The New York herald., 1870-06-13
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Re,,.,ous Diseourss>s Yesserday-Prlpis ESio.
siss Of Dickens.
Yesterday was 40 beaa 'tiful and gave 30
few signs of an approaching "amity that the
congregation at the Catholic App 'slolic church
must have been rather startled wen their
preacher announced that the end Of the world
was near at hand. Similar announcements
have been frequently made during the past
ten centuries; but that awful day
when wrapped in fre the realms OF ether glow,
And Heavens last thunder shakes the world below.
has not yet dawned. We think the public can
rest assured that the universal collapse will
not be 80 sudden as not to give them time In
which to prepare for the other world. Be-
sides, the practice of attempting to scare
sinners into repentance by gloomy predictions
of the destruction of the earth seldom results in
good 1t is calculated to make one desperate
to think that he is likely to wake up some fine
morning and find himself converted into'a part
of the tail end of meteor. In all seriousness,
though, this end-of- -the-world business, II it
makes Christians at all, can make mono but
very nervous ones. The man who desires to
90 to heaven only because it is likely to be
too warm in the other place has about
| as much religion in him as the man who 10
| frightened into seeking the aid of God. There
| are other ways Of warning sinners to repent
ence. OF course there is vast deal of ire
ligion in the world, and with DR.. Dix, who
preached at Trinity yesterday on the sub
ject, we deeply deplore it. People are too
absorbed in accommodating yellow dross," no
doubt; many worship only when the day is
fine, and others indulge so much in pleasure
that they never think OF worshipping at all.
This is what Dr. Dix thinks, and he is right.
And are not the preachers to blame? ''The
best preaching" said Rev. Mr.. Talmage at the
Central Presbyterian church, els that
which makes men sick of SHINING"
which is very true. Unfortunately, we
have not great deal of first class
preaching nowadays. The same clergyman,
who seems to be keen observer and man Of
sound sense. also stated that all the sanctimo-
NOUS people he had known had turned out
badly. We shall not 60 as far as Mr.. Talmage,
but we admit that over pious mortals need
watching, which is something we would never
think of doing with Che members Of Mr..
Beecher's congregation, excessive sanctiIno-
niousness not being one of their character
istics. This doubtless is because of the
moral certainty they have of salvation.
Mr.. Beecher's discourse yesterday, by the
way, was quiet, sober one on Christian dis
cipline, subject which the hearers of the
pastor of Plymouth church ought to have felt
interested in. The title of the sermon
preached by Rev. Mr.. Morrill, at St. Albans
church, ''The Christians Warfare" would
have been quite applicable to the act of the
conservative Episcopaans connected with the
Church Of the TRANSPORTATION, who prevented
the ordination of the graduating class Of the
General Theological Seminary because the
members are believed to have imbibed ritual
istic doctrines. -a--.-
In several of the churches illusions were
made to the death of Dickens and eulogies
pronounced on his genius and works. DIR.
Bellows, at the Church of the Messiah, in an
eloquent discourse, declared that the end for
which the great novelist worked ''was invaria-
bly, exalted, noble and high" and that ''hs
words reached hearts preachers could never
touch" In sermon on joy and love,
delivered at the Church Of the Divine
Paternity, DR.. Chaplin referred to Dickens as
one who had been instrumental by his writings
in softening our hard human hearts toward the
numberless poor, and who had been the means
of bringing light and cheerfulness to many
dull and dreary abode. Even Mr.. Frothng
ham was moved to speak Of the lamented 'Boz"
as an artist drawing from all ranks of life
and all fields of industry pictures which will
never cease to touch the heart by their won
drous individuality, truth and warmth of life"
From the references we have made in the
foregoing sentences to the sermons delivered
yesterday and from perusal Of the sermons
| themselves the reader will learn that the Sab
bath was spent by preachers and congrega-
tions in an earnest effort to exalt and purify
humanity and to strengthen in the hearts Of
man the tenets of Christianity.
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