The New York herald., 1875-07-12


Ing win his discoarse the pastor performed the
beautiful service OF baptism, three lovely little
children and al elderly lasly being baptized. At
the conclusion the entire congregation joined
heartily in singing the beautiful hymn commencing
Nearer, my God to Thee,
E'en though il be cross
That raiseih me.
THE TEXT.
The text from which AR. Hepworth delivered
his discourse was the following words from the
twenty fifth and twenty seventh verses OF the
tnriy-tnird chapter OF Deuteronomy As thy
days are, 80 shall thy strength be-" and 'The
eternal God is thy refuge"
From these passages a very impressive and elo-
Quent sermon was preached ''rne Bible" salc
the speaker, "contains the literature of helpful
ness. 1t is revelation OF the means whereby one
can receive from without power that he knew
not Of" To corrooorate the words OF the text Mr..
Hepworth read portion Of the Second book OF
Chronicles ana extracts from the nitistR chapter
or lsalah-"For tine Lord God Will help me; there
fore shall not be coBfoundsd; therefore have
set my ace IKE nint." This, then, was the isith
OF those VINO lived $500 years ago. a taltn that we
eovet to this day. These words ought to be writ
ten In
TRACES OF LIVING LIGHT
A further corroboraton the speaker read
rom the twelfth chapter OF st. Paul's Second
Epistle to the Corin thlanS-''And he said INTO
me my grace Is sufficient fer thee lor my strength
Is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, there-
fore, will ther glory IN my InhTmitles that tie
power OF Christ may rest upon me. Therefore,
take pleasure In lnnrmities, In repreacbes, Ia nee
sasties ia prosecutions In distress, for Christ's
SAKE. For when am weak, tneR am / strong.n
1.-The New Testament continued the pastor,
ais revelation of self-surrender and seIi-denia.
When we are weak God saOws Himself gtaDeest.
Mans weakness Is Gods opportunity. When we
are sick OF many sorrows and affcJons God best
takes possession Of us, and when we are Aumblest
He enters more July into AZ for me, the words
OF my text Is the foundation OF my iaith. Life
seems to us OF so little value, because we have ac
eomplIshed SO little. But when He axes posses
Eion OF US anu We feci h- IL guiding uo, even
IN the little details OF lie, we ore happy indeed,
LIVE FOR PURPOSE.
The man who does not feel TINS cannot be happy.
Without Cod all Is sham; with God all Is gold.
Without God all is darkness, though you swear
there is no ddrkaess delight 10 the text, be,
cause Ii is Gods WORD. would Ike to establish
theology upon 1t and take my creed from is.
A great naturalist once found single bone OF
mastodon. 1t was only one bone the relentless
tooth OF lime having eaten up AL the others. so
far-sighted was the man tnat he constructed rom
tnis one bone the outihe OF
AN ENTIRE ANIMAL
Finally the entire ske.eton oil a mast0d0n was
found, and one can hardly conceive the excite
men OF tHe scientific world when IL was found that
the naturalist VINO had constructed the animal
nom 40 small foundation was light. So take
the words Of my text and construct theology.
when He tells me de will De wltn me, then
know Ne Will forgive me my sins well help
me. No harm can come to me SO long lie Is
about me. we need only to use this text we
Father without a frown on HIS face, ana ready az
Ell times to help The Christian rellglen is all
love. There is no religion IN lear and no fear IN
religion
REL46ION Is A FOND PARENT
who takes mis- child TO lis arms and draws IL
nearer and nearer uAtll 1t finally rests on his boz
som and ne impr1nts upon It's forehead raptur-
Ous kiss. SO do We feel Gods arm about Us, draw
ing nearer and nearer until we are lest in His
embrace
Mr.. Hepwortn here spoke al length concerning
the various passions, IaudIng the one OF amDl-
tion, and added that at last they all die save love.
Generations c0Ine ana generations 60, bat love
mover 1es IL is the only permanent thing in
the universe. God Is the very embodiment OF
leVe. Tne enc wondrous element IL love. and it
embraces all theology and all religion True II Is
that there are sorrows, for we must all Ike
Christ, pass through Samaria--a Samarla oil
aoubts, fears. earthquakes and pestlence; bub II
We 40 through as Jesus did-led by the hand OF
GoG-We shall bs well. Yes, all nave their sor-
rows. pity man who bas not Wept for ne
moWa not the best side OF lie.