Year: 1874

Increasing Attendance at the Services


Evening Sermons Resumed-Sickness


OF Mrs. .Beecher-Dr. Robinson on Gods


Care for Man.


Plymouth church vacation congregations ap-
pear to be on the increase, and continue to sur
pass In number any previous vacation time.
Encouraged by this fact Assistant Pastor Halliday
announced yesterday morning, that evening
services would be resumed, and the nrst was
held last night During the prayer that lmmedi-
ately precedes the sermon some little excitement
was Occasioned by the sudden ndsposition OF
Mrs. Beecher, who was seized, while
sitting in the pastors pew, with q
violent palptatlon OF the heart, to which
she Is occasionally subject She was obliged
to be carried out, and, after sitting few minutes
in the lobby, sufficiently recovered to be taken
home in q carriage. There was quite perceptl-
BILE jubtance on the part OF the regular congrega-
tion as they left the church after the service and
hearty and mutual congratulations on the result
OF Friday nights meeting were heard on every
side.


DR.. Robinson preached from the words con-
tanned IN the eleventh and twelfth verses OF the
eagle stlrreth up her nest, nuttereth over her
young spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them,
beareth them on her wings 80 the Lord alone did
lead them, and there was no strange God with
Him" Ibis chosen band Of people, said the



till at last they turned rom their true God and set
up gods and idols OF their own and by their aDom.
lnalions provoked the true God to anger SO he
stirred up their pest by sending Pharaoh, an IDOL
atrous and exactng King, to reign over them, who
exercised sucn deprlvatiOns and tyranny that in
time restored them TO their senses and fitted them
to enter the promised land. God uses the domes-
tic life OF the bird TO teach us. There s much simi
larity between the home lie far up IN the noun
tain eyre, where the wild, strong bird mother
plays with and suckles her young and that Of
human families. There is the same petting, frock-
ing and love behind the strong barriers o! home.
But the eaglets must not always stay il their
they must go onwards and upwards toward
the heavens, and the mother sttrs up
her mes. ana sends them out to ny,
first from crag TO crag then gaining strength they
go further and leave their nome behind; but the
eagle mother still watches and cares for them and,
seeing them tire and begin to fall she instantly
dives beneath them and lifts them and bears them
on her wings TO rest We see in this sme the
awakening the conviction OF sin and the renewal
stirred them up in their home In Goshen, and
caused them 70 begin again to turn their hearts
to Him. God sometimes awakens men who are
living an easy and luxurious .ife and makes them
dissatisfied with their former career. Sometimes
1t s by Sickness at other times, especially IN
youth vergng on toward manhood, subtle lnf1u-
ence or CONSCIOUSNESS OF individuality, when
the youth first finds himself. This voice
OF God should not lightly be disregarded. 1t Is
not enough to say 81 viii arise and go to my
Father;" they must arise and go. HOW many say,
in substance, "How many servants OF my Father
have enough, and to spare. and ! starve with
hunger" and yet they will not arouse themselves
and 60 to their Father. This starting out Tor God
is great step to take. Can expect to be helped
by many one swaying between the desire aud
the reality. The picture of the eagle mother, hov-
ering over, caring Tor, and bearing her eaglets
upwards and onwards, until tney are able to beat
the upper air alone seems to come In here as a
promise OF help from our heavenly Father. when
we have once started on the right way.