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From Henry Word Beecher's Ser
mon on the "Cross Of Christ. preach
ed al. Music Hail. Boston, May 9Th,
we make the following extracts: i
The cross has twined around iteyery
association of dignity and beauty in the
world. Not one other thirg has recei-
we'd from the fertile minds and the all
iashioning hands Of men Of genius so
many extrinsic beauties as the cross OF
Christ. Millions never hear of il with
out throb, nor see it without aenu-
fiection. 1t dawns upon the child IN the
cradle nextto its own mothers face
and il l. the last thing from which the
light disappears when this child, in old
age, is dying. The cross is now as uni,
versal and as beautiful TO the associa-
tions and the memories ofmen, as then
1t was rare, peculiar and odious; II is
that which nowto US is not only sugges-.
tive of fact in Christ's history, but il
is also memorial Of two thousand wears
OF history. Around that simple cross
wood the heart of the world has gather-
ed for twenty centuries its stores of ad-
miration, Of love, of devotion. Blu
none of this was then known when the
Apostle entered upon his solitary way.
IL was then the very sign aud symbol
of ignominy - 1t was as far towards
the bottom of disgrace as now it is to-
wards the top of honor. Ii was, the con-
victs's mark then: it was the slaves the
CRIMINALS sign; il was hundred times
more odious then than to our ears is the
word "galIows" now; but that word ia
soitening and may yet become agree
able, too when it bears little more Of
right fruit. There is no VOID among
US that is significant of the deep and ac-
knowledged and universal detestation
that belonged to the cross. aa
hold one thing. that a mans con-
sclentious conviction is to be an object
Of respect, Of the most tender respect;
though you may think he is wrong in
that conviction and Judgment, yet that
man S religious feeling, going out toward
a wrong, is still to be respected, never
to be trodden upon, never to be wanton-
" dealt with lfyou can change his
convictions, you have right TO do so;
but while they are unchanged. and he
is sincere, the soul should never exude
the sacred gum, and you put the foot
of deilement on it It ought to be
cr Deta IL Al
fore when a man teaches that God is q
vast stalactrte, suspended from the heav-
ems white, pure, stony, stationary, l
cannot accept his deity, nor worship
any crystal of however many sides or
whatever briliancy
But if he worships such a thing az
that, am bound to say nothing offen-
siye to such judgment, bat only to say
this-1 cannot love-I may hide my
eyes from the bright coruscations of its
glory, might, perhaps, if | had Fear
and Veneration larger than | have, BIO
daunted, and bow in awe; and so into
worship: but never know how to wor-
ship until / know how to love; and to
love | must have something that | can
put my arms around, something that
touching my heart, shall leave not the
There must be something that will come
near my heart something that | can
love- or | cannot worship; and thi+
idea Of a central infexible, serene,
passionless God. unmoyed and unmoy-
ing, that sometimes thunders, and then,
under certa inconditions, loves in prop
er manner,--ths conception of the Di-
vine nature is utterly freezing, it sets
me upon the Poles, and all the reyoIu-
tions Of lhe year leave me but ice and
icebergs. v ...-.-
think we know how much we love
by knowing how much we are willing to
suffer for those we love, and only 80.
The man that loves and will not suf-
er does not love. The man that loves
and suffers but little loves little. The
true affection Of father and mother,
brother and sister, husband and wife,
friend and friend, IS not measured by the
which the man may have de-
pended upon the blood. which can be-
dependent on constitutional forms
The mere capacity to effervesce in a
moment ofpassion, the mere fuency OF
a tropical tongue-these things do not
measure our affection. 8r ~l#
You never know how much one loves
until you know how much he 10 willing
to endure and suffer; and it is the suffer-
ing element that measures love. And
all characters that are high must Of nee
essity. be characters that shall be will
ling patient. and strong to endure for
others. 1t is not SO much the pleasure
we have in affection. To be able to
have bright affections playing upon you
and giving great Joy to you nature in
the willing service ofothers, is another;
and thatis the Divine idea Of manhood,
OF the human character. as5vs49
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