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Ok I'i-ktu, <)\ iiiK ()(■( \->iri\ OF HIS Ri: i'iki;Mi:\ I ikom iiii i'\si , .^ \i, i ii \K(;i oi- \M)i/'/./■:, Of the lengthened connection whicli has subsisted between us, as Pastor anr people, and in grateful acknowledgment, lo (iod and to you, of the comfor which I have had, and of the many kindnesses which I have received fron you during the long years of my ministry among you. In tl iiessag( jeginni than thi ministn My f and my text nc text, (i my assi desired also of Thes ministr truths £ am mo! ing hoi me to-< Thir faith of ness an faith, a confide Him, y hath h prom is I arr to decl as my sufficie receive cender the Sc I St /^ly^y^f^.-^^u/^e^ty^J COLOSSIANS Ill-n (last clause). " Christ IS all and in all." i Pastor anc the comfor reived fron In this, my last sermon as Minister of this congregation, I have no new nessage to deliver to you, but the message which you have heard from the )eginning. I have no new gospel to preach to you, nor any other gospel han that which I have preached from this pulpit from the beginning of my ministry. My first sermon after my solemn ordination to the ministry in this church and my induction to the pastoral charge of this congregation, was from the text now read : " Christ is all and in all." The two truths declared in this text, (i) "Christ is all," and, (2) "Christ is in all," were, blessed be God, my assured belief and gladdening hope at the beginning of my ministry. I desired that these truths should be the assured belief and gladdening hope also of my people. These two ti aths have been my assured belief and hope all through my ministry ; and now, at the close of it, as pastor of this congregation, these truths are, more than ever, my assured belief and gladdening hope. And 1 am most desirous, this day, that they should be the assured faith and gladden- ing hope of each one of you, my dear people, and of every one who hears me to-day. Thirty-five years spent in the servi:e of God, and lived in the e.xercise of faith of the all-sufficiency of Christ's atonement and of his unfailing faithful- ness and abounding love, have, I am happy to say, served only to confirm my fixith, and to cause me, more and more, to abound and rejoice in an assured confidence and blissful hope that " all the promises of God in Christ are in Him, yea, and in him. Amen ;" and (Josh, xxiii— 14) that "not one thing hath failed," nor ever shall fail, "of all the good things that Christ has promised concerning his people." I am thankful to God that I am able, at the close of my long ministry, now to declare this as my experience, and to give it to you, my people and friends, as my testimony to-day, in behalf of the faithfulness or God and of the all- sufficiency of the love of Christ. I wish my young friends especially to receive this my testimony to-day as to the faithfulness of God, and the trans- cendent excellency and all-sufficiency of the gospel of Christ, as revealed in the Scriptures. I stated in my sermon, at the beginning of my ministry in the church, that I r I fr |njoys inch a ven in nd in hing s spirit Jhrist lave ai Witl the expression " Christ, i.e. Messiah, or anointed One, denotes Jesus to unitctjtd froi " in a legal, constitutional way, in his own person and character, the sevt ralitspoiH ** offices and practices of Prophet, Priest, and King. In view of the chara( . j^. ter of Christ as thus exhibited, well may sinners say — Such a Saviour becaniCpil^^,^,,,^., us. Were Jesus not the Lord's Christ, then the middle wall of partition be" all" r twcen God and sinners must have forever remained untaken away, and all ouri a j^ ; race must have lived miserably, died miserably, and have existed througlmge eternity in unmitigated misery and woe. But now, by Jesus, God's anointe one, the darkening, separating wall of partition has been removed. Sinnen are enabled to look beyond it and to behold, in the clearest light, (iod re conciled, His law honored, and a life of glory and blessed immortality in 5 his heaven to which they may attain. Of God, Christ is made unto the believei *' Re wisdom and righteousness, sanctification and redemption ; and thus the be- ertam liever becomes complete in Christ, and thoroughly furnished in every quality ' '>, of character and for every good work that is pleasing unto (iod and profitable unto men." I mentioned, in exposition of the second truth declared in the text, that Christ presents himself to die faith of the believer " in all places, in all his occupations, in all his successes and joys, in all his disappointments and sor- ./'j!!! rows, in all his trials, afflictions and distresses. Christ dwells in the believer, ^i,^{ {,1 and thus Christ is with the believer wherever he goes, to guide, strengthen, .vas wi protect, and gladden him." O, how encouraging and strengthening for the '^^V ^'^ believer thus to have Christ in all things ! Is the believer called to any diffi- cult duty? — He meets Christ in that duty, and Christ, by his grace, enables . him to perform it. Does distress of auy kind befal him ? Do the reproaches r/ers to of men fall upon him ? Is he, for his profession of Christ and for his zeal in are m pressing Christ's claims, excluded from the friendship of his kindred and asso-^"^"^*^ ciates? Is a beloved parent or child or relative removed from him by death ? Is his body racked with pain ? Does disease prostrate him upon a bed o(; languishing, when wearisome days and nights are appointed to him ? Be it so In all these the believer is sustained, nay, enabled to rejoice and glory, be- cause in these he realizes the presence of Christ with him. He endures,, " seeing him who is invisible." " Thus did the patriarchs and prophets of old, and other good men, meet with Christ in all the sore trials that befel them. Daniel found Christ in the lions" den ; Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace ; and Jonah, even in the whale's belly. Christ has a love to his people that causes him to stick closer to them than any brother. His love makes him cling tolare ii them even when they, under the influence of temptation, abandon the paths|are g of duty and righteousness. He follows them to reclaim them. When Klijah To say : < with y knowr him t you t or ore will fi shall 1 his cc cious you a ceivei jwhicl isus to unite ', the severa )f the charac ioiir becam l)artition be y, and all our jd from duty, a day's journey into the wilderness, and, in false diffidence and ispondency, hid himself in a cave, there did he meet Christ, who said unto im : " What doest ihou here, Elijah ?" And after instructing and encourag- ig him, he brought him back again to society and to duty. O, the com- leteness, the blessedness, and the safety of the man to whom Chist is thus I all," and with whom he is " in all !" " It is when Christ is "all" to a person that he derives the greatest advan- sted througlAige from worldly objects, worldly possessions, and worldly pursuits, and d's anointecll'"'joys the greatest happiness in them. No parents enjoy their children so ed SinnersP*^'^'^ ^^ those to whom Christ is " all in all." No one is so likely to prosper, Iven in worldly matters, and no one is so sure of happiness in his prosperity ght, liod reX^cl in his worldly business, be it what it may, as the person to whom Christ imortality iii^ his " all and in all." the believerl " Religion, remember, however, is not the business of certain hours or of thus the befcrtain places. Religion is the business of every hour and every place — of the 'verv ninrf J^^'^l'' ^'^^ farm, the market, the family-lireside, the social gathering of friends, , f. ts well as of the Sabbath, the communion, and the prayer-meeting. Every- nd profitable i^j^g should be done in a loving, thanksgiving, cheerful spirit ; and then such L spirit is a religious .spirit. But, without a sen.se of the presence and love of he text that -'"""ist in all these, no one can have such a spirit. Therefore, in order to in ill I ■ ^'^^^ '^"^ ^^ manifest this spirit, Christ must be with us in all these." ■nts and s With affection did I, in my opening sermon, " beseech all who knew that L'hrist was not their all, and who did not wish to meet him or care to have the believer, ij,^^' j,^ ^\i^ ^q consider their ways. I besought them to believe that Christ ;, strengthen, ,vas willing to be unto them their all, and to be with them in all. In this, min"- for the '^"'X closing sermon as minister of this congregation, I am addressing several I 4.^ in: kvho are living without God and without hope in the world. I to any difin- * ' I , Interested as 1 felt in the welfafe of those whom I addressed in my open- ' ' ing sermon, I feel more mterested in you. They were comparatively stran- e reproaches ^g^s to me. I have long known you. The most of you, if not all of you, »r his zeal in ire my friends, and the children of friends — baptized by me, brought up under my ministry. To you, my friends, dearly beloved, and especially my young friends, I now say : Come to Jesus — take him to be your Saviour, your all. Let him be with you in all. He offers himself to you tor these purposes. Let not your known or felt sins prevent you from now coming to Christ, and from taking him to be thus your " all in all." He knows all your sins, and yet he tells you His blood cleanseth from all sin. Be not afraid of his commandments or ordinances. In the believing, loving, keeping and observance of them, you will find a great reward — a much greater reward than you ever have found, or shall be able to find in disregarding Christ, and in disobeying and neglecting his commandments. Come now to Jesus, then. He is waiting to be gra- cious to you —waiting with outstretched arms to receive you. Come just as you are. Do not delay, expecting that at some future time you will be re- <-eived on easier or better terms than at present. Every hour you delay you are increasing the difficulties that now keep you from coming to Christ. You are giving time to the enemies of your soul to add to, to strengthen the barriers which sei)arate you from Chiist. Every call to Christ that is not complied red and asso m by death ? on a bed of 1 ? Be it so. d glory, be- ■le endures. d men, meet -hrist in the irnace; and that causes lim cling to n the path Vhen Klijali with — every movement of the heart towards Clirist that is resisted— e\ ci he er — that while seven congregations have a larger communion roll than ours, r86) sixteen have a smaller communion roll ; or deducting fifty names from our roll on account of aged persons and others who add but I'ttle to o*"''^^^ financial strength, though financial strength is not always the most valuablc-M"^^.^ sometimes, alas ! the least valuable strength — then, I find, that while eleV(||'^*^'P of the congregations in the Presbytery have a larger communion roll th.w^"^ ^ ours (136) there are twelve congregations which have a less number on tlu^iavt roll— and all of these respectably sui)port ministers and the ordinances of tlAeoj: (lospel. 5^^''^' 1 also find that of the twenty-four congregations in the Presbytery, theS^"-'^ are only two whose total contributions to the schemes of the church for i8;P;owe exceed ours. 5|, of Our total contributions to the schemes of the church in 1880 arc $344.o|R^'^' ^ or with the $20 from the Saljbath school, $364.00 — a larger sum than iiW^ I often gave when all the families referred to were with us. I^he You are not a weak or poor congregation, then, even now, and with ll:,#" accession promised, you will be a strong and influential congregation. *^ ^* I beseech you, tl" ^refore, my dear people, to do all in your power, by tl manifestation of a spirit of kindness and love to one another, to secure tl important objects for which I have resigned, and for which you have ac(|i| esced in my resignation, viz., the good- of the congregation, temporally an spiritually, and the consolidation of the church. Union and harmony and greatly-increased liberality will be required to S| cure this desired result. With these, however, by the blessing of (iod, it maj be secured, and my warmest feelings and most fervent prayer in behalf him who may be your harmonifcus choice as my successor, shall be, that l; may be qualified and honored by God to do much more for the tempoi and eternal interests of yourselves and families than 1 have been able to do much and sincerely, as I can truly say, I have desired and labored for yod and their welfare. Related thus, then, and bound to this congregation, by so many sacn and ;strong ties, I need not conceal that it has been in my heart to live an! to die with you, as your pastor. But (lod, it api)ears, has ordered it otheljmst wise — for I again say, let us look above all mere human agents and secoiiM — i- ary causes — and looking thus to God, I say, from the heart, "Tl e will of tl l^ord be done." If by my resignatioi., "C'hrist shall increase' among you gratefully and adoringly, although it be painfully, I am willing to decrease. And the sacrifice which I thus make will, I believe, be none ,iie less a ceptable to God, though, for the reasons stated (the love of my people an the love of my work), made by me with pain and reluctance ; but 1 l)elie\ that, made for these reasons, die very pain and reluctance which it cau.st* me, will make it all the more acceptable to Him who re(]uires us to to tak| up our cross and follow him, leaving father and mother, people and friend houses and lands for his name's sake. The same considerations, I also feel, ought to cause some to judge me, the matter with more leniency than they have seemed disposed to do. All that has been obtained by my resignation, and more, might and wou have been obtained in a manner, less j)ainful to my feelings, and to the ft ings of others besides, had two or three acted with more considcraleness. y t ut I'ttle to 0^^^^^^'^ '^<^ ""'^'"d f'^''-'l''^g towards anyone ii the matter. 1 forgive any Tiost valuabK :a"^^y ^'^^'^'^ misjudged or misrepresented me, in any way, even as I pray hope to be forgiven. To oui own Master, let us, each, stand or fall. ur own Master we must each stand or <.-.i. at while elew union roll thJS umber on tlul rdi nances of til lave much, I feel, to ask forgiveness for, both from (jod and from you, eoi)le. I owe much to God, and to you, for the regard and respect which you have ever treated me, and for all the comfort which I have 'resbyterv thclH^'^'^ y*^*^*' '"-^^ y°"'* minister. church for i8;lp)we much also to the inhabitants of this town and neighboring town- tof other denominations, ibr the respect with which, as a minister of t, I have evev found myself treated by them, and I feel very thankful e peaceable, friendly terms in which I have been enabled ever to live tfthem as neighbors and frieids. fand now, my dear people and friends, I commend you to God and to the of his grace which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance g all them that are sanctified. Tiie Lord of peace himself give you always by all means. The Lord be with you all — old and young, t» and children, young men and young women. 'If there be any con- lion in Christ (Phil. ii. i — 5), if any comfort of lov.j, if any fellowship of rit, if any bowels and mercies, fulfil ye my joy, that ye be like-minded, g the same love, being of one accord, of one mind. Let nothing be througli strife or vain-glory ; but in lowliness of mind, let each esteem V, and with tl"* egation. tli 4 power, by r, to secure ou have ac(|i| temporally airJ required to S| ; of (iod, it mn i'er in behalf ihall be, that jr the tcmpor een able to do ibored for yoi so many sacn art to live aiil better than himself Look not every man on his own things, but man also on the things of others. Let-this, mind be in you which was n Christ Jesus.' — Only, let your consS^lmon be as it becometh the el of Christ, that whether I come and see you or else be absent I may )f your aiifaini and that ye stand fast in one spirit, striving together for ith of the Gospel. (2 Cor. xiii. 11) Finally, brethren, farewell; be of comfort, be of one mind, live in peace, and the God of love and peace be with you." y the Lord Jesus Christ be now, and at all times, in all places in all trdered it othelmstances, through li'e, at death, and through eternity, "all and in all to iits and seconm— - Amen. "Ti e will of m among you 5 to decrease. :>ne -.le less ml my people aiii but I believ which it caus(i res us to to ta pie and friciu to judge me, id to do. light and woul! and to the ftnl ■iidcrateness. APPENDIX. ■«x>- To theyfeu. Dr. Bain, Minister of St Andrew's Church : We, the members and adherents of your congregation, regret that, after a long Hfe of useful service amongst us, you should feel yourself forced to retire from the active duties of the ministry among us, under circumstances over which, as it seemed to us, we had no control. As it has been decided at a meeting of the congregation, by a small major- ity, that it was for the interests of the Presbyterian Church, in its present unhappy circumstances in this place, that you should be allowed to make a sacrifice of yourself, we earnestly hope that the object for which you have done this may be accomplished. As members of your congregation, we feel that we would be remiss in our duty to you, if we allowed this opportunity to pass without expressing our heartfelt sympathy and affection for vou and your family. Although you are retiring from being our minister, we are confident that your usefulness as a minister of Christ will not cease, but that your Master, in the new stage of life which is before you, will yet present to you work in his vineyard. From our knowledge and experience of your past life among us, we have every reason to believe that, in whatever sphere in life Providence may see fit to place you, you will always be found engaged in your Master's work. And now, dear pastor, remember that you have still a main place in our hearts, and it is our earnest wish that these feelings may ever be kept fresh by your frequent coming in and going out among us. Signed by SAMUEL WILSON, DUNCAN McNEE, DONALD McPHAIL, JOHN JAMIESON, ELDER.S, And by seventy-three other communicants m the church, and several adherents. April nth, 1 88 1. A N S W K R I have received your kind and affectionate address with much gratification, although it has assured me only oi that of which, for many years, I have had no doubt, viz., your regard and affection for me as your minister, and your kindly wishes for my family. With the repeated assurance given us of the large number from Knox Church prepared to unite with our congregation in the event of satisfactory arrangements being made for my retirement ; with J2BE1 my own feelings repeatedly and honestly expressed to you, that in the very peculiar circumstances in which, in the providence of God, we find ourselves at present placed, it would be in the interests of the Church that 1 should retire, if a cordial union could thereby be secured, and friendly co-operation thereafter be likely to follow ; and especially with the perplexing and difficult question, as I submitted it to you at your meeting, which, first you, and then the Presbytery, I told you, had to "consider on its merits, and without any further regard to me," viz.: "Is it or is it not expedient, in the interests of the Presbyterian Church in this place, in its present circumstances, that 1 should retire ?" I was not surprised nor disappointed that the desires and hopes which led me in the circumstances, conditionally to tender my re^ig- nation, should have Uxl you to offer no objections to the Presbytery's accept- ance of it. Indeed. I was prepared to hear that you had, not by a small majority, but unanimously, acquiesced in my resignation. I was, however, both surprised and pained to learn that the resolution suggested by one of the members of the Presbytery's Commission, to accept my resignation with an expression of kindly regard and good wishes for me, so long your pastor, had been opposed, even by one ])erson, connected with the congregation, and that the cold, unkind resolution put in place of it should have been silently adopted. I understood, however, and I appreciated the feelings which caused you to refrain from opposing this unkind, or at least, inconside- rate resolution, and my confidence in your regard and affection was not in the least shaken. In this confidence your address shows that I did not err. As expressive of my feelings towards you, my dear friends, I can only add what I stated in my answer on the occasion of the presentatit)n, so kindly made to me by many in the congregation, in September last, "My ])astoral relation to you as a congregation may change, (it has now changed) l)ut my interest in your welfare, temporal and eternal, shall never cease or be abated. I have strong affection for many of you as personal friends and as my brethren and children in the Lord. And I have towards every family and individual now connected with the congregation, or who has been connected with it, feelings only of kindness and of strong desire for their welfare in all their highest interests in time and through eternity." At Almonte, a7id within St. yohiis Church, the Tudfth day of April, one thousand eight hundred and eighty-one, which day and place the Presby- tery of Lanark and Renfre7v beini^ met and constituted. Inter Alia. The Committee appointed to draft a minute anent the retirement of Dr. Bain from the active ])astorate of St. Andrew's Church, Perth, gave in their report, which, on motion duly made and seconded, was received and adopted, and ordered to be entered on the records of the Presbytery and a copy of the same sent to Dr. Bain by the Clerk. The minute is in terms following : — "In accepting the demission of the Reverend William Bain, i\l. A., 1). D., who has been the incumbent of St. Andrew's Church, Perth, for more than thirty-five years, this Presbytery hereby, in accordance with a resolution to that effect, record the estimation in which he has been held in the surround- ing district by all classes of the community, and especially by the sections of the Christian chinch with which he has in any way been connected. Dr. Bain was highly respected by the general public, while his genial qualities en- deared him to his friends, they could not lail to have more or less influence on all with whom he had intercourse. In the church, of which he was an office-bearer, his services were eminently useful. He was characterized for consistency and prudence, and he was found to be a sincere friend and a wise counsellor. Jn transacting ecclesiastical business, his counsels were of great value, and the Christian sjiirit in which they were tendered, gave weight to his senti- ments, and frequently jirocured their adoption. The deference which was always paid to his opinion, was deservedly great. In his retirement, therefore, from the duties of the active j;astor:ite within the bounds, his brethren feel very sensibly that they have sustained a great loss. Previous to the union of the Presbyterian churches in the Dominion of Canada, Dr. Bain officiated for many years as Presbytery Clerk, and dis- charged the duties of that resjionsible [Ibsitioii with credit to himself and ad- vantage to all concerned. In the exercises of the pulpit, Dr. l»ain delighted. His heart was in his work ; those, therefore, who enjoyed his ministrations must have been con- vinced, that he was thooughly in earnest, and there is every reason to be- lieve, that his public addresses were blest to many. One j^leasing nnd tang- ible fruit of his labors has been the liberality of not a few of the members of St. Andrew's congregation to the schemes of the church, and other benevo- lent objects. As a pastor he was ever ready, not only to attend to the calls of his own j^eoplc, but also to give to others advice, and consolation in sea- sons of aftiiction. And there are not wanting testimonies of the good results of such ]jrofessional visits. He has been a conscientious advocate of temperance, exemplifying in his practice what he recommended to others. Dr. Bain took a deep interest in the spiritual welfare of the young. T.,ong before Sabbath schools were considered to be of intrinsic importance in the dissemination of divine truth, an institution of this kind was in operation in his congregation, which was numerously attended, and successfully conduct- ed. At the same time, he was far from being indifferent to the claims of secular education. His vii. ws relative to this were well known, and duly ap- jireciated. Accordingly he was appointed from time to time to discharge the duties of a (Irammar School trustee, and examiner of candidates for d\e office of a Common School teaclier, and a trustee of Queen's University. Dr. Bain obtained various marks of honorable distinction. At the end of his academic course, he took the degree of Master of Arts. As a tribute of respect he was, on two occasions, unanimously elected Moderator of Synod. In recognition of his merits as a clergymen, tiie Senate of Queen's University conferred on him the degree of Doctor in Divinity. The members of this Presbytery therefore in releasing Dr. Bain from the charge, the duties of which he has so long performed with faithfulness and efficiency, cordially and unitedly, desire that the Creat Head of the church may bestow on their beloved brother, and on all the members of his family, every needed l)lessing, and wish him success in any sphere of usefulness in which in the course of Providence he may see it to be his duty to engage." " Extracted from the Records of the Presbytery, by (Signed,) "JOHN CROMBIE, " C/eH'."