The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-12-28
uNvESsALST CHURCH.
Sermon by DIR. Chaplin.

Sermon bv Dr. Chaplin.
This church, corner OF Fifth avenue and Forty
firth street, Is attended by large and fashionable
and was well filed at the morning
services yesterday DR.. Chaplin preached lengthy
and excellent sermon, taking his text from the
twenty ninth chapter and eighth verse OF Isaiah
which runs as follows:-"It shall be even as when
hungry man dreametn, and behold, he eatetn but he
awakeneth and his soul Is empty; or as when
thirsty man dreameth, and, behold he drinketh; but
he awakeneth and, behold, he Is faint and his soul
hath appetite: so shall the multitude Of all the
nations be that fight against Mount Zon." The
reverend preacher said that was the original
reading OF the. text, put the application he
would make OF it to- his present discourse
would show that IL might refer TO men In our times
as well az to the Assyrian hosts OF old Taking the
figure employed In the text as having relation to the
everyday experiences and conditions OF men. the
frst thought that occurred to one was concerning
those who In the pleasures, business and general
pursuits OF the world were living ike the hungry
man and the thirsty man. People were living as II
realities dreams and as II dreams were realities.
He did not mean to say human life itself was
dream. Some might consider the world and human
life In that view, but for his part he believed that TO
be a sceptica view. II our present existence were
all vain and delusive how could we make sure II
would ever lead to a highers How could we make
sure that the proofs on which we rested were
not all phantasmagoria, like the 'baseess fabric OF
q vision y which would dissolve aud vanish into thin
air. Cut away from the human soul all reality and
goodness, and how could we be sure there were such
things a. reality and goodness No. God was Just IN
this world, though His business might be made
known hereafter. lie who demonstrated that this
life all unreal could never md any reality any
where. There people to-day In this city, poor
men and poor women, perhaps houseless and pierced
with the winters cold, who might assert that un
happiness was unreal, but who knew there we've
such things "a poverty and suffering, and who,
therefore, knew that life was real. Scepticism and
moral despair would be the result Of be-
ind that Jesus Christ ever spoke OF the worthless
OF the present state In order TO build up higher
state. on the contrary, lie praised the lilies OF the
field and all nature around Him. The religion Of
Jesus Christ was real. Notwithstanding on the
other hand, those who were IN life were dreaming,
life was not dream but many men, alasi dreamed
In life They dreamed 10 the methods by which
good was TO be procured. Man thought he could
satisfy himself by scquisi,on ana sensual enjoy,
themselves did not satisfy and, consequently, man
was always hungry. Mark the difference between
think that there was no actual difference between
animals and men, but that man had grown
through various forms OF animal life, through
baboon and gorilla TO man. But man was something
higher and something better than this. There was
CLINE 40 large but what he wanted to conquer and
then to conquer more. He had q Doundless and
prasping desire for everything. Man became palled
when he satiaed his appetite, and sought for some
thing else He did not know that any one would be
prepared TO go with life n he should IND on look
ing away forward the perls which beset the rough
road he had to travel and the heavy burdens he
should bear. II he knew this perhaps he should not
be content to 90 forward at all. But he was led on.
ward BY deuslons. IL seemed TO him to be bright
and the morrow might be brighter. How much OF
youthful life was but an empty form Some mems
whole lives were spent In vain efforts TO make
money. II a man should accumulate the amount OF
money that he thought he would be satisfied with
was he then satisfedf oh, no; and by and by his
Soul was empty and palled BY the pleasures and
vanites OF life. Then comes the argument that he
did not dream Of before Death stepped In and
brought the great reality before his eyes, Man then
got awake, whe9 all ne had boarded In life was
slipping away from him. His riches were passing
one way and lie was passing another. lie awakes,
and that was All he mad gained In life. lie awakes
and his soul was cInpty. young man spent few
years enjoying himself until by and by he had
not the physical YIpOr, and then, when
he woke NJ, he found what n dream