The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-10-14
NEwHAvEN MORNING

come, toll on until that freedom comes in the new emancipation" based on intelligent worth and character which after all should be the end of all liv- ing?
 Out Of the dead and dark past we must under God evolve living and glorious future,
 We cannot do this without fully rec ogniaing the hand of "omnipotence" which hath brought for us, In view of which we should to-day say, "The Lord hath done great things for us, whereof we are glad" ....
 In conclusion let me say, my dear brethren, that one of our greatest dam gers Is that of forgetting God, and what He has and is daily doing for us--in loading us down with innumer- able blessings Let us not forget Him in our home and around our family altars Let us not forget to bring our children up in His fear, and though our own Godly lives lead them to Christ. If you believe in God and His church serve Him because yoN 4ove Him. Sup port the church because it was pur- chased with His most precious blood. When your children discover in you that sincerity that is always in the child's mind distinguishab from hy- pocrlsy it will be an easy matter for you to bring them up in the way they should go, for "an ounce of practice is always worth a ton of precept." Ours is the fourth Congregational Ecclesiastical organization in this stronghold of Congregationalism and culture. Uet our standard of Christian living be high and our model-Chrlst.) Let us keep abreast with the times and keep up with the band. The password from heaven to us to-day is, "Let your light so shine before tne world that men may see your good works and glcri- fy your father, which is in heaven" It is through our lives, after all, that we make an impression on the world. This is a practical age, and churches must live and bless men, not through their elaborated creeds, bus through their living, ChristIy deeds.
 | In the afternoon at o'clock Rev. | c. Meserve of the Davenport Congre- | gation of the Dixwell avenue Congre- gational church, speaking from the text Acts 1877: And He departed thence and entered into certain mans house named Justus, one that worshippe6 God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.
 MT. Meserve said in the course of his remarks that the church is not only . conservative force, but is a progressive one. There is no progress in Centra Asia because there is no Christianity there. The church is a witness to Gods
 revelation. Those who believe in Goo | can interpret nature better than those who do not believe in Him, and to tho
 uneducated Cody man the revelations
 of nature are more potent than to tho ungodly scientist The idea that mar Is 8 creature of heredity and circum
 stances is a false one. The Mosaic teaching is an ethical one and tn
 teaching of Christ is righteousness ant
 salvation, and also the~ revelation o God in the scriptures. The Bible is al earthen jug which contains the wate of life; is the language of God moldet into divine song. Christianity does not
 however, live in the book, but in tn
 church by the holy spirit. Let the Bi
 ble be our bread and wine. It only ha
 it's power as it lives in Christian people
 The house of Justus was not probabl,
 built close to the synagogue in the lit
 eral sense, but the expression mean that Justus lived and came as close t
 Christ as possible. This is the sort 9
 a house for all to enter who wish, a
 Peter did, to have the Lord know tha they truly love Him.