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

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with might, mind and purpose they are sustaining
laws which outrage it most shamel.ssly. Nay,
what at this very hour s this whole Christian people
| doing but treading down into the dust the verbal
laws Of Him. whom every Sunday and in all their churches
they elamorousy civil u honor and exalt making the
OF their profess Union the crushed souls Of
vain throw their protection Ii those prece
have weight with us-,hey but little better than
much waste paper now-we must be filed with personal
reverence for Him whose preceps they "a parts Of
HIM. a. His living words coming from His i1nost heart,
and bringing He great heart along with them they must
come home 20 hearts and conscences with all the sub
DUNG force of personal respect and affection. Tne
mon place, they appear 20 now but when they
ne as The sacred expressions Of His dear life they will be
to ne Like revelation from Heaven and shall see tina.
We never dreamed Of their meaning before. When we
once appreciate His personal character shall recognize
in Him that authority that divine authority which no
Inrales OF physical power but only personal truth in
tgIiy and goodness attest /, Is easy enough to
profess reverence for Christ We profuse enough in
that; but to cherish reverental love- warm natural
spontaneous, that shall give sicred authority every
word that fell from His lps.h. Is a very bing and
by 10 means easy The truth T. although His name il
familiar enough, and although have many nstitu-
ton churcles Sunday teachers and books duse the
knowledge Of Him, still he IL not known We have an
idea which passes for the idea Of Him but which where
1t Is anything more than name, is the idea of
FERROUS, unintegble being who is neither man nor God
while il insisted lie is both Such representations pre-
vail Of bis nature SELF contradictory that there moth
ing TO safety the understanding to excite any active
sympathy. Only the imagination is smen with a vagus
and barren Even if desire for what is real
were strong and manly and active sympa;hies
all alive there little or nothing TO crafty that desire
and to meet those sympahes in the popular doctrines
concerning Christ. As these represent Him He does not
come within our reach We cannot If we would have
that enthusiasm for Him which characters inmeasuably
Inferior to His readily inspire While it is denied
while indeed it is asserted that lie human being
made in all points like u.s. such views given Of Him
that bis humanity is rendered unreal The Christ
Jesus the greatest Of mediaors between God and man.
reconcing earth to heaven is take away and men know
where ind Him In fine the real Christ the Chris.
was such source OF power and life to His immediate
friends, has al but vanished ont of Chrisendom behind
the thick darkness Of false theology. Here great
why, although soemnly protesting His religion and
making tie greatest ado about it, longer derive
strength from Him His name, instead of being the all
inspiring symbol Of all that IL true and d sne represent.
10 the popular mind only huge shadow now taxing the
forHless shape OF the Supreme God and the dim ap
poaranoe # man and as just said only the i'm agna
ton il tiirred if thing within is stirred, the
heart We do not see the man breathing speaking strug
Cling end col qreIDg, with amans features and smans az
.t1tons But further when He is clearly rep
resented 10 u.s. even when lie stands before somewhat
az He stands in the New Testament in His simple humanity
upcouded by theological errors, even th1 lie, or
rather our IDEA Of Him. does not affect TO any pur
po,e II does not 80 klnde admiration and enlist
ympatties that prompted to hazard ali things for
the right Like Him We are none the stronger TO Withstand
tie seductiOns Of the srrOrs of defeat We do
not know the Apostle knew through Christ strengthen
ing him. how to abound and how to suffer need. STILL the
thought Of Christ s only thought 1t does not com
muueate life Far enough, indeed is from being
in the hope Of glory II never comes to anything Ike
this And Why is it thus dead Ii IL for this reason: be-
cause native love Of the truth and goodness Of which
He is the manilestOn is very weak We have other
and far stronger loves We have manly. healthy ap-
TreciatOn of what is and good. We enamorel
with with property aud popularity We
Gre full of houses and lands and profitable investments
these and such these great deal deaer to us than
generous self renouncng truth We have no relish for
tha moral which il revealed amid tears ana srug
ges amid the wOrld ridcule and the Of mobs and
which turns prisons into the palaces OF kings and the
black and bitter cross into magnificent throne We
doom ipo all huf at
the severe, incorporating beauty OF holiness We, lib
eral Christians have been and l in the habit of in
Sitting that the great thing that is needed in order to
der tie influence Of Christianity more powerful and the
idea of Christ active, is that the theological errors
long and so widely prevalent concerning Hin should be
txIloded-that correct and spiritual views of Him
should be disseminated II this were done, saytbe
historical Christ that IT, the Chris. Of the New Testament
truly forth IA about all that is necessary. Give
men a scriptural idea of HIM and all will come
right, and lie will again be- as lie once fountain OF
healing and inspiration to His protested disciples
But if this be enough now, why in heavens name was
ii Iot enough in His own day There He stood visiby
Pa6 on This Earth h"ie We ft93d with s AVE- 9Ga
dignaon His pity the ofthe poor His ndgna
tcI their proud and heales oppresor There lie stood
with wo.d of His lips, with the touch of His hngerwork
ing great miracles of mercy with simplicity and self for
getiulness majestic the Overarchng heavens Upon
tie rena Of every of those great crowds that pressed
around Him, His form was depicted with the precision of
Gods own hand In every ear runS the sound OF that
voice which the voice of God so true was it, anl
sincere. Never Gods earth did His eternal truth
make it, elf vsbf and srtculae as it then. Aud
vet Of all the mutades that followed Him. only handful
really saw and really heard Him. The res; had
good and hearing perfect but they did not they did
not hear Him. They saw only miserable vegabond,
mseador of the people companion of the oiigats and
the vile. They heard only blasphempy. What reason
have to suppose that it would be greatly different new
Publish the world correct scrptura represen alton. OF
Him. perfect daguerreotype-nay bring Him back in His
own person to the world and let Him say again
the same things which He has already said only with that
slight difference Of application which the difference Of tina
two times would demand let Him tell the people ofthis
try parable good African proving to us that the Ai
can our told the jews Ofthe Good Samar
tho ar with nearly all the
cir head who oud out against Him rs diso Arising
fanatic Union destroying radical and blasphemer not fit
TO live Where then is the difficulty What is the mat
ter Where is the reason why If the idea Of Christ
were defined with much dstncness, would still
be- as is as eless a marble image NJ hearers, if
TIN ouch our personal experience know something
NJ The divine quality of that humanity OF which Christ
The elori6ed embOdiment-know enough of II to catch /
some glimpse s beauty anscendng the beauty OF the
word-knOv enough Of TO be willing to hazard our own
ease and worldly for the sake OF speaking hu
name word doing humane act then the true idsa Of
Thirst will interest and inspire for then there at
fity between that and us-heD, by the sympathy OF
krored shirt we are attracted with magnetic power,
and BY the divine ovenes. of His character The
rrevailng Ideals that enlightened faith in the hori
cal Christ will bring as into UNITY win the spruai Christ
While this the reverse is true also, aud IL even
NOR. interesting and important truth namely-that we
must fret be i'll sympathy with the spiritual Christ before
We an believe any purpose though we should try ne1
or so hard in the historical Christ The recorded facts
will seem strange, out of the way unreal-the miracles
will look like direct violations Of the laws of nature in
stead of being to they are, illustrations OF tho
rrsude,t patur laws unless the spirit OF Chrst in
bear, nterprets His life for and shows how pre-
foundly natural that life les there must hrst be
divine humanity in Us, which though but as drop OF
dew sha reflect the perfect form of Chr.t and represent
Him The central figure OF the visible sphere Again
end sgain is urged preach pure and uncorrupt Chr:
taniy spread nitaranism, and all niquity personal
and public viii disaPPear-en abuses will be re-