Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-10-05

fist Union, Boston, read the report of the
committee on foreign missions, which
showed that the mission work of the
church was IN prosperous condition. On
motion tue report was accepted and
| adopted
Rev. DIR. Mckenzie then gave a brief
address upon missions. After thauk-
| ing the people for the very cordial
receptions which had always been
extended to him by this association, he
| said There never was a time when
there was so much thought as now upon
the work of Christian evangelization. In
| discussing the work OF missions we
| Should keep more distinctly in view the
cardinal features, Christ, not so much
humanity, and his Kingdom. and also the
two vital factors, prayer and faith keep
| ing these factors aud features in the back
| ground they lose their true force. | am
studying question, and | think | am
| finding an answer-a question very vital,
| aud if the right answer is found it will
| almost revoutionize the work of the
| church. The question is what was Christ s
| central and supreme purpose in establish
| ing this church on. earth. Some answer,t he
| church was intended to be CONSERVATION
and preserver Of doctrines. This
seems to be inadequate it places
the church on lower grounds than
Christ intended and | think these were
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intended to collect centrallze and utilize
the intellectual and moral power of the
| people for the purpose of spreading the
gospel throughout the world, so to
build up that for which he organized the
church, his kingdom Come with me for
a moment to Olivet where Christ has
J about finished his work. He has one last
aud grand word to say to his church, Go
we therefore and teach all nations.
Then word about the vital forces. We
depend too much upon machinery and not
upon prayer and faith. believe to day
we need more prayerful laborers and more
prayer for money. In love and in loyalty
to our Lord Jesus Christ go forth to the
| WORK, not for UNCONVENTIONAL propaganda
but for the building up of Christ's king
dom, and then pray as you believe.
After the singing of the solo LAS Pant
the Harts' by Mrs. Parker Leach, which
was very finely rendered, the congregation
led by the choir, sang Jesus Lover of my
Soup and the moderator introduced Rev.
Wayland Hoyt ID. D., pastor of the Me-
mortal Baptist church, Philadelphia, who
delivered the annual address before the
association. Dr. Hoyt is an eloquent
speaker and his large audience paid him
the closest attention to the close of his
very Interesting and powerful discourse.
| DIR. Hoyt announced as the topic, Jesus
Christ, the ideal man, and some of
| the duties growing out OF that fact
|
and rs the son of God he is to WELD the
sceptre. The eighth Psalm is the psalm
of mans domain. But this dominion is
largely forfeited by sin. Very slight is
the dominion of the savages over that
portion of the world in which they live,
yet it is absolute over the animal king
dom. We might say Il man with the and
of civilization yields broader dominion.
| Very true, and yet how limited. In a
life time vast continents have been SUD
dued, yet how broken is the sceptre.
Look for moment how short the path of
life before the final curtain drops. A man
cannot eat the soil, yet he must live from
the bosom OF the earth. Man is rather
the slave of nature than its king.
Who OF us has been able to rule over
the Kingdom of chaos within ourself to
subdue he passions and resist the
temptations of our own heart. 1t
is short and meagre enough over sor-
row. a Christian is supposed to have
conquered that feeling. When the skies
are bright and sunny it seems to us as
though God was full of love, but when
the heavens grow dark and the storms
come how difficult to read the meaning OF
love in them. Again, how meagre is
| mans domain i'll the realm of death
| Webster said that that man was brute
who was not afraid to die. Who can tell
how short it will be ? Here are two who
start out on life's journey together After
orally between them. The curtain stands
as wall of granite against the weapons OF
| man attempting to pierce the beyond.
That is not all, bless God, no, for more
shining example, see Jesus, the ideal man
A short and broken sceptre is placed in
the hand of man, but It is complete and
| unbroken in the hands of Jesus. Let Us
so hold him as one with us, a wonderful
| truth. DO not allow yourself to put upon
| Jesus the same nature Adam had before
he fell, Jesus was made in the
likeness of sinful flesh. He took
upon himself the nature of man.
Behold him AS the master of sin. Look
upon him once, in history life immacu-
lately pure. What a wonderful thing is
that siuless life, When challenged to find
Iimperfection in it the only answer the
| world has found is worship.
Then let us look at Him as the master
of nature. How the waves oNeyed His
commands and were still. How he had
| absolute power over the world Then rs
the Master OF death, for he was dead and
lived again. Our Lord Jesus is the mas
ter of providence. He has assembled and is
relgnlng the ideal man, master of all
things.
WHAT duties spring out of that fact,
surely the duty of preaching Him and
His word. Who of us do not know that il
we DO not struggle we go back and down
to the first conrltion, and only Ms we hold
btHetlH Illul Cdu we duNduCe
Wo owe Him the duty of obedience, since
He is the ideal man. If our denomina-
ton has right TO exist, it is because its
foundation is absolute and unquestioned
obedience to the master. Since the
master gave the form of the ordinance OF
baptism by immersion, we obey not be
cause it Is immersion but because be com
manded it. We need obedience to the
limit of absolute control under him, and
then when this time comes the kingdom
will follow.
A collection was then taken to meet the
expenses OF The convention and the meet
ing closed with the singing of Rock Of
Ages" and prayer offered by Rev. q. A
Reese of Rutland.
Following is to-day's programme;
CLOSING SESSIONS OF ITS 63C
ANNIVERSARY.
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