The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-11-09
REF. DR. SMITHS
Discourse at Center Church.

The Rev. Newman Smyth in Center church based his remarks on the fol- lowing text: Therefore do I remem- Der thee from the land of Jordan, and the Hermons from the hill Mizar''- Psa. xiii, 6, as applying to the recent election.
 Dr. Smyth said in part: Tt is happy thing to do, to be able to hallow the commonplace with ones religious faith. It was a spiritual achievement for an Israel to remember God from Mizar. If the psalmist was able to keep his sense of the divine presence, even when he was an exile from Mt Zion, much more should be able to hold all situa- tfons sacred as we have been taught by our Master that not in this noun tain nor in Jerusalem is God to be worshipped, but everywhere the true worshippers shall worship Him in spirit and in truth.
 Some one remarked to me last week that he could hope for the country be- cause he believed in God. I deem it timely, therefore, this morning to re- mind you that not only should we be- lieve in God on great occasions, or rise to moral enthusiasms in supreme eXaltations of patriotism, but that in our ordinary course of conduct and amid uninteresting situations Of duty, we should cherish the same high devo- ton of duty, remembering our God from the land of Jordan and the Her mons. and Mizar, the little hill
 For, are we not too apt to feel a certain reaction from great efforts, or after the moral passion of a whole peo- pie has been profoundly stirred in some great outburst of patriotism; and in this natural reaction to regard the or dinary affairs to which we must turn again as devoid of interest or opportu- | nifty?
 ''On the contrary, from our great ex- periences and our most exalted enthu- siasms, we should take our new conse- cration and fresher hopefulness of | heart to our smaller situations and our regular duties It is a poor religion which should fail to hallow life's com monplace.
 "Our present state of mind with re- | gard to our country suggests this re- f1ection, and will furnish an illustra- i tion of it to begin with. For have we not just passed through a great revival 1 of patriotism, and added another histo- ric day to our country's destiny? But our patriotism should be not merely an 1 occasional grand devotion; it should be l also an abiding conservation of a peo- ple's common life. From all the little hills of our lesser opportunities of civ | ic life, we should remember our fathers 1 God We do not rightly keep the lesson | of any great day of patriotism, if we al l low it's stir and movement to pass from us as an excitement of the hour, or even if we should cherish it as a day to | be long remembered in after years; rather we should take over from our great days a devotion stronger and | purer for our common days of faithful | loyalty; the inspiration of the rare and | exalted moment should remain to hal low the commonplace; the power of a
 people aroused to meet some signal
 emergency should abide afterwards as a constant influence of righteousness
 and truth throughout the land. These are men of light and leading, success 1 full business men and also trained scholars, who remember their country
 occasionally, wher all the tribes may 1 be called to go up to Jerusalem, and | they then mingle with the people and
 march with the host; but Israel's true
 patriot of old never forgot Jerusalem | and from the land of Jordan and the
 little hill Mizar he remembered his peo- ples' God Business men, scholars, men of intelligence and knowledge, men possessed with any means of influence l need not only on grand occasions, but at all times, to be patriots. Only thus 1 may disastrous crises be avoided, and | the future time may bring upon us nc worse evil. The men of this congrega- | ton, without exception, so far as l am aware, have faithfully remembered 1 their fathers God in what they regard | ed as a national crisis; permit me to | offer. this morning, the pertinent sug- 1 sestion that you need to remember as l well the God of our New England his | tory from the little hills, and amid the fiat situations of a caucus, a town meeting, or a city election.
 ATDWIGHT PLACE CHURCH. | Rev Dr Twitchell on "The Nations Dues. 1 tioas tha NafIopBS ADswer