Connecticut western news., 1880-08-30

tCA0C VI eAAO Ifen SlAoptON VI AsOuiuuo. A0O hen every one of us shall give account of himself to God" The subject of the discourse was individual accountability. Individuality, said the speaker, is wonderful fact. Every man is ndividualized This individuality started with your life and will go on through all eternity.
 There is an individual accountability to so oiety which presses heavily upon each. Pa rents have great responsibility for their chil- dren, for their education and culture, for the example set before them, and for the influence exerted upon them. Even children find \ themselves held to personal accountability. | All are hedged in by laws, personal, physical and political and the fact of the existence of law implies individual responsibility.
 Many lrreligious persons say that they are
 not to compare ourselves to others each one
 must give personal account to God. Wem must get beyond the presence, knowledge and power of God. God is. All things proclaim the fact. | God is, and He knows man. He has moral government for man and has given the reve
 lation of his law. Every one can, every one
 must repent. The spirit of God has appeared to men, telling them to live soberly and right
 eously. All must give account to God, fur ther, as to how they have received the offer
 of salvation, how they have improved the
 wondrous privileges which they have enjoyed
 Did you ever think of the possibilities of a
 human life? What of your life? Have you
 made all possible of yourself? Is your mind cultured and your heart pure 2 God requires each one 70 make the highest use of his life.
 We may all be mighty through God. Even little efforts work much good How much God can work through us if we give our
 hearts to Him. If we get our souls filled
 with divine grace it will be evident in life, word, act
 Every church has it's representative men,
 who are expected by the other members to assume much of the responsibility for it's con
 tinuance and welfare. The great need of the,
 church is that it should be full of earnest workers All should labor together for God
 God and society need all the churches, and
 each church must give individual account.
 The sermon closed with an earnest appeal, by.
 the preacher, for a reconsecratlon of church ) members to the work of God.
 The afternoon services were ended by a well attended prayer meeting, held about the
 preachers stand. .
 SATURDAY EVENING SERVICES.
 The services of Saturday evening were not of the general order, the time having been
 given more to the laymen as a field day The
 Rev. J. H. Phillips of Newburg, N. Y, made l the principal address. A general prayer meet.
 ing followed, about the pulpit stand, to which
 many came. The regular evening tent preyer meetings were omitted. .. -~sks, SUNDAY MORNING SERVICES. f A perfect day for camp meeting, and the large number present on the grounds attested this. A love-feast, largely attended conducted
 by Dr. W. c. Smith preceded tn: regular ser. , vices and was gracious meeting. Many testi-
 monies were given, and the hour proved all too , short for the purposes to which it was devot- ed. The love feast ended by the singing Of a the doxology, The regular services opened s with singing af the 328th hymn. Prayer was
 offered by the Rev J. G. Oakley. Hymn 32l
 was slng, after which the morning sermon
 was delivered by Rev Dr. Reid, secretary ot
 the Missionary Society of the M. E.. Church, o who selected the 26th verse of the 18th chap
 ter of Matthew: "For what is a man profit ed, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose ', his own soul 2 or what shall man give in ex- = change for his soul?" The preacher began by asking: Will it pay to become Christian'
 Shall receive recompense if accept the :, positiol and duties of discipleship of Christ
 Gan afford to sell all that bave in order to " buy thls discipleship? These are questions
 requiring to be answered. Thetext suggests . also the pertinent question; Can man af-
 ford to remain in sin? There are questions 10 of profoundest interest which do not touch us personally; there are questions appertan ing to the interest of others which command our notice but which are immensely more ab s sorbing to the person whom they more near.
 ly affect. The question of the text absorbs
 yoar supremest interest; you must solve 1t
 You may not wish to be now disturbed by the
 consideration of this matter, but it Is better tc
 grapple with it at once. By and by when " you may be willing, you will not be able te ' overcome the difficulty. The question is 5 simple sum in subtraction: ake the worlC . and find out it's worth, take the son and ' learn the worth of that, then find the differ. ' euce of worth, and decide whether one would
 be gainer or loser by obtaining the whole A world and losing hls own soul. Thae is.
 however, one great difficulty in this ppblem 'u both factors are unknown quantities We
 do not know what the world is the mater of
 which it is composed can be described oily by ,- it's properties. So of the soul, we kndV not l. it's plan, nature, essence, or relation. It is l. profound, but very myster ous, and on be c- described only by it's properties. All s un- '' certainty. We cannot solve the problm, it e is too stupendous. We may, howeve at- e tempt to determine, as we'll as we car the p worth of the world and the worth of thelou l, 'i and compare the two. First, what u the IS value of the world? The word world does 'e not here refer to the earth, but it mean all II that life m the world can be to a man. The text does not ask what it shall profit if wen 5 joy life as it commonly is, but if we gainthe | ,xybO1