The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-11

Saviour, cannot have as fuii anu coih- prehensiye a meaning as il has In the mouth Of the unjust steward, Now one of theImeanings Of the "dekomhf ID to welcome, and Webster defines the Verp welcome, to salute with kindness as new conner. And therefore IL seems 10 me that the meaning of the text under consideration may be expressed py paraphrase somewhat in this manner Make in yourselves friends by heahs of the mammon of unrighteoushess' they shall have nothing to do, as the cause of your entering the eVerlastihs habitations; 1t will be neither theF right nor power to bring you lhto them; but they may welcome you ihto them, just as you may be welcomed to a feast by friends in which pleasures you would participate. and who are then before you as guests. expecting your ar' rival and have no more rishts anu privileges than you will have. none or the rights and privileges Of the siVer of the feast except such as they have by hls permission. He will receive you In the sense of admitting you ana they will welcome you Money is one or the talents. one of the many posses sions which the world has, and which you may use as an instrument, a means of grace and salvation, and which IT rightly used will make friends for you, who will assist you by their prayers here and perhaps hereafter. and who will be among them that snail welcome you as you enter tne everlasting tabernacles. Earthly riches then are not to be despised, as some of you may think: they are not to be valued for their own intrinsic worth; valued are not to be used for temporal purposes alone: and they.tare not to be used with the thought that they will purchase friends, who by their in- fiuence, shall gain admission for you into the home not made with hands eternal in the heavens.
 No meaning can be rightly given 10 the text that is antagonistic to the general teaching of New Testament scriptures. And that teaching ls' that whoever and whatever may be instru- mental in Gods hands in efecung our relations. Christ alone has the Keys or heaven; through Him, His atoning sac rifice and prevailing intercession, and not through anything else, can we ever hope to enter the everlasting taoer- nacles.
 The text for the exegesis at the next conyocation was decided upon as fol- lows: And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own nap itation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judg- ment of the great day."-Jude l., 6. The time and place of the next convocation was left in the hands of a committee.
 Supper was served at Mrs. Pecks. At the evening meeting the topic for dis cussion was "The Churchman at Home, in His Parish, in the Town" Addresses on this subject were made by Rev. MT.
 Brown of Trinity church, Branford; Rev. MT. Dean of St. Johns church, North Guilford, and Rev. Beverly E. Warner, rector of Trinity church, New Orleans, La.
 The following clergymen were pres ent: Rev. MT. Tragitt of Ansonia, Rev. MT. Bury of East Haven, Rev. MT.
 Brown of Trinity churth,, Branford,
 Rev. Dr. Andrews of Guilford, Rev. MT. l Dean of North Guilford, Rev. MT. Sex ton of Cheshire, Rev. Mir. Scoville, as- sistant rector of Trinity church, New
 Haven, Rev. MT. Lines, rector of St Paurs church, New Haven, Rev. MT Wildman of Wallingford, Rev. MT
 Hutchinson, rector of St. Peters church
 Milford, Rev. Mr. Morris of Oxford, Rev
 Dr. Anderson, pastor of the First Con. | gregational church, Waterbury,.