The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-09-20
CHURCH OF Tine DIVINE PATERNITY.

The Sermon on the NIOunt-DiseOurse by Rev.
DIR. Chaplin.
The congregation OF this church yesterday morn
Ing, although highly fashionable, was not 80 hume.
rous as on former occasions for the reason doubt
less that many Of its members have not YET returned
from the fashionable resorts. The preacher took
for his text Matthew w. 49, which runs as follows:-
That we may be the children Of your Father who
In heaven, for he maketh His to arise upon the
good ana the bad and raneth upon the Just and the
UNJUST" The reverend gentleman commenced by
observing that he need not tell his hearers that the
words he had just read were found In
that portion OF the Sermon on the Mount
In which Saviour set forth the spris and fulnl.
ment OF the law which contains the sublime princi.
pies Of the Gospel We were naturally led into q
Contemplation OF the Divine Nature BY reading these
Tor an eye snd e o.
but the true Christian feeling was, love
y1ar enemy DO good to them that hate
that ye may be the children OF your Father who Is
in heaven" Now, If we consider this declaration
little more than had already been said BY any wise
heathen In fact we found that 2 heather did say
ea he ss arose snd in 'q 9Ss
mind q the heather was sustained BY Jesus Chris
corning God was the trues Thought concernlng God
II some wise heather had fearlessly said that the
Of the universe n was certain magnetic good
into the world the offspring and, perhaps cOncet Of
their own Minds would be apt to array themselves
likely have their originality infdelity but it was
different with Christ. When Christ came into the
system BY COMPARISON with truth. In the
passage before US Jesus Christ prefe
best human ideas OF God and Old not strive TO
show-as In the case Of modern philosophers-that
place he wished them TO observe that not only did
Christ confirm mans ideas OF God but He made them
@ lsay and Ssp bowen on sn the
blessedncss there were IN that God who was re.
One who made the sun to shine and who SEM rain II,
on the Just and the unjust this truth had far more
H significance when we regarded that spirit as the
than when we regarded 1t as the divine
benencence Of a superior being. The statement In
ton OF the divine bene6cence In pature, but bore
out the appncaion OF the truth OF the divine good
truth contained ia The text gives us the trHe n sne
probation Of nature. They would observe there the
hess nHa Tine
sonaI vim. After ALL there wers 1 mo very Rsy,
mad 70 come. But since Christ had uttered
these words, and in modern times especially, nature
terest In our own day men questioned az to the
great problem OF existence, and he need not tell |
mat MAN, "a a. present thought ia. the human
all probems-that we must examine and draw our |
own conclusions. II was thought by some that men |
degree That by and by not even the question OF q |
God VIII arse. II was great question now whether
mere were any spiritual reality at all. or whether
The universe Itself Is an immense piece of |
machinery, moving along and wound up
BY mysterious and inconceIvable forces Some DAY
oy another this question should DO answered. We |
wished to know whether there ls living conscious
personal will-whether man In bis little. narrow
or, he (aid, the human mind, and especially the
human henrt would not rest in regard to these
Inestions bht would continue to put them forth
lntll clearly AM properly answered. The preacher
hen went al lSngth 10 argue IN this strain Wind
ng up his discourse by the assertion that there was
Undoubtedly an all-wtse and overriding Providence
o whom We should all how In meek submission.