The Blackpool Herald. — 1876-10-27 (Blackpool, Lancashire, England)

THE BISHOP OF M.Ailc THORWON On Sunday afternoon last a in Thornton Church on behalf church expenses whieh hael'be down a new floor and vatic The Rev. T. Meadows condi" the Bishop of Manchester was crowded to excess, seat, aisles and within the cony number from the adjacent t The following was the Mc "Therefore I will judge. everyone to his ways, sail} and turn yourselves from iniquity shall nut. be yo all your transgressions, greased; and make yet spirit: for why will psi I I have no pleasure ia tb esith the Lord4God:. wl live ye."—Ezekiel,. verses. After afe introdw :.tory remarks In which his va lordship tried to ' .ess upon his hearers the fact im that the gospel'2°46? be found in the old testament as well as in tha [kr , and for an example he only needed to Teft"'toh is text. He afterwards went on to say the people ir the time of Ezekiel murmured as men were aiway s murmuring about God's simple ways. They mnr muted against God's commandment, the oh el: ildren should bear the iniquity of .hough there was something unjust 3 no doubt about the truth of thit In heiitrt fathers, Thereiltt h w a commamkoent f or children did bear the iniquity or sins of their f„_st' aers—God did visit the sins of the fathers oPon .t 3 children, and the fourth commandment was just as true now as it was when first as written on the pages of the old as wllteteureawlitheltp: .ges of the new testament that the soul I that sinned e honld die, and who was there that had not sinned— not once or twice but day after day-sins of wit dness, sins which they had done knowing at tit' a time that they were Bins; and yet the./ hated them not. Take the common sin of drunkenness. He wondered whether there was listening to him any man or Ng 'man that had been drunk. That was a sin whin! a the bible said would keep thorn out of heaven. At the fifth chapter of Galatians and at the 19t1 i verse he sound, "the works of the flesh are mar sifest, whick, are these : adultery, fornication, I 'melee: aness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, -variance,, emulations, wrath, strife, sedi. Conn, heresiee, envyings, murders, drunkenness, ravelinge, and EIT Leh like." It stated that such as those wanild del' ,ar a man or woman from heaven. They would fin d the same thing mentioned again In St. Peril's first epistle to the Corinthians at the sixth chakten. So they would see that there could be no doubt 'about it, and hearing all this it was enough to ake one tremble in one's shoes. But if the winked man turn from his sins he shall surely live, wad b e shall not die. In his righteousness that he dr,eth he shall live. This then was the gospel Ezekiel, the promise of forgiveness to repenter it sinners. Still they went on in their easily besetting sins, and thought that he would not out them off all at once, but that he will surely give them a week or a month's warning sathet they might be able to get their friends round them to ask if all was well and get an answer to the effect that all was well. They sent for the minister, and they prayed that if God would only spare them what different lives they would lead. Well perhaps they had been ill before and sent for thenunister before, but as soon as they got better they forgot all about their promises and went on in their old ways. God might grant their request a sr,cond time, but were they really changed, were tneir lives a great deal different to what they el-4re before. Could they really, being honest win God and with the world say that they were really changed creatures. God knew whether they were sincere and they them. eaves /r_aew whether they were sincere. They.