Morning journal and courier., 1886-08-16
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
Rev. Dr. Pattison in His old Pulpit His Evening Dfscourse-A Large
 and Attentive Summer Congrega-


 His Evening Dtscourse-A Large and Attentive Summer Congrega- ton.
 Rev. Dr. T. Harwood Pattison of Roches- ter, New York, supplied the pulpit of his former charge, the First Baptist church, yes- terday morning and evening. In the even ing he preached very eloquent discourse from the words found in Isaiah. 18th chap ter, 29th verse: F'This also cometh forth from the Lord of Hosts, which is wonderful in counsel and excellent in working" The eloquent preacher spoke in substance fol- lows: A theme the most suggestive and the most attractive was occupying the prophets mind at this time. He was watching the progress of the tilling of the soil by the husbandman. The work of that husband man and the energy with which he carried through his work was the case of the master. The God who taught that husbandman was more wise than the master. We will take for our subject the existence of God as re- yealed by these words. You have here com bined the wisdom that thinks and the power that executes. There is great gulf between the power that devises and the will that executes.
 It is very rare that you can say of man that he is wonderful in counsel and great in work We start out to make plan, and after having made it we have not power to execute. Men may scheme and devise, but they not able to perform. A power to devise is one thing, power to execute is an other. We pass laws from year to year that we are not able to execute, because they are not framed in wisdom. o how many houses have built on paper and how beautiful they have seemed, and how many have done likewise. Our thoughts some times manifold while our work is directly the opposite. There are various reasons why men devise plans and do not carry them out. The prophet as he walks among the trees of the forest and the plants of the field recognizes the existence of a God. The antiquarian and geol- ogist go down into the earth and dig up some flint arrow head which 1 three thousand years ago was considered work of art. They were then living i'll huts that we would not place our cattle in. But there has not been an addition to the hand that made that arrow head from the begin l ming. When God made this hand he did not make it to invent that flint instrument, but l he made it to throw the shuttle and to work l out great inventions.
 Chance is not word found in Scripture. l God rules in everything. You cannot step beyond the reach of Gods laws. It is God l that worketh in us. God worketh in us to l will and to do of his good pleasure. In this | great discord of life wait until this great | fresco of your life that you are painting l against the walls of eternity, and it will l stand out in all it's magnitude before you l and you will then realize your life work. l
 Redemption is the wisdom and power of | God. The cross was Gods thought if he l had that cross in his heart from the begin | ming, do you think it will ever be erased? | When we speak of redemption we are talking | of ground on which we can stand. Creation, | providence, redemption these come forth | from the Lord of Hosts. You have not | reached the end yet. Gods thoughts are everlasting thoughts. You speak of the | Lamb that has been slain. Yes, you shall l see that Lamb and be lost in wonder, love and praise. I think of saintly ones worship l ping at his feet and this thought comes to me in all it's glory and power:
 O that with wonder sacred throng
 We at his feet may fall;
 Bring forth the royal diadem
 And crown him Lord of all. God grant that this may be the happy lot | of us all. The discourse, of which we have given | only brief abstract, was listened to with | deep attention by the large audience in at l tendance.