Folding Wesleyan Church

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 5, 11 July 1891, Page 3

Folding Wesleyan Church

[communicated.] Last Sunday night the Rev. W. J. "Watkin preached in this church, taking for his' text the following words " We all do fade as a leaf" from Isaiah 64.6. Mr "Watkin said, the decree has gone forth. It has been appointed unto man to die, and after death the judgment. The prophet is appealing, as it were, to God on Aehalf of the people ; they had sinned ; they knew better;^ but they did badly. Trui 1 , temptations abound in life ; but thib £lea won't serve in the day of judgment when tHe righteous Judge shall sit Upon the throne. We shall not be able ~to say : " I didn't know, it was not made -clear to me that I should be responsible." God has endowed us with reason, lie has set liio before us and''warned us of death. If we should fall into it woe be to us. "We'allaofade as a leaf." It,involves nations as well as human life. The figure of the leaf is a very simple one, there is a multitude, and every leaf has an individuality, God made it.' We are told that every leaf is like a lung to a tree. , He that wants to know How a leaf is put together let him übb a microscope, and as he investigates the- wo? d <us han liwork lie will understand how beautiful the specimen is ; but the autumn comes and the leaves, fade away- until the winter '-winds blow .through' the naked boughs. Is not man's life like that ? Is the com- *, parison not perfect ? In the autumn of Jife, the breath grows" x ßhort, and the , weight of.numerous years bears down the ' strength of man, and r then, winter comes. Mr Watkin concluded with an earnest appeal to "his congregation -to follow the -teaching of Christ/ which was the most aoble aim to which man's powers could be devoted. -