The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1870-10-27

Ie060(RS-MR. 0GGeoeR On p&hmS
and On Hell assd DansHntiea.
From the New York Herald.
\ bright, cloudlcss sky, day that might
have dawned in the middle Of June. helped
to swell the throng and enrich the toilets that
crowded Plymouth Church Yesterday morn
inc. The number of outer-cOurt worship
pers was rs large If usual, and they endured
the hearing Of the Gospel, while standing ON
their feet, and under the regulation difficult
ties, with the same endurance that has char
actcrize,i their predecessors on previous Sun
,lsys.
The announcements before tfc sermon were
rather larger than usual. Three of these are
deserving Of more extended publicity. Mr..
Camp, the leader of the choir, desires more
voices; he has vacam'iss in the male banquet
Of the orchestra, aud Mr.. I:ccchcr ;iskcl in
his name for Il few volunteers. The oppor-
tunity afforded by this announcement was
embraced for an endorsement If the choir
Iy the pastor. Mr.. Beecher acknow kdcci
his obligations Ia the choral throng who sit
up a!oft Immediately behind him. IL mo-
body else thanked them, La did. lie, how
ever, knew they successfully performed, with
w0ndrUls harm0ny, that part Of the service
that consisted in the leading Of the feelings.
The pastor led in prayer, but the choir led
in feeling, and the service Of song was not
BY any means the hast important part Of
their worship Of God. Those who felt con
strained to join the choir might meet Mr..
Camp ON Wednesday evening, in the lecture
room, at half-past Z. !, was proposed
to form 4 ..,
MUSIC Class .r
in connection with this institution, where in
structiOn in singing could ise obtained ut
nominal cost. The next announcement was
also want. Mr.. Bell, ii the Hicks street
Bethel, wants volunteers to teach the ragged
bows who flock to the Bethel schools on week
day evenings. There are several DEPART
men Of instruction vacant for want of teach
ers and, as Mr.. Beecher remarked, anylSdy
who wants to 60 for the heather fraternity Of
Brooklyn in this direction will find sturdy
and s,,ccessful employment. The third an
nouncement was the Plymouth Sunday
school festival to Ike held ON the 10Th and
9th, when all that can please the eye and
the ear will for two days ie set before the
children and their friends. Those vii" can
not he present, Mr.. Bccchcr said, are greatly
to he pitiel.
1t will he remembered l,y g the c,,s,ant
reader" that Mr.. Beecher On last Sunday
morning preached about heaven ami it, joys.
Yesterday morning he preached about hell
and ,lamnation. Mr.. Beeclicr Is not al bone
in hell and daInnation. Heaven is his lso'nr.
The result was that the sermon was dull, fiat
and Improbable.
lie selected his text from the GOSPEL Of II.
Matthew, Axv H. And these shall go
away into everlasting punishment, bait the
righteous into life eternal
The sermon was, for the most part. made
up Of the statement ri the different thes,ries
Of the vast question Of eternal punishment.
Mr.. Becchcr does not believe i'm the literal.
HE'LL FIRE AND BIRTHSTONE HORRoEs.
lie regards this language AMI imagery as
Of the medieval ages, and said that, like the
painting of Mrhael Angelo Of the g bay Of
Judgment" it was description Of that
which awaited any human being in lis actual
realistic fiIliilment, an atrocious SANDER on
God, and it was nightmare conceived by
hell itself Dantc's descriptions Of hell were
equally, though 4 little more refined. repul
sive to the reason of man. No man could
retain his reason and believe that men, wo-
men and children were poured into a fiery
lake at the rate of thirty millions a year.
One Of the great difficulties that bcset this
question was the doctrine Of the eternity IL
future punishment; all Others fell before the
solution Of that difficulty.
Mr. Beecher then stated the views held by
the prominent thinkers on this subject, from
the Sadducees down to the present time. In
all Of these, he said, was perceptible the vail
Of human anguish, the intense feeling Of
dread and the yearnins for comfort and assn-
~uor yCI.t 5000, AZ, ,..1l,;,,,,, ~ l.l,r;,2
Well, he laid down no philosophy, no then
~, but the great heart Of the sympathetic
Saviour who had died for mankind had
plainly taught future punishment. lie
told men that they were in a terrible danger,
and His cry was @
"REPENT, REPENT"
His teachings were always inclusive Of an
'everlas,ing," an eternity to an eternity.
Mr. Ececher acknowledged his inibility to
understand eternal punishment. II know
about the fatherhood Of God; ! try to con-
ceive what that is, and then think about
this punishment forever and ever Above
it ali know that love the Lori Jesus
Christ, and rest upon wha, lie has said.
know that the truth and j,i4ice Of God move
in an atmosphere of divine love, and leave
IT," jed
I The use that We should make Of this truth
is, that our character is formed here; that
We are little Matter Mason., We are building
ourselves up from day to day. These truths
act Al a sharp incentive to the right; they
terrify Ms from the wrong; ANYTHING that
tends 10 dull or deaelen these stinulants To
right-doing is unhealthy TO the life Of the
sml-is dangerous.
n We are like tho-e who walk on the shores
Of the sea. We hear constantly the roll If
the waves az they hound their b,oming way
out and in from the rolling Atlantic. These
boomings of insiistinct -ounsi- from our eter-
nifty: imagery that saddens us, let it lie our
warning, our guide, our controlling infln-
ence, when sin would come and rob W. of our
inheritance to joy that never f'deih away,
and to the glory that has not yet been re-
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