The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1893-04-24

OF business; (b1 The Sunday newspaper;
To- Sunday amusements; (d) legislatures;
GU courts.
Ill. The causes: (a) foreign immigra-
ton; (b) demand for amusements; (c)
haste to become rich; (e) loose ideas OF
moral and religious obligation; (f) con-
sidering laws of the state a bill OF fare
from which to take what you like.
Ill. The remedy: not a return to Ju.
daistic and pbarasaic, perfunctory pune
~tilliousness, or Puritanical austerity
But the remedy is with, GAY the church;
(b) the Sunday school; (c) the religious
press; GU corporations controlled by
christian men and women; (g)t the family;
(h) the indiviual.
How shall I keep the Sabbath? The
scriptures says, keep it holy" "Do not
work" Remember it" "Rest," "Do not
your w pleasure or think thine own
thoughts" Use it's hours for worship,
public ard private, for meditation, prayer,
praise, alteration, works Of mercy. Let
the day be a white day, and let not the
rude hand of selfish greed, a~varice, am
bition draw it's blessings away lest it take
with it all else that is valuable.
PRESBYTERIAN cHuRc
Theme: 'The spirit in the wheels, or
God In his church.
Text: 1.-THE spirit OF the living crea-
ture was in the wheels"
The first chapter OF Ezekiel gives an
account of a remarkable and most in
structive vision beheld by this prophet.
Notice, a few Introductory thoughts.
/. The whole bible is designed to
give us a vision of God. The bible re.
veals, uncovers the character and pur.
posesof Deity. Above all it makes known
his great love for sinful men and his
purpose to a v all who believe in and
obey his son, Jesus Christ.
2. Who may have visions of God!
The pure in heart shall see God" An
astronomer was preparing to gaze at the
heavens through his telescope. One
look revealed what seemed to be living
beings on the surface of the moon. Ano
he was en%raptured by the thought thai
he had made a great scientific discovery
But on examining one OF his lenses he
found it covered with dust and insects
which, when magnitied, looked like ami
Il ~ aIc anl p,ap naNrinn IN tina 49,
Likewise the dust of sin obscures oul
vision of God, binders US from seeing
him as he is. In proportion as the
conscience is clean, and the heart pur,
will we see and know God as he reall,
is, a God having iniquity but mercifu
to the p~enitent and believing.
8. Note the circumstances of Ezekiel'
vision. He and his friends were in cap
tivity in a foreign land. Their owl
country had been desolated by an in
vading army. Jerusalem, their believe,
home, had been besieged and capture,
and Its inhabitants carried away prison
ors.. We may imagine their distress an
Esorrow as they mourned the ruin 9
their country and longed to return an
rebuild the city of their fathers. TIL
vision recorded in Ezekiel / was give
to them to cheer their hearts and assur
them that their God still reigned il
heaven and on earth and was over
ruling all events for their good. Let u
learn the lesson that it is in our time
of greatest trouble that God reveal
himself to us az strong to deliver, a
one who loves us tenderly and override
all events for our profit. "As nigh
brings out the stars so sorrow brings on
truth"
Badness Is often preceded or accom-
panied by grayness of the hair. To pre-
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