The New York herald., 1869-05-24
MURRAY RlLL BAPTIST CHURCH.

Kew S1Oney n. COrey Oh Lying
At the Murray Hill Baptist church last evening" to
q large and interested audience, many going away
falling to obtain admission the Rev. Sidney A. Corey
not bear false witness against thy neighbor." The
reverend gentleman, after alluding to the various
representations Of life as found in the strik-
ing pictures Of the famous Cole said they
represent. In vivid manner, the perils
and dangers that beset young man who first starts
out the voyage of life. Full OF youth and buoy.
ancy, he commences his journey, ignorant OF dangers
and tempests that he will enconnter, for dangers
and tempests there are. The sea he has to navl-
gate viewed In prospect looks smooth and inviting,
but beneath lie concealed shoals, qutcksandS and
rocks, and great mutitudes In trying to reach the
distant shore are shipwrecked and lost. For a
subjects bearing upon the interests OF young men,
and tonight l wll call your ATTENTION to the
subject suggested bo the text-lying. BY a lie be-
neve as Paley says. "a lie is breach OF promise,
or whoever seriously addresses his discourse to
another, tacty promises to speak the truth because
he knows the truth Is expected.n However we may
differ upon the knotty questions which puzzled our
fathers as to the responsibility OF man who must
lie to preserve his LIE or property or to render harm
MAC, all men agree upon these propositions:-
First lying is forbidden by the word OF God. Moral
tell the truth; religion Is The former like the fairy
palace OF Ice melts away under the white heat OF the
passions, while the other like the unslaken granite,
Is grounded upon enduring foundations; in one
there may be TRUTH In the other there must be truth
second the guilt Of lying is not only seen from the
Word OF God, but from the uterances Of the purest
and greatest men Of the centuries. The speaker
under this head, quoted volumnousy from the writ
ngs OF Bacon, DR.. Johnson and Others Third lying Is
destructive to the dearest interests Of mankind This
Is shown In the fact OF the woes that 1t has brought
f on odR R'G
the merchant the lawyer the doctor and the banker
the natterer seduces the ear OF his willing listener
the false friend betrays O trusted secret, ana the
slanderer breaks the heart by unfounded and malig
nant representations. All temporal sufferings pri-
marty come from this prolific fountain head. But
all these sins temporal are not comparable to the
woes that have afflicted the race from spiritual
standpoint War, pestilence poverty and shame
may stand out with conspicuous treachery through
the six thousand years OF sin and misery since the
creation OF man, but consider how prominent s the
have have come ONE from one solitary falsehood-aAnd % the
de.n
Having named these points, we must consider
silent lies, which find Illustration In the store Of
damaged goods, whose imperfections are hidden by
the darkened windows also in the would-be fashion
able family, who remain at home In the month OF
August, giving directions that the dust the closed
blinds snail not be disturbed, while door knobs grow
rusty and black; and, again. in the quiet merchant
OF modest ways, who has hitherto stood high on
'Change but by bad debts losing his credit resolves
to retrieve his sinking fortunes by sudden indica-
tions OF fweath; nence a gttering mansion on Fifth
avenue, with grand equipage to dazzle the Park.
But this only prolongs the crash because 1t Is q lie.
An innocent liar, but one to be reprobated, is the
talkatve. yarn-spinning liar, who s celebrated IN
Scott In these words:-
Many shaft at random sent
Finds mark the archer meant,
And many word at random spoken
May soothe or wound the heart that's broken.
Tue worst OF all liars Ia the malicious liar. lie
ruins the quiet and peaceful confidence in the family
circle; he blasts the honorable ambition of the tried
statesman; he brings defeat TO victorious armies,
aud by false and insdous arts carries the nrebrand
OF his infamy into all the sacred communions OF ie
(Sensaton.)
Mr.. Corey closed by appealing to the hearts and
true instincts OF his hearers to hold alof the banner
OF truth and promote by every energy the cause OF
sincerity and righteousness. The music was notice.
ably fine, being conducted by Mr.. A. Mors formerly
OF ST. stephens.