New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1859-08-11
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE THURSDAY, AUGUST ii, 1882

srd cell perfection 7 Wtht furnishes -1e--, j. lne
highest nteres, Of society snd sni n the school
does il better than the Church. the school ought 70,
and will superse1e the Chlrch, a., indeed, arealy
occssioraly Las done in WINS; are thought TO De very
sdysuced neishborhoois ri this country. But the
Protestant Of les urcompTomi-ipg knd may reply
You overlook tue fact that Chrstis.i y Is p)>ive
revestion OF truth and duty, and thi, the Church,
having 70 embojy this vela:ion, mss an ex and
reason. nay necessity tDr existing Bu suppose ne
asked Has lot this reve.stb N emptei rs Gon.ehs
into the human reason, into history aud cVthZaop,
Until tie Gospel Of Chris Is SO mixed with the moral
and spiritual Ne II sccety, tia, philosophy and prsc'
teal wdon nay, thai Society Usef Is wiser man 'he
Church What special or exclusive custody OF the
Gospel given IA the world has the Church and II We
have the Gospel, what wsn: We OF the Church
know ansgeT 10 tbls question, II tie Gospe! me
only chiefly what now passes for with most noble
spuiis sn,re revelation VI uutn. IL l. more. IL Il
gift vi he, c)umGncTor of power, which u n
tinuols il force and viue always resdicg IN s Nv
ing /, uuiain mskiug the Church through whicn Is
given DO. a mere reservoir tina may be empued, out
permanent coDdnr', or channel, through whlcn ho"s
dOgr the eternal river of God Bu. = the Church, IN
fact, .uch cbsnne supposias th>t The fountain
lie ahve and flowing, and that God be really inma-
nent Communicating force not merely tn nut 10 our
souls through IL GospS and by His Son Is not s'ciety
Itself now In is total zs.ion she vehicle through
which the consciousness of God, opened by Chrst,
reveal. itself TO- and nouri-hes ana makes divine, the
lite and Leart OF nar In short. Is not inst Invisible
Church, which, without nose of hammer or saw,
secreiy builds Itself the spiritual HE OF humanity,
far more real. life giving, and sustaining than me
visible Church which the extsn religious institutions
of ChristeIdon claim TO be The query l. piau'ole,
and il proposed by noble men among w. Bn' hhs /"
only an affirmative answer Ear be L iron me 20
deny that the Holy Spirit TO extent seldom spprecl-
s,ed ths. God himself 10 degree iui1itely beyond
any ordinary possible recognition, tnat Cbrss, IN
these latter ages ID an immeasuao!s sum- ts secret
life of humanity. Were there not vast deal more OF
God and Christ and the Holy Ghos, in the world than
the void knows of, or thinks for, We should 20 10
ruin swiftly indeed. But Am persuaded that We have,
ar social ard terrestrial beings living in definite hs'or'
cal relations, a grest desl moe OF Obligation 70 the
visible than TO the invisible Church. Inc Invisible
Church takes due of itself and OF u; the Vstoe
Church is committed 10 our hands. DO hot say thst
the visible Il important as the lhVsoe, or as gea
in It's infutrce but Crly that u Is our charge, because
of the two 1t alone = within our voluntary reacI.
Moreover ] am convinced, that in accordance with
the whole anslogs OF Providence every radically ul-
portant relation ship of humanity il, and mus be,
euboded ID AN external institution the relation oi the
exclusive aft ctors, the family, the social reanohs
in society, the political III the state, the rehgious III
the Chmch. 80
an We'll enough aware that the essAsoti OF the
Scriptures lie the collection or congregation OF the
.Agro the called. But It'll only al Illustration Oh
the CONNER rule governing our humanity IN All Things,
that the collection ~ csng together oil human oenss
in any ore Of their ica relationships, OF abou, any
one Of their essential needs oraOns develops at
once something which of their individual parte.
could have predicted or anticipated, or IN hiuisou
ossessed-a preordained consequent OF relationship
tertiuyq Qutd which Is very different from any Oh
the elements of which ii is composed Thus man IL
dome-tic social ,liicsl, an ecclesiastical being
but 1t il absurd TO say that any individual man ms
each one of these things the family, society the State
the Church, being impossible to an isoated oens aud
eve able until it has beenexperenced as the
fruit Of community of life. There il Church IN hunap-
iy a. there is family state, ssocial state aud pout-
cal ST ,e-a Church which has always been oeVeiopei
and has been the principal source OF the religious LIE
of HUMANITY Christianity takes advantage of pre-
viously existent institution, which was not SIMPLY
Jewish but human, when she polrs her HE through
the Church. This is the reason why Chft estaoshei
fhs Church. but not The Church; and why 80 ittle oi
the thought and inspiration of Lord Is used To re-
construct an institution already organized through
which his spirit WAS to flow but thai spirit was no less
shut up in institution and An organization tnan Is
the family, differing by various shades ana u'asee As
that does bat always tending To It's pure AMI holy type
of strict monos amy: or than the State s or than So
cieiy Is.
Would that could develop mere, at time so forget
n aid reckless Of the dependence of society on organ
izatiUn the doctrine Of 1HSui0Rs the only ln-tru'
m.nts except literature ard the blood, by which the
riches Of ages the experience and wisdom OF huHanity
are handed down; institutions the only constant aad
sd quate teachers of the masses and which are 70 the
average Mid all that honor, conscience and ihteect
are 10 exceptional men aud women. But forbear.
Christianity nohing until an institution seized the
Church the preestabshed channel an organ OF her
Influence aud Transmission, the conduit OF her livng
wafer the vehicle Of her Holy Spirit; she put her
own external marks upon it, well a. her own nte-
rior life into IT, ana has at length made the Church 10
mean HER Church, ss THE Bible has come 10 mean
h.r sacred books. All sacred books predicted the
Bible which has summed them mp, and DIS
missed them from du'y; and the Church IN
the wilderness predicted the Church in Christian civil
naiion which -hould publish the eterna! Word. mus
the Church is neither nor old, neither liked nor
transitional; is simply living, and therefore, ike the
10 md fhe Ia
cold is warm, is recognized is unrecognlzed, ID no
man, Greek English, American, but always The
Church. the organic, external vehicle OF Gods Word
and he Holy Spirit to aggregate or congregae human
ity. TIE Individual can JOIN the Church only in his
capacity OF a member Of the human race IL Is ms
human " or oneness with and dependence upon MS
race that makes him eligible to Church membership,
ss s his relationship to bis kind that alone makes tue
bond Of the family OF society or OF the state anu eX
istence in them possible to him. .
The common CONSCIOUSNESS OF God, which IS the
Go, pei partake who willmly cut themselves on
from the BODY Of Christ II Il heeiore tact apd
ANYBODY may zee who reads the recent letter 10 his
cor ATTIC of the gifted b, arch OF this neg bor-
hood the ultmator of Protestant negations that hos
TIL 10 tie Church is fatal 10 the iaemory OF the spirit
Of Christ once essed much more to the attainment
of il; that the JUNCTION OF the Holy one IL lost even by
those unconscious Of their misfortune in this only pS
slble form OF CONCESSION.
In his individual capacity ~ an morgan g, unrelated
independent being, man has Lot, and caunot nave,
tue affections, internal experiences ana HlsposHons vi
the powers aud blessings which he can ana may, aui
will receive in his corporate capacity-ln either or any
of the great departments VI his Humanity, the fah y,
the eta e. the Church Nor i. there any complete and
satisfactory, perhaps real way TO come into this
corporate capacity except through publicly recos-
nized and legitimate organizati0n whether domestic,
political or religious The powers that te are or
= dan.d OF God; the laws governing the family or
der are in each county for the time diyiney enpow-
cred 10 shield what society did not make AMI can
NOT unmsk.: and the historical Church for the tune
heiIg. aud the place IN which it organizes tue
Word of God and institutes the channel OF d.
vine grace is divine Institution, connection with
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