The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1884-07-02
PULPIT Tut UTTERANCES. Err, A. ", .Il
SERMON BY REV. A J. GORDON, 0. 0,
uow Every Believing Christian May Gain
the Strength and Rest That
Cometh from Above.


neither is weary2 There Is no searching of
His understanding. He giveth power to the
faint ; and to them that have no might He in
ereaseth strength. Even the youth shall faint
and be weary, and the young men shall ut,
terly fall. hut they that wait upon the Lord
shall renew their strength; they shall mount
up with wings as eagles; they shall run and
not be weary; and they shall walk, and not
faint.-lsaidh al. 2S79i.
80 God, the heart was made for thee"
wrote st. Augustine, "and it can find no
rest till it finds it in thee" 1t shall be our
study this morning TO discover how the
weary heart may find and enjoy this
rest.
''The Creator Of the ends of the earth
fainteth not, neither is weary"
When we think of His holding the stars
in His hand, and swinging the worlds in
their orbits, it seems as though He must
sometimes be tired. Hence we can not
realize the fact of an unresting God. We
wonder how the Almighty can live with.
out sleep, anil how the eternal thought
and the eternal activity can go on and on
forever, without any respite for slum'
ber and repose. And yet we are distinct.
ly told that "He that keepeth Israel
slumbereth not, neither sleepeth."
The Bible m axes us acquainted with the
unresting and the unwearied God. To be
sure, we are told that after the creation
had been completed, "God rested on the
seventh day." But Christ intimates that
He rests no longer. "My Father worketh
hitherto and work." He says. And all
the descriptions of the e6ernal state seem
to suggest the idea of unceasing action on
the part of God. "There is no night there"
as though there were no call for rest. "He
slumbers not, neither sleepeth." "They
rest not day nor night" And this is the
conception which 1 get of God: That He
is being of unceasing activity; that
while we rest He is always busy; that
while we sleep He is always awake; that
while we are tired He is always unwearied.
He upholds all things by the word of His
power; He guides all things by His super
intending care; He directs all things by
His immediate counsel.
"He maketh the clouds his chariot, and
rideth upon the wings of the wind" And
if, perchance, the storm chariot knocks a
birds nest from tree, the sparrow that
was in it "does not fall to the ground with
out your Heavenly Fathers notice. Fear
not, therefore; ye are of more value than
many sparrows." God is looking after all
the minute events of your lives. He is
pardoning your individual sins, alleviat-
ing your little sorrows, lifting your petty
burdens, watching over your minutest in
terests, and doing it for myriads of beings,
and doing 1t day and night from century
to century. And yet He is never weary.
No danger that He will be cross some
times, because He is tired out with care
just as you, father and mother, often are
SO that you refuse to be annoyed with
your children's requests. / think this is
is the best proof Of the goodness Of our
Heavenly Father, that He does not lose
His temper with us, because Of our little
faults and provocations. You know that
| great and good people, who know how tc
be perfectly calm under strong provoca
tion, often break their temper over the
spilling of bottle of ink on the table
cloth, or the spattering of little mud
upon their garments by passing car
riage. There are pious and serene Chris
tians In this city by the hundreds, who
have never been stirred to indignation by
the outrageous wickedness of the rumseller
and the seducer, which has turned scores
of once happy homes into scenes Of unut
terable woe and agony; and yet these
same Christians have perhaps burst into g
passion, and cuffed their children's ears,
for tipping over cup of coffee on the ta'
ble-cloth.
Now, how infinitely above all such ca
prices Of temper is God. He is "slow to
anger" the Scripture tells US. He looks
upon the wickedness and cruelty and cor
ruption of city or Nation as it goes OF
century after century, and by-and-by His
holy indignation breaks out against it, and
He overwhelms it with fire as He die
Sodom, or buries it beneath volcano, a!
He did Pompeii, or gives it as prey Il
armies, as He did Jerusalem. There il
the dignity and awful grandeur becoming
God in such anger. But He does not ge
out of patience at our little faults ant
foibles, and burst into swift anger agains
US.
j All! beautiful name which the Scripture
give to the Almighty, "the God Of pa
tience." This means a God that can a
tend to little requests without annoyance
bear little burdens without affront; stool
to little mercies without WEAKNESS. !
means, in word, God who works for
ever, and yet "fainteth not, neither |
weary" And have held up His charac
ter before you to-day, ,5my brethren, tina
you may initiate Him. "The God Of ps
thence grant you to be like-minded on
towards another. Having spoken of th
unweariedness Of God, ask you to cor
slider the weariness Of men. I
"Even the youths shall faint and
weary, and the young men shall utterl
fail"
The youth represents the class that
strongest and freshest and fullest of vigo
shave written unto you, young men, b
cause ye are strong" says John. And "
even youth has no "Elixlr vita" that ca
keep them from fatigue or furnish an ant
dote against exhaustion. Who that servs
the Lord with any degree of fidelity, do,
not at times become utterly tired? NJ
tired Of the work, but tired in the worl
A man with four hundred and fifty va
untary muscles, as physiology teache
and nerves without number, and all thel
muscles being strained in constant tel
sion, and all these ntrves piled with CO..
slant appeals Of suffering, is 1t any wo