The Forrest City times., 1894-07-06
synopsls of b Sermon.


 sunday. This was probably ihe last time sle Episccpaliaas will occupy the Presby- sertan church, as their own handsome new building will be ready ior oecnpaaeF when tue Rector snail come again-a monument ,o tbe credit of the hardwork- ing little band, and to the glory of God.
 Rey. Eruce's text. "Glye an account of thy Stewardship" may be found in st. Luke, 10th chapter and 2d verse, and among other things he sa;d
 .,fn ihe preceding parable our Lord had set forth the exceeding love of God. and lis great e0ndeseens,on in recovering lost sinners b Hiuiseif. la the one which is the subject of our thoughts, our Lord evidently intended to guard His hearers from prcsuming on tie love and ineEeJ He had so eloqueutly portrayed The first point ln the parable is thg. glen are stew ards. Al, men are stewards of God. From Him they have received everything fhcy possess--llte. health, talonts--Vheth CT of mlnd CT body. and whatever they may have accumulated by the exercise Of these talents committed to them. AS Q general thing men are willing to admit that God is tha glver If life, ot health, of intellect. and strength of body, but seem fo dissent practically from the idea that they are accountable for their use. More. he regards the control and use of 1t as entirely in his own power aud aeco2nta- be 10 none for either tes gse or abuse. W hen God, by Lhe hand Of Moses, had delivered the children ot fsraei from tho bondage Of Egypt: ai6eng tho many di- recticns given them for their observance in the land of promise, was this very emphat- ic one---Gno We, as individuals and as people, would do well not merely to con sider but to ponder well and practice faithfully. Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God in not keeping His com naudnents. Lest when thou hast eat en and at full and hast built goodiy houses and dweit therein. aud thy herds and siocks multiply and thy silver aud thy god is multiplied and nll that thou hast Ia multiplied, and thou say sn thine heart, Aaty power and the might of mine hand hath gotten mo this wealth, But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God for IL Is lie that givesh thee power to get wealth" II Aateyer ae may do. whatever We may accomplish Is through the power we have received from liita, and are as conse- qusnee bound to render, sometime, an ae- count for them., IL cannot bo denied that so far as moral acts are concerned. men in general ure willing to acknowledge themselves stewards and therefore nc. c0antable. But how Ioany consider tic property they have accumulated as belonging 10 God and themselves as only stewards to invest nad lise same for Gods honor and gsory. What has been the his tory of every natioa irom the most an- finut times, but rise and growth from 0bsootity and poverty to one of greatness and financial prosperity followed by D gradual decline and then asaddeu fall and destruction. What have been the n.ieged Gaases ol tae faii in every iretGncc bat the pride and lHxury f0agcred by great riches and q deeline ili yiTtne and religion jn consequence of the seit indulgence aud snluptn0usaess. pe.sia, Babylon, Greece and Rome, whose reuown and glory d dlf- fpraiIt times filed the world, grew rich. iuAGrious nnd voluptUoas and fell, and had we the gift to look into the seerets Of the future We would doubtless iind the same caases producing the like effects in the not far distant future of faaay 0i the empres Of the present. day Our own among the number. Neither nation or church can violate the moral and spiTituai laws uf the Creator c: thp universe with impuDlty. gt tais fact we have abundant proof. Modern history teils us of Tho revolution un ter Grcmwell in ENglauG; of tlle snc- cer6iag one la me relgas Of James H.
 We haze alHO ihe awful history Ot the Freoea revolution and ;he ih,rty years of war ugder Bonararle, and to day the cry of distress is ascending uD from almost every qrafteV of the civiiized world sn,o tbe ears of the icra os heaven gnd easth against tho oppression ol tyranny. os wealth. cad unresisiRed political deIna- gogEisnl. Wars and Tuin0ys 0s va. aboard oa every hanc abroad aRd nt home; waste cf public property; VaatoD eXtGa7a- ganee. pecnlatioa snd fraud 70 ttls laan- aren,ellt and use of tbe wealth of the na- tion. disirtSt and sospision of aln,oas evnry nan towards his fellow Hsap; cliwa ct every kind. murder. suieide, robhesy. incest. adultery. f.atrieide aud tpoasana others eye daily published so tlle world in the news column cf the press, Nor ss lf on- ly as neop.c ns s nation that these things abornd unti, they have cume tO he 50 common tllat we scarcely no:o theiv 0n,a- bef and frequency or EsaiiZg tIe GegenesN. cy of the public morals ths.k Induces them or the hgn.oasness 0f the ct,mes theni- selves bofh in the eye 0t human morals and of God. Nations are yu8de up os sn- div'iua's and no nation eAn become co1- runt and dissoiute as whole untH sse iateg-ai parts cf Ii become dc,norali1ea
 But wien this has happened, and t may happen as history assuges us, when nate~ rial prosperity Is at its highest. thea tue snmmons will so forth. Give sn accogn. os thy Stewardship" Tbe sin Q! tle present day is the want of recognition on the par : of nations and lndiTiduais of the sapcr.n- tending providence Of God--that ue iS