The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-08-19

ton and redemption, built upon the foundation of apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief
 cornerstone" These foundations are unalterable, but he has kept up the sue cession of Surveyors" and loans" in
 the perpetual Christian ministry, and his helping grace in the church, and the walls are being constantly extended into all parts of the earth. The world is being "terraced' for Christ, The storms of opposition and the battering- rams of persecution have assailed these walls through all ages, but the only damage has been to the battering rams. These walls, like those of some of the great prehistoric terraces, were built for all ages, and will stand until the last angels trump shall split this plan ct.
 SECONDLY CAME THE TELLING IN'' OF THE TERRACE
 with earth behind the wall. This came partly from the trench cut for the next wall, higher up the slope, but mainly from earth brought from wherever 1t could be found and spared. It was a very different work from the scientific wall building It was done by the whole family, by everybody-man and beast, men, women, children and don- keys, all at 1t, at every opportunity,
 generation after generation, as the Wall-building went on by installments. his represented the work of the laity the whole church. old or young, learned or unlearned, in filling in the living church, bringing all the people to church, to Sunday school to Christ
 There was work here for all grades of talent. People of humble gifts, but consecrated toilers were worth more here than smarter but unconsecrated souls. The Lord preferred a patient, toiling, useful donkey to high-step- ping but balky horse any day, and so does His church.
 THIRD CAME THE PLANTING OF
 THE TERRACE.
 As every one hundred feet ascent in altitude represents difference of tenn perature equal to one degree of latitude, terrace hill one thousand feet high would represent the climates of seven hundred statue miles of latitude. Hence the great variety of agriculture
 on the terraced hill greater than any where else. So with Christ's terrace culture. It embraces all branches of the true church, and all the vast sys- tenn of work carried on by the church. religious literary, educational, charita-
 ble, missionary, young people, Sunday school, everything, the vastest, noblest, richest, most useful and beneficial work done under the sun--the fruit thereof"
 shaking like Lebanon" with all his cake and cedars waving under the sum- mer wind and the summer sun.
 BUT FOURTH THE WATERING OF
 THE TERRACE MUST
 be considered. It could not be watered from the rivers, by wheels or shadoafs like the plains below, and the rains in
 those countries are unreliable, and of ten fail entirely. Yet if not well and
 surely watered all the outlay of capital, skill and toll were utterly in vain. No
 wise government ever makes such a foolish investment as that would be, nor has Christ done so in his Kingdom. The water works to irrigate the terrace were a part of the original plan. A higher lake or mountain spring was led by aqueducts to a reservoir on the top of the hill, and from thence allowed to flow down as needed, watering the NuOle SySICill OL ISlIdCSS IIOIu up lO bottom, age after age, producing the richest and most ineXhaustible fertility known in the world. So the Holy Spir- it was given to water the church. Christ, the master of the whole work, with His own hand turned the great gate and opened the great water main on the day of Pentecost and let the
 mighty flood of joy and power leap upon the church. There have been countless Pentecosts since then. They are bursting forth all the while, irriga- ting, regenerating, sanctifying souls and nations. The toll and irrigation are filling the world with harvests Christ wants no drouth of dead for | malism; no swampy marshes of mias-
 matic fanaticism, but sound, whole some, copious, edifying, sanctifying un- ion of work and watering Our first work at this camp meeting should be to get all the clogged and rubbish stopped pipes and dead ends all flushed" clean from all worldly sediment, get our meters to show full pressure, get the whole church and congregation this whole terrace of Plainville camp meeting flushed" irrigated, baptized with the Holy Spirit, made fresh, pure, fruitful for Christ. Let us all pray for it, and pray that from this camp ground, as from both a receiving and a
 distributing reservoir the fertilzing streams of spiritual irrigation may flow all over New Haven district, into every church and soul, watering the whole. until this years ''crop' of revivaIs, con- versions and edification of believers shall "shake like' "Bashan" with all his
 oaks and 'ebanon' with all his cedars
 A short prayer and praise service fol- lowed the sermon.
 The exercises to have been held at the dedication of the new West Haven cot tage on Wednesday at o'clock were postponed until yesterday at the same hour because of the storm. This sero vice was in charge of Rev. A. V. R. Ab- bolt, superanuated minister. who re- sides in West Haven. The interior of the cottage was filled and there were many who were unable to gain adn1is- sion. After short praise service Rev. Mir Abbott made a few appropriate re- marks and was followed by Elder c. T. North With the assistance of the el der about $40 was raised toward the sum necessary to pay the debt on the cot tage. It is now about half paid for.
 The Epworth League meeting was in charge of Rev. A. A. Clark of GuiIford Rev. MT. Clark is an enthusiastic l.;