The New York herald., 1869-01-18
FIFTH AVENUE uHlvERsAlIsI CHURCH.
Sermon by DR.. Chaplin.


Yesterday morning the services at the Universal
st church, corner Of Fifth avenue and Forty fifth
street. were participated in by large and fashiona-
BILE audience. Rev. DR.. Chaplin preached from the
sixth chapter OF the Gospel Of Matthew and tenth
verse-"Tny win be done In earth as il is in Hea-
ven.n That sentence the preacher saId) might be
breathed among the most humble and familiar Incl
dents Of our hves-that prayer which Jesus uttered
IN the Garden OF Getnsemene-"Not my will, but
thine be DONE" There was no danger Of ever ex-
haustng the meaning Of that prayer. One reason
why he called their attention to these words was
because in that devotion they would find that
thought feeling and action were intimately blended
The intellect was the observing power. 1t was
capacious instrument. which, by reduction or analy-
ms, approxmated reality. In the walk OF actual life
It was impossible to, divide the devotional from the
actual power or the moral from the intellectual.
In the real machinery Of every day life al these
human intellect ever TO act without some impulse
or passion. certainly there was marked line OF
vout man. Adevout man might be q thinking man,
but mere thinking was not devotion. True devotion
more real and profitable would be the prayer sThy
will be done on earth as 1t Is IN heaven.o That was
q q n v,ne Mere VIVA WAS 9s
reallly in the universe. Of course, that petition
was often spoken with hardly an impression on
fore, In any true degree we should thought
When man felt mis- own weakness II was natural for
stin.t Of prayers He admitted it was dirricnir to
conceive an Independent first cause, and some went
so lar as TO say, I'VE can't conceive or such thing
"a an independent first cause. When got into
that mystery we were In difficulties everywhere
As such cause must exist somehow 1t was more
reasonable TO conceive its existence mind than
matter. We discovered that the work OF the uni
verse as whole was something that could not hap
picture by an Angelo we were w sure that on areat
thought had moved over the canvas; and
40 win the universe, we found that Thought
conclusion that intelligence presided In universe
we should see next that intelligence had purpose
purpose without viii. The recognition Of that VIII
was the recognition OF the intellect. When we
we We, mere mot PRAYING to space or to nature
the use Of praying to some essence that by its
nature could not help usi How necessary was
The moment we arrive at clear conception that
there q Will IN Heaven moving In contact with
our Will that moment there was something 10 touch
us and inspire anu help us-that moment there was
something that made prayer q blessing and gave to
the prayer, as II were, the key TO the kingdom OF
Heaven. We looked on Heaven a place where
Gods win was done by conscious beings. Piety was
plant OF such celestial growth that the more light
we shed upon 1t the better 1t grew. IL was an intel
lectual thing. lie observed, In the next place, that
the petition was also an expression Of submission.
There was submissive, chidlike feeling OF acqui-
escence in It But they should discriminate between
doing Gods Will and submitting TO Gods will. We
should discriminate between that and pantheism
will from fatalism. Fatasm would teach us that
we submitted 70 the Divine VIII because we must
submit to It. II we had TO submit because we must
why then there was no religious feeling there Some
times men braced themselves up with this fatalisrn
and. like Prometneus OF old, dared the living Cod
The true distinction OF the chlldke feelings was not
81 must, but ~ ought" to do this. There might
often be cases where our intellectual minds got con-
fused but II was only such God as represented
IN Jesus Christ that we couid really worship aud
adore. God was Infinite mercy, and when we prayed
s.1hy Will be done,' we prayed that IL was the Will
of infinite goodness that might be done. OH that
was the consolation for all poor as well rich, and
that was prayer that was sure TO be answered. All
prayers might be condensed and symbollzed In that
one expression, "Not my will, but thine be donc.r