The New York herald., 1870-06-20
BROOKLYN CHURCHES.
PLYMOUTH CHURCH.

MIR. Beecher What TO do with M0ney-A
sermon Without the Mention Of Christ, lllus-
trated by Examples Of POsthumOus Fame.
Sunny skies have perceptibe effect upon Mr..
Beecher's regular congregation. The ehe are away.
for the most part gone to their cottage by the sea.
and left their pews to be occupied by the strangers
who have been attracted to Plymouth church by
divers reasons, but mainly by the reputation OF Its
pastor.
Yesterday morning there was not quite the aver
age congregation, even including the strangers, ard
the warm rays Of the sun seemed to enervate both
preacher and hearers. There was nothing OF sen.
satonal character, and the only noteworthy event
was the fact that sermon was preached In Chris
tan church.
WITHOUT THE NAME OF CHRIST
or His divine mission on earth being mentioned
either actually or by implication. Mr.. Beecher Is
sometimes assailed by his enemies as being unortho-
dox, not being an exponent OF vital Christianity
Speaking generally, this is an unfounded charge;
few popular teachers are 80 broad and catholic
minded and yet SO attached to the old ways as Mr.
Beecher; but now and then he gives his narrow.
minded denouncers an opportunity to strengthen
their hyper and ilnatured criticism. Yesterday
mernng was @ e S o neye motto or
OF poetry, and line from Shakespeare would have
been better and more consistent than the half line
he selected from one OF st. Paul's EpistleS
HIS text was taken from the Epistle to the He.
brews the eleventh chapter ana the last clause OF
the fourth verse-"And by 1t he, being dead, yet
speaketh."
THE GOOD THAT MEN DO WILL LIVE.
after ere them IAN and was fonnded. of course. mon the
faith shown by Abel in offering unto God a more
excellent sacrifice than Cain, and that this mani.
lestation OF aith by Able spoke to-day, though ne
were dead. There was not in the sermon, either by
implication OF speech, one word about 'the more
trations given of the immortal effect of good
mans life there was not the feeblest hint that
to that which was conspicuous to thoughtful and
devout minds by It's absence, let us now give
short outline OF the sermon. Posthumous fame, or
a desire TO live in that which they nave done while
living, the desire OF all men above the savage
state. The love OF praise was evident In the
LEFT let of with them it began with
men, and natural desire arose not to die with the
those those who We're living then or would follow after.
The power that man had TO prolong those good In
fuences and how he could successfully do It were
then commented on ana illustrated at considerable
length VINO was 1t built the mill that clattered day
and night under the willows in spot so lovely that
YOUNG MEN AND MAIDENs
go there to whisper the story OF their love on moon
light nights, ana where the artist goes gown TO
nus pe 3 ps OF Svs n and a h %
had his Qid pro quo; but after his death the SKILL
the energy the thought that had raised the mill lived
to bless and comfort those who came after him for
long generations Men had died and LETT millions of
dollars behind them; but not one OF those who had
simply left wealth had done so much good as
Howe had by the invention Of his sewing machine,
or as Watt or Stevenson, or Arkwright, in the Old
Country, by their varied discoveries and Inventions
FULTON LIVES TO-DAY
in every ferrybOat that goes the river, in
every steamboat that proudly rdes the ocean. The
man who builds road through the wilderness ought
have his name inscribed by the side OF that road;
for, like the who built bridge across stream,
he does good that could not die with him, anu for
which every man ought to bless him who crosses the
road or the bridge. Who were the rich men who
were living in the time Of Queen Elizabeth9 They
summed themselves down the Streets everybody
knew about them while they lived; but who knows
or cares for them now they are deada VINO were
the rich men 150 years ago? What has become OF
those rich men? Why, they make just as good dust
as O poor man did. There were living now in
New York men VINO had enormous riches;
but by and by who will think Of them care
for them? No; they will be cared for no more than
the thirsty cares for the cloud that brought him
the glass Of wafer ne drinks 30 enjoyn9ly But these
rich men could immOrtaiZe themselves. They might
say as they looked on Their hands, "These hands
cannot sculpture out Of stone lace that almost
breathes and speaks but the money have can send
an education that shall make, him as immortal
as FIaxman. and through his reputation can live
through all time" There was no capital so repro
ductive as that which was invested in
TALENTED YOUNG MEN AND WOMEN.
Every man who gave the country a good school
mistress, a good busne s man, gOod painter and q
good sculptor or good workman was doing that
which would live for all time. There were young
truths OF tins kind put In sermon before. Some OF
those young men would become rich: they were on
the high road to that which mentally brings them
riches; let them remember that those riches would
themselves; but IL with those riches they did good
and they built for themselves an mmoI tai fame how
good 1t would be to reflect on IN declining life; and
II to this were added life that in Itself had been
goodness how 1t would 1t them Tor an inheritance
that fadeth not away