Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1890-01-06

NAV presume too much on our Interpretation
of our particular church Providence, if we
read it still more definitely in the two fol-
lowing particulars of it; first, consecrated
culture, aud secondly, consecrsted wealth,
for in much true work of this church both
of these have gone together. And we may
fairly presume that there will always be
gathered in this congregation enough of the
former, consecrated wealth which by gift or
beuuest may be left to this church. Endow-
ments of churches for the poor purpose of
enabling particular congregation to exc
out religious livelihood, are gener-
ally considered to. be doubtful
boon; but endowments of a
of church for the purpose of helping the
living membership of it to do larger,
every way more effective work than the
living generation with it's own means can or
will do, are very different endowments; and
the use made by some churches OF such
funds shows how through them the piety OF
the fathers may not simply linger for q
while, and fade as fragrant memory. IN
church, but continue as a working power
from generation to generation. If this mat
ter had been more thought of fifty years ago,
and this church had now an endowment of
two hundred or more thousand dollars for
additional personal services, worship, work,
ministry of all practical kinds, and degrees
any where throughout the city, it would
help us to better solution of some social
problems, and would enable US more than We
can now do, to make the church of God q
witness of the Holy Ghost in the power of an
enlightened humanity among all the people
devoutly hope that your successors, and
mine, fifty years hence will find that be-
tween now and then the word of the Lord
has come to many, saying some very prac-
teal things in this matter.
And now let us not miss the word of the
Lord for each of us-a word of the eternal
in the midsb of time; word of Jesus di-
vine certainty at the heart of our human
doubt; word of Christian decision and
duty ringing through all our hesitations and
derials word of the spirit of comfort in
the loneliness of sorrow; word for young
and old, and for the little children, word
of the Lord which with openness of mind
and laGa blsness of heart IS a little child the
church and the ministry should hear and do.
Other and strange words men are speaking,
which our fathers knew not of; shadowy
fears haunt our civilization and hungry
wants of men are striving for the mastery;
portentous forms lower on the dark horizons
of an industrial civilization, and anarchic
powers, like volcanic forces, seem at times to
make the old order trsmble. The mystery
of in:quity still worksth, and within it are
heard 1ear's alarms, and sins awful despair,
and deaths dread voice, and the. wailing as
of lost souls. Yet through all the mystery,
clear and high in it's note of joy, deeper,
stronger than all woes, Gods eternal under-
tone of love sounding through the whole
creation, is the Gospel of the Christ. And I
beheld and saw another angel fly in the
midst of heaven having the everlasting Cos
pei to preach unto them that
dwell OH the earth and to every
nation, and kindred and tongue and people,
saying, Fear God and give glory to him for
the hour of his judgment is come, and
worship him that made heaven and earth and
the sea and the fountains of waters. I am
the first and the last, the beginning and the
end ,ebehold give of the water of life freely,
and WhosoeYer will let him come. =