Connecticut western news., 1880-08-27

was sung, aICer WHICH prayer, Dy E0Wn E. Lewis of Poughkeepsie, N. Y, was made. The choir sang One More Days Work for Jesus and the services were opened.
 The sermon was delivered by Bishop Cyrus D. Foss, and he selected as the text the 32d verse of the sth chapter of Romans: "He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things?" If the apos- tie were here to-day, said the speaker, we should be better able to understand this text which he was inspired to write. Paul himself could explain it more fully to-day than while he lived on earth, for since that time he has had eighteen hundred years of experience of the knowledge of all things. This is one of those texts which ministers place at the end more often than at the beginning of sermons. In many texts found in Gods holy word the argument is so clear that the comprehension of child can grasp it, and so convincing that it satisfies the intellect of an Aristotle or of Bacon. The truth burst on the mind at once and in all it's fitness, as the eye takes in at glance 8 chain of lofty mountains in per spective. fear to attempt an explanation of this text, by reason of it's grandeur but, if we would gather gold in the mines of God we must dig deep; the treasure is never found on the surface. Gods mines are rich and exhaustless, and we can never reach the bottom. propose to consider first the fact and the import of Gods delivery of his Son second, the reason God had for sparing His
 Son; and third, why He did not spare Him.
 The term deliver up here signifies the hand.
 ing over of criminal to the officers of justice,
 the surrender of Jesus to men by God. This | delivery was not an act performed without I forethought and foreknowledge it was no sud
 den surprise, for God is never surprised
 nor does He ever hurry; the delivery wal
 made deliberately and for a purpose. Chris
 Was as incarnate as man, and knew by actua
 experience the bitterness, the sufferings, and the tribulations incident to the life of man.
 He came to this world, not to be pauper
 but to be poor-to he laborer, and as sucl
 He; sanctiied manual toll. During His min
 istry Christ had no house. although He made
 
 the world.
 This delivery was also to the special malice
 of Satan and the hate of man. Shall it b,
 added that He was delivered to the wrath o
 God? Nol for the scripture does not so af firm but He was delivered to mans wratl for Gods glory. Further, He was delivered
 not for angels, but for us all. Now, as to tn motives God had for sparing Christ from thi unequalled and terrible agony, from thi
 drama and catastrophe of suffering, it is no
 ticed first that God saw in Jesus pure an righteous man burdened with unmerlte wrong.
 There exists in man a tendency to calumn ate, to malign, to charge another even wit J crime, and one so charged has the sympath and support of all good men how much mor l then should Christ in His afliction receiv , help from God Did God look with indiffeI ence, while Jesus, the One perfect Man, wa l maligned2' If so God were worse than mar
 God saw in Him not defeated and blasphen ous fanatic, but a Holy an, His Sor Christ as a suppliant begs that the cup ma
 pass from Him. but the heavens are brass , Jesus dies.
 What for? It is time now to give attentio to the third part of our argument. "Al things" how will this bear with God2 Go r has given us the best thing He had, the un } speakab1e gift has poured out of heaven f inexhaustible fund.-. Christ was crucifed fo
 us. Each one has a right, by faith that i all strong to say: ",He loved me, and H gave Himself for noe" What then will Go stop at? How shall He not give us al t things? The whole 9th chapter of Romans
 matchless chain of argument and it all lead : up to and develops at "How shall He not 3 It is related of Rev. John Summerfield tha preaching on this text once he remarked tha f man having purchased a valuable piece 0 silk, and that when it was sent home he woul ' never ask the price of the twine and wrap ! ping paper about it. So all the riches of God t all the glories of heaven, all the answers t. f prayer are but the wrappings to this unspeak able gift of God. "How shall he not witt him also freely give us all things?" Hov l does this argument bear on the heart an, mind of Jesus7 He gave Himself Wha will He stop at? Have you never bee, touched by the statement in His valedictory address when He says, "Let not your hear be troubledl" The diamonds of promise il that chapter sparkle in the casket of Hi riches. He promises that all we ask the Fa-
 ther shall be- given us. It is enough, Jesus we have all we need now; ascend, blessed |. Jesus: But He knew better than we; so H, waited and prayed for us, and then for tht church, that it may be kept through Hi name. That is enough, now Jesus, depart But He is not ready to go yet one prayer more. Father I vii that they also whom thou hast given bt
 with me-" What will Jesus stop at? H, fully gives us "all things"
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