The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1869-06-28
RELIGIOUS SERVICES IN THIS CITY.
cRuaCH OF TIE DIVINE PATERNITY.
Sermon by Rev. Or. Chapin.


Rev. DR.. Chaplin preached yesterday morning from
the Gospel OF Luke XIII, 20, "The life Is more
than meat and the body Is more than raiment.n
This an assertion by the highest authority Of
truth that lag at the very root of religious faith and
goodness for 1t was evident that entire views OF
existence must be affected by the degree In which
realized the facts here set before us. II the life
OF man were merely an organized material SUBJ
stance, there must sll remain certain distinction
Of right and WRONG resolving themselves into po,::
OF expediency, and man would still continue
to occupy his place as the head of
the visible world. Nevertheless, In that
case the essential character Of our be.
ing and human conduct would radically differ
from what they are upon the premises laid down in
the text. There was such thing as that man
materalist could deny that the logical consequence
must be that the human life and the facts OF human
II we accepted the statement laid down in the text
Remove from the universe the conception Of
Of man and ESPECIALLY anu the eSSe conceptio e
Of divine spiritual being, upon which all this order
Of human beings must depend. and he said, the
changed-the whole groundwork Of our achieve
ment would be shattered as Wen as the whole
to illustrate what he lad stated. The words he had
read admitted Of double appication:-First they
object in mans care Of Himself. BID we wonder
that sometimes men cried out Gan is vanity % See
the terrible condition Of things, which was fire.
Nen, SO to speak, to live from hand TO mouth, so
that they had no opportunity to think OF anything
else but the bare necessaries to supply the animal
which contained the spark Of life. The body was,
but 1t may be perforated and abused. Take the
human heart and the human eye and consider the
the muttuanous functions Of Single nerye
Think OF the system Of e-of the ceaselessly tnrob
bing heart. Look within the busy walls Of the body
and see its rivers OF circulating blood. What did
science say Of this mortal form OF oursi Might 1t
not say, 'Oh, unsatisned sensualst Oh, worldly
can you not appreciate at every breath you draw
aud every pulse you feel the gilt which God has
TO be interpreted by external aspects or material
results No man, he thought had ever reached that
point where he could give us complete interpreta-
cipline. II there were nothing but material condi
tions connected with It, then all he could say was
men there were to whom life was sad strange
SSsR a ss i W. Hsni5ssD9 lsr ma s
his nature. IL was consciousness Of afiicton, 1t
was out Of the depths q sorrow that the highest
nature might become sceptic But q the other hand
trial only challenged the brave SOUL and instead OF
ss rS We the Of
Beautiful a. those simple words q Christ showing
provide fot the essi He turned from the wild fowls
OF the to the lilies OF the valley one Of which was
arrayed In more splendor than solomon In all his
glory, and threw HIS fostering guardianship
that was more than meat and the body that was
more than raiment.n The reverend gentlemen then
made the rest Of his discourse applicable to the
amusements and excitements incident to our own
times. He did not condemn any amusements but
those which had q bad effect on the soul. A great
deal had been written and said about the injury
done the mind ana body IN our day, c0nse-
Quent the peculiar condition Of our times, and
about the excitement incident TO the everlasting
clashing and struggling for competition, The con-
sequence OF this was both mental and moral in
sanity. II had been asserted that mental occupa-
tons were peculiarly the promoters OF insanity, and
insanity was now rapidly increasing. AS Tar as
mental pursuits were concerned there was qualiH-
cation. When they were pursued IN quiet state OF
retirement they had not sucn an Injurious tendency
the brain; but In the exciting competition OF the
times, when q man was chained to the galley oars
OF work as necessity that would produce insanity
uuicker than ANYTHING else.