The New York herald., 1870-02-28
CHURCH or The Divlse Patiently.

Fashionable Attendance and nm Eloquent
Sermon by Rev. Dr. Chaplin.
Unlike the preceding Sunday the Fifth avenue was
deserted by the sun yesterday ne having got anEy
and chagrined ~ Tie freaks he was MADE to play
last Sunday, accompanying ladies TO church and
waiting outside until the services were over 10
chaperone them home again. He thought that 10
perform the same ONCE every Sabbath day would be
too much OF GOOD thing anu SO he determined,
whether it hailed, rained or showed, Yesterday he
would not shine. The subdued character thus
assumed By the orb or day impaired Itself endemi-
ca.y to the congregation who worship at the shrine
VI the Church OF the Divine Paternity, aud caused
gpbdued toilets to grace the sacred edince, instead
OF the gay and faunring ones which usually appear
there, weather permitting.
The pastor, Rev. Dr. Chaplin, was, however, IN
one OF bis finest moods. lie looked the picture OF
health and good living ana seldom has the reporter
heard him handle his sermon with so much VIM and
elegance as that OF yesterday handled. The
text Of his discourse was taken from the Gospel OF
Matthew nth chapter and forty y-frth verse, running
thus:-"That ye may be tue children Of your
Father which Is In Heaven; for lie make,h the
sun to rise on the evil ana on the
good, and sendeth rain on the Just and
on the uniuss;' ami on this topic DR.. Cnapin
thus spoke. The text he had just read was one OF
those great passages OF Scripture which once
phrase before us our Saviour showed us the reality
Oh which that great truth rested. We were to do
certain things that We might be children OF
Father who In Heaven. The direct injunction con-
tained IN the text that to try to initiate
our Heavenly Father IN lives. And our aspira-
ti0us were not limited to any single characteristic
OF the Divine Being. 10 was not meant that we
srOuld initiate God In some one phase OF His nature
rs In JUSTICE righteousness or grace. God Ii life,
aud In considering the words before might
consider them as the standard OF oil perfection, rs
4 far as humanity could attain perfection;
far as the finite could approach lhe in
| finite. Cnqucsonaby, we never could know
| all concerning God ana no matter what
I! our attempts might be 10 raGhom Him
Hts providence must stil be enveOped In mystery
| is There were three grades OF that knowledge. In
the first pace stood the grade or nature to which
our Saviour himsef distinctly pointed AZ furnishing
| an authentic expression OF God. The text
| stand, and yet IL was something that \ PHI
| losOpher could not exhaust, and IL all
| that q philosopher could really know; therefore
the Child and the philosopher stood on this point
| about the same level. Christ had made God known
Us far could be, and there was revelation Of God
us to consider the light which the text shed the
question, 'What Is life ~ In what did life consist
| In what was its consummatons In physiological
| sense that was not question easy to answer,
| been answered. II seemed to him that life was
| something more than material eDerRy-soln0thina
l thar came out from the iinitRble depths OF Gods
| own nature. Life was not In seeming. II did no.
c0naist In outward pretensiOns In shows OF dress
| ana drapery. And yet there were large number o
people In this world who spent The best part OF the
lives IN .eeemingn The preacher then went on Il
dcscrbe the class Of relgiOnsts he had Just alude,
1 10, and showed that while he would not cali then
l hypocrites IN reality they were merely practising
l Il