The New York herald., 1869-01-25
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The DssieS Of Ciersylep--Jsdses and hs's's.
directors DenOnnccd.
Rev. Henry Ward Beecher preached last evening
to q very crowded congregation, taking Tor ms sext
the afteenth verse OF the eighteenth cnapter o TUG
Acts-"But II IL be q question OF words anu nan'es
ana Of your law, look ye TO 1t; for WIN DC no
judpe OF such matters.n From TINS inc Iever-
ened gentleman took occasion 10 SPEAK u
the duties OF clergymen and OF their ordination
for the sacred duties they were called TO perform
There was nothing, he said, In the ordination. GOO
ordination is the great ordination. Iley cann' be
appropriated Dy man or church I'LL u aduer TO IL
Goi,s inspiration. There is feeling agatnst class
clergymen. lie participated in that .eelng. He
OF his fellow citizens. A clergyman is q mana
teacher or moral things. Sut any one can
teach that is able Ten thousand angels blow
o preacher ordinsrIly. Moral preachers are fellow
members, elders OF the church, and nothing more.
prlved OF their privileges in the community. There
often is speculative Judgment passed upon clergy
men. Moral temper is often wiser than practical
tion TO the affairs OF the world that man Will I'M
prove society better than the man who Is guided
| life stand high IN relation TO moral law. He had,
| anybody had, right, without ordination, to
even as teachers Of their fellow man. This has been
Chrsts quarrel from the rst when 1t was said. why
comest thou to torment before our timer That s
said every day. They say, why dos thou intrude and
be with usf They say go to your church and let the
grog shops alone; attend 70 your aogmas ana e. te
1t is the that follow Christ that stir up the
world. For himself therefore he held the right OF
clergymen TO act for themselves in all mat
ters OF society. He was, however opposed
to class clersymen. His sphere was as broad
every man understood his own business best, and
none can advise him better than OF his own
craft There was an immense quantity of dogmas
that win in some time hence be considered trash.
That is certainly the truth in regard to many clegy-
nffepf fnr n off
sorption In their business Nothing s more untrue
than that man knows his own business best
Know w Better than he dd soW
| to make the loaf but he was the best
to the loaf test. 1t was not for him to say how
judge should discharge his profession but II was Tor
unjust. The Judge brings his acts to his tribunal
when there is question OF right and wrong Right
eousness IS policy, and when corruption presents i
has right as q man-not as priest, because
upon nAi ny head .' Every man had 5 zig right %
back TO tins question again and again he would
denounce corruption wherever 1t appeared. The
this as in other nations and other times, win become
new name-a newly invented term OF infamy.
He does not, when he wants to preach sermon,
consult musty books; when ne wants TO preach ne
studies MS congregation; wnen ne stuaies depravy
questions ne does not meddle WITH Society Is the
great fact, and society Is made up OF ten thousand
little things that II was necessary to study. In
the words OF the apostle they were his epistle; they
were his study. he did not understand railways,
| but he understood railway directors, and he was
after them, and he could tell them tnat they were
unjust men. He would tell them that they violated
rectitude violated honesty violated humanity, vio-
lated interests and violated Gods law, l say TO
them, you are not honest men, and God knows that
you are not honest and honorable men. They
say II y not my province, that i does nc, not
belong TO my parochial affairs. tell them
parish is the whole United states. 1t IL NOT
necessary for COCK to be in bed with you IN the
the time to get DIP, He was better adapted to be
teacher OF morals In every grade Of life than II his
moral sensibllitles were deadened ana stupehed by
personal OF pecunary interest In these things He
Sentre-see this nation destroyed and Gods word
imperied and be silent. That was not the course
Of Isaiah, OF jeremiah OF Paul and Peter. The cler
gyman-not the mere minister.he was not
and he had right to study all the affairs Of lie and
| make them the subject OF his criticism before his
| fellow men, The minister's business was to follow
| out the motives OF men, sounding alarms IN their
| ears showing them the way they should 60 direct.
| Ing them by the inspiration OF Gods Word. They
| are the outsiders and are the best Judge All
things are lawful 10 him who Is resolved on doing
good. IL was the province OF the clergyman to re-
buke iniquity, to make men their enemies. Christ
| did not come on the earth to make peace
| he brought the sword. The clergyman made
| lovers-to wound them that they might become
healed and restored to more perfect strength. No
business was more sacred, more transcendant than
this. This was the duty and profession OF the clergy
to repentance aud through Christ to eternal saliva
tion.
The reverend preacher was listened to with great
| attention.