New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1854-02-06
THE MYSTERY OF THE GOSPEL.
discourse adhered yesterday afternoon at Tic Rec
II. CkaPins CAarch, Broadvay.

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II. Ckdpins CAarch Broadway.
BY THE REV W. H. rURSEss.
c 271be glory Of this mystery which Christ in you
Ne hope Of glory
The Gospel of Jesus Christ is profound mystery
That it is rightly entitled the existence now after
centuries of thousand sects, each with different
Aes Of it, abundanty shows II has been it continues
10 b studied with immense labor but men have not yet
cone to any common understanding OF its meaning II IT,
pis profound mystery full OF the deep things of God
Upen certain occasion the disciples of Jesus asked Him
WY He spoke continually in parallels. His was
'You able understand the mysteries Of the kingdom
of heaven, but the people unable therefore speak
sibtm in parallels His parallels therefore are $50 to
<sk pictorial hints of the deep and hidden things of His
sdo,n they the mysterious symbols of His religion.
tue something of the significance of this great mys
wy may be caught most readily at by the merest
aid But that il mast needs be understood better or
syn well by grown-up men, does not by any means
SHOW. The mere child understands tho immortal Preceps
and parallels of Christ for this very reason even because
ei child not yet disabled by the sins OF manhood,
pervered by the corrupt ways of the grown up world
Ne has eyes to see, and ears to hear and he sees
ssd hears and is not like the grown man, stone blind
md deaf everything that does not serve his pleasure,
isinerest, his pride Accordingly Christ declaredthat
% kingdom of truth, which He sought to reveal,
mapped in thick mystery and boled and barred against
who did not become children again 1t was SO in His
G has always been that truths hidden from the wise
prudent have been revealed to those who but
kbes But there is mystery in the religion of Christ,
sAch lot even uncorrupted chldhood-which only an
rsc eyes can look into Men have pred into the material
wld-they have dug down deep into the earth and dis
srered and brought out and made subserven to their
the mysterious forces dwelling in the metals but who
s penetrated the full significance Of the word OF Jesus
Een have measured the planetary spaces the distance of
be earth from the sum- but there is breadth OF appca
Sen Of which the precep and parallels OF Christ are sus
sItble which mankind with all their far reaching sci
aee have hardly begun to estimate From the beginning
the world and from the very constitution of our nature
nteres have always the very greatest attraction in the
ges Of men. Although bsed and bewildered the mind
N,urs to them again and again with curiosity which
nay be wearied for awhile but which can never be ex
husted religion without mystery the world never has
ndured and it never will When it could not find mys
ses has invented them out OF the rankest nbsurdtes
Bot the difference between mysteries and false is
lark ed and decisive Mysteries falsely called cheat and
ubd Inquiry while true mysteries do most urgently invite
md most abundanty reward it, As then naturally
yorped search into deep things as the result although
must needs be partial will be worth all the pains that
v NAV take let look into the my sery of the Cos
N of Christ All the pains that we may take, could we
aly become as little children, and look with chialke
pse blessed would be our eyes for they could discern
that most learned men, theologans aud philosophers,
AVE desired to see and have net been able The mystery
the Gospel of Christ in other word the meaning OF
Christianity what is it, What is its work elect parposs
the world In seeking to answer This question tn NOT
pg 10 trv 10 Law my finger the final cause on the one
cal and ultimate end which in the c0tnsels OF the
hrnal Providence Christianity was sent into existence
hanswer OF that say nothing except wh@ the
ole analogy of nature teaches namely that that end
steyer il nav be- must be good. Beyond tbs VINO sha
ndertake to tel with the most distant approach 10 rec
N The express purpose which the existence of any human
hnp even the humblest much more OF such beng as
arst and Of such fact as Christianity was particularly
sgrCd to fulfill There is not AZ atom thet has not
Hs near ana remote, involved in mystery that trans
sds the kfenest human sagaci!y The morgan
Rd material with which are now familiar as iueL the
coal upon which the comfort Of our dwellings depend
I'd The progress Of arts and heprOsperyo nrces
W ore ared for t present out Of vast forests that
N ago grew for ages We give aYeryeGned name as
I've knew something about i, but who that had seen
h ancient vegetation could have dreamed oil me ehds
aeh Is serving portion OF tao light tha' comes
Us from the midnight heavens has BEEN we are tOil,
usnds Of years its way from the stars from which
sirttms. Thus, after apparently random ana barren
ti Of thousands of yeaTs, when it falls this minute
Fsn, The humsn eve what an end does Disclose, what
ecfte does IL fulfill ia touching those springs OF power
z wonder the love Of knowledge, the devotion the re
%ka Of the human soul! In view OF such consideTa.
hrs which might DO multiplied without end how shall }
"Yevme even to guess at the issues OF the religion OF
es' s,ue hidden it may be IN the reInoe't space ID
Sros distant fuuriy Issues OF such unu,teIeoie tnIS
Stce 10 cause all its nearer a3d more immediate re
N's fftst and imposing they may appear u US 10
- trtng aud preliminary. Whether Chr"t came INTO
World for the cake of the world or whether me "orih
20 or His sake merely 70 furnish frame Tor 'Ie pc
@sd His godlike beiug-WhO shah tell or wh) kug"s .
nat consequences shdl come hereafter IN oser
Sses kom HE presence this earth. consequences 10
whole influence % the human race 5hsh DO
d " ihcideLti And vet with what Familiarity nnd con
49, 60 cone u ope tllk OF the scheme OF The Gospel
Il e! saw through the wt dc thing ana knt" eAaoIy
wSs$,3 q The Almighty IN sending 'hri't in.'
a. N.d u is not 10 my prcsent purpose 10
49, tIybiig Of tls sort 20 define tho c1Pres- ana
t,Iarpo'e oi God. invite you to consider With me
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