The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1888-05-03

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Connected With tho text We bsye ih,
cbil5ren Of Israel complaining ,ha, Goo
tad no, seen their fasting nor tsket
kpo~ ledge Of their offerings made on ID,
day OF sionement God rebnked them
sud phases before them in the words o
our text His fast
Back Of any acceptable offering to God
service for Him must be 10 the heart ol
ths person making the Offering and sis-
cere desire 10 slorify God The plowipe
OF the wicked Is sin. because the sinner
does not glorify and serve the God o.
Heaven, In whose hands his life is, aud
from whom he received the strength TO
bold the plow,
SO these Israelites made their offerings
and tasted not from desire to glorify
God aud become more like Him. but from
. desire to get more good from God not
vithstariing their siofulness. Fasting,
like other religious privileges. to be &C
ceptsble to God aud profitable to man
must be for the end OF making us more
God like 10 character and more like God
in our love and helpfulness 10 men.
Let us place Chris. then into our nine
teenth century civilization - make him a
citizen OF Manchester in this year OF grace
1883. and ask what be would have Us to
do, aud how he would have us do it, and
then asking bis help and going forth with
bis blessing and constant presence, try
and do what Christ would we're he with
us in the flesh as be is 10 the spirit il We
are bis disciples. He would find town
OF about 1000 inhabitants, four churches
With a seating capacity OF about 1900, in
which gather for the worship OF God on
ordinary occasions, when the Sunday is
pleasant, about 600 or less worshipers
He would find perhaps one in ten Of the
young men regular attendants at the
church and Sunday school, He would |
lind many who make profession more
given to worldly pleasure and profit than
to the service Of God. SO that II the
prayer meeting was test for showing the
saints there would be hardly enough gath.
cred to have saved Sodom.
What would Christ do +? am sure be
would make an earnest and persistent ef-
fort to take the gospel to every home and
every individual. | am sure be would
not pass the poor, but would give them
as hearty q welcome to the church service
as kindly greeting on the street. as ear
nest and pressing an invitation TO share
the blessings Of bis gospel as he would the ,
rich. Again Jesus would be careful OF
the body. The physical system needs at ,
tention. Mans happiness depends very
largely on his health. A sick man may .
the grace Of patience. SO may !
! sick soldier exemplify love and devotion
70 his country. Sound soldiers are need
ID to fgh. the country's battles. So I
'ound soldiers to fight the battles OF the a
ross. !;
Our bodies are the perfection OF Gods .
workmanship; His crowning and finishing +
vork in creation. We are wonderfully, !,
esrfully, gloriously made. We poison !,
ur bodies by eating too much aud too Il
flen, too rich and highly seasoned food o
nd then wonder at the unsccou ,table de :,
rec OF Providence, that brings us to .,
ick bed when we want to be we'll.
II is only Gods protest against our n
buse Of the grandest created mechanism :
, the universe. Many father has 10
uged himself 10 eIcesses and bequeath
| weakened bodies and tainted desires to
/, sons and then blame on Providence
ecause they 60 TO the bad. Many =
Iother to-day has heart pierced through ~ -
ith many SORROWS because the rum feDd !,
., ruined her sons, and shame claimed =,
er daughters: throwing the blame on y
cd or Satan according to her caprice, =,
bo in reality. has only herself to blame. a.
First, in allowing herself the use OF
lmulants. as strong tea, coffee aud spices -,
her food. giving to her offspring weak is
ed bodies and nervous teDperaments j,
at call for stimulants and then with her -,
IN hand feeding the little one narcotics a.
! s,imulants, kindling an appetite that 40,
after years can only be quenched With ~,
0 fluid which has been well designated "a,
the beverage OF hell. reformer was ~.
ked when he would commence with the -,
I'D 10 hls work Of saving it from evil -.
replied, IA hundred years before il is 10
rn" oae OF the most deadly blows tin ~
opinion) that could be dealt the run bre
ud would be the entire bsnishment OF mes
~ afc unuaHy esee'ueu nhfDitss stm- the
Ints. Let not the mother who csnnot the
along without ber tea snch an awful era
gone 70 ,ling aud headacbe). blame the Der
! too much il he cannot get slong with fan
stronger stimulsnt. let ber not heap obi
'ses On the head u the man who sells
son the supply for which she has
ited the demand q
ministers OF the gospel aud parents Gag
'uld by preceps and example enforce afte
80 truths. lest the blood Of some poor the
drunkard be found staining their ed ,
ris. In the day when God makes ipqui The
on for blood The church that wrinss ner
hands in iruitless wsiling because 10 "
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