The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1876-11-29

number of DR.. Halls regular hearers
though the crowd OF strangers stay
ed in theirhotels, 2 The church was
about three fourths fun. but the
character of the andienee Was even
higher than usual. The Rev. Mr..
Simpson, of Ireland, occupied the
pulpit with DIR. Hall, and made the
closing prayer. Mr.. Simpson is
said to be the most expert swimmer
in the stormy seas around Ireland.
and to have rescued more persons
from drowning than any other man
in Great Britain. He is in more
senses thansone therefore, fisher OF
men. He looks like a Scotchman,
and is evidently man of talents
and culture.
DIR, Hairs text was taken from /
Peter 1. II: Unto whom it was
revealed, that not unto themselves,
but unto as they did minister the
things which are now reported unto
yoa by them that have preached
the gospel unto you with the Holy
Ghost sent down from heaven ; which
things the angels. desire TO look
unto DR.. Hall in substance said:
This text follows the one Of last
Sunday, and this subject is a con-
tinuation of it. That of last Sunday
was on the suferings Of Christ and
the glory that should follow. /
then spoke to you Of the suferings,
to-day will address you on the
glory of Christ which followed those
sufferings.. The prophets in the
text are described as doing the
things foretetling these sufferings
and the glory and searching dill
gently regarding them. You will
see that the sufferings and the glory
are closely connected. Wecan in
human affairs trace out the steps by
which men rise to glory from power
ty to independence and then obtain
ing an opportunity to benefit their
fellow-creatures, but in. respect to
this glory we can but 'feebly trace
the progress. May God aid us in
this new attempt to contemplate the
glory which was with the Father
before the world was. It was glory
which the angels desires to look
into. 1t is the bond of sympathy
between US and the angels. And
first it WAS not the glory Of being
one with the Father, nor yet the
glory of his humanity being raised
to heaven, for that is a glory shared
by his servants on the earth. The
shrunken limbs, the diseased body
and the failing eye are all to be
restored and glorified by his work.
The glory consisted in his mediate
rial work between God and man.
Many walks are eventful in a mans
life, when new views and resolutions
crowd in upon him and that must
have been an eventfnl walk when
his two sOrrowing disciples, mourn
ing over his suferings, met their
lord by the way, and when, in open
ing their eyes, he connected the
sufferings with the glory. "Ought
not Christ to have suffered these
things and to have entered into
gloryr' The prophet Isaiah and the
Psalmist say the same thing. Do
you not remember in the 68th |
Psalm, read this morning, t'The 1
chariots Of God are twenty thousand, |
even thousands Of angels: the Lord |
is among them. as in Sinai, in the |
holy place" and in Isaiah: There |
fore, L will divide him q portion
with the great, and he shall divide a
spoil with the strong, because he has
poured out his soul unto death.
His glory is manifested as a peace
maker; among the Beatitudes he
says, Blessed are the peace-makers.''
There are three ways in which peace
is broken where one is wrong, where
both are wrong, and where there is
a mutual misunderstanding Be-
tween us and God we are wrong and
in default, and he came to satisfy
God s Justice by assuming the guilt,
by acting as mediator between God
and man. Less than half genera
tion ago the two sections of this land
were arrayed against each other on
the eve of a mighty struggle which
baptised this country with blood.
Suppose at that time some one,
with head to devise and honor to
carry out, should haYe invented a
plan for the settlement of the troub-
les satisfactory and honorable TO
both sides! At the present time
the powers of Europe are on the eve
of trouble which must inevitably be
determined sooner or later. Suppose
some one could suggest a plan sat-
to all which will avert this
by subterfuges and
deceit and armistices. to give both
parties further chance to arm, but
in a manner to put at rest the whole
difficulty. Such man would stand
second to none in his country's his
tory, Christ has done more than
this he has by his own heart blood |
settled the conflict between God j
and man. Christ's glory appears I
Is conqueror. q The world has given
nigh laudation to the eAlexanders.
n LESSONS, Marlboroughs and Yelling
ons of history, but to me the moral 6
are greater Howard and s
Fry greater than Nelson and. Isa- 8
oela of Spain and the spectacle of i
w Washington in modern times and L
Cincinnatus in ancient, laying aside 4
he cup OF power OF which for years /
hey had drank, greater than all a
heir victories. Christ conquered n
in and death and the grave. 1t o
nay have seemed from below little y
Vhen the solitary figures was re- Ii
eiyed into the clouds, but from v
bove. when he entered into heaven,
mid, let us hope, an innumerable
ompany of angels and the spirits
+ just men made perfect. it was
lorious sight, a