The Benton weekly record., 1882-11-16
TEE GHERCEEs 8.
CONG REC ATInS 81 EIIrRcH .

Fl s
f C0NGREGA ATI0a.4L CHURCH.
: Rev. $. B. Demarst preached yesterds
morning from Romans 9Th chapter, 28t
verse
sAnd we know that all things work t
gether for good to them that love God,
them who are the called according to HI
purpose
"Those are comforting and preciou
words, but It is har<l7at ali times to tax
them as the truth. When we think of th
truth that al things work together for tn
good CT Gods children, We are to conside
the nature Of the good that he Woul1
secure tothem. It is not Gods purpose
in the main, to secure to them riches, o
! pleasure, on ease and freedom from toi
and care, but, rather good that is of {
spiritual nature. His purpose is that they
shall become like Christ. He would have
us possessed Of his obedient and Judging
Spirit, of all the excellency that was in
Him. Now it is easy to conceive that
some things would tend to make us Christ
like that would not tend to give wealth
and ease. The keeper Of the vineyard
trains his vines in order that they may
bear fruit. The Father has an idea Of the
kind Of man he would make Of his Son and
trains him accordingly. So our Heavenly
Father has His aim with reference to us,
that we shall have fruitful and worthy
lives.
God, as Father, Son and Spirit, is work
ing for the good Of His children.
The Spirit works .to.sanctify, to produce
i'll us His blessed fruit, and to help our
infrnity. God, the Father, works for our
good in His Almighty power and love.
Having given His Son for us, He will do
ali things else that are necessary. AS He
has pardoned those who put faith IN Christ,
no one is able to condemn. them. Christ
work for us IN His death, and also in the
fact that He is risen and living Savior,
who intereedes for as, and works to make
His salvation sure to His children.
The special comfort OF the trnth Of the
text is in the fact that the d0rh Minqs of
life work for the good Of Gods children.
There are things that are trying to us, yet
they can work for our good. The one is
subjected to various processes by which
the pure metal is brought out. So in the
furnace Of affliction we are purified. I'll
trial is the means Of working the Chris
5ian graces in us, these graces are worth
Ill they cost.
1t is to them that love God that all
hings work for good. II one is 4 disobedi-
mt prodigal child, the Father cannot work
or his good. Il chastelling is received
With the disposition of Ialmnlur and re-
,ellion, It serves to harden one rather than
0 soften and bless him. Things will work
gainst them tl1atShate God, II e are to see
hat we are in the right way for securing
he good that God would give His child
en-.
ST. PAUL,s CHURCH.
Text for morning sefnon,S Psalm,
.cyIIIF, XIII.
"Walk about Zion, and 60 round about
er; tell the towns thereof; Mark ye well
er bulWarEs, consider her palaces, that a
e may tell it to the generation follow
49,"
SSIhe sermon gave All outline of the his
2ry of the church. The speaker showed
ow the Protestant .Episcopal. Church was
with the Church ofEngland, in
tcta daughter Of hers. And then he
'acel the history Of the Mother Church
ack through the Reformation period on
} the days Of the Apostles. He denied the
1arge that the church was an organiza-
OH created in the time Of Henry the
III. He marked the difference between
formation and fecozattoR, and contenled
lat the irst word indicate the facts, the
st is misleading. The church is not q
ranch Of the Roman Catholic Church as
} many ill-infofmed people suppose, but
le has a history as old as the Roman
hurch. She. was an established church I
Britain before, and long before, the :
orman Conquest, 1906. Her Bishops sat :
the Councilof ArIen5i ii the gear 314. St. +,
aul possibly planted fhe.shlich in Eng i
nd. Many reference were given, and !
oubt il Mr. Blaokiston mind, the point .
as clearly established. !