with the tongues ot men aud ang<1'' ’ .‘‘'j' things, they cannot believe lii.s report k
shall they believe him when he tells k
est scrutiny, moisture is distilled in iinvisi 1 fruit ? Milton describes Ithuiiel, one ot though I understand all mystenes ‘}' •
of Heavenly things? To try to
the
angel
guards
of
Eden,
as
detecting
Sa-,
hie vaportrointhedistautocean. It is then 1
knowledge. • ' And have not eha uy. for this lack by more stormy ev.-if,.^,
tan
squai
like
a
toad
dose
ro
the
ear
ot
gathered into vast cloud-trains, wafted on i
the fragrant flower ot the moral nature, t > and boisterous utterance; by tiercelj p "
their ierial track over hundreds of leagues ’ the sleeping Eve, coloring her dreams with nothing.’ ’’ What indeed isourmost appall 11 q.
and distributed, without respect of persons, suggestions of that first disobedience that conception of the character of Satan h.mM , ing the Bible to make up for the Luk
—DELIVEBED AT THE—
lothethirsty lips of each of these children ot brought death into tin-world ami all our but that of a being of super-hum. n mtefl clear and lucid expounding thereof;
intense gesticulations of the arias or ,,s
beauty,
in vale and lull, forest and prairie. woe.” Ou touching the disguised liend gence, subtlety and penetration, coi
< bodily exercise, to make up for ¡m
DadicaUon oí McMinnTille College, Jo M 1383, The vernal
sky must embrace and cherish with his heaven-lcmper»d spear, hear once, with affections depraved into !i!,l’cr l''1'
them with more than motherly gentleness, like a train of gunpowder touched by a imdi'-nitv ? And hence some ot the gnat- islieil brain and a lack of thought, t
must soothe them with the lullaby* of her spark, flamed up into bis owu real and dire est X'ators of Germany lay it down as profit him nothing—yea, less tlu-.n
Matthew 4, 4 : “ Man ahull not live by bread alone ;
aud vanity.
but by every uo.'d that pruceedeth out of the mouth of zephyrs, rock them to sleep by night, and fill form. The truth in our text will tin- an axiom, “ That life without knowledge W
A period of transition i now upon
(
God.’
wake them in dewy freshness by day. Nor nish us with a spear out of heaven’s own better than knowledge »1“«
lei\
These words are quoted by our Savior would all this be enough to bling one of artuory, whose touch will be as sure to de late rhe life ;” that all that gives iorce to early ministers volunteered for the em.^
from the address of Moses to Israel, as this fair and fragile family to bloom, did tect the manifold disguises which this de the mind is disastrous, it it does not at the of our early settlements, to supply religioiuj
found in Iteut., 8, 3.
not the bosoms of other worlds offer them mon temptation assumes iu our own times, same time give us self-control and make us titutiou, .just as the pioneers had to <l.> t, j,
•'And thou whult remember all the way which the them their fostering warmth and nurture, as it colors the plans of life, bleeds with better. A wheelbarrow may
H‘ »«ely back the wild Indians. Each had to tai,,
Lord thy God led thee tin» 4’) years in th a wilderness. and if the great Physician, Light, did not tlie projects and purposes of our youth,and
pushed
upon
a
sidewalk
or
a
single
an . ever equipments they happened to have, «j,
* • * And fed thee with manna, which thou kr.uw-
shapes the waking dreams of our genera a locomotive will work disaster and p rum
est not. neither did thy father» know ; that he might make daily calls and prolonged stays to ad
it er indiil'eient, old-fashioned muskets ..i I-;,
make thee know that man doth not live l»y bread only, minister bis life-giving prescriptions. It tion. “ Mau shall not live by bread alone, it be not restrained by iron rails. It, my ive education ; ami right nobly di.l
f.,|
but by every word that prooeedelh out of the mouth ot has been significantly said that the, graceful but by every word that proceedeth out ot
friends, your children are to jump the track their work. Hut no class of men are moren
God, doth uau live.”
curve of each drooping violet, is directly the mouth of God shall man live.” How
scions of the disadvantages under whirl, j
No utterance could more effectually par proportioned to the size, gravitation, and ever ample the bread may be that is gotten of moral and religious principle, then tlie labored. None are stronger advocate, »i
more
you
enlarge
their
mental
power,
tlie
ry the force of the teiuptatiou addressed to relative distances of the earth and sun, and by starving down the nobler intellectual,
regular drill, and tile most impmv;.|4.
Jesus to desert his heaven prescribed course of all their related orbs. But the diversity moral, or spiritual life, it is selling our more certain and terrible will be their own more
and equipments for those that succeed th,
of duty and self-sacrifice, in order to secure of the influences, that must co operate birthright for a morsel of meat, The life wreck, and the wider the circle of disaster tlie wink. And the most convincingdi'iii.i,.?
a supply of bread. The unanswerable ar f»r the development of man's life to full that bread thus gotten, feeds and fattens, they will spread around them. >' <‘ all ad tion of the strength of this noble .sentiinej
gument couched in these words is, that if bloom, are as much greater than those islowaml groveling, compared with the life mit that hostile Indians, with no change in here before us, in this grand editic.. ill whirl
thankfully meet to-dav. If there ar,
Go<l sustained Israel with higher and no needed for the flowers, as man is nobler that it poisons. The enjoyments thus se •heir dispositions, are only rendered mine so
men we should delight Io honor, tin y ;,
bler food, when they followed his lead into and better than they. Like the species of cured are insipid and coarse,compared with demon-like when their bows and arrows are None see more clearly than they that, t|„,
replaced by the most improved repeating old, flint-lock muskets were etlicieut v,rj>
a desert where a supply of bread was cut cactus called the century plant, that is said those they choke out.
against the Indians when they lmd hut bin,’
oft’, then lie will assuredly supply me and to require a hundred years to elaborate its
Some species of catterpillars. which are rifles. So burglars, who have become arrows,
would be laughed al now, d
all his servants who persist in following the magnificent flower, humanity requires the but the unsightly buds of the living, tree, adepts at picking locks, blowing open sates they imve they
Winchester tifles. So the <>bjv,
course he prescribes. Bread is but a sin nurture of long years, the concentration of flitting flowers of the air, called butterflies, and diffusing chloroform, are more to be against religion that tin- fathers had
gle element, and by no means the most es all the mental, moral and spiritual light and which often eclipse the beauty ot the dreaded than untaught rogues. And are were easily silenced bv their own steadfast
sential one, that must enter into the varied that Divine revelation can pour down, all flowers attached to the soil, often have not the leagued and trained assassins ot to aud strong common sense. _ But now,
nurture which mini’s true life requires. In that the ages can reflect, till that the great eggs of stiiiginginsects injected into them,as day, wlio are furnished with infernal ma every Imlf-lletlged smatterei in learningj.e,
a repeating rifle of the latest patii'
this must blend ingredients of wonderful cloud of witnesses in the past can converge we find to be the case iu fruits mid leaves. chines and are skilled in e.xpk ding dynamite with
inn-win, Huxley or Ingersoll,the ease r.
diversity, and can alone be procured in un upon it. The soil of physical sustenance Voracious grubs a re thence hatched out that beneath public buildings and the dwellings ot ferent. And hence, to furnish fn.-ihti,-
failing fullness by waiting on God—walk alone, however generous, can never cause wholly eat out the rudimental butterflies government officers and the guardians of law training of an efficient ministry for this wj
ing with him and having free access to bis this flower of moral and spiritual beauty to within the wretched catterpillars. The con and order, are not these, while we speak, tlie field, has come to be l< It by us all a-
most urgent duties of the hour. X'„.,
unfailing resources. If now, for the sake unfold to an admiring heaven. Without sequence is that they never get to be any causing the civilized world to tremble, though tlie
any partial, one-sided process, that tuis
of bread, we disobey God, and thus sever drinking in ever new emanations of mental, thing more nor higher than the crawling the same number of coarse, untaught and bru men like Ephraim, described as " a ca'i,
ouoselvcs from Him who is the fountain ot moral and spiritual sunshine, without re husk or envelope of tlie teri.il, winged crea tal ruffians would scarcely lie heard ot beyond turned, hastily scorched on one id.- anil
life—then, instead of having in ns, from sponding to the wooings of I »¡vine love and tures they were, designed for. They never, the purlieus of their den in the forest or their soft ami sodden on the other"—lm surli«
till the bill.
connection with His fullness, a well of wa fellowship, without thrilling with the joy of through their debased life, cease to engorge lair in the blind alley ? Is it not, therefore« work In will
older States, where < linrehes are
ter springing up into everlasting life, we God’s salvation and expanding with the as themselves with rank foliage, and to spin too plain to need argument, that any system and the institutions of learning and relivn;
shall have but a broken cistern—a stagnant, pirations of immortal hope, his nobler and unclean webs—never feel any aspirations to of education wb.inh aims exclusively at the established, unbalanced, one-sid. d n,.,,,
reptile h.united, disease-breeding pool.
grander capabilities will never come to rise into the sunny air, nor to hover over production of mere mental sharpness and for the most part, be borne oil by tli.-moni.j
The force of the utterance will be more bloom. Like the century cactus, with its mid sip the nectar of beautiful flowers.— alertness in the pupils, to the neglect oi their already acquired, and not run things oat ..If
grooves. But here tliegroevej
impressively fell if we notice that the terms bloom repressed and killed out, man, with Now how many there are all around us who moral and religions nature, is directly adapt accustomed
to be made, the momentum to be given
translated, “every word,” means ev< ry- out moral and spiritual culture becomes have allowed this temptation of which we ed to stamp them with the image and super gunge to be set for all siiceeeding general
In the older States, youth and inexnerienru
thing, as well as every word, and is only more gross, repulsive, and bristling speak to be lodged in their inward parts scription of Satan himself ?
more safely take the helm, where the rwlai
very frequently thus rendered in tii .Scrip with the thorns of fiercer ferocity, just in till every vestige of the rudimental wings
Now it is coining to be admitted on all shoals
have all been surveyed ami marked
tures. That tliis is its meaning here, is proportion as as the compost of wealth is of mental aspiration and high possible at hands that the State, neither in their com here, wiiere
bars have to be crossed and i
plain from the fact that, in the Hebrew of heaped about him. For where but in some tainments have been gnawed away; and mon schools, high schools nor universaties, neis to be threaded • for the first time, win
the Old Testament from which it is quoted, mining camp, where wealth rolls in with who now never will become anything more can constitutionally supply this fearful lack. buoys or beacons to guide our course, el. a
there is no term distinctively meaning icorel least labor, and where neither schools nor than a kind of moving sarcophagus, in Our National and State constitutions, with cernnient, ripe experience and practical saa
more necessary.
at all. The phrase in the Hebrew liter , ly churches, nor the relining influence of home which all the relies of the nobler powers one voice proceed on the principle that are far
If the foundations of nmnv generatiur,
is "every going forth,” or “outgoing’ life are present to counteract it, do we find mid possibilities of their higher life are their province in matters of religion is that to be wisely ami surely laid, whole inn.
from the mouth of God. The same expres the most enormous vices—gambling, shoot sinking into hopeless decay. Sadder still they have no province at all. It is made one-sided fragments of men—are imlisprasi
sion is translated thus elsewhere: “ Thou ing, stabbing running riot, ? And to what are the relies of men from whom the moral unlawful by the constitutions of all the flic half-baked Ephraims will almost iiicra
leave their impress upon their work—wilh
innkest the outgoings” of the morning and but the same cause, “ pride and fullness of life has been thus eaten out. There may States, as well as by the National constitu duce
children in their own likeness. J
evening to rejoice ; “ Ilin going forth in from bread,” do the Scriptures assign the fear be found in our land, to-day, mournful spec tion : 1, to pass any law lor the establish plans will be one-sided, their theories I
the end of the henrenx."
ful pre-eminence of Sodom and Gomorrah, imens of such moving corpses. Once they ment of religion; 2, compulsory support, truths. They are ever inclined to rides
to run off on some tangent, to mu
The various objects in nature are rcpie in animalism and infamy .’
were admitted by all to be, endowed with by taxation or otherwise, of religions in hobby,
ami push one truth, or aspect of truth, til!«
senteil as spoken into being by God. As
There never was a time in our history as qualities that promised to rival those of struction ; 3, the exaction of any religious complimentary or related truths, are lostt
words embody the thoughts of men. so, as a people, when the truth of our text needed Washington or Gladstone, to become the test, as a qualification for office; 4, the of. And this is now, amrim.s been throngi
Luther says: “The sun, the moon, the air, more to lie rung out trumpet-tongued than observed of all observers; but ill an evil favoring of one sect or class of sects more ages, the prolific source of error anil evil
the light, are but the embodied conceptions now, and in no part of our national domain hour they received brities from great cor than another. In the language of the Su you hold an object as large as your handi
or thoughts of God.” Every created object than here on this coast. The temptation to porations in the shape of stocks and bonds preme Court of one of the States (Maine), enough to your eyes, it will fill your wlndel
vision; and if you are infatuated wi«i
in height and in depth, thus virtually pro- secure bread or profit at the .sacrifice of all anil pledged their fostering care to brood “ It (the constitution) does not recognise of
keep it there, nothing else in heavenabovei
t-eedeth out of the mouth of God. “ Foi the conditions of the higher life, intellect over and hatch out the larva of wished-for the superiority of any form of religion, or the earth beneath will seem to liaveM.re
by the word of the Lord were the heavens ual, moral anil spiritual, was never so dom legislative enactment;'. The consequence any sect or denomination. It regards the ence or importune.-. So the Antinoiniaufill
made, and all the host of them by tin inant and pervading in high places and in is that the soul of high honor,integrity and Pagan and the Mormon, the Brahmin and field of view with the Divine fore-ordinaiin
so that human freedom and al.ililt
breath of his mouth." The text, therefore, low. Legislators, Stateand National, whose unselfish patriotism, has been wholly eaten the Jew, the Swedenborgian and the Bud- decrees,
reduced to the shadow of a shade. Th. i
declares that a true life cannot be built iq orbits once seemed without variableness or out by these voracious parasites. All that, hist, the Catholic and the Quaker, as pos Arminian, pendilum-like, swings as far n
into its ideal, symmetry and completeiie.-. shadow of change, manifest unlooked-for is left of them is the crawling husk of what sessing equal rights.”
opposite extreme, and can see no fore-oiilim
by a nurture made up of any one single el aberrations when they conic within the they might have been, from whose wrig Then, to tax Catholics to support schools Others again dwell so exclusively on wlm
say of God's love and fatliui
ement, or what can be produced on any sphere of some attractive bribe. Candi gling debasement no fair psycho of honorable, where the Protestant Bible is read, or to Scriptures
that all that is said of his being a right
narrow section of creation. To scenic this dates for high office are coming to relv statesmanship can ever find a resurrection; tax Protestants to support teachers that .Judge, of his infallible truthfulness in ran
angels’food in perfection, every realm and more confidently upon the contents of tlicir but are left by a disappointed and disgust drill the school in the Catholic catechism, out his threatened .loom on tlie inqteniwirt
gressor, becomes only such stuff as dr. iir
region of God’s vast empire must be laid barrel than upon the volume of their brain ed people—
the Book of Mormon or the Jewish Tal made of. Then once more there have
under tribute. Ingredients of great varie and the integrity of their character. Ami
“ To din ns the dull worm— to rot..
mud, is alike unconstitutional. So, to tax through the ages, and several tiines in tb»l
ty and diversity, from every latitude and this virus which thus circulates in the great
Thrust foully ill the grave to be forgot.”
Pantheists or Positivists, for the support ory of those now living, periodic crazes .1
longitude of the universe have to be ini er arteries of the body politic, may be easi Surely such an existence lies little wore of schools where the Lord’s prayer, or any the 2nd Advent. From the time of Millet,
ported. The vintages that have repened ly detected oozing through the smaller veins claim to be called true life than a mummy, prayers are said or recited, who discard a half century ago, and several tiineadnce.i
hove in sight, this one thought ha11
under the historic past, the ample fields < t mil capillaries of private business. But from which the vitals, vicera aud brain the idea of a personal God who can either a en ecmet
out out all others, and eclipsed all.fli
providential events that are whitening for not only is this temptation to get bread at have been removed, has to be called a real hear or heed prayer, aud who regard it as heaven
ami earth. Ami now it is saiifut
the sickle in the present, and the germinat the sacrifice of truth and honor in reusing- man.
that is made the holtbv of the hour. It is
irrational
mummery,
is
in
as
plain
violation
so constantly before tlie mental vision,tin
ing harvests of the grander f iture—all ly yielded ro in our day ; and thus tile mor Now, should you see any one whom you of these National guarantees.
related or complementary truths have a»j
must furnish their quota. Then what tin al and the spiritual life starved down into cared for tempted by the promise of better
But
the
crowning
glory
of
a
Christian
portance. (if all the myriad luirp-stthi:
heavens are decl iring of the Cri at >r’a glo impotence to teed the sensuous into more wrappings than his laborer’s rags, and a education which the State is debarred from the
Gospel symphony, this one alone is 1«
ry; what the Armament shows of His hand pompous corpulence, but the same is done lodging in sculptural marble instead of a giving, must be limited to institutions upon in season and out of season, till theH
iwork—of their laws, magnitudes and mys on a still larger scale by the sacritlec of the hut of unhewn logs, to sink away into this which are established and controlled by ert harmony is reduced to Hie monoti
twanging of one single string. N.owletta
teries ; the speech that day keeps uttering intellectual life. Large numbers of youth, poor extinct shell of humanity, would you
serve how all these, and ntimeroits othetili
to day, and the knowledge that night keeps as well as their parents, put off their hun not urge the thought on his mind “ that Christian men or bodies of men. And tions
of the truth as it is in Jesus, han
that
constellation
of
colleges
and
acade
showing foith in wondrous in.-tailments, 1<- gering and thirsting minds, with the most man shall not live by wrappings or sur mies that have been established by the common origin. They are one and all the»
night, as the ages roll,—yea, every mar.i beggarly and mouldy morsels of mental roundings alone, but by all the higher con
of yielding to the temptation, at whi.-hw
testation of His eternal power and perte.- food whenever there is a chance of thus ditions and agencies that God’s creative leading Christian denominations of our is levelled—to support tlie Christian lilt ’*
country,
have
become
one
of
its
crowing
element, or truth, produced on soinv
tion, n fleeted freiu his woi ks and radiating securiug an ampler and quicker supply of word has supplied?” The air, the sunshine, glories, and have attained a popularity and single
ited quarter section of the orb of revell
from His word—all must lie rifled of tlicii bodily provinder. Only in the brief inter streaming in through every chink and bro
when it cannot reach the measure of tbesti
peculiar flavors, sweetness and aroma, and val of mid-winter, when bread material ken pane of your cabin, infusing buoyant an influence in our older States that State of its fulness, except oil a nurture which bl
institutions
have
failed
to
rival.
Tope
elements derived from every region andM
all combined and blended in this manna cannot be worked at, in grubbing, break life and activity at every lneath, are prince
its entire sphere—yea from every word that
like nurture—that it may have no element ing, seeding, threshing, sacking, nulling ly benedictions compared with which all Pius Ninth, the immediate predecessor of ceedeth
out of the mouth of God. Andtb
lacking to cheer the heart of God and man. and marketing—is it deemed wise and pru these gorgeous mausoleums and costly grave- the present Pontiff, said to an intelligent is easy to see that if the ministry be thus
American
shortly
before
his
death:
“
If
and nourish our true life to the full men dent to furnish any regular and suitable clothes, that look so tempting, are menu
ted, on so meagre a stvle of nutrition, the J
ure of its stature. No narrower s.-ope than aliment for the mind at all. The hybernat- .uni beggarly mockeries. Ye t, a living dog you give me the education of your youth, will be supplied with it in a still inure«’
from
14
years
of
ago
to
20,
I
will
mould
and impoverished form. Like children I
this should we assign to these pregnant ing animals creep mto holes anil hollow is better than a dead liou, however his skin
food, deficient in bone-building elemeiiB
words: “Man shall not live by bread trees, < n the approach ot winter, sink into may be stuffed and preserved, and however your people more potently than all your religious
organism of such a jxtople w.U
constitutions
and
laws.
”
And
it
is
just
by
alone, but by every word that pro.-eedet'n inactivity an I torpor and live without food splendid the museum in which it stands.
the rickets. The soft, yielding flesh «•
multiplying
their
schools
that
this
priest
emotional nature is braced up by no r®
out of the mouth of God,"—««very element on the extra fat that they had deposited in
The truth which we have thus developed,
in other words, that has sprung into being summer. But this gets so reduced that will infallibly detect some satanic element hood maintain and extend a system so unbending bones of intelligent princif1'
alien and hostile to free institutiousin our ciently to bear their own weight. Mtidil^
at the flat of His creative power. Nor i the poor creatures, if the spring be late, can lurking in each and every one-sided scheme our
they bear the. burden and heat of tiie'J
land.
this to lie limited to the material creation, s -arcely walk, fly or creep. The mental of life or system of education. That phase
efficient workers in the vineyard, j he'*
Protestants
have
been
slow
to
appreciate
up to-day and down to-morrow ; will tot11’
but embraces as well the immaterial an.I hybernation, so common among many, is of it which pampers the body at the sacri
the
mighty
power
that
they
might
wield
by
stumble bv the jostliugs of ordinary
the spiritual domain of being—things un always in summer, ami the lethargy is fice of the growth and maturity of the
tions; will lie carried away with every ”
seen and eternal, no less than things seen scarcely ever aroused from enough to note, mind, has already been unveiled and traced this potent enginery. Too often our own doctrine,
and prove an easy prey to even’
aud temporal. By ranging over no less mark or inwardly digest any nutritive men to its fiendish origin. But the varying sys denomination have been the last to avail ing vendor of any spiritual quack emy-al.
themselves
of
it.
Baptist
families
who
varied and verdant pastures and reposing tal food whatever. And the little fat and tems that aim exclusively at the develop
The Prophet Hosea sadly exclaim’
on the margin of no less refreshing aud fibre that their intellects liad acquired when ment and strengthening of the intellect, have had the meajis, often send their unstable aud tickle people of his time1
aie destroyed for lack of knoitz
heaven-reflecting waters eau man’s life la they were half awake in mid-winicr, has that ignore and take no account of the daughters to Jesuit nunneries or to High people
Did he live now- and here, the same
unfold.«! into that fullness and synimeti-. usually vanished into the l.mkest leanue-s moral and spiritual powers, leaving them < liurvh schools; an<l then laments over lament would be again and again ri'J*1.
as to be a well-spring of joy forever. It oil and emaciation Ix'fore the long torpor al as withered, liedwarfeil and unused limbs, it as a mysterious providence that their lie saw how easily people are baited an«
the contrary, we are cooped up and encag lows them access to mental pabulum once to datigle in impotence and at haphazard— Mary or Alice should want to take veil, or captive bv any fresh earth-worm of now“
fly of clumsy deception, or g”1’-’
ed in any contracted section, or limited t-> more. What makes the matter worse is these, let us lx- assured, are still more de feel more at home ui another church than artificial
palpable absurdity that any shallow puj
any one article of uutrition, physical, men that during the brief intervals which they fective and dangerous. They are not in that ot their parents. But it is by no may choose to angle with. As fashion»1"
tal or moral, our life, like that of the s ill- give to intellectual activity, the bread pro spired by the wisdom that cometh from means mysterious or uncommon, that they often become all the rage in remote coim'1
or, routined on ship board and limited ducing branches alone have any interest or above, but are incarnations of the sugges that thus sow the wind should reap the tTicts, long after they are east aside an« *
whirlwind.
at in the centres of fashion, so in the n
to hard tuck aud saltjuuk, will sink into attractiveness in their eyes.
tions from beneath. However they may be
It is high time tint we should wake up world, worn out hobbies, second-hand ’«?
that species of leprosy culled scurvy, in
The questions so often often asked as to draped padded and painted as angels
ati.l
thread-bare crotchets which have!*
which all the nobler jxiwerx of the soul—its *• wlmt is the use of Latin, of Greek, ot of light, the touch of the quick and power to tins conviction—that Rome has acted on day in older communities, are gathere*' •
God given aspirations and instincts lx-et vie Rhetoric, Literature, Moral and Menial ful spear point of this truth dissolves their for ages—that those that have the relig shrewd _ religious rag-men and retaileil “
debilitated aud helplessly prostrate. Like Science, are all based on the estab Casein vion, unveils their empoisoned fangs, ious training of the youth of a country, will wondering people here as the freshest am’
direct from the Court of Heaven.
captives iu the ptisoup.'ns during our last lished postulate, that bread, physical mis discovers their scaly folds and discloses mould their age ami nation more than all styles,
Shall we then. Brethren anti Fatners
war, when starved down into idiocy and tenance, is the one thing thing needful— their real character as •• earthly, sensual, else combined. If we fail to take up and our rising ministry, and by consequence*
wuld this imperial power, the scepter will pie, to any such meagre and inipoveris**
forget fulness of home and friends, our the nnimal nature of man the main thing— devilish."
from us as a denomination. We tare . Shall we give the n access <mfi
poor souls, though not knowing wh.it and that mental food growth and expansion
Now, friends, we need not stop to prove depart
zone, or to the bread producing
the matter is, will, with inarticulate moans into intellectual symmetry and |x»wer, are by argument that the moral and spiritual may keep hold of the untutored and nnlet mental
of knowledge ? Or shall we resolve. D.'J
of re.sth'ss dissatisfaction, keep crying out J but as dust of the balance in the compari nature of man—his emotions, feelings and tered elements of society ; but the intelli- of God. to lead them into the grander f 1
for the living God, fur every ch nienl th at i son f" Why not rather ask what's the ns« a flee ions—are the flower ami crown of his gent, inquiring and cultured classes—vea zones of Biblical and Tlieological learnm-
his creative word can supply. Even tae! lot’mere bodily life or the riches that pam Ix'ing. it these, therefore, lx* neglected, even our own children, as they brighten they may thence garner a richer and mer
nutrition from “every
lilies of the field, which to-day bloom mid per it, if, like grain on exi-essively rich repressed or scathed and blasted in -.he bud into intelligence, will .lrift from us. If they refreshing
pnx-eedeth out of the mouth of God. ,.
to-morrow are cast into the oven, cannot ground, it reclines by its very excess of by the fros s of neglect, er by the canker hear the minister habitually making absurd
To what but to the lack of these f.i,:i '
jMHudlily flourish their little hour without rankness and nits without putting forth .in worms of depraved affections, no intellect mistakes m grammar, geography, natural it due that many of the most protni*"1’.
philosophy
and
history-mistakes
for
which
ministers
that have l»eeti raised apes
the co-operation of agem iea of the mes. ear or maturing a kernel of mental maturi ual acuteness can makeup for the lack, ativ |
are not laboring for the field ? Ami
amazing variety and complexity. Soil aloi.. . ty ? Is not the vine or apple tire i failure more than longer and sha. |x r thorns ..n rin ’ laughed TiUi'’Their eLX^-hoi’.»"'!!^ causes
will lead to the same result in
Iiowevi r deep, can by no menus firni-li however luxuriant in mazes of sli x»ts and rose-bush .......
. .............. plan
' *•’ .' can
i,n make up
"I" for
“' '"‘IP losing res1M.. t for tllIn X tXhJr £ others.
or century
them all the essential conditions. By a, | thickets of branches, if it throws none of the bligh-t-d
I
he
only radical cure for this i"
.__________
bloom, For. ,1.
it is said
?IKI by
oy an whitt
mni.h ,Hghpr mvstCTioiI""" those who
are of the held ample facility
complicated enginery that buttles our keen-{ i its vital force into the formation of nobler | undoubted authority.
ilmugh I speak | sublime ? If, when he ^lls them of earthly
to fit them most efficiently to lai""
JeM.