The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1879-04-24

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IAined-Tbe PFesbytsFy AdjOuEns 70
Meet october Next, At HalFmOnt.
KISGWooD, PREroS Co., W. Va, 1
april 20, 1870. 7
Editors IntslissBesr.
No session Of the Prssbytsry was held
to-day.
Rev. John b. Dickey preached in the
Presbyterian Church at 10 3OA. "; Rev.
@. G. Gould preached in the COlorsd N. E.
Church Rsvs. Gould and ]. C. Heneh ad.
dressed the Presbyterian Sunday School At
2P. vi Rev. &. K. Scott and Rev. Mr. Dun.
can conducted communion services in the
Presbyterian Church at 8 P. ~; Rev. DR..
Young preached in that church at night 4
missionary sermon, while Rev. ]. B. Reed
filled the pulpit Of the II. E. Church, aud
Rev. Mr. Flanagan preached at the
Glades,
Rev, Mr.. Dickey's grand sermon is
worthy Of reproduction In the ISrELLioEN.
cEE. His text was: "FoF we are saved by
hopes" Rom ans VII, "a. He said:
In the great doctrines that effect the sal.
vation OF men, there are two sides, the
Divine side and the human side; what
God says and what man does; what divine
power alone eau do, and what man can,
may and must do. God works etIicacious-
ly, man works fundamentally. work
out your own salvation with fear and
trembling; for it is God which worketh in
you, both 10 will and to do OF his own
good pleasure" On the divine side we
are saved by grace, and by grace We mean
the full and eternal love and unmerlted
favor Of God. which Is the spring and
source Of all the benefits which we receive
from Him. The word grace, is "a compre.
hensiye word, and includes in It's meaning
all that Christ has done for the salvation
Of the world In giving Himself as a ransom
for sin. Every part Of redemption pro-
ceeds on the footing Of grace. 1t originates
In grace, and flows in its first manifesto
tons and in all Of It's after acts from the
same unCeasing fountain, in calling, adopt
Ing, regeneTating, justifying, sanCLiIying,
strengthening and confirming Hrace-in
one word, 1t Is all grace. being justified
freely by his grace, through the Tedemp-
ton that is in Christ Jesus, for BY grace
are w saved through faith; and that not
OF yourselves; It is the gift Of God"
On the human side man is saved by
faith, by repentance, by hope, etc. When
Scripture says that man is saved by faith,
It does not mean that 1t alone instrument.
ally, is all that man has to do in order to
be saved. But 1t means that trust and
confidence, or faith, in the merit and
death Of Christ, Is necessary indispensa-
Bile condition. He cannot be saved with.
out II The same is true Of repentance
and hope. This does not imply contra.
diction as OF first sight it might appear.
For instance, might say OF an individual
who had attained to very eminent stand
ard OF learning, that he had reached his
eminence because Of great energy and APP
plication. That is true, for he could not
have become q scholar without these
things. might turn right around and
ay again, that his pre.eminent success
was owing 10 q wonderful memory, which
is true, and implies no contradiction to
what said before. Memory as is necessary
a. application. Or might say, he achiev-
ed his mighty success by understanding
the art Of judging and Of economizing
time. In each and all OF these statements
have uttered strictly the truth, and in
no sense been guilty oil contradiction. So
| It is there is no contradiction when at one
time man is said to be saved by faith at
another by repentance; at another by
hope. They each are absolutely necessary,
and TO leave out any one OF them there
could be no salvation. Strictly speaking
therefore, We are saved by faith, or by re-
pentence, or by hope, etc. To the latter
only, must call your attention ut this
time.
i. What is meant by hope? Hope, We
are told, is "a desire Of some good, accom-.
pained with, at least, q slight expectation
Of obtaining it, as a belief that 1t is attain
able. ItditIers from wish and desire in
this, that It implies some expectation OF
obtaining the good desire, or possibility Of
possessing it." A wish or desire, there
lore, may be connected with painful
anxiety and fear; hope, on the contrary,
always gives pleasure, greater or less, &C.
cording to fts Vigor and strength. A
christian hopeis the expectation and desire
for future good resting upon the gracious
nromise and assurance OF God. Faith is
The substance Of things hoped for, the
evidence OF things not seen" It is evident
here that faith "gives reality in the view
Of the mind TO those things which are not
seen. and which serves 10 distinguish
them from those things which are unreal
and illusiye." That is, we feel and act as
RI thew were real and the influence upon
our lives is the same as II they were real.
Hone. looking away to those future and
invisible things, OF whose reality faith
satisfies he mind, makes them control
and regulate and sustain his life and con-
ldnct. The christian expects what faith
believes to be truein fact and certainty.
But the two things must not be contound.
ed. Faith believes what God promises
hope expects the realization OF what ID
good in the promises. Faith looks at the
. promise itself; hope looks at the things
promised. Faith goes before and Is the
foundation, In one sense, OF hope. Faith re-
cards its object as present, but hope re-
CARDS It as future. We hope because We
J believe, and believing eexPect theobiects
lot belief In regard to the certainty
OF eternal lie, faith. setzes Il as preSenti
hope, in regard TO its reality. looks to il
. as future aud lar away. FaHn believes
hope expects. Faith influences by what Il
regards as real and now; hope influences
nv what 1t regards as future and to be pos
, sessed hereafter. The father says TO hi
how. ~ have to-day deposited In the bank
ten thousand dollars for you, which now
give to you BY promise, and when you are
q Of age YOU shall possess It and enter upor
: It's enjoyment" II that boy hes conf
Cence in his father he believes in the re
atty and certainty Of the deposit. il Is
/, practical persuasion Of real fact that tht
money is now In the bank. Hope expects
. It as thing to be relied in the future, Of
At the time, his majority Is attained. y
}; one word, hope Is a mixture OF expect9
ton and desire, OF that to which We lool
forward. blessed be the God and Fathe
b, OF our Lord Jesus Christ, which. accord
ing to his abundant mercy, hath begotteI
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