The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1882-06-13
GET WISDOM
And Make it Practical, Was the
Burden Of the Discourse at the
II. e. Church. Last Night.

which was continued over from last Sun
day evening.
After few remarks with reference to
Lewis college, Glasgow, Mo-, and the inn
portance of the church in this state turning
ITS attention and energies upon some one
educational institution and making it a
great seat of learning in the years to
come, Rev. Jackson called the attention
of the congregation to the following pas
sage, Prov, Al:
"Wisdom is the principal thing; there
fore get wisdom; and in all thy getting,
get understanding"
After the reading of the text, the dis
course was. in substance, as follows:
On last Sabbath evening | called your
attention to the importance of procuring
theoretical knowledge, especially in mat
tiers of theology and religion. This even
ing We shall consider the practi-
cal side of the question. Ii it is i'm
portant that We should make ourselves
theoretically wise, how much more i'm
portant ii is that We should get practical
wisdom. The object of all wisdom revealed
10 man 10 to
HELP HIS PRACTICAL CONDITION.
We should study the bible and the
things pertaining to religion that we may
understand them and apply the truths and
advices to ourselves What avails it man
ii he understand all things and makes no
use of his great knowledge. We must
make our knowledge practical. Let man
spend scores of years in the study Of the
theOlogies and the various creeds, let him
grow gray headed and 60 down to his
grave with all the religious lore possible
for human mind to grasp, and if he has
not made the result OF his years of study
and research practical, applied it to bis
own lost condition, what hope is there for
him beyond the portals OF the tomb? 1t is
direful thing for the great and wise to be
lost. worm may pass away and this
world be none the loser and the worlds to
come none the gamer. But for human
soul, that spark of intelIige ace which con-
meets the material with the immortal, to be
lost is q terrible thing. Let us get
wisdom and in all our getting, get under
standing, that is, understanding the theo-
ries which we become masters of in such
way as to apply them to ourselves. Let
us study Gods word, let us study the works
of great and good men, let us listen to the
elOquence of our brilliant orators, but let
US not carry all the knowledge thus gained
asa
DEAD WEIGHT
in the store house of our brain. Let us
also study how all of these truths may be
made to bear upon our daily life Every
one who lives upon this beautiful globe is
affected by christianity. The influence of
the Bible, the gospel and practical religion
is felt everywhere, even to the remotest and
most castaway places. Every human soul
is benefited, whether that soul be be-
lever or an infdel, saint or a sinner.
Gods influence and presence lights up the
whole armament, it shines everywhere.
But though We are all benefited by the in
huence of christianity, the greatest and
most enduring beneSt comes to those who
study the word and make it practical i'm
every day life. Wemust
FEEL RELIGION,
feel the light of God illu-
minating our hearts. or
We are deprived of the great and one i'm
portant benefit afforded by religion. If
We are hungry We must eat. What salts
faction would it be to us to attend great
feast where the tables groaned beneath
their weight of delicious viands and many
colored wines sparkled in the decanters
and goblets, if We did not partake
Would looking upon the feast allay our
hunger? No; We must eat to enjoy the
feast. If We are thirsty We must drink.
The thirsty man who stands beside a
sparkling, cool fountain is not satisfied
with looking upon the beauty of the
spring. He must drink to appreciate and
secure the true and practical benefit Thus
it is in getting the wisdom relating to
things religious. Many of our great and
intellectual men, as we'll as many of in
feriOr intellects, study the word of God,
and the plan of salvation
BECAUSE OF THEIR BEAUTY.
They read the Bible, they say, because it is
very eloquent, very poetical, classical and
altogether beautiful. They study it be-
cause of the intellect displayed there.
Fatal error.
They are like those who pass through a
beautiful orchard filled with trees laden
with all kinds of beautiful fruit, and look
upon the many bright hses of the grace
fully hanging fruits, but taste them not.
We should pluck the fruit as we'll as look
at its beauty. We must experience re-
ligion before We can understand the bible
and the truths OF salvation. The joys and
lasting happiness experienced by a saved
soul can not be explained. We must then
feel them to understand them.
Great mems researches into the almost un-
attainable knowledges of the things con-
nected with creation and Gods workings
in the past and present deserve great ad-
miration and respect from US; yet, some
of them are more ignorant than the
MEREST CLOD-HOPPER
in the most important of all knowledge,
the knowledge of how to live happy here
and possess eternal and blissful existence
in the hereafter The sensation afforded to
a human soul when it feels that it is
saved cannot be explained. The
countenance of the seeker after the one
great knowledge suddenly lights up, he
springs from his knees and exclaimes
Saved Saved! Glory to God !" He mas