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Dosi,; Hawkins k Dreher, Editors. OVI LORO. OVI FAITH, OIE BAPTISH’-EPHESIANS IV: 6. CHARLESTON. 8. C, ■aTjpga — ( Kow, viewing the Uv from this (KMIlt, tlx jmwamptKMl m IMMMtW* Um( the Law was given to th* U for Ike mm* psrpuoe m that for which it >m mmU koowu, k» whatever w^y, to Ike patriarekal worth We who ked preoadsd the Whatever than a^y ha Ifoo formal aed af waking a |deoe look pretty and comfortable with Ike meanest Material*. Let tbeiu exercise thia gift, not only for their own sake, but for other*. Let theM pet their there. It ie t became sort of With a* that which at the drat gave you the forgiven*** of das and made yon a child of God. So toflg a* the Christian is in Christ be win walk by frith, speak by frith, live by frith, do everything by frith; and what soever is done by frith is done to the glory of God. “Without frith it is impossible to please Him.” To abide in Christ is tsnly to choose the bettor portion. While we abide in Christy it matters not whether we in which the Law wae raelitee was wondarfol. jWtstty within a year three mir piked keen wrought in the sight 4 Mow* to prepare him for his gp* to Egypt; three had been yrMfktby him in the presence of adders ot Israel to convince them p the God of their fotben had fifths to be their deliverer, and m badbeen wrought in the sight gfksrseh to eonvinee him that jfenrak, the Ged of the Hebrews, p wet His smbossador with the hamd: “Let my people go, that of the comfort within. Lot them giro a look of borne to the bare room where the sick ooe lies in poverty, by a few touches of their deft Angers, and a few gifts from their overflow Lag treasury. It will ws* given to the Israelites so • covenant of works for life. The groaad on which their obedience wm* always claimed was, that Jeho vah, this (lo4, had hreoght thorn ont af the land of Egypt, oat of the wo can only bo with Jeans. He who has the spirit of Jems in his heart can afford to ho charitable to ai| things. There are members in every church whose constitutional weak ness seems to be that of jconttonal fault finding; nothing pleases them; the preacher either talks too load or not load enough; the singing is too fast or not fast enough; the das* leader frvora some of bis members more than others. And, not satisfied with being to this state themselves, them affleted ones do all to their power to have everybody else take their malady. O, if they would only chooae “the more excellent way," and go to the Great Physician who heals all diseases, and by stepping into the pool, have “their hearts cleansed from an unrighteousness” and “their garments washed and made white in the Mood of the Lamb,” than their complainings, with their diseases, would take wings of the morning and vanish away; then woeid the thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians assume Sd of fire by night for guidance. The Rod 8en divided for Israel’s *»!*, sad to Its returning waves to fewer of the Egyptian army atot Manna and quails ware sent, fee reek was smitten for water. Ate Um> Amalskftes were defeated, it these things occurred shortly afore tbs giving of foe Low. From Ike death of Egypt’s firat- ton, the sight of Israel’s redemp- ties, there were bat fifty day* till topcoftteme to ML Sinai. The aese there, tike moeh that had been, «m grand sad terrific; tbe moan ‘ aas top all wrapped to smokiv— danders peeling, lightnings flashing, mrth quaking, trumpet sounding, pr*»ple trembling—all because Jebo rill bad descended upon the moon tain is fire. The Law could have been given to Hoses privately as were directions (boot the Passover, to be by him fedrered to the people. Bat tbe esesiion demanded tbe cireum- atsoees of grandeur and awe to vbicb Jehovah was then pleased to appear. The mam or mm poopas owe grossly ignorant and amusingly tepid. Many of them bad been delaters in Egypt and were still so h deed. While they recognized Je- fevah, wh** bad brought them out of Bgypt, as a mighty God, they vers far from being convinced that While they did, my Father, inherit tlx kiagdom pre pared for yoa • • • Jte 1 tn * hungered and ye gave me -til* To any mind thorooghly evaogotiaod there Is nothing hazardous to the thought that to the Rptottos it la taught that wboaoevnr ahsarrea their exhortation* will assuredly bs saved. For such is ths nature of am aad sack the natere af ths things rs quired, that no ooe will over have the inclination and strength to obey without obtaining them from Christ through a connection with Him by frith. So, also, there was nothing hazardous In swapaodtitg life, for mally, o® obedience to the Law. toStoSo^ «ra 1 mmru^6%%! love sad charity to all would sparkle, whisper and sing to every tine, “Love would drive their chariot wheels,” “and a little child would God blessn very slender things to the conversion of soala. It is very hnmbling, sometimes, to a preacher who thinks, “Wall, I did preach a pretty for sermon that time," to And Efim (ft tfrrf*SOI niuS, ~mmm> -w£».. remark be made in tbe street, which he hardly thought was of any value whatever, was what God has Messed —that when be thought he had sue ceedad best, he had done nothing, and when he thought he had sue needed worst, then God Messed him. Many a soul has had his eyes opened by so instrumentality which never dre&med of being useful; and, in- I deed, the whole way of salvation is in itself extremely simple, so as to I be well compared to the day and i spittle which the Saviour used. I do not find many tools converted by bodies of divinity. We have re- oeived a great many Into tbe church, but never received ooe who became ooo verted by a profound theological discussion. We very seldom hear of any great number of conversions un- t der very eloquent preachers—very | seldom indeed. We appreciate eto I qneoor, and have not a word to say | against it by itself, but evidently it I has no power spiritually to enlighten ! the understanding, nor does it please God to use the exoelleocy of words for conversion. When Paul laid I aside human wisdom and said he would not urn the excellency of I speech, be only laid aside what would not have been of mnch service to him. When David pat off Saul’s I armor, and took the sling and the stone, he slew ths giant; and giants are not to bs conquered to-day any works af Jehovah, his old." Mow, as the axl dissevered from Christ j so, also, ths Hr was God alone m doubt, feel that gratitude and honor sod glory were doe to him; yet they certainly regarded It ae a dictate of prudence to sacrifice to other gods, also, whose existence they believed and whose displeasure they dreaded. There was, therefore, ia that sublime and awful display «a adaptation, the best we can im agine, to impress the minds of that people, and instruct them as to the character of their God, and thus to prepare them for heartily adopting the sentiment: »**■ - *•' “Jehovah (s osr God—Jehovah alone ” But'it should not be Imagined tttt because the Law was then pro claimed so grandly, it bad never to “hear all things, believe all things, hops all things, endure all thtoga.” What a sermon does the Christian daily preach to ths world, who goes about ths dittos of life with a meek aad lowly spirit, seeking opportunity to do good to all ama,” uncomplain ia hto way of principal eaam with which the Israelite* were rw minded that they had boon hoed men to Egypt, and that Jehovah had delivered thorn. Tres, the Law was given in such a form that t» could he misunderstood, aad could be perverted into a covenant of works for life; aad thia was aetaaUy done by many who were beat spou establishing their own rtgktoommea*. Bat if say should be tree Med by the “doth not behave himself unseemly, aseksth not his own, is not easily provoked, tkinketh no evil,” “prays without tossing, aad to everything given than ha* Many Christians of today am like ths Israelites of old, tog the duties aad privileges of to day ia gathering the maaoa for to morrow 1 * use, heeding net the com mand, “Sufficient for tbe day is the evQ thereof " A lesson in frith can bs learned from this incident, that may he applied to daily life. The Israelite* that doubted God’s Word, fearful that food would not be fora iahod oa the morrow, as promised, wees careful to provide more than their daily need, contrary to the command of God, and the result was, “it bred worms, and stank." Thia being careful overmuch please* them, if they oan, imagine any defi nils form to which the Law eoeld have bean given, and yet not been liable to sock peweratoo. Beeklea, are not the exhortations of the Hew Testament liable to tbe mat abase 9 Is there not reason to fear that they are so abused I But white the Law was thus gives as a rule of life, ami enforced by the preceding redemption to which It stood no steady related, it ales bore s prophetic import. Few, if any, deny that the redemption, while so actnsl present benefit, also prom- existed in the earth before. For *&•** there is no Law there is no trsragrasaioD. Yet, before this tran- wetkm at Siuai the Old World fed to* drowned for transgressions; Himrence had been fearfully pun- toed io the family of Noah, and for iupurity Sodom and Gomorrah had ton destroyed. Jacob, Vbeu sum aooed to Bethel to fulfill his vow, ^Hnmsnded his household to pnt air ay all strange gods. And in tbe •truest debates between Job and to friends there is a reference direct- h or indirectly to every precept in Some have th* gift of satertaiatag. toy can talk wall. They have “Ws fla not war aEm tbs flash (S Osr. B: J) and out w*apoas art os« soropl (it H. Oor haul# to so* would have as to fight to It to the •fight of /**’ a tto- v|; i». Uto sot by J—to**#. bat by hidforiag that They kavw msmsrias at travel to recall. TOw, the knack of knowing what to any. They can must keep to ths simple things, to the plain gospel plainly preached.— apuryeon. tore: “Christ, oar Pnaaovsr, Is sac rificed for us," settlea this point. Bat as then God descended oa the fiftieth day after the Faseover re demption, ia fire upon ML Sinai, to inaugurate a glorious dispensation of Law; so, alas, oa the fiftieth day was the bettor part; “But Martha was cumbered about much serving, and cams to him, and said, Lord, dost tboe not oars that my sister hath toft ms to serve alone? Md her therefore that she help me. And Jeans answered, “Martha, Martha, tfooo are careful and troubled about many things; but one thing is used •U other terms. Also the compiler those debates, whose stylo is bach like Moses, both in introducing speakers and in the seqnel of tbe book, uses exclusively the memo “•1 name. These facte about the «*e of that name, overlooked until •toji are Strong proof for the great a »tiqaity of Job’s speeches In addition Utet given by the teamed long They were prior to the giving j* the Law at Mt. Sinai, slid show tnuc h of the Law was previously ttiovn and regarded by tbe sons of ,0 <b How they came to know tbe "totencc of such a Law, Is to us, a question of fer less importance than *■* fa <* tbst they did know it. But l tot they did not nse it as a cove- Jtot of works for life we hare the toghest authority for affirming. For Sjj obtained a good report through a IlMPftri *W UOIJ wjp*n% tUteMHMWU on ML Eton in cloven toogo** of fire to inaugurate a dispensation of th* Spirit still srors glorious. These are certainly sinking etoonmstaness oaaa, which leave him tell fora? There to at this mm an aching spirit bitterly of this hot low a***. Tbe Jesus has done for you. A. If you are ever in doubt as to a thing being right or wrong, consider whether you can do it in the name of Jeans, and ask God’s blessing upon it. 5. Never take your cbnstianit* signed." “Known unto God are eU His works from tbe bsgiaaiag of the world." The aatore aad th* tiamo of both type and aato-typa wore *0 Tbs style of tbe Seriptareo to wor thy of our clooest attention To as unreflecting reader It may seem that until the giving of the Law there wo* no Law in the world. Bat n ctoesr examination reveals the feet that the Law did always exist So, also, from ths groat account which ths Scripts re* make of tho ootponriag of the spirit after the soeonsiou of from Christians, bat ask yourself, “How would the Lord have me act F and follow him. 6. Never trust your feelings, or tbe opinions of men, if they ooutradict. God’s word. 7. In deciding questions of truth and duty, remember that the wrong side has a crafty and powerful advo cate in your own heart. their gift gladly lotions nor prayers can take you there.” Faith alone m tbe entrance to Mm Faith alone can take that ZSSZ JU o.t Of »lf ud into Christ, and frith alone can keep yon charity, -HU mi mate ep fm tte Erie* Jim v t 4) j for teto to tbs victory that orsreomsU the world over oar n> ia uw 'iO0MiM«r ,«*•,»* I !*»»**** prl