Morning journal and courier., 1881-03-19

eA@N-@S grow also in wisdom. Wemust grow to some extent out of our Christian simplicity. One of the things that young Christian must keep clear, and will be compelled to, is the strict discharge of his money matters. minister must keep his accounts in business like way and never convey even g suspicion of dishonesty in his dealings. S
 To be spiritually minded is not to be silly, foolish or weak-headed, but able to do the best for the community. In regard to the intellectual relations of the pastor to the church, common and practical idea of pub lie service in different places is that the ser mon by the pastor should amuse and consti- tute the principal part of the worship.
 Put all the energies you possibly can into all the services except the sermon.
 A good text to begin early part of pastoral work is ttBless the Lord, oh my soul, and GU that is within me bless his holy name. :" How is intellect to be put into these ser cices? In prayer think over the wants of the people and the best and most fitting way of expressing them. Go to the people, study them, look at things from their standpoint and then you will be true to their wants Some ministers prayers are the same during all periods, in times of distress or joy, in times or G0uS1OUS aWAK0uIQRS UT WuSu bu6 religious feelings seem dead. Let your prayers be 8 timely, fitting and solemn express sion of the wishes of the people. General knowledge is now very widely diffused by lectures, and books are being disseminated all through the land How ought we in the pulpit to recognize this fact We must not set ourselves to instruct in well known sub- jects. For, in the first place, our services would be poor in themselves and would not compare favorably with the productions of those who make it business of life to teach in particular branches Secondly, do not enter into scientific disputes. Let these men fight out their own battles. It is not thing for which we enter the ministry. If we should go into these scientific subjects, in the first place some men would not accept our decisions and, second, they would not be appropriate to our church teachings. In the third place waste no time in settling the disputes between science and religion We would make the matter too prominent, and people would have an impression that science l is going to trample out our religion. We can make illustrations of the truths that they bring out. There are two classes of sci entiic men, First, devout religious men. This class believe that by study they Can dis perse difficulties arising between science and religion. The second class, undevotional | men, do not see clearly.
 We are not angry with them, but sorry for l their mistakes. We want them to see our l Christian faith and happiness. We must l work into our sermons scientific results, not l formally but informally, so that the young l men will say our minister knows all about | that matter and is not afraid to face difficult l ties.
 l Now and then we can inspire certain 1 amount of confidence in professional men | by dropping words showing we understand | the scope and difficulties of the professions | and sympathize with them in their difficult | ties. There are ways that we can touch the | inner life of our hearers and encourage them. You must dispel the idea that young men | have, that If their minister knew all the diff culties that they did, the minister would moi l make statements of truths so fearlessly. ! We can show people that we know what | we are talking about and have weighed the | arguments both for and against what we say 1 I say let us meet these things in business | like andinformal way. If we are to be abreast | of the age we must cultivate the faculty ot | presenting these facts in untechnical Ian ! guage.
 We need to cultivate, we grow older. in | tellectual toleration, for different persons
 drift into distinct channels of thought. Ou1 | Bible recognizes three different minds and il is best to leave these minds with thetr peculiar | ities as they are and not try to force them ol | mold them in one direction. We must know | from different orders of human beings that wt | can develop intellectual activity in our. | selves. There are churches whlct
 think that intellectual ministers cannot bt | spiritual because the poor fishermen of Cali
 lee were not intellectual and yet did sucl | mighty works. It is a mistake that they l knew little for their service with Christ ha6 1 done much for them intellectually. Churches | and people are too apt to read scripture ana | get only half-truths. Intellectual power Ii | to be used as 8 measure of improvement t
 society When you become pastors of cit1 N11,, ,o1,,1 q Lz-
 ties to which you will be invited. Do not b.
 in too great haste to become presidents O l directors of these societies; do not let then | deceive you. Some of them mean well, bu
 would not be helpful to you in the end. No
 few of these societies have half truths, ant
 you have to think whether it is best to guid
 them or not. It implies knowledge of human
 nature and sympathy with wishes of peopl
 to decide aright. In the interests of trutl
 and purity these things must be looked int
 carefully. Some people slice up their nor
 ality and will not like you if you do not pu
 weight on their pet slice. Make the tre
 good and the fruit will be good. Thss
 things may be good, but not wholly good, an
 we must therefore use discrimination in ou choices.
 Lay out your intellect first in getting con
 plete possession of this good book, the Bible and the strongest mind among you will fin
 himself a better man for so doing. Get pos ! session or the truths cOnGa1ned 1n the scrlI
 lures; memorize these truths for, there ar
 different shades of meanings which you mu 1 give to your congregation.
 Know this book well. Lay out yor
 strength on it we'll Let this be the centl
 on which all outside literature shall radiate i
 rays. So you will have strength.
 F Do not suppose by any nice poetry an
 rhetoric that you can go down below teachings. Your business is to lift men ul , not to go down to meet them.
 F The faithful teachers of Christ's doctrine
 must be the tormentors of the world. Tn
 book must be torment to evil doers VI
 must warn men of their dangers.
 We will send His message where Ee vii
 that it will go. He will touch with it the 8
 cret springs of the will. You should be u instruments. He will help you in your labo
 and at last will say: ''Wen done good al 1 faithful servant, enter thou into the joy thy Lord" I do hope that you will go for determined to put forth all your labors f these ends and purposes, and that you will ( all that you can for Christ. When you ha,
 passed over on to the other side you wi
 thank Him for having allowed you the pri l ilege of working in his vineyard. I trust F 3 will make you all faithful ministers of tl i New Testament.