New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-04-26
NEW PUBLICATIONS.
HENRY WARD BEECHERs LIFE-THOUGHTs

meLt with certain muscular and healthy common
sense. Without the restraints Of the latter quality,
his active imagination would often lead him into
ab,urdites. His mind ia less contemplatiye than
mpulsiye in its east but he is preserved from va
carries BY the hOmely shreHdaess that runs 10 his
blood Hence, bis e1temporaneous illusions Will
bear repetition without any essential loss. They
generally re.t on substantial basis OF thought, and
ALWAYS reproduce some striking fancy. But they
are more remarkable for their happy application OF
obvious IDEAS 10 everyday human experience, and
tie forcible, dramatic comparisons, which clothe
them with vivid reality. They do not e'aporate
on berg put into print The compiler OF this vol
uu e has accordingly dore good work in gather
ing up the scattered gems which the preacher fiings
out with lavish profusOn. 1t Will be welcomed
throughout Mr.. Bechers large parish, which eI'
tends far beyond the limits of Brooklyn. Our
readers may be curious to meet again with some OF
the winged words which have hushed and awed
them as they fell in fiery streams from the speakers
lips.
Here is q passage which shows how man ought
TO fight:
We should brave trouble as the New England boy
braves Winter. The school Is mile away over the
snowy bill, yet he fingers not by the hre but WIN
bis books slupg over his shoulder, ana MS cap ted
closely under his chin he sets on. 70 face toe storm
Ard wien he reaches the topmoet ridge, where the
powdered snow lies in drifts and the north WIND comes
keen ard biiirg does he shrink snd cover down be-
Meath the fences, run into the nearest house 10
warm himself Nc; he buttons up his coat, ana re-
oicts 10 defy the blast and losses the snow wrea'ns
with his foot and go, erect and fearless with strong
heart and rudy cheek, he goes on to his place al
school.
Now, when the fierce winds of adversely blow over
you and your life summer lies buried beneath irost
and snow, do not linger inactive, or Sink cowarIy
down by the way CT turn aside from your course LOT
momentery warmth and shelter but, With stout heart
and firm step, go forward in Gods strength TO van
quish trouble and TO bid defiance TO disaster ltnere
is ever time to be ambitious, il not when ambition
is easy but when il il hard. Fight in darkness; ngnt
when you are down die hard and You won die 81 all
That eelanous bodied man. whose bones are not even
muscles ard whose muscles are pulp-that man Is
coward.
Next comes the picture Of two-foot Christian.
Tie disputes which have filed the Church upon the
doctrine Of perfection seem TO me TO have been PIT
liable. They reveal the nauowest conception OF hu-
man chsrscter. Gods idea of perfection is not mere
conformity to rule and law, but, with this, develop
meIt into q state far beyond anything known among
men. Perfection is ripeness but time Is not sum
mer long enough 10 ripen the soul. Heaven Is the
souls GUNNER.
The perfection Of the sct ools is nd Of mandarin
perfection. Suppoee Chinese mandarin, whose gar,
den was filed with dwarfed plants and trees should
show me oak tree, two feet high growing IN pot
Of earth, and should cay TO me:
"A perfect tree must be sound at the root-must It
mott And it must have all lis branches complete, and
its leaves green Look here. This root is sound there
is 10 decay in the trunk; il has the full number OF
bralc Chess the leaves are bright and green, and little
acorns are rpenng all It. Ii is perfect tree;
why DO you not admire II
A miserable two foot oak! ! turn from it TO think
Of Gods oak in the open pasture hundred feet high,
wide-boughed, and braving the storm.
Now, when man comes to me talking Of perfection,
quates-must he not He must control his passions
ard sppetes and regulate his affections. He must
Lot Sin in this thing, that thing, the other. Such
!. do not commit this fault, fail into that
ror. have trained and schooled myself. Behold me!
l am perfect can but exclaim, Miserable two
foot Chrstianr I have no patience with this low
standard, these earthly comparisons, this relative
goOdne.e. l must outgrow this pot Of earth. God
eternity s in hoy sou and shall need it ALL to grow
up to the measure Of the stature Of the funess of
Christ.
Then Of men who are institutions.
Men in extensive and prosperous business are often
target for envy TO shoot at and when they fail and
60 down, there Thousands who wckedy rejoice in
their fall But in our days some men are Institutions
They DO rot stand like PoDpeys Pllsr or Ceopatras
Needle, towering to the sky, detached and alone they
are Ike mountains which carry forests far up their
sdes, and shelter and nourish ten thousand living
things in their shadow Some one says: why do
you that that weter. wheel is broken black,
lun berirg thing, hall o! tie time in the water and half
of the time out Why do you not care for the nicer
wheels ard spindles within the building ~
do care, ard therefore am cory for the breaking
Of the great wheel. Its axis passes within and by
drum and bands lite power lie commune to the va
rious rooms, and every spindle is dependent upon its
revolutions. When en- earthquake comes, by as much
as house is elevated above the Others, by so much Is
ts ruin gre ater than tbers-ihs third story crashing
into the second, ard the second into the first. Now,
in extensive OusiIess are mountains OF shelter
ponderous wheels that turn the mill; lofty houses
which cannot fall without causing widespread disas-
ter; ard when We hear OF their failure we must Dot
think Of them slone but also OF the ten thousand de-
pendants who are affiliated with them. In not ir-
reverent sense it may be said they are set for the
fall and Using of msLy in lsrael.'
Here We have the doctrine of repentance.
Repentance Is neither base bitter. 1. is good
rising up out Of evil II is the resurrection of your
thoughts out OF OF lust. the turn
Of the coming DarkLess drops from the face, and
silver light oawns upon il. DO not live, day by day,
trying 10 repent but fearing the struggle and the suf
f.TiIg Deferred repentance in generous natures, is
greater pain than would be the sorrow Of real re.
penence. Manly regret fer wrong never weakens,
but always strengthens tue heart AS some plants Of
the biteret root have the whitest and sweetest bios
soms, the bterest wrong has the sweetest repent.
arce, which, indeed is Only the soul blossoming back
to lis better nature,
Hote-life not favorable 70 expansion.
A man living at hotel lie ike grapevine in a fow
objectionable, carried around from place to place,
looked at the root and hor at the top. Nowhere can
u get re al oroom and spread out bis branches
til they touch the morning aid the evening, but in
his own kouse.
Uniformity of faith in the church sign Of spir-
tual deafness.
OH suspicious Of that church whose members are
Gle in their beliefs and opinions. When tree is dead
il will lie any way alive it v Ill have its own growth
Wien mems desdn.ss is in the church. and their life