Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-08-14
VERMONT UNIVERSALISTS,
THE ANNUAL GROVE MEETINGS.
A good Good Attendance and Interesting
Exercises at Queen city Park Address
es by Prominent Clergymen.

auspiciously, over 400 people being present.
The exercises were opened with prayer by
Rev. j. j. Lewis of South Boston, Mass,
Rev. Dr. f.. G.. Bolles of Salem, Mass.
read the Scripture lesson, Gfter which
prayer was offered by Rev l., q. Ware of
Burlington. Rev. DR.. Bolles delivered
the sermon of the morning, taking his
text from 2nd Corinthians, 9Th chapter,
4th verse "Not for that we would be I'M
clothed, but clothed upon, that mortality
might be swallowed up of life.' Follow
is brief abstract of DR.. Boless re-
marks
The man who wrote this once found
himself embarrassed between earthly and
heavenly attractions On the one hand
for him was the path of ease and security;
on the other was one of toll and pain and
danger. The first lay with earthly compan-
ions, and was attended with Joys that seem
ed very alluring the second was with his
Lord and that he chose, having in mind
the eternal reward that was beyond. We
need comfort and sympathy in this world
now just as he who wrote this passage did
in those days, Earthly friends can afford
these solaces only in measure, but the
Father can in their eternity, and hence is
to be chosen in preference to every other
companion or friend. remark to- you
concerning the unclothing of the soul III
immortality that we shall be clothed
again in personality. We shall be our
selves. That same heart that same love,
that now possess, the memory of my
good deeds, the sting of my wicked deeds,
will be with me in those immortal years.
This it is which makes our actions in life
of so vast importance to us. In the sec
ond place III this regard, we shall be
clothed upon with responsibility widening
and increased by the environment of the
soul. That is an awful thought, that we
shall be responsible according as we are
enlightened in respect to duty. And last
ly remind You that in that clothing upon
which our souls receive, there must be Il
clothing upon with the light and knowl-
edge and love that will enable us to see
Gods providence leading our wrong and
sinful actions ut length toa perfect trans
formation of the soul for eternity,
After singing that good old hymn,
"Amsterlam," an address by Rev. j. X.
Applebbe of Boston, from text in Job
XXNviii. followed He devoted himself to
the indication Of the divine love. The
Hebrews were pelpleNed by the fact that
the righteous sometimes suffered and
the wicked prospered. Job believed the
eternal cOmpcnsations OVerleaped the
bounds OF this present life and entered
the future INDUSTRIOUS egOtism for man to
believe himself the center of the uni
verse for whom and whose delectatiOn all
else We're made 1t is well for him to be
lieve in himself, but not well to believe he
is high above other animal forms. All
forms of life about us are the incarnation
of the deity, and we must hold in rever-
ence what is below as well as what is
above us. But nature has IL sacriticia
relation toward US. We had to learn of
injury and danger by experience entirely
and often of the saddest kind. But we
must recollect that these laws of
death and destruction illustrate the
gracious law of sacrifice On every life is
written the lesson, nothing lives for itself :
all things have purpose, and with man.
that purpose is to minister To be truly
great we must minister This is our life
task: to do any part with our God given
faculties. So will our life be transtigured
At2 D. m. there was preaching by Rev. DR..
Atwood, President of Canton University.
The text was Psalm CIX, verse >: 80
that my ways were directed to keep thy
statutes The topic of this Psalm is the
eXCellency of the divine commands and
the happiness of those who kept Them
The thought is Gods statutes are right.
and obedience is happiness. | count the
author of this Psalm one of The
he here discovers not only truth
but eternal truth and the basis
of all civil and religious systems In my
text the psalmiSt regrets that his WAYS are
not those of the Lord, for he realizes that
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be stringently directed. but he wished an
impos,bility, for he was himself the prop
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ence. Every man is the nrchitect Of hi.
own fortune. And we depend upon the
promise mat every Knee shall bow. Here
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nr1a. a Syin,ri, rit.. ,'', t U,tiin en- I
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want to he saved And to be saved con
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