The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1866-11-12

was love This was the imperial perfection.-this was
The regning attribute Of the divine nature This
the attribute that God exercised towards his creatures
II essential 10 the happiness and salvation OF
that he should place himself under moral restraints
and If he permitted himself TO be brought
under the influence Of those restraints the flow
Of Gods benienity would reach him. This was a
delightful aspect Of the divine nature The wonderful
adaptation Of the world minstered our wants
and enjoymens God in the full nature OF His perfec
ton, Furnishes SINS but He also oveth the world-a
guilty world a wretched world-and his love comes to
rescue those who stained with sim He prepared the
channel through which that love must flow out again
rescue the world which He loved much to give His
only son for its redemption God, through Jesus
ciled the world to Him, and this constituted glorious
illustration Of the love OF God God had no pleasure in
the death of sinner, but favorably disposed
wards reconciliation Why did he not proceed at
to put the divine in force against us2 There could
be exception to that But when they
came TO consider the exercise Of Gods love- they would
see His goodness the the relations
which He was ready re establish with ungrateful man
They to bear in mind that what Jesus had done for
the remission Of sins was not thing OF mans de-
vice. II the love Of God: His desire TO
remember the miserics OF man. He had provided num-
erous reasons showing that He did not wish the death
of sinner, but that the sinner should turn to Him.
There the throne Of glory which God ed
too dazzling for to contemplate but there also
for the punishment OF sinners He also sat throne
| Of grace From this throne He makes overtures OF
peace and blos out the transgrcssons of On that
throne he God OF love, and there should go
to find that grace which will help US In every need
Christ has manifested himself under aspect pecu-
arly encouraging and furnishes the foundation for the
exercise of the fullest confidence towards God who gave
His only son for our salvation Having done this, what
prove that God was open handed and open hearted to-
wards poor pentent sinners9 In giving Jesus, God
gave all promise by which it is intended that His
people shall become particpators in the divine nature
The love Of God through Christ is perennial fountain
that never flowed deeply when every stream of
human comfort was dried up The right reverend gen.
tleman concfhded very able and touching sermon
which listened to with the deepest attention through
out
Clinton Avenue Congregational Church,
snlrlx
.1ntemperance Great Cities-Its Causes and Rene
Dies the subject Of the preached yesterday
afternoon by Rev. Dr. Buddington, at the Clinton avenue
Congregational church, Brooklyn The speaker dwelt
considerable length upon the great social vice. whose
stence in cities he attributed to the places OF
temptation therein This was Of the most potent
In New York city alone there eight
thousand places at which the means OF inemperance
could be procured Another the character Of
the people in large cities They of all dispositions
religions and nationates Again. young men came
thher TO seek fortune and fame and absent from the
ties Of homo they filled their leisure hours by visits to
saloons and places of amusement where the habit OF in.
toxicaton surely acquired The reverend gentleman
also thought our fire companies were prolific source Of
the great evil while large share Of blame TO be
attributed to the theatres billiard Saloons dance houses,
end to the excursions on Sunday The remedies he
tended lay in great measure with the pulpit and the
press There doubt Of the truth Of the temper.
ance cause. What it wanted workers. He thought
prohibt0ry legislation to the desired end
During the months of May June last when the Ex-
else law in force, there fifty per cent less of
arrests than the corresponding months or last
In conclusion he urged that there should be change in
the customs OF society, whereby the wine glass might be
excluded from social gatherings and that every ndi
vdual should be example and advocate OF total alb
stinence The rising generation was fruitful field for
the labors OF the The foreigners coming to
shores should be acted upon that their customs might
not remain with them. In this instance he congratu-
lated the counrymen Of Father Matthew, that there
twenty thousand OF their number in New York and
Brooklyn pledged to temperance.
The Divine Authorship Of Revelation-Sermo
by Rev. DIR. Checver.
discourse delivered last evening in the Church
OF the Puritans by the Rev. Dr. Cheever the divine
inspiration OF the Scriptures The following synopsis
OF the arguments advanced In the Sermon
The reverend gentleman commenced bis discourse by
reviewing the line Of argument pursued in former dis
He said his argument would now be from me-
chanica analogy matchmaker would not make q
watch partially and leave his work incomplete who
would expect to make money by his business But II
made clock for the public benent, he expected
make reputation by IT, So 1t ia with Gods work 1t
Is perfect but the days Of tho Jewish dispensaon
revelation complete The earliest form Of Revela
ton is law as seen in the ten commandments But law
~ bo W S
black men have no rights that white men
are bound to respect. and in the injustice
have line Of prophets and teachers bringing men back
to the principles OF justice and making Divine revela
roots in mems social life, which rise again into
trees OF civilization. great part Of revelation before
the time Of Christ therefore, consists Of the history
the law. Out Of mems darkness every and then
there shoots up rocket OF light The subsection OF men
Is the object Of revelation There could have been no
had not been for the revelation OF the fall Of man.
then We see the necessity Of saviour In nvcnting
man wandered farther and farther from God II
was the agonzing demand for q Saviour that
the world groaned under before Christ When the
world thus proved thoroughly guilty increased the
need OF saviour The law for the purpose Of show
ing that sin s sim The sin that would otherwise bavos
the mind Of man himself The Jews put to death the
messenger OF peace who came under Gag Of truce TO
the guilty world Now other nations have knowledge
that they would have done no better than the Jews
II was Intended that men should SEQ in revelation
the errors Of sin, death and hell on the one
hand, in progressive degrees until they at
length saw the fulness OF the contrast OF the
glory OF God In salvation What will men desire TO
know than Christ and him crucineds His work
was miracle not time but Of eternity, measuring in
rs grasp both heaven earth and hell Ali
iraed in its sanctfyng and ever glorious light II was
the most stupendous OF all miracles Everything IN
revelation proceeds gradually and regularly IL would
not have been forged In this manner Revelation pro-
cceds without any osentaton towards its grand object
like still waters in green pastures. From the first
ts eh history q man. Revesicn does not always pro-
coed direct like cannon ball TO the object wishes to
teach, but strikes OIL now and then like the branches Of
telegraph line intelligence. II tells not
only the prospect OF man through eternity but II gives
also history Of the world from the overowing current
OF Gods infinite knowledge The object OF the great
revelation clearly known until the great purpose
OF burst upon the world and cleared up all that
dark before. When the workmen are breaking
ground for building or putting II up who can tell what
IL may look like before " Is nnshedf Want OF the know
ledge Of Gods objects make impous men reject His
revelation altogether To understand revelation wo
must take Il whole from age TO age and in connec-
with Christ the Keystone, in whom the whole arch
contres Because the histories Of certain books OF the
Bible are not known are we 10 reec. the booksY The
reverend gentleman announced his intention OF con-
tnuing his argument in a future discourse
Anniversary Of the John street Methodist
Episcopal Church.
The nnety-eighth anniversary Of tho John street
Methodist Episcopal church appropriately celebrated
yesterday, the being Of unusual interest
number OF leading Methodiss from all parts OF the
country participated in the commcmoration, representa-