The New York herald., 1868-04-27
DIR. Chapin,s Church.

The church corner Of Forty-ffth street and Fifth
avenue of which the Rev. Dr. Chaplin is PASTOR was
yesterday filed by devout congregation. After the
usual Sabbath morning services DR.. Chapln preached
taking for his text the fourth chapter OF st. Mark
and twenty-sixth verse:-"And He said, so is the
Kingdom OF God as II man should cast seed into the
ground" The words Of the text suggestvely as
sociated with the present season Of the year. We
are passing from winter cold to summer heat. The
earth is being renewed and invigorated with
the soft showers Of the spring time Man at
this season puts seed into the ground conf
dent that 1t will spring into life and
productveness; confident also that labor beyond his
mis- own, and in which he can take no part is at
work; that while he rests and sleeps the labor and
work Is going on, and that work win fructify and
be accomplished that the seed will spring up and
knows that laborer besides himself ia at work. and
that the seed he has sown shall by the OF that
e R .1 hen be c ear AND and
the full corn. Jesus takes the sowing Of the seed
Is type Of the divine benefcence to man. And
the text ne would first ask them TO con.
slider the field Of illustration 1t presented. The
the earth with its productive life and energies. The
seed with its myster. GUS faculty OF development
grows up first the blade, then the ear and after that
the full, ripe corn. God speaks to man as truly
through the natural world through the flowers and
through the texts OF Scripture and the that fell
from tne prophets lips In the cast INTO the earth we
nave a beautiful Illustration OF the mystery and
problem OF life. The sect is the prmeva origin OF
the germ Of life from which the manifold forms OF
nc are evolved Christ made nature The ,ype
and foundation of all Ills teachings. The Divine
word In the world Is The seed cast into the
ground. Man works, but no, alone, there s
another agency at work; SIDE by side with
him is hidden and myster oas power for God
works at his side. Nature is not divorced from the
Divine. Nature has divine element within ITSELF
Here the Kingdom OF God means tue Gospel and he
speaks OIL Christianity in the word us, a. the seed
man casts into the ground. IL is a beautiful ex.
Tn
the world ~ Was LETT 10 grow like the seed cast
upon by its enemies. Go into the fields TO-DAY sod
you VIII yet see large tracts of country ribbed with
winter; but each coming day brings its ,nru
s, snces, and and In few more the face OF
o million hosts will have leaped into life and beauty.
SO IL has been with Christianity. Like the seed of
he hnscandman nus u was sown upon the world, and
grave, was left TO he tramped under foot and 10
perish. But In a short time Christianity sprung up
everywhere. IL climbed the thrones OF the Caesars Il
sprung from the catacomDs, II grew up encrcled
every inch OF shrine and manifested Itself to the
God In tae individual mind OF man. The preacher is
the sower, and the seed sown the Church; there.
fore the pulpit becomes q necessary agency In the
great work. The press with It's lips OF thunder and
breath of nre, scattering its influence everywhere
powerful agency. But the preacher, with words OF
truth spoken by earnest lips must always be con-
saered s as the immediate agent In the great work
portance The seed Is the word OF God, the soil is
sle human heart and Just as Christ illustrates 1t,
sometimes the seed falls upon the waysde and when
mas Satan eometh Immediately and taketh
away ,he word that was sown In their hearts; some
ZINES " isls upon stony SOIL where there is no depth,
anu " WAetn no root; aud again the seed falls
among tnoins winch grow up and choke the word,
ana again " lals upon good soil and brinreth forth
Uult IN apunuanee The reverend preacher then
Drieny adverted 10 the years OF his ministry among
theln-tWenty years today-and congfai ulated them
that the denomination was growing and increasing
In their midst and showing In many wavs that The
sewers work had not been In vain Tie services
were closed with hymn and the benediction.