New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1853-11-25
REV II. WARD BEECHER.s SERMON.

REV Ii WARD BEECHERS SERMON.
TIYAoUTH CHURCH BROOKLYN
NJ pcccher selected his text from the 20th chapter
cf levil;cus-3d 10 18th verses, Inclusive.
"fye ~ aa.s. sad iseg my eomus5dpsns and dc
IVA, her .IeIeass Of field shall yield their i'
This is Gods promise TO the Jews, if they would be
oheeni 10 him. and let him educate them TO the meas
u-e Of prosperity and power Of which they were suscep
iible
Ii tie eth and 9Th verses special alusion is made to
tie power which men would attain. The nation would
be strong in the strength Of her citizens They would
stain 10 me asure ofstrengh which would make man
e.usl to Eve hundred common men.
lie Jews refused these obligations and God
rsitc;SG them.
But he transferred to the whole world the promise which
prophecy hung before this nation. And time is to come
IN hh the growth of society and the growth of the c
zen will the poetic description OF our text.
twas part OF God economy with the Jews to have
social festfvss which should incline their thoughts to
scsol prcsperi;es also festivals of grayer sort, in
which eir past history recaptulated amid the Choir
is;eIs Of solemn ublant Psalms and the whole course
cf tie nation it, laws, its various institutions divney
founded passed il review before the whole people Thus,
were hee ancient and sequesered people educated TO re
csd public affairs with ughtfnnes and trained toward
se government, by being made judges Of public AFFAIRS
It's This LIST precedent that We shall follow.
wish 10 develop what seems TO me the Christian doc
tsine Of Humsn Liberty.
drcrg Tie most cSe is the greatest in the order OF Gre
ator That place is assigned to He is the most com
rcx in faculty the most various and intense in action;
he most su;ceptite of impressions through
fcules ard the most powerful in producing effects upon
and upon mind But the two grand features that
distinguish man from oil other creation, are
The capacity of indefinite augmentation. He begins
within narrow limits but in his future there no limits
he il Infinite
2 The other fact is the power Of sefgoeerRment As
trped 10 the race the truth to say that some men
NAV By assiduou training become self governing Inc
truth larger,rnan was made 70 DC sen g9xgrhng nd
As rours should govern Themselves as that birds should
fy fsh swim worms creep The material world e gov
geverued Man made 10 govern; and that
70, errmer,. extending, to be sure over al the
lower races Of animals. chiefly and Distinguish con
minated in the capacity and fundamental duty OF seg
Tlogeb uot single mar had controlled himself and
not single nation been sefgoverned the truth would sun
be TIE ssme, nat mdas mature requires A'm 70 % @
~ srd that where By passion or ignorance ne rtH not
~ xheye BY restrictive violence he can not ne comes
slort Of The end for which he Yves created This u
fundamental in such sense thai man ihsI u no'
fes 10 60 az be viii Is not but the remnants Of one
human being half educated governed from without re,
esTng be rights from tie hands Of rulers AZ charities and
free rsstiyes s the creature that God meant
IN nan han ChiDannsns dwsrfed in flower pot j.
God. ides Of venerable oak. And nation OF such
hing csIed men, are, for conformity TO nature ke
res f eedsrs Of Lebanon rooted in thumb pots ana car
Led abort in rnsudarns garden 70 suit his csprice3 and
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