Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1882-05-01

inc tue one OF which We speak.
suppose there are some here this moruing
VINO say, II don't know whether there i. such
one to whom l ought to intrust myself or
not This is the greatest question which
you are called to settle. Stop a moment
refnaps you are unnecessarily staggered
May It not be that much of the doubt that
hangs over you is the result of YOUR own
nniteness: You find you don't comprehend
uod- Ifyou could grasp him, there would be
no Tod lfyou be finite and and he infinite,
now could you think to comprehend him !:
snail we poor weakling. think to understand
MIN In our finitenesss After all, very much
OF our doubt may be traced to our UNIV Hing
ness to understand and recognize God. Men
smut out the light. The New Testament and
all reason teaches Us that we are to reach
uod through the action of our moral nature.
Deep down IN our nature, at the very core of
our being, there is a great sense of duty. We
know that whatever be true. whatever be
false, we ought to be brave and honest and
true. and trample on unrighteousness. If we
VIII obey conscience, do whatever we think
TO be right regardless of the consequences.
this conscience will lead US to God. so that
we cannot doubt him. The second obstacle
is Discrimination to have faith. Men do not
believe in God, simply because they do no,
wish to believe in him. 1t revolutionizes a
man to be Christian; it changes him. 1t
strikes O he o<L
MS place at the foot of the cross with the
humble cry, God be merciful to me a sim
ner" 1t revolutionizes mans private life.
his family life, his basiness life and his
political life. 1t sometimes demands cutting
OF our right arm or plucking out our right
eye. The one thing of faith of faith is devo.
ton of our whole being to Gods sovereignty.
Ii were the supremest folly to live on Gods
earth. seen by him, governed by him, and yet
to ignore him. The third obstacle is the force
Of adverse habits, which can only be overcome
by prayer and struggles. In closing the
Bishop made most eloquent appeal to
Christians and the unsaved to consecrate
their lives from this time forward to the SER
vice of the Lord Jesus
After the sermon Wilbur F. Berry and
Samuel +. Emerson were ordained Deacons.
Nearly 200 persons attended the forenoon
service at the Congregational church.
Rev. j. NJ. Buckley, ID. d., of New York
preached in the afternoon from Daniel H. A
"And in the days of these kings shall the
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never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall
not be left to other people, but it shall break
in pieces all those kingdoms, and it shall
stand forever" The truth taught in the text
is the permanence and indestructability of
Christianity in the world There is now a
tremor in the air, an atmosphere of doubt
Many believe the wave of scientific infdelity
which is sweeping ever the land is to sub
merge our religion, and that Christianity will
take its place among the great superstitions
which have become obsolete. Beginning on
the broad basis that man is essentially relig-
ious by nature AS evidenced by the hold that
mankind for all ages, DIR. Buckley argued
from this premise that the religious ele-
ment in mans nature can never be
uprooted and that men must believe
in something The Gospel stands wherever it
can get hearing. Paganism cannot return
when Christianity has dislodged it. Judaism
has no vitality and never had. Continuing
on this line of thought the preacher convinc-
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tianity as the lurest, most aggressive, most
reasonable, and the only divine revelation
ever vouchsafed to man.
At the conclusion of DR.. Buckley's most
able and impressive address, came the solemn
service of ordination of elders, prefaced by
singing:
aye Christian heralds, go, proclaim
Salvation through Emanuefs name"
The following young men took upon them
selves the binding ordination VOWS, and re-
ceived the Episcopal benediction Gardner
ID. Holmes, George l.. Burbank, Everett S.
Stackpole, VIM. F. Marshall, Melville +.
King. James Robinson, formerly an elder in
the Free Baptist church, took the ordination
vows.
The anniversary of the Freedman's Aid
Society was observed in the evening by q
powerful and interesting address, by Rev. J.
C. Hartzell, ID. d., of New Orleans. Fully
400 persons were packed into the church by
the skillful ushers. The audience was one
that ould inspire any man. and DIR. Hart
zell made good use of his opportunity.
CNIvERsALIsr CHURCH.
At the Universalist church Rev. DIR.
Hartzell was expected to preach, but on account
of sickness he was unable to be present, and
his place was supplied by Rev. DIR. Tefft,
who preached an able discourse from Matthew
xxxvIu. IS: 1.-The field is the world" The
Dr. in opening presented picture of the
world as il would be if Christianity ruled
universally; then after giving brief expusi-
ton of the Spencerian philosophy, the Oar
winian theory. and the ideas of Tyndall,
Huxley and other scientists, he sketched the
world as it would be under their doctrines,
and contrasted the picture with that drawn of
the reign of the Christian religion. Darwin's
theory, the survival of the fttest," was de-
clared tn he the doctrine that s.might makes