News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1895-08-01
sunday at the churches.

Much cooler and more comfortable
than the week before, last Sunday
brought to the three village churches
quite full attendances and congre-
cations that could take benefit to
themselves to larger degree than
was possible in the heat of the Sun
day previous.
Rev. Mr.. Sharman, of the Metho-
dist church in Gilmore, occupied the
desk in the Puffer NJ. E. church in
exchange with the pastor. The text
of his morning sermon was found in
the Both verse of the 10Th chapter of
Exodus, relative to the forty years
of subsistence upon mamma by the
children of Israel. The speaker
thought the careful study of the ex-
periences of that peculiar people
would be helpful. They were found
in cruel bondage, and Moses was des-
tined to be their deliverer. In the
present life every man, woman and
child is found in the bondage of sin,
but there is presented a Great De-
liverer in the person of Christ, who
came to redeem the world. We all
might have more Of the blessings of
life, if we had more thankful heart
and less of the grumbling tendencies.
The children of Israel, on their long
journey, became dissatisfied with the
way God was leading them, and to
Moses, their leader, under God, they
complained. So with many in these
days who become tired of Gods best
way and think for a moment that
they would go back to the bondage
from which they have been set free.
There is something wrong with US
when we feel this way. 1t is not the
spirit and working of true religion.
The people of the text gathered the
mamma every day and we, in spirit
ual sense, are given the same privi-
lege. Many of us, like the children of
Israel, murmur at our condition,
finding fault with our own work and
position and results in life. Many of
US are better at that than at work.
There is more dissatisfaction than
love in our action. They might have
entered the promised land long before
had it not been for this grumbling
and discomfort, and there are many
of us in the world of to-day that are
being aimlessly led about by dis
contented purpose and selfish, I'M
happy heart. God does not place
upon us a burden willingly, it comes
as a result of our own action, or lack
of action. Some of us can not only
do our own grumbling very readily,
but also do that of others. How
short sighted we are, let us not take
copy of these people of Israel, but go
ready and willingly to the Lord and
accept the mama He can give. Let
US have confidence in our Leader who
can lead us safely through the wilder
ness of sin, who never will forsake US,
but will see US faithfully through
with this life and to the life beyond.
Let us make right, clear start for
that end, having once repented of
our sins, let us link hands with better
things and not look back, forsake
the evil, clean our hearts of the old
impurities and make life that which
is possible. Let us not only look to
the future, but live for it, setting our
faces toward the city not made with
hands. 1t is a sorry fact to-day that
so many are living without the plain
unvarnished truth of a possible re-
demptiOn. Two million five hundred
thousand of the children of Israel left
the bondage of Egypt for the
promised land, and only q remnant
reached the goal. Can we be satisfied
to have it so with US and our friends
in these days? Let us all start from
the wilderness of sin, journey on the
Kings highway leading to that very
place whereof Christ spoke, saying,
~ 60 to prepare a place for you,"
that place where sorrow never comes
our inheritance forever. Rev. Mr..
Wallace returned and occupied his
pulpit in the evening.
At the Congregational church the
morning and evening sermons we're
by Rev. Edwin Sinclair of Dewitt,
Iowa, who presented interesting dis
courses. Mr.. Sinclair will be remem-
bered as q former student at our
Academy, from which he graduated
in the class of 80. He visits Morris
vile in connection with a trip east to
attend the Christian Endeavor Con-
vention at Boston and has been a
guest at W. S. Cheney's.
Rev. DR.. Booth spoke in the Uni
versalist church as usual-Sunday
morning and the evening services
were as usual.
The Coming UniversaIist Convention.
Arrangements are we'll in hand for
the annual Universalist Convention
of Vermont and Province of Quebec,
which opens here Tuesday evening,
August 81, holding through Wednes-
day and Thursday, August % and
20. A fine program has been pre-
pared, which we will publish in full
the week previous to the convention,
instead of at present, SO that it may
be fresh in the minds of those who
may be interested. 1t will mean a
lively time for Morrisville, for three
or four days in late summer, that
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