The New York herald., 1869-01-25
FIFTH AVENUE uHlvsRsAllsT CHURCH.
Sermon by DR.. Chaplin.

During the morning services yesterday Rev. Dr.
Chapin preached an eloquent and instructive ser.
mon TO fashionable and attentive congregation in
his church, corner Fifth avenue and Forty-nfth
street. taking as his text the following words from
the ninth chapter and twenty-fourth verse OF the
Gospel OF 81. ark:"Straightway the father Of the
child cried out and said, with tears, LORD believe;
help Thou mine unbelief.'r These were very Affecting
wofds, uttered under very affecting circumstances.
Christ had just come down from the mountain where
Peter, John and James had just witnessed the trans
nguration OF the saviour. He saw a great crowd,
and man came from the midst Of the crowd and
said TO Him. II beseech Thee for my son. He Is my
only child, and, 10, spirit seizeth him, and be.
sought Thy disciples TO cast him out and they could
not.n Christ said to him, sIf thou canst believe,
all things are possible 10 him that believes y
straghtway the father OF the child said ''Lord, |
believe; help Thou mine unbelef.n And the child
was cured. Such was the scene which Jesus Christ
encountered as he descended from the mount OF
TRANSPORTATION. What a contrast there was between
the ecstatc glory Of that transaction and that cond
ton at the foot or the hill Thus It was with the true
Christian soul; thus it was with Christianity ITSELF
Il passes ever from vision to acton-from divine re
veatiops TO human work. Their attention at the
present time was especially called 70 the text. lie
visible reality OF that utterance lie wished them
70 notice the nimltabe reality OF that utterance II
ii never could have been fabricated out t"of Of
mere biblical phrase IL must have come
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hSd seen his only child often falling into me eU5 ny eaps
into the water from the nature OF his complaInt
ana VINO could and mo, no cure 2T his poor boy, For
OF his son. AZ length he sought relief from those
TO whom bad been given strange power in healing,
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down RON tss mynnts,n S,.g came am the Great Healer
passion on Us and heal us- bid they not recog.
nize the naturaness OF the doubt mixed with
face and saw there the calm assurance OF help and
ne cried 2qt nofG sseys help Thou
corded in history those words % were re-" ,rue .A lie
said also, they were natural words--lhat IL, they
were words that they or he or anybody In similar
who, In the ordinary course Of AFFAIRS took little or
no thought as to what they ought ought 90 be-
series Of events presenting moral or spiritual sig.
nlncance. But man could not live In this
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