The Newtown bee., 1907-09-27

Brown. Louise E. Hartwig, Jessie s. l.. Whitlock.
 The sermon of the morning was de- livered by Rev Samuel Hart, D. D. He said in part.
 Text. II Cor. l. l-g. Therefore seeing we have ths ministry, us WI have received mcr- ~. we faint not: By manifestation of the truth commenting ourselves to every mans conscience in he sight of God"
 l. Thus wrote St Paul, in the Epis- tie which we read yesterday in the service of St Matthew's day. And as he wrote, he brought together on the one hand the grace, the responsibility, and the courage of himself and his fel- low-apostles and fellow-workers, and on the other hand the means. the meth cd, and the result of their discharge of duty which had been laid upon them. Their work of ministry was due to Gods grace, for the fact that they were entrusted with the ministry showed that they had received mercy {; it's very name of ministry. servants work, deaconship, showed that it was real labor and as such involved re- sponsibility, the courage that it both needed and inspired was declared in the assertion that those who held it did not faint or play the towards part. And again, we are assured that in the exercise of their ministry they were bringing the truth to the knowledge of men, that their method was that of ap- peal to conscience and by this St Paul meant mans power of experimenting and acknowledging God as He can be known and that they found that, as they thus revealed the truth and ap- pealed to mems consciousness of God they commended themselves, their message and their appeal, to all men.
 But we miss the full meaning of the words unless we turn back in thought to what St Paul has said in the chap ter preceding that from which yester- days Epistle and to-day's text have been read. There the Apostle laid stress on the glory of the Gospel, as an attribute belonging to its very na- ture, and therefore not only imperish- able but also ever increasing. The law indeed has brightness of its own, and the face of Moses shone when he came from the vision of God to bring the words of truth and duty to the people; but the law, as it was the law, was passing revelation, and the lawgiver yelled his face that the people might not see how, even while he spoke Gods word, the brightness was fading away. The Gospel and it is of its ministra- tion that the Apostle speaks in the whole passage-is a living thing and itself gives life; it therefore has the glory, the manifested excellence, of life; it is true thing and itself com municates the truth; it therefore has the glory, the manifested excellence, of truth. And because of this bright nss, necessary attribute of life and truth, they who minister are inspired with hope, the full assurance that the life and the truth will make them selves known and be recognized. And, says the apostle, because we have such hope, hope of the abiding and increas- ing glory of the Gospel, we who are it's ministers use great freedom and bold ness of speech. We do not veil our faces from fear that the transitory nature of our revelation may suggest unbelief in it; we do not hold back any truth from fear that it cannot prove itself to be from God when we have ceased to speak. Nay rather, for thus we read in the words which introduce the text, i've all, with unveiled face gazing on the mirrored glory of the Lord, find a change taking place in our inner selves to the same image, glory lead ing on to glory, even as from the very life of the Lord"
 John Beach came at an early age, and we may say naturally, even if he did not know it, under churchly infu- ences. He was born in Stratford; the pastor who encouraged his early stud ies was Dr Timothy Cutler and in his college course he was instructed by him and by Samuel Johnson, taking his degree in the year before they with two others made their famous declara- tion for Episcopacy. He was described as popular and insinuating young man, and when he had finished his pre- paratory studies, he was called to the pastorate of the Congregational socie- ty in this town, which had then been organized less than 10 years. To this place, then on the border of colonial settlements, came from time to time Dr Johnson, now clergyman of the Church of England and missionary to Stratford and all the outlying country. As he talked with MT Beach, the young pastor who had already gained the affections of his people, found that he could not remain content with his posi- tion. It was noticed after while that he was not satisfied with the answers which the children gave him from the Westminster catechism when he ques tioned them in it, and that he some times read whole chapters from the Bi- ble and repeated the Lords prayer while conducting public worship and even used other phrases which were said to be printed in the English Pray CT book; and at last he asked his con- gregation to permit him to cross the ocean that he might receive an anthor- ity to minister to them in sacred things which he lacked as yet and without which he did not dare to continue to act longer as their pastor and teacher.
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