The New York herald., 1867-04-15
RELIGIOUS SERVICES.

<sssensiai Powcr OF Nation = UnNersai
Education. ta
Yesterday morning. at Plymouth Church, Brooklyn.
before very crowded congregation, Rev. Henry Ward
BssoAsr delivered sermon the rights Of the freed
men. universal education and kindred SUBJECTS seleos.
ing for his text the 23d and oath Of the 9th chapter
OF JEREMIAH Fiji .s aaa .SIsfsh
Thus saith the Lord: Let not the wise man glory in
might Let not the rich glory in hs riches. but LEI
and Enosesh Me- tSa. I am 'ss the LORD which exercise
loving kindness, Judgment and righteousness in The
earth. For in these things delight. saith the Lord
The following is an abstract Of
Men are 80 made that hcy must needs glory in some.
thing II they take pride in mean things Il degrades
thcm; II In noble things, 1t exalts them Tho prophe,
dissuades men from glorying In secular eements-in
snarness in riches In political power Instead let him
glory in those qualities Of the soul which form Gods
glory HIS goodness HIS justice His loving kindness,
His truth. Let him glory in tho qualities which form
according TO the Divine ideal true manhood, they
form true divinity. II Is no. the outside that men
find their prosperity, but within themselves clear intel.
sence, moral purity reverence for God. justice and
goodness These tho true powers OF tho SOUL The
doctrine Is that in the qualities Of religious
manhood, or II you will not understand IT., in the
qualities simply OF manhood, one is TO and grounds OF
prosperity aud The occasions Of rejoicing Suppose one
were dead, laid out In state in mansion filed with
speudor surrounded with greatness full OF summer
blossoms; what would all tiieso thngs-tho art tho
beauty the scenes and scenery-asa to one that lay
deadY What would crown on his head be worth TO
him, and all that II means. sceptre in his hand
What would harps yios avail for him that lay dead
have some ENJOY mont OF these Surrounding Subjects
aud then second, then third and then fourth until
ny and ey "a his NE % was restored o 70 him Now lie Is sur
him strong, happy and JOYFUL the objects the acul
ties In himself upon which these objects act2 Arc
these exterior things good that have power except
upon tho presrpposon Of Vitality IL usy All the
wealth and beauty OF the world Is useless dead man
Each faculty awskng makes him more and more rich
and strong. mans wealth. then, mans power,
mans happiness do not stand in external things There
may be an effect In their relation TO that which he in
mind, and what he is at all is to be found out by
measuring him there. The ruc method Of wisdom is
then TO augment the man not the circumstances that
surround him Where you augment that wh ch is the
constituent element OF power in him. then you give
beng and being Is JOY for where you secure your
there ycu secure also effect But does follow that
when you secnrc effects you therefore sccarc
the powers that produce them. He that owns the
sell owns the harvest that that soil Is going 10
bring forth; but he that garncrs tho harvest
does NOT necessarily own the soil. The cause
in man which works out effects makes him strong and
rich No man capable OF any greater degree or hap
Piness real power than is already provided and
stored up in him by the creative act. tree may
ainy be made better by circumstances. The oak tree
in rich soil win be bigger oak with generous climate
and good culture than II left STRUGGLING against
on the size Oh peuuflOuS nl Dut uItcr all, With
soil deep under Ii and skies benign above it, and with
the hand of skill attending IT, that trec will be
anything else than Joyous in itself. II will be
anything but an oak-not an apple, orange pine or
palm, but just oak. That form wss prescibed to il in
the creative design Cultivation only presses 1t out
.at THE POWER or RDucAnoa. ~.
Education developes men, trains men, but education
never creates anything, II all in the All the
education in tho world does nothing but develop that
which you have Education then Is tho greatest boon
which be conferred upon man, because II takes hold
Of the secret Of happiness and Of prosperity In It's very
happiness 10 not that which is outside Of us but that
which 10 inside We carry the secret Of happiness
external effects and it makes men king OF causaon,
far ything can make them So He that rules
over causes rules over results He 10 not tho most
fortunate who can gather up effects. accumulate things
already done, but he who produce those effects
again The power TO produce results makes the ideal
manhood. Not what . has creatod but his
educated power stall to create, measures him. The
secret OF manhood underlies tho achievem mt The
seem ali that Michael Angelo has built no was nSSar than
his building When you have read all that Shakespeare
wrote, he Was himself hero than all his
For what the faculty works upon is pershable
carvss it aaorns but ali that is painted and built and
great by virtue OF this power not Of effect They are
not prosperous by things heaped up around
mans Ifc 2cons,seth not n the Abundance Of the
things which hc possesseth." This which, is true OF
individuals. 10 even more true Of communities
TIE TRUE RESOURCES or STATE
their citixsns-not their physical products SOIL
house: are mere bills cS credit Tho bullion IS tho men
that created these things and that still them
And city that 10 full Of old transmitted riches with
that arc lazy shitless and unviruous Is ike
tho bill Of bank that broke long ago Tho bill may
stl be HANDSOME bat tnere E no sod whom YOU cali Al
the counter for 1t You must measure the growth OF
society by the things that have DONE but by
that yet know how to do. Laws, constitutions, in-
stitutions libraries are treasures. They are all
admirable but chiefly account Of those who created
or Of those that now know how 10 use
power thai was makes the value OF these things For
laws but harnesses, and what Is harness without
steed in It. Constitutions are SO many instruments in
the hands that them, and libraries soul bearing
treasures that we must search out and merely tell us
what real men who once lived knew how to do. and
what real men who still live may do who know how to
do These oil admirable. but not for tho purposes
for which they too often stored and gloaicd over
God made bat thing in this world-man. Nan is the
unit OF aud tho unit OF value The strength
and the glory OF State therefore, Is TO be looked
for not In It's achievements but in them that achieve
That a noble blood that landed the banks OF tbe
James or on Plymouth rock; people without any
legacies Of the past. But as they brought manhood
laon rude, unknowing, idle, state be bstlt
up matter II you keep any amount Of wealth any
amount ,f physical power around No defence is half
impenctrable whole community full OF resources
and OF living power Aud the weak place in any state
Is that in which ignorance and moral imbecly exist.
Engineers tell that chain Is stronger than the
weakest link In IT. So State is stronger than the
weakest part In IT, Measure the city not by the fine
streets going TO It's purliens but look at the builders
classes, but 60 TO the bottom. The lower
class carries tho life and strength OF the nation
In it--measure those II you would know. No ship is
stronger than lis bottom is II the hull is built OF
weak timber and rotten panks would DO stronger
with gold nas!s and silver rigging So IL s with natons
You may build your upper circlcs with gtterng refine
ments and make them beauteous the precious
and precious stones but after oil is the bottom
community that tells the story of It's condition and
strength. An educated class at the top Is better than
nothing, bat nothing community from the gnor
ant masses that arc nj the bottom nation Is COM
munity and TO be prosperous must be treated SUCH
The extremes Of advancement one side must also
carry up with them the other extreme else ike cake
not turned, II Is burned side aud dough on the
other And 20 most nations that wise the top
and rich and happy, and at the bottom Ignorant rude
and miserable.
How TO BUILD Up NATION
We know thon exactly where TO begin and how 10
build nation Not territory, not climate not soil,
gold mines, Inventions machinery, ships fors armies
but educated Christian citizens safety and
glory. THIS nation might put In letters OF gold Its
capitol, think, the words:-"Let him that Rorieth
glory la this, that he undorsandeth and knoweth mo-
that am the Lord which exercise loving kindness,
judgment and rgntoousness in the earh for in those
I oliuht ouft tha Irrt 1f,afx Al.