The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1883-12-14

The council, composed ofsale&e34a.and lay
delegates from large nup359, srches
was held in the afternoon d Of the
church, and organized by tHe 81 Rev
W. ID. Fem of High street cH6f6H as Modera-
tor, and Rev. Mr.. Daniels of the Second Parish
as Scribe. After the usual routine proceed.
ings, the pastor elect gave written statement
of his call TO the ministry and religious and
doctrinal views. The council, after hearing
this, and continuing the examination, voted
that the views of the candidate were emf.
nently satisfactory, also that the installation
take place in the evening.
THE INSTALLATION.
The installation exercises were held in the
evening ia the presence of large congre-
CATION. The pulpit platform was beautifully
decorated with flowers and plants The, order
of exercises was as follows:
Organ Voluntary.
Reading the minutes of the council.
voluntary by the choir.
lord of Heaven
Invocation Rev. W. P. Fisher
Reading OF Scriptures Rev. e. s. Tead
Slng1ng-Congregation
lynn 6l2. Tune, Rathbun.
sermon. ..:.............Re Rev. W. M. Taylor, D. d.
Installing Prayer. Rev. j. j. Carruthers, D. d.
nglng-Congregationa.
Hymn 206. Tune, Duke Street.
Enarge 10 the Pastor. Rev. John S. Sewan
Right Hand of Fellowship. .. Rev. F. T. BayIey
Address TO the People
Sinsing-by the Choir.
The Dcxology-by the congregation,
Bened1ction-by the Pastor.
The sermon by Rev. DR.. Taylor, of the Tab
ernacle church of New York city, was an able
and eloquent effort, and held the close atten-
fiOu Of tho au1ianao
ing section will be read with interest embrac-
ing the first two points in full:
The text was taken from Heb. 4, 13, Him
with whom we have to do" The preacher
said: First Of all remark that we have to do
with God in the operations OF nature. It is
true indeed that the advance of science has
revealed order, regularity and law in the phys
ical universe, but that is only what we might
have anticipated if as the Bible declares and
we believe the world was called into being at
the first, and is still sustained by the power and
wisdom of the Most High, for God Is not the
author of confusion. We are not surprised
therefore to find that He proceeds upon fixed
principles, but We must beware OF allowing
thai which we call law to hide from us the
ever active agency of Him whose orderly
method of operation that law is. We must
bear 10 mind that Nature is but the name of
an effect whose cause is God, and in redeeming
men from the superstition which saw divine
from in every eclipse, and divine Judgment
IN every hurricane, we must not rush into
the opposite extreme of excluding the Creator
from the universe which He has made, for
what are the laws OF nature as we call them
but just the observed modes in which the Fore
es OF nature work? These laws do not,enforce
themselves, they are only the methods in
which the energies behind them put forth
their might. And what are those energies?
Ii you put the question to science she has as
yet no answer ready, but in the doctrine of the
conservation of energy she tells us that the
sum of the actual and potential energies in the
universe is constant and unalterable thing,
unaffected by the natural action of these
forces themselves; and in the doctrine of the
correlation of forces. She informs us that
one force may be transmitted into another; and
SO she prepares the way for the inference
drawn by me of one of her own apostles, Mr.
Alfred Wallace, to wit: to the effect that all
force is at last receivable into will force and
that there is behind the operations OF all secon-
Diary causes guiding force in the will Of the
Supreme Intelligence. And so at length as
her latest conclusion science has reached the
earliest postulateA of revelation, and is &C.
knowledging that the laws of nature are the
common operations of divine power depending
entirely for their existence and continuance
on the divine wisdom and will. Now If this
view be correct what men call grayitation is lust
the power of God putting itself forth in the
regulation according to certain fixed principles
OF the relation vi material bodies to each other:
and what they call electricity is the power of
God exerting itself in certain other conditions
and IN certain other circumstances. The other
day when the members of the Corean en-
bassy visited the Western Union building the
secretary OF the legation, So Kiang Pom, who
was always very quiet and never lost an OPP
to make few notes in book which
he carried for the purpose, put poser to those
who were explaining things to him, when
after having heard great deal about the cleo
tricsl system, he asked with much simplicity,
What then is electricity" They tried to tell
him that nobody knew just exactly what it Isl
and the anxious inquirer put up his pencil and
bis book in disappointment. But man is al
ways speechless, DO matter how intelligent he
may be, when he is brought face to face with
God. And it would have been well If some
one had boldly answered the heather prince
after this fashion: Electricity is the last re-
suit, is the power of God put forth in q certain
set OF circumstances, and in accordance with
certain conditions, which in the course of our
investigation OF his creation we have discov-
sred." The same is true concerning attraction
and cohesion IN chemistry, and in aword that
which in physical things makes cause
cause. The MENUS which secures that the eff
feet shall result from that which we call its
cause is always and everywhere the power of
God. Hence when we employ an agent to |
produce certain result the power which we
are utilizing is the power Of God. The high |
3st OF all is seen thus to be the servant of all.
When in the workshop the artisan invekes the |
'ld OF steam, his moving OF the handle |
which sets the engine in motion is, uncensci- |
'usly it may be, yet really, a calling for the |
lelp OF God through that peculiar channel of |
His power; and when the merchant sends his |
message to the telegraph office he is virtually, |
hough perhaps unwittingly, beseeching God |
o use His power for the transmission OF his
espatch. And so in all similar cases. Some
men redicule the very idea of prayer, and
hink it absurd that God should ans wer the APP
eals OF His people; and yet in this way every
ay they live and every hour of every day they
re really, albeit unconsciously, invoking His
Id and receiving His assistance-for even in
nese departments of nature it is with God
y these considerations to that which men call
Iaturei What new interest to science!
hat new Importance to our common laborl
low absurd, TOO, when we look at the matter
| this light, are all the fears entertained BY
mple.minded believers regarding science, as
1t could ever in the long run undermine
violation. The world and the Bible are works
the Same author, and rightly
Iterpreted can never be antagon-
tic. Science properly prosecuted will
'me at length to be the theology OF
sture, even as theology correctly understood
the science of revelation; and though the |
terpreters OF the two may occasionally fall
It we may rely upon it that they are them
Ives always in harmony. Let as not
erefore be Jealous of science, for in SO far as
ooNduOcb III ltS uleCOV0rl6H IL Will O1ly re-
al to us more clearly how true it is that in
ture it is God with whom we have to do.
But in the second place / remark that we
we to do with God in the overtures of the
ospel. do not require here and now to en-
r into an elaborate proof of the fact that the
ospel is from God. That has been established | ]
or and over again and needs not to be done ,
ew. Where an advocate is entrusted with
use headed 1.-THE People VS.. So-and So" he
YES not feel himself under obligation 10 9
ow that the government of the people for ,
Q people and by the people is rightful aud
Ultimate. The conflict of hundred years
o settled that; and he very naturally takes | {
for granted. In like manner when the
eacber speaks of the overtures of the Cos
i as from God he is not now to be es-stopped
the threshold of his case with the demand | =
r proof of the divine origin of the Gospel;
at has been settled by the conflicts of 1900
ars, and may now be warrantably enough |
sumed especially when he is dealing with y
ose whose very presence in his audience is
cit admission of their assent to his state
emit. We therefore without hesitation adopt !
NILS language and say that "tEe Gospel is .
Q power of God unto Salvation" Now /,
ing back on what we have already advanced
ont Gods power in natural agents, like D
tier, steam and electricity, we may find that $
me things about them throw considerable h
hit upon the Gospel. Thus II we want to
all ourselves of the force which God has