Year: 1872


nize the Lord Jesus Christ in the stone. which, al
Grst despised by the builders. became at last
THE HEADsToNK or THE CORNER


Nor can we fail to join for ourselves In the glad re-
frain, "0h. give thanks unto the Lord for He ia
good, for His mercy endHreth forever"
Again alluding to the text, DR.. Taylor said:-"l
have not chosen this text merely for the purpose
OF bringing before you the history and associations
OF the psalm OF which it forms part. Rather
have taken 1t because OF its appropriateness to the
circumstances in which we stand ourselves. by
the good hand OF our God upon us we are per-
mitted this morning to enter into house OF wor-
ship remodelled and renovated. AS regards ex-
ternal comfort and all that goes TO make church
cheerful and attractive there seems little more
that we can desire, yet having respect to the great
end for which We exist as Chnrcn. bearing in
mind that all things about the building in which
we assemble are but as the


sCAFFOLDINa


Tor the erection OF another house which Is spiritual
anu eternal, and on which our noblest energies
must be ever concentrated is not this the earnest
utterance OF each heart among us, 80 Lord, be-
seech Thee, send now prosperity" That we may
make this prayer intelligcntly permit me to set
before you few thoughts on the nature and source
OF the prosperity OF a Christian church.


DR.. Taylor fully explained this question in beau
tiu and explicit language, showing that the pros
cation, but to be prosperous IT must be ''lying
church," adding. "we must have not merely the
appearance of life, but the reality, In unison with
the Lord, otherwise we can have no prosperity;
and there is no spectacle on this earth so sad
as that OF company Of individuals calling
themselves q church, and yet destitute OF that


VITAL HOLINESS


which Christ alone can confer.


Speaking OF liberality among members OF
church, Dr. Taylor said: :-"Yet we are very far
from having already attained or being already per-
the great problem we have now ON hand Is the
Christian giving of the money power among us,
and when have secured that 1t will be to us like
the dawning OF a new creation. 1t seems TO me
that in this matter we are all very much at fault
We give by impulse, and not in principle or by sys-
nuity: we wait till the cup runs over, and then we
give some OF the overflow to Christ, forgetting that
ii we are to offer sacrifice 1t must be OF that which
costs us something.


THE WIDOWS MITE


smallest coin thrown into the treasury but because
small as 1t was 1t was all that she could give: and
when we shall initiate her, not in the smalness of
too shall secure the approval Of the Lord"


DR.. Taylor in conclusion, aluding to prayer and
its results. said "sOme one says


OUR MODERN MAN OF SCIENCE


tells us that is of no to pray since God works
by fixed laws and He is not going to alter then Tor
by fixed laws but then he has so fixed them that he
can answer prayer through them. few days ago
engagement, and took the opportunity OF inspect
ing the water supply of the CITY, In small building
which goes day and night, pumping water out of
the river for the Inhabitants and which IS so ar
ranged that the demand OF the town acts as
governor the engine moving with greater or less
rapdity, according as the water Is taken on III
greater or larger measure. Then, when tire
engine room, and immediately the engineer gears
on some extra machinery, by which the mains are
charged to their fullest capacity, and such an
amount Of pressure Is brought to bear upon them
that, when the hose is attached to the hydrants,
the water Is sent to the top OF the Ottest buildings
I'm the place. AS looked upon the engine my first
thought was, this IS the very thing we need for
New York. With half a dozen such establishments
as this, three on the East River and three on the
North River, could almost infalltbly secure i'm
munity from that dreadful catastrophe which has
0vertaken


But my second thought was, here Is piece OF
mechanism put for the supply OF the ordinary
wants OF the community, yet so arranged that IN
an extraordinary emergency the cry OF the people
Tor help can be heard and answered through the
regular channel; ana II man can construct O fixed
engine through which he can thus answer prayer,
why should not God be able to do the same in the
vast machine which we call the Universe 2 Thus
illustration which refutes the scepticsm of scen-
tific men, and clears the way to every one for the
Offering of prayer. We may be sure that He who
planted in the human heart the instinct OF prayer,
and gave in His holy Word the promise that He
would answer prayer, can do for us according as
we ask. So II we wish true prosperity here let us
ring the prayer bell for II and He will respond. To
your knees, then, my people, to your knees, and be
this your supplicatiOn Awake, o north wind and
spices thereof may now out. Come from the four
winds, U breath of the Lord, and breathe upon us
that we may live! Lord, we bcseech Thee, send
now prosperity