The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-03-02
REV. A. ?. MILLER'S SERMON
HIS FAREWELL ADDRESS AT DIX
WE'LL ITENUE CHURCH.

HIS FAREWELL ADDRESS AT DIX
WE'LL 4TENUE CHURCH.
A Crowded House-The Last Sermon in His
Thirteen Years of ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Words at PARTING of His
First Sermon to the Church.
Rev. A. p. Miller preached his fare
well sermon at the Dixwell avenue Con-
gregational church last night. The
church was crowded, many being una
BILE to gain admission. Mr.. Miller spoke
from the text Acts 2O-32, And now,
brethren, commend you to God and to
the word Of His grace, which is able to
build you UP and to give you an inner
itance among all them that are sancti-
fed
Among other things Mr.. Miller said:
Just thirteen years ago to-day, in the
old Temple street church, was greeted
by splendid congregation on my re-
turn to New Haven to become your act
ing pastor, and my message to you
then were these significant words of
Paul. For as many as are led by the
spirit of God they are the children of
God Romans 8, H.
Il emphasized the Importance Of be-
ing led, kept upheld and sanotified by
the spirit Of God in order to be the
children Of God, and that il we expect
ed success in the work upon which we
We're then entering, the numerical, ma
terial and spiritual development of this
church and society, we must seek con-
tinually the guidance of His spirit, I'M
der whose lead we can never wander
from the path Of righteousness, duty,
life and peace, nor be put to confusion
by our enemies.
II am sure whatever success we have
achieved during these years, as they
have swept on, has come to us only in
SO far forth as we have put ourselves
under the tutelage of that spirit whose
province is to guide Gods children into
1all truth
He emphasized these facts and clear
ly demonstrated that all success de-
ponds on the aid of the spirit of God.
Continuing, he said:
Brethren, whatever you may forget
in my ministry here, remember this
own bosom all those elements out of
which heaven and hell are made.
eff you are true and loyal to God and
His word you cannot be false to your
self, your fellow men and Gods church.
''TIe who habitually walks with God,
harbors loving, charitable thoughts and
feelings, who loves God supremely and
his neighbor as himself cannot long be
miserable, no matter what his condi-
ton.
LAS he looks around upon the droop-.
ing, decaying beauties of nature and
the heavens which declare Gods glory
he can look into the face of his Heav-
emily Father, who appears to him, not
only in the realm of divine revelation,
but also in the domain of his own new
life in Jesus Christ and say, I know-I
don't guess-I know that all things
work together for good to them that
love God To such a man only thin
curtain intervenes between this and the
heavenly inheritance beyond the river,
which sooner or later each of us must
cross, one by one.
"I commend you to God and the word
of His grace, because it is able to build
you up, advance you in the divine life,
and when our earthly pilgrimage Is
ended give us that Inheritance, which
is ir1corruptible, indebted, and fadeth
not away.
IF we are to reach that land of pure
delight where saints immortal dwell,
we must remember that it is not our
hold upon God, but Gods mighty hold
upon us, that we need constantly to
dwell upon, and so have ever in mind
His character as the faithful promiser.
AS the poet has said:
Let me no more my comfort draw
From my frail hold of thee;
In this alone rejoice with awe
Thy mighty grasp of me.
Thy purpose of eternal good
Let me but surely know.
On this I'll lean, let changing mood
And feeling come and go.
Glad when thy sunshine fills my soul,
Nor lorn when clouds oercast
Since thou within thy sure control
OF love dost hold me fast
THUS holding on our course, when it
seems best to eternal love, the day of
struggle will draw to its close, and the
towers of the everlasting city will come
into view-the city within whose pre-
cincts intellectual error cannot pene-
trate, and where moral failure and all
sense of fear are unknown, Thanks be
to God who giveth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ
"Now, my dear brethren, sisters and
friends, must after thirteen years of
hard work among you, endeavoring to
serve you in every possible way I could
pointing you unto Him whose call to
salvation is as broad as humanity it.
self-'Come unto me all We ends of the
earth and he we saved'-turn my face
toward other fields. And l sincerely
trust that as 1 commend you to God and
the word of His grace, as His children,
whatever your crosses may be, or disap-
pointments. you may ever grow in the
grace and knowledge of our Lord and
Saviour Jesus Christ, who has prom