875, 1874-08-05

tneOlOgy to those views which bring
into more glorious light the power Of
God for salvation through Jesus
Christ. As find in the Puritan sys-
tenn, or rather in the Calvinistic view,
q constant attempt to augment the
glosy of God, and fill the whole uni
verse with him, my mind. by natural
reaction, went in the other direction
namely, toward an Interpretation to
mankind of the sympathy, the compass
sion and the everlasting power of God.
l had such a sympathy for mankind,
saw them born SO poorly, l saw them
reared SO ignorantly, l saw them to be
so feeble in conception and so helpless
in all spiritual things, that it seemed
to me that if should lift up over and
above them the idea of stern and
dictatorial God, such as l had been
instructed in, it would crush them.
sNhat mankind needed, it seemed to
me, was the breast, and not the hand
in chastisemcnt-a mother God.
So have been led (and l think by
the divine spirit to enlarge the hori-
zon, and augment the power and the
beauty, OF love. l have been seized,
at times, with an inconceivable ardor,
an unutterable longing, SO to describe
the character of God that men should
not be willing to let it die; that it
might stand above the horizon in the
memory and imagination of men, and
draw little children, and maidens, and
grown-up women, under burdens and
trouble, out of their affections toward
this great Source of light and joy.
In doing so, have had your SYM
pathy and that of thousands; and that
has been remuDerating to me; but if l
had had none of it, SO great has been
the sweetness of the work itself that
should have felt that [ had my reward
more and more as l went along.
l have passed through various ex-
periences, such as belong to all men
that take an active part in public life;
but not one to many; not one that,
when come to see it from the other
side, in the light of Gods countenance,
l shall feel that could have left out.
l do not complain Of any burdens or
any crosses. Between my soul and my
Saviour l have a most perfect path.
My trust is in Christ Jesus with an
implicitness and an utter and absolute
rest for which there are no words. l
see. in such a sense, the mediatorial
work of Christ; l see such power: in
the revelation of God nature as over
against the infirmities, and weaknesses,
and sinfulness of my own nature. that
l seem to be caught up in the great
food of Gods love, and to float on it
as ship floats on the Atlantic Ocean;
and the storms that trouble at the
same time propel, and sweep the bark
sooner across the sea. So that, come
what may, life or death, or whatever
else, my hold upon God is incontesta
BILE, my comfort in God is unquestion-
able, my JOY in God is continual
These experiences are not unchecked
There is to every day night; there is
to every summer its appropriate
storms, which are aftcrward its bless
, ings; and to my life there have beer
: its proper disciplines: but God is just
and measures all things right; and O
, one thing / am certain-my crown, my
joy. And be sure that when | stant
in the presence of the revealed God
/; and you come up thither, We shall
: clasp hands in the eternal blessednes'
, of heaven together. / shall be by tn,
2 side of Him who loved me and CAV,
himself for me; and you, if you con
0 tinue in the faith, shall stand Their
q likewise; and the memory of earthl.
: trouble shall be like the memory 0
: last year storms.
Q This is, in very. brief, a recapitula
q ton Of the very interior of my minist
8 ry; and l can sum it all up, and say
1 conscious of great weakness, consciou
: of having treated with infinite defcc
h the great themes that transcend hu
e man handling, that l have given t
!. my work among men the very bes
g strength and the very best thought
e that had. l have not worked fror
|. sinister motives nor from selfish one!
: l have wrought with imperfect me
r tives, to be sure; nevertheless the i'm
h perfection has been of the highe
h range; and | have worked in tie spiri
It of love and sympathy; and | hav
g. worked for the works sake-no ma
l. shall take from me this boast; and
# have worked for the whole Israel {
rt God-for black, for white, for my ow
1t country, for every land, for the hor
l. or of the name of God; and l hay
st been a thousand times remuneratet
n and in the long ministry that no
stretches out behind me, when | loo
As back upon it, though ] have nothiu
al for which [ would praise myself, l Ca
ar say, in the face of my Saviour, aud f
in His honor, that He has strengthene
l. me to pursue a course which | b,
Id lieve He thinks to be manly, not f
w the good of a party or sect, but f,
e. the good Of universal man, and for IL
I'd glory of the universal God.
ut What is for the future | know nc
is and l care not-that is. in this sen
ne care not: it is in the hands of Iii
ly who is wiser and better than any
as us. I commit everything to the han
Of God Living or dying | am Il
Sc Lord shat I know; and, living
he dying, are not ye the Lords?
ty Life is speeding fast. The spool
tn almost unwoun for many. One al
in another will drop off during this V
.ss cation. We shall see their faces he
ct no more. But that is no troub
as When to step out means to step Il
n. when to die means to live; when to
ad means to be glorifed-what is t
We trouble under such circumstances?
a Let US, brethren, grid up our loil
er and take clearer look, and swear t
love oath anew, and 60 forward un
d. we meet and rejoice together in t
Vi kingdom of our Father, and OF |
ci- Son, our dear Saviour Jesus Christ.
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