Connecticut western news., 1880-03-10
. FAREWELL!
Rev. I.. H. Reaa's Farewell sermsn.

Rev. l.. H. Reld's Farewell Sermem.
 Rev. Mir. Reid preached his farewell sermon, }, of which the following is an outline, At East Canaan last Sunday, in connection with the Communion service, expecting to supply the pulpit the rest of the month by exchanges.
 His text was Cor, II. 3: "For determin- ed not to know anything among you, save Je- sus Christ, and him crucified."
 Corinth was the most gay and absolute city of it's time. ''It was the Paris of Antiquity In it Paul gathered 8 church, the members of which were mostly of the poor. He writes to them, s'Not many mighty are called," and he wrought at his trade of tent-making with Aquila and Priscilla with whom he had his home, doing much outside work that he might not be chargeable to the people; and this seems to have been his common custom.
 have, said the speaker, the greatest admi. ration for Paul. Next to the Savior I place him first of men. His character is grand, and God has honored him in that fourteen books of the New Testament are the products of bis pen. If any one says he does not like Paul it is because he does not understand him. If you think Pauls theology was hard his life was tender; if you think he was severe in his teachings he was charitable in his spirit if you think his life was & sacrifice, it was at the same time song. None of us may come near the apostle, yet we may admire, or model af- ter him. l doubt not the text has expressed to many young minister the ideal of what he would like his ministry to be.
 |. He knew nothing save Jesus Christ. How many times he repeated this in words, and proved it by works. Now this knowing only Christ is demanded of all who enter the sacred office. It should be the minister's stan dard, commission, aim.
 How the memories of childhood finger I was the son of Christian parents. My mother particularly was woman of prayer. Well do 1 remember that scene, when, taking myself and older brother into the parlor-I was only five or six years old-she knelt with us, and with one hand on each head, gave us to God in prayer. That brother and myself entered the Christian ministry; he, in the Episcopal church, served parish in this county, and on the wall of the sacred edifice built during his ministry, there is tablet to his memory; know that in some of your hearts there is tablet for me. My mother lived to be eighty {: in her last sickness went to see her: she gave me dying kiss, and as turned to leave her, | said, 'Iewis!'' We'll, mother2 Breach the Gospel-preach Christi" and those were the ! last words heard from that mothers lips. had the dying charge cut upon the monument that stands at her grave, and now, like an in- spiratlon they come to me, and have come to me through these years of the past. After my mothers death, friend having poetic gifts, sent me these lines:
 Breach Christ ;" His gospel go proclaim; | Tell all His wondrous power;
 Tell how He comforteth His own,
 Fen in dying hour,
 Through years of mingled joy and pain l I've proved Him still the same.
 Go tell His love and faithfulness- ] ''Preach Christ l" o, precious name
 "Preach Christ" until He bid thee rest
 From earthly toll and care;
 What though ife's burden press thee here,
 Thou shalt forget it there.
 There-at thy feet, o, blessed Christi
 Redeemed and sanctified,
 With all our loved ones gone before, White robed and glorided,
 We'll cast our crowns with wondering joy,
 And worship and adore;
 The love that saved and brought us home,
 We'll sing forevermore.
 II. Observe secondly, the apostle says "And him crucifed.' 1t is double text; two-folding door; on the one panel he writes "Christ and on the other, 'Him crucifed" It is half truth, to cut the text in two yor might as we'll divide bank note and call i money. You cannot wake enthusiasm b, Christ's life alone. It is the 'Him crucifed' the dying, risen, glorifed Christ that thrill ed the Apostle, and that should inspire us How seldom does the Apostle speak of Christ life but how frequently and enthusiasticall, does he speak of Christ's death We ar made nigh by the blood of Christ ;we are t.
 show his death till he comes. There are thos
 who say they do not want God of blood. B.
 it so God does not want them-at least H
 does not need them as they need Him. MT
 Moody has Bible reading service on what h. calls '"rhe blood," and he traces Christ thro
 the typical sacrifices of the Old Testament from Abels offering and the paschal lamb, t,
 the antitype on Calvary and thence up to tn
 slain lamb in the midst of the throne. Hoy is it possible to ignore the Him crucified" a
 the very essence and core of the redemptiv system? What thrills the heavenly chorister
 with raptures so intense2 Harkl It is tn song of Moses and the Lamb. If patriot bloc, is hallowed, and bat,le-helds are the sect plots of nations liberties and life and 7 with music and monuments we commemorate
 our noble dead, shall not harp, and palm , branch, and song proclaim the greatest even of history, and tell of 8 martyr love and sacri fee that is the gift of God the astonishmen of angels and the joy of ransomed world
 Yes, yes, dear apostle, it was the "Him cruel
 fled" that you knew, and the s'Him cruciied %hok ohn@ &hn l, crucifed" whose praises you ar J singing, now. You wanted to depart an,
 be with Christ, and He has taken you wher you behold His face. May we be as single il
 our knowing, and come ere long where, wit apostles and saintud friends, we shall hel
 to swell the rapturous anthem.
 It is fitting that some facts should be men tioned. Membership when I came, (Octebe;
 1874,) 120; present membership 137 added
 new members, "A by letter, and 23 by profes
 sion, or more than one-third the present mem bership. Church building extended and or
 gan introduced. Conference room renovated , old school benches removed and settees intro . duced room new pspered, new curtains, ney r lamps, paint within and without; the ol'
 horse eheds removed and new erected in thei
 place temperance society organized in tn . Sunday school before the Murphy movement . missionary society among the ladies, auxiliar. to Womans Board monthly concerts regular ly held parish divided into four districts. an, i all the families called on by systematic visita
 tion Sabbath congregation we'll sustained minister paid with great promptness, and III debts now upon the society.
 What the future shall develop God onl. q knows. But for my state of health. shoul' g feel it my duty to stay. It is safe leaving our a selves in Gods hands. Change is written ol