Year: 1872

the moment, they murmur. Yet as a rule the com
mander is be right And so it is in the relation
Of pastor and people The wisest pastor may make
occasional mistakes. Yet as rule, he is sure to be
right. More unbiased than others, taking broader
view of the field every way, better acquainted with
the letter and spirit of the Word and let say, with
poor human or is the pastors very business
to take out the old corrupt springs of human action,
and put in the new and the true he is competent to
give reasonable, and righteous decision many
vexed questions.


Now, the years roll on, and intimate friendship
with your pastor reveals that you do not think alike
on all Subjects yet learn to defer to his Judgment
careful and conscientious in the important decisions he
must make, and the weighty responsibilities he must
take, in the course of extended pastorate among
you. l charge you trust your pastor if you would
honor, and obey him in the Lord.


| And in the 4th place, l charge you sympahize ,ch
him as man Of like passions with yourselves. The
gospel treasure is in earthen vessels Care tenderly
for the temporal comfort and happiness of your minis
ter. There is text in the IXth chapter of lst Cor
inthans, which you will hear discourse from
your good PASTOR butft is my duty tonght to remind
you that is in the inspired Word of God is this



preach the gospel, should Hye of the gospel" And
there are other passages like unto it.


| But when you have promptly discharged your mon
etary obligations to your pastor, and devised liberal
things toward his comfort beside, you to let your
willing hearts sympathize with him yet further by re-
membering that God has given him, and his family a
social nature. They occupy toward you neighborly
well ecclesiastical relation. You will in every
way make them feel that they are at home among
warm hearted personal friends


| And you will sympathize too, with your pastor in
his pulpit services, forsakng not the assembling of
yourselves together You will not chill the fervor of
his heart by voluntary absence from any meeting at
which you expect him to be present


| You will lack in vital sympathy with your minister
if you fail to be in the Spirit the Lords day: if
you heart be not like some grand church organ filled
with the breath of the Spirit and ready at the touch
of the keys respond in harmony with the mightest
themes of eternal truth and present duty that centre
in Jesus crucfed


And you will fail to appreciate pastors feelings If
you fail to tell him when the truth he has preached
has proved as the dew of Hermon to your soul 1t is
like the breath of morning to the watcher for souls,
when any of his people come to him, and say My
heart was gladdened and purified, by the message you
brought US to day from God and his Christ" Oh the
pastors heart feeds angels food, when he knows
that his labors carrying the Divine blessing to the
souls of his people.


And in the 9Th place, charge you aid yo pastor IN,
his Labors of Tore Give thyself to the work When a
minister that his people the masters, and not
the servants of the forms of worship that they listen
to practise and teach convert and attend the
inc for prayer to Jesus and His Spirit it flashes
the light of eternity his pulpit, and fills his soul
with the joy of battle. He will preach for victory.
He will work in faith, and expect great results and
great results will come A working church makes a
working PASTOR and one that~yill lead his people to
| trump phant success.


| Then go work to-day, in the vineyard. Do anything
for Christ that you do in Join thyself to
this chariot; speak to that young man; tell the little
child of its Redeemer; invite friend to church well
come the stranger; visit the sick start the printed
gospel on it's mission: not till you have found
some one some where, who will hear from your lips
"the DID, old story of Jesus and his love-" Encourage
YOUR pastor by constant willingness, and planning, to
do real gospel work. and he will thank God, day and
night that he was called this pulpit, and to this
people.


But 6thly and finally: do most solemnly charge
you pray for your pastor. Language fails me to
press the infinite importance of this duty. 1t compre
hends all ese and without it all else is nothing. With
out it, the pastoral relation is solemn mockery and
an awful failure.


Nv friends, when the Lord Jesus left the earth He
made provision for carrying His great work He
had begun it by tie Dvime poaoer corkog through hu-
man nature. He endued His disciples with power from
on high, and they preached in demonstration of the
Spirit And this day the minister of the gospel is
required to do work totally unlike any other work
on earth Your pastor called here to work miracles
of grace among YOU to regenerate whom mere
human power cannot reach; to transform the proud
skeptic into humble believer; awaken and convert
souls that are spiritually dead You expect him call


the dead life, heal the ncurable leper, out
the devils of life long sin. He must the dumt
speak the praises of Jesus the deaf to hear the
voice of the Son of God, and the blind to see the
beauty of Immanue And will you require him
to do these works of God by mere human power? II
is impossible mot by might, nor by power, but by
Ny Spirit" saith the Lord of hosts. The sermon will
be powerless the lecture of the nfde if the Spirit
God do not wing its arrows to the mark.


But what shall the power of the Holy Ghost to
speak in your pastors words and brood in benedction
DER all his influence? What shall bring down the Holy
Spirit upon his newly constituted office? will tell
you brethren. Your prayers, yoe prayers alone. Pray
for him in the sanctuary and at home; by the waysde
and the reside in secret and at family devotions and
at the public meeting. Pray for him while he is pre-
pairing sermons, and while he is preaching sermons
7 Pray for him while others join with YOU and pray fo
him when others careless and cold.