Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1890-06-13

will truly guide us, whether we are cap
italists or laborers, magistrates or citi-
zens, teachers or scholars, EMPLOYERS or
employed, buyers or sellers, physicians
or patients, of the pulpit or pew it is this
principle that man is my brother, for
whom Christ died, that gives the truest
relish and enjoyment to our liberties,
the truest service for man by man i'm all
departments of thought and labor, and
thus lifts alike and besses all classes bv
the kindest recognition of brotherlv
love. This is the avowed principle IN
the Declaration of Independence, in the
constitution of these United States, in
the creed of this and every pospel
church. This, lived out, would increase
and secure the most permanent lawful
industries and thus enhance the truest
wealth and welfare of all concerned. TO
God, then, be all the praise as the
author of these principles. 10 God.
then, be all the praise for his church as
their distributor and illustration: as, i'm
perfect as 1t is, Notwithstanding all
her weaknesses and failings, the church
of the living God is the most illusttious
organization on this planet, out of
whom and by whom, as the Masters Or
gained an authorized center of the
light and law of his kind of love, there
streams all the while the soothing, edu-
eating, empowering influence of the
truth-"God is love-. SO love of the
world as seen in Christ is love to YOU.
y man. 1t is ours, then, not unduly to
eXalt this or any church, for all embodv
more or less the frailties and crudities of
human nature not yet absolutely re-
moved. Nor is it ours today to refound
or reorganize this church, for it is here
in all the bright significance of the sun
on its way to meridian splendor, there to
hold aud never set, till the gospel of
peace, liberty and salvation shall cover
the earth with flowers of its own kind,
corresponding to the meaning and mis-
SION OF everlasting life, as the true errand
of every church of the Lord Jesus. bios
SONS of character like His own, Ii is
ours, then. to keep Incorporating those
spiritual elements. building upon and
with that foundation, the Christ. SIN
whom, said the apostle, sail the build
ing 1tly framed together, groweth unto
a molly temple in the Lord"
1t Is not ours, then, undulv to exalt the
greatness and goodness of our fathers,
Tor they received it all from the Christ,
the founder of Christianity. in all the
/ length, depth. breadth and heighth of
lts meaning they were but human. i'm
! iN'iNNt anu Cil NY. dS we all are. But IL
i ours to incorporate more and more of
the spirit that made them the noble
Christian ancestry they were: more and
more breathe into and breath forth from
our personal lives the gospel spirit in all
us tenderness and power, giving us all
the moral stamina and force we ever need
not only, but also that gentleness. that
Dehevolence. that sacrifice that is ever
missionary in its spirit and work. over
coming mighty obstacles and winning
the world to God. Let us then 90 on as
a church. and as a church of the Lord
Jesus Christ. i'm the direction of the DOS
slDllities and certainties by grace to the
highest plane of spiritual life, not for
| getting to sacrifice selfishness, the only
thing that can harm us, and with the
spirit OF true se.f-denial help build for
eternity (by divine grace sought char
acter Tor ourselves and others, whose
temple dome shall receive and battle in
the smiles of the eternal love, thus re-
fiecting his glory forever, believing in
and using and closing with the PRAYER of
the psalmist as our own q. Chron.,
XXlX:l and 1S): SIN thine hand is
power and might, and in thine hand il is
TO make great and give strength unto all.
.. Lord God of Abraham. Isaac and
Israel, our fathers (and we NAV add our
fathers, too keep this forever in the i'm
agination of the thought of the people
and prepare q. e.. establish) their hearts,
our hearts. unto Thee" So NAV it be
with us all