New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-06

work together for good to them thu, love q "A ,h.,
the called according to bis purpose" " ' NV
However the dsapginimeu LET M re,,l I, m On.
inference Of Gods voice however greyous he af,ton
/ let us recognize il az the work OF Gods hand
Il know, said one OF the persons who so grsvoyslv
suffered in this lste dsPenssiion. Il know ths, wa,
Gods bond that alone can reconcile me" The onIy
comfort that | find said another. Il. in casting
"myscf upon God If the crushing tower fal. II the
engine of death o1lodes II the ship richly ireighted with
human life silks beyond all natural and beyond
all human responsibilities, let see Gods hand, aud
recognize God providence and submit to Cod will
>. have dwelt go hong this first topic that can
speak Only briefly the ether lessons which Savior
neulcSies in our text
While he denies that The victims OF Pilates cruelty or of
the crushing tower should be Judged peculiarly guilty
he with equal emphasis atrms that they snd al who heard
him we're sinners.
sentence Of Gods unerring word All have sinned and
come short of the glory of God.
Ii was upon this ground tina. Lord warned hs
hosTer. of coming danger Think We these sinners
above all men tell you nay But except ys repentye
shah all Likewise perish. And not these words Of
divine authority confrped by universal observation and
by each mans experience Whst is all history but
a dreadful catalogue Of human sins Every page m
botted with tears and stained with blood is one un
broken panorama Of fierce struggles human passions
there figure in all their violence, so'hness and erociy
The appe,ises ha; ally to brutes and the passions
that ally TO devils appear prominently in these scenes
lie not sinner While al history proves il by its
terrible recital of facts does not every human insti.u
ton and all human literature take it for granted Every
law enacted recognizes Every drama is founded upon
some human crime or some human folly. Every h,tioD
poItrays the excess Of some human passion.
Let the proudest and most self righteous moralst hon
esty scan his own life and anayEe his own motives
pare them with the unsuled purity of God and with the
acquisitions God law. and he too, will utter the Ian
gusge of the penitont God be mercful TO sinner
But need argue this question with yoa, my he1er
Has not your own conscience already argued it,
IL not It's solemn uterance Thou art weighed in the
balances ard art found wanting Canyon think ofdeah.
that honest hour that inevitable event. without
ton of read And why thai dread Does it not orgi-
nate in tie consciousness of sin Is not sin the sting of
death And does not that very dread confirm the
ton of scripture that Death hath entered into the world
by sim and that death hath passed upon all men, for that
all men have sinnod o.
Our common liability 20 Affections, and ne universal
sentence Of deah pronounced upon prove that
all sinners In whatever light regard our sulerings
they prove this fact that sinners. IL we count
tn punishment the punishment! must be inflicted on
the ground Of our guilt. III regard them dsciph
nary designed for correction and Improvement the
infection must be on the ground that sinners and
need TO be saved from sins This them is OF the
solemn lessons of our text l. too am sinner, sinner
against God, against God Justice, against God mercy.
}. But q sinner and in common with all sin
ners SIN liable 10 perdtiOn To all living In sin the
solemn language of this heavenly teacher i except ye
repent We shall all likewise perish. To death all
liable, but death On san Is perdon We cannot suppose
that our Lord here threatened all his hearers with some
awful violent death the danger that he warned them OF
wes not death by crushing tower by sudden
explosion or by the swords of cruel Roman soldiers.
Doubtless some who heard him dsreg aried his warning,
and yet died quietly in their bed. But did they escape
the perdion Of which he warned them The death Of the
body the whole OF the death of which he warned
them.